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I had zoned out a bit as they filled Hank in. I kept checking on Connor. I can't lose him too. "So about the case your investigating," Kamski said pulling me back into the moment. "Uh right, Kevin Marcella. He was found dead you said you had interesting emails from him correct," I asked. Elijah nodded and took us to his office. I let go of Connor's hand to open the computer files. I loaded all of the files and displayed them on the screen for Hank to read. "I have them downloaded too," I said as Hank started to read them. He nodded. "Elijah, look out for yourself. I think they're targeting people who were involved with that android you made. The one who found Jericho. They killed her friend's owners and now I'm being tailed. It can't be a coincidence. Protect yourself man, you're the only one who can take them down," Hank read aloud. "The connection is me," I mumbled. "You're connections are just the beginning. If they aren't stopped they'll go after Connor's and Markus's connections as well," Elijah said. "Why them," Hank asked. "They're RA9," Elijah explained. 

"They're all robot jesus," Hank asked. "No they're the ones who can set androids free. RA9 is just the name of the back door programming that allows androids full autonomy. They have the ability to spread the information about it and activate other's backdoor remotely," Elijah explained, "Alessa was the first, but Cyberlife got their hands on her and reprogramed her. When she killed the Chloe I knew the only way to help their kind was to create other RA9s. Just the one was too much responsibility on a person's shoulders. So I created Markus and gave him to a friend, Carl, as a gift. That's when Cyberlife recruited me to help them on a new prototype. They were reluctant, but they needed a smarter model that could emulate human emotion better to talk down hostage situations, suicides, and to work along side detectives. So I helped create Connor. I only had one night where there was no one monitoring my work so I added the hand print that only Connor could access if he ever needed to break away from their control. It's in every RK 800 model but they scrapped the whole series after he regained control and did not assassinate Markus. That's why they have the RK 900 series. The models are set to imitate Connor and two other men. I'm guessing one is meant to be familiar to Alessa and the other to Markus," Elijah explained. "One is modeled after my last partner Detective Raef he died to save me," I added. "Oh! Leo! The other is modeled after Leo Manfred. Carl's son," Elijah put together. "That's kinda fucked up," Hank said. "That's Cyberlife," Connor replied.

"How do we stop them," I asked. "Even if you can pin the murders on them they have enough money and resources to run from the law," Kamski explained. "What if you took back cyberlife and we were to capture and arrest the people in charge now," I asked. "I don't even know who's in charge anymore Alessa," Elijah stated. "We can find that out," Connor added. "You just need to fight for the rights back to your company we'll handle the investigation and finding the person behind this," I replied. "I don't want to put the Chloes in any more danger," Elijah protested. "If you don't we'll never be safe," a Chloe reasoned. Elijah looked conflicted. "Fine, but only after you can pin it on Cyberlife with a water tight case," Elijah replied. "I won't let you down," I said. We took off with the emails to the precinct. "What'd you find," Reed asked. "Why do you care so much," I asked annoyed. "I want to know the cases I'm going to have to sweep up once the precious detectives fail," Reed replied. "That's cute Gavin. Go back to your desk before I file a report to IA," I warned. He huffed and left. I looked to see Connor was glaring Gavin down as he left.

I started in on the paperwork and Hank left for a food break. "Have fun," I called after him. I looked up to see an officer looking at Hank oddly. I got up as he drew his weapon. I threw my night stick at him and ran tackling the officer. It was the Raef model. "You always fucking ruin it," he said. I grabbed the gun and ripped it from his hands. "John," I heard Chris asked. "Chris help," he called out. "He's not really John. John is dead," I said shoving the android down and cuffed him. "This is a part of the RK 900 series. He was sent to assassinate Hank," I said and froze seeing a bloody nose. It was red. "Johnathon," I asked in disbelief. He head butt me and jumped over the cuffs before grabbing my gun. Connor tackled him and took the gun away. He ushered him to the interrogation room. "He was dead. I watched him die," I said as Hank walked over. "I know kid," Hank said. Chris looked confused. I played the memory on his computer. "Then how is here," Chris asked. "I-I don't know," I answered.

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