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Disturbed, Brendan visits Dr. Fuchs, only to be informed that he died by suicide two months previous. Having talked to him mere hours before, Brendan decides the alteration in his reality is the simulation's attempt to thwart their plan. He rushes to finish the program, sneaks into the college computer department, kills a faculty member, steals his badge, enters the control room of the quantum computer, and runs his program. He then rushes home as glitches manifest and destabilize reality. His family hold each other tightly while the entire simulation crashes.
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