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*[[Bob (The Original)|Bob]]

Holly wakes up, but feigns unconsciousness. She is dumped onto a table in a restaurant, and she listens to four people talking about what to do with her. Holly, using her edited skills, uses their voices to discern where everyone is in the room. She overhears the others in the room discussing how they should not kill the replica yet as they can use her to open a biolock if her Original doesn't cooperate. She moves slightly, but the team sees the movement and are alerted. Holly leaps into an attack, defeating one of her opponents and taking back her energy weapon. She tries to shoot him, but her gun can’t harm him. Holly runs into the kitchen, using a set of knives and a cutting board there to fight her attackers. She is familiar with the restaurant because it belongs to a friend of Jonathan's, and she opens a manhole and escapes into the sewer.

Holly reaches the renewal station without incident, and as she lays down the system automatically calls Skyler. She asks him about the nanite depletion. He tells her that if she doesn’t check-in every day to get new nanites, she will die. He notices the damage to her hands, and asks what happened. He tells her that the government can’t watch private places like the marketplace. He reveals that, since Holly is a replica, he can look through her memories, which shocks and horrifies Holly as they are usually encrypted for privacy. She tells him about the attack and her escape, and he tells her that they are likely members of ICON, a terrorist group. He gives her access to all documents on ICON, so that she can research them freely. At Holly’s request, Skyler gives her gun the ability to shoot checkouts instead of only her Original, which make up the majority of ICON members.

Holly, despite her reservations, goes to her apartment, againstto hersearch for more clues as to what happened on the night of betterthe judgementmurder. It looks strange without her theming, though some real decorations remain. Holly sees a bowl of oranges, and begins carving itone. She takes a bite, but it is shockingly acidic. She hadremembers having edited her taste buds as a kid to make oranges sweeter, now making it taste awful in comparison. Holly sits at the table and weeps.

Holly looks at some keepsakes from her and Jonathan’s time together. Several of them are real, though some of them are missing. Holly goes to her computer and begins researching ICON, and sees videos of them murdering people and blowing up renewal stations. Holly wonders what connection her original has with ICON, and tries to figure out what her original would do. She sees a clip of Jonathan giving a talk about the phycologypsychology of checkouts. Holly hears voices outside her apartment, and moments later several ICON members break in. Holly fights back, disabling a few of her attackers. She gets shot in the leg by an antique revolver, then escapes by jumping out her window.

Holly is in a renewal station, restoring her nanites. The system calls Skyler, and Holly angrily yells at him. Skyler patiently explains himself, then tells Holly more about ICON. He shows her information about the members in the fire team, and about Jill Preston, the infamous leader of ICON. HOllyHolly remembers that Jonathan used to know Preston, but Skyler said that Jonathan wasn’t connected to ICON. Skyler tells her that the government can’t trespass in the slums where ICON is hiding, but that Holly can as a provisional replica. Jonathan tells her that she has some funds in a bank account, and that she can find a hotel to rest and research. Holly almost goes to her favorite hotel, but realizes that ICON would be looking for her there. She uses a pair of dice to pick a random hotel, and goes there instead.

*[[Carl Newton]]]

Holly enters the Jolly Racer nightclub, hoping to isolate one of the ICON members and get some answers. She wears a physical disguise that she printed at the hotel. She brushes against dancers to hear the music, allowing her to dance to the rhythm and blend in. She uses her dancing to disguise her search for ICON members. She spots Carl Newton and Zoba Moss, then accidentally bumps into another ICON member. Holly keeps dancing, and spots Frederique Gorski on the balcony. Holly goes to the bar and orders a drink, but Carl Newton sneaks up on her and puts a gun to her head. She attacks him, stealing his gun and shooting him with a paralyzing shot. Holly, realising that anyone still checked-in has the gunshots and scenes of violence filtered out of their perceptions, uses the crowd of dancers for cover, and both her and the fire team have trouble shooting accurately with all the dancers. She shoots an ICON member in the knee, then is attacked by Zoba. Both of them roll across the dancefloor as they fight, and Holly emerges victorious, pointing a gun at them and demanding answers. Zoba tells Holly that they have a voice recorder with a message from her original. A security guard comes over and pulls them apart, then zaps Holly with an energy gun when she tries to resist.

