INT. STUDIO LEGAL / ARCHIVE - FLASHBACKS

The drive spins up. Transfer resumes.

INT. MARCUS’S OFFICE - LATER

EXT. MOJAVE DESERT - DAY

Larry frantically mounts a drive. He types like a wizard. On a 40-inch CRT monitor: file transfer progress bar. Time remaining: 6 hours.

They find a rusted bunker. A sign:

Suddenly, a hard drive fails with a . Larry screams: “The parity drive!” He performs surgery with a screwdriver, swapping a circuit board from a dead drive of the same model. Sweat drips. Chloe holds a flashlight.

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