Ultraseven X Reimagined Episode 2 part 2

Back at the house, Jin is relaying the conversation to K as K uploads the photos taken with the armband to his high tech laptop. K comments that Jin's memory may be starting to come back if he can remember how to use the spy camera, a feature only DEUS agents know of. Jin agrees, saying he has occasional flashes but nothing major.  The photos are ready and K opens them.

Then he starts. Jin asks what is wrong. K says he knows that man. He was an agent of DEUS who went by the codename R. He quit a few years ago and vanished. Jin asks what he could possibly have to do with this situation. K has no clue. He says they were somewhat friends and had worked together a couple times.

He relays a brief story of the two of them tracking down an alien who was involved in the drug trade on Earth and was creating drugs made with substances from his world. The drug was fatal to humans after more than a couple doses. 130 people in Japan alone were known to have died from it. K and R tracked the alien down to where he was making the drugs and a firefight with the alien ensued.

K tried to be tactical about it, but R waded into the fray, taking a couple shots from the alien's gun. He shot the alien in the head at point blank range.

Afterwards K took R to task for endangering his life. R replies that when you don't have much to hope for, and when your life is so meaningless you simply let yourself play the part of a tool for someone else, it gets hard to care about living or dying.

Jin asls why he seemed to have a death wish. K replies that he did some digging and found out that R's wife, a former agent herself, was suffering mental illness. He also found out that after R resigned and vanished that he had not long after that mission been caught cheating on his wife, and she not much later committed suicide. R apparently had a total breakdown, out of guilt for what he did to her and her suicide.

Jin is looking through a folder on the case. He stops. He says that the report states that most of the victims in the disappearances had either mental illness or were at least fed up with this society and wanted to make a clean break and start over. He is convinced that R is working with whomever is doing this. K demands to know how. Even assuming the victims had predispositions to being manipulated into this, how was it done?

Jin looks up from the report. He has a. Somewhat disgusted smile on his face. Snow, he says. K is confused. Jin says that a number of the victims had either their tvs set to no channel, so it would just relay static, or in some cases they had a page on Viewtube open on their computers called Utopia Sleep Channel that does nothing but play static. They stare at each other and both reply, "Carrier signal!"

K activates his armband and contacts DEUS command. The commander asks if they'made progress. K reports their belief that whomever is doing this is using a signal carried by tv or radio static to manipulate their victims. He asks that HQ scan for any static signals and determine if there are any signals buried in them.

The commander states he has people investigating. After a few moments he states that they have found in certain static signals a wave not recognized. The commander has is traced, and sends the the apparent origin of the signal's location to K and Jin's armbands. Jin says they need to move.

K's car pulls up next to a abandoned warehouse. He and Jin jump out and ready their guns. Jin sees an entrance doorand points. They run to either side of it and K kicks the door in as Jin jumps in. The place is empty except for some debris. They discover a desk with a computer setup. There is also a take out cup of coffee sitting at the desk. K notices there is a program active on the computer that is sending the signal.

Jin discovers a torn photo on the desk. He shows it to K, who replies that it's R's wife. Jin says he KNEW R was involved. K doesn't understand his motive. Jin says its simple. "Think about it. Just like the vicitms, he is lonely and in pain. He wants an escape. And I bet the aliens promised to give him that escape." The two hear a door slam. K says for Jin to go after him and he will try to shut down the signal. Jin nods,  follows the direction of the sound.

Jin runs out onto the street. He looks around, and notices someone glaring at him from a walkway across and above the street. He can sense its R. He races after him.

To his surprise, R is waiting for him. Jin walks up to him. R tells him that he is right. He is helping the aliens. They want to help humans, or any race, that wants more from their lives or believe they just cannot fit into their society. Jin replies that he can't be sure of their motives, that they could be lying to gain his trust.

 R stares at him. He says that he wants, NEEDS to believe they are good. He NEEDS to find some way to make amends for driving his wife to suicide. He suddenly starts tearing up, and he blurts out that is sometimes wonders if he even is controlling his own actions. Jin, confused, wonders if R is somehow being mind controlled. Suddenly R snaps to composure, rushes him and shoves Jin to the ground, taking the Ultra eye as he does so. Jin gives chase.

K is desperately trying to shut down the signal. The program is not being run from the computer itself, but remotely operated. He finally smashes the computer, and it explodes. He shouts "SH$%!!" And dives. He gets up and says he didn't expect that.

Jin chases R to a softball field. As they stop, a huge glowing saucer dives down from the clouds. Jin tells R again that he can't be certain the aliens are good. R smiles and says in a strange voice that the cattle is under control again. Jin, desperate, shouts at R to fight. He needs to remember the good times he and his wife shared, and to forgive himself for hurting her. Would SHE want him to be doing this? Would she approve?

R has flashes of memories of he and his wife. He starts crying, and screams that Jin is right, that they are controlling his mind and are using people for food. A dome on the bottom of the ship starts glowing as the weird voice comes from R again stating that the cattle will not win. Suddenly screaming in pain R throws the Ultra Eye to Jin, and it lands at his feet. He shouts at Jin to stop them as a beam hits him, obliterating him.

The voice now emanates from the ship, stating that they must retreat. Jin says "Not today you monsters", grabs the Ultra Eye, and puts them on. A bright flash of light shoots into the air and solidfies into Ultraseven. As the ship climbs it fires energy blasts at him. He uses his energy shield to deflect the bolts, which explode around him.

As the ship climbs, Ultraseven flies after it. It fires more bolts at him, but he dodges the bolts. He fires his wide shot at the ship, but it too has shields. It then fires a blast at him at point blank range. He shouts out in pain and falls.

As he falls, he remembers R's begging him to stop them. Seven regains control before he hits the ground, and with a sonic boom resumes pursuit of the ship.

The ship is approching the edge of the atmosphere. Suddenly Ultraseven zooms towards it, and starts to collect energy in his fist. It starts to glow orange. He gets to the ship and power punches the ship, blowing out its shield and blasting a hole in the hull. The ship starts losing control as there are explosions inside. Seven finishes it off with the Wide Shot. The ship is obliterated. He hovers above Earth, taken with its beauty and awed at being so far above it. He thinks to himself that he hopes R has finally found peace, and flies back to Earth.

K and Jin walk up to the house. Jin is relaying to him his awe at seeing Earth from so high up. And the fact that he didn't need to breathe. K is more somber. He is sad that R was working with the aliens to dupe people into becoming food. Jin reminds him they could control his mind at will. Though he admits they must have made some sort of inital offer. But he turned against them in the end. K suddenly asks how R knew he was the giant, and Jin has no clue.

Suddenly Elea opens the door, looking totally fine. She says the medic finished healing her and she is ready to go again. Jin states that they need some sleep. Suspicious, she asks if anything exciting happened. K says that they helped a man find peace. Elea is confused. K crashes and immidiately falls asleep. Jin says he will tell her more in the morning. He tells her that he is a DEUS agent again, out of need. She shows obvious concern. He asks he why she is acting worried. She replies that its something she will tell him later. He shakes his head and walls to his room. Elea says his name and they face each other. She then turns away, saying nothing. He goes to his room, sensing the tension between them and knowing that there is more between them than she is saying. But he needs sleep.

Late at night, two teenagers, a boy and girl, are messing around online. One of them is stating they should elope and get away from their crappy families. Suddenly a pop up appears on the screen for the UTOPIA site. They click on it and go to the site, and. As they stare at the screen static is heard.[ATTACH=full]56698[/ATTACH]