Holly wakes up in a room with a security guard, only having been asleep for a short time. The guard tells her that fighting is not allowed in the Jolly Racer. He tells her that her friends are already gone, and that they left a voice recorder for her. She takes it, and the man leaves her to listen to the message in private. The voice recording is from her original. She tells Holly that she is going to save Holly a lot of pain by telling her that she was not framed, and that she killed Jonathan.

Holly goes to a bar late at night and orders two drinks on the rocks. She gets some physical pencil and paper, and wonders what information her original put under a biolock that ICON could be after. She realizes that her original mightvemight have had the same idea she did, and used dice to randomize where she went. Holly makes a list of eleven places her original might go (eleven being the number of possible combinations from rolling two six-sided die), then puts them in an order that feels natural. Since seven is the most commonly rolled number, she looked at six and seven, which said to get a hotel room and to change her name. She writes down a list of possible fake names she might use, then sees that her nanites are depleting again. She heads to the renewal station, deciding that Skyler could look up some of the fake name ideas.

The system places a call to Skyler when Holly enters the renewal station, and he is slow to reply due to the late hour. She gives him the list of fake names, and asks him to check hotel registries. He tells her that PR's that shift to working things out on paper statistically have a higher success rate and that it indicates they have accepted their Original's guilt. She realizes that her original could've looked up her name in the hotel registries too, and Skyler books her a room in a hotel with a fake name. The hotel is pubic property, so Skyler can keep an eye on her. After he hangs up, Holly looks up another one of Jonathan's speeches on the psychology of checkouts. He talks about rising suicide rates, saying that many people stop finding meaning and purpose in life. He shows an interview with an old woman named Jane Doe, and Holly recognizes her from the checkout slums. Jane says that she took up smoking because she liked the danger and risk of it. Holly wants to know how she knew Jonathan, and decides she needs to go to the checkout slums to meet with her.

Holly arrives at the forest, and is shocked to find it packed with people. She had thought it to be nearly empty when she had been there, but realises the theming therehides showsthe peoplepresence of others to anyone who visits, faking the beingimpression byof themselvessolitude. She is horrified at how much her and Jonathan been deceived, and she vomits. Holly sees two of her friends talking to each other, but they can’t see her. She realizes that even if she succeeds and takes her original’s place, she can never go back to normal. She wonders if her original turned off her theming and saw all the deception, then somehow snapped. Realizing that her original isn’t here, Holly leaves the forest.

Holly enters the government building where Skyler works, which is made to look like an old noir film. Skyler greets her, wearing a real suit. He tells her that he doesn’t use theming, since a lot of criminals use the blindspots created by using theming to hide. He leads her into an interrogation room, and they sit down at the table. He hands her an evidence bag with the recorder in it. She unlocks it, and reluctantly plays it.

Her original apologizes for putting her in this situation. Her original tells her not to trust the government, and that she badly wants to meet with her. Her original tells her that Jonathan’s death must be hurting, and Holly furiously turns off the recorder and doesn’t want to hear the rest of it. She asks if originals usually leave clues, and he says that they do it when they feel guilty about what they’ve done and are trying to explain themselves to the only person who could understand their actions and offer forgiveness - themselves. Skyler tells Holly that he is a PR, along with many other government agents. She asks about her violent tendencies, and he tells her that they didn’t edit her personality at all, they only add new skills and information, so any changes Holly is experiencing is her original personality expressing itself with these new tools at its disposal. Holly resumes the recording, and her original tells her to leave a message at the marketplace. She decides that she needs to go into the checkout slums to confront ICON.

Holly goes up to the roof, then enters into a room where Jane Doe sits at a desk. Holly asks how she knew Jonathan, and she says that they met when Jonathan was researching checkouts. Holly soon comes to the revolution that Jane Doe is actually Jill Preston, leader of ICON. Jill Preston tells Holly that ICON isn’t a terrorist group, and that the videosclaims that the government simply showed her arevideos of acts of violence being committed and claimed that ICON was falseresponsible. Holly demands answers, and threatens to carve her head when she doesn’t cooperate. Preston became afraid, and Holly says that she has nothing left to lose.

Jill says that when Jonathan died, Holly’s original receivedinherited all of his pass phrases and secret info, allowing her to open his biolocks. Preston tells her that Jonathan discovered a back door in people’s minds that the government could exploit, allowing them to hack into people’s memories without their knowledge. He encrypted the pass phrases so that only he could access them, and that ICON had tried to recruit him. He had been murdered by Holly’s original before he could be recruited. Holly calls Skyler, and informs him that she’s found Jill Preston.