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So, she offed all the others but left one? Any reason to save the last? I'm impressed by her level of control, she's clearly a worthy heir.

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From:

spectrum_09

Well, the Master managed floating, both himself and others, in front of witnesses. The fight with the Geisters and Andronicus didn't seem to be "in the Matrix".

From:

doc_w_31415

Reply from my off-Lair friend:

>>Well, the Master managed floating, both himself and others, in front of witnesses. The fight with the Geisters and Andronicus didn't seem to be "in the Matrix".<<

No argument with that. But Colette went straight from:

1) "can't see her legs because of the cables" to no cables whatsoever, not even the one connected to her throat, and no sign of a PLUG for said throat cable (and just as an analogous aside, remember that Neo's ports disappeared and his hair grew back when he was in the Matrix, because self-image);

2) fully costumed to incompletely reassembling something that vaguely looks like the dress she was wearing;

3) full backgrounds (which we also saw with Voltaire's scenes) to nothing but a purple background -- no streets, no buildings, no stars in the sky, nothing -- at the exact same time the street-based noisemakers STOPPED.

I submit for consideration the notion that Beausoleil now lives in the matrix of Paris and that NONE of the automatons he has used is his body, that he is one of the entities she detected in the matrix and about which she tried to warn her father, and that she has now decided to confront him in his "lair," if you will, and permanently oust him therefrom. Having now destroyed all of the escape routes he might otherwise have had, and in such a way that HE KNOWS SHE DID.

What comes next should be interesting...

From:

themadkansan

Simon's control was totally wireless as well, and his clothing was most likely designed to stand up to the kind of energy fields that permeated him - Colette's is/was nothing more than a party dress, and as such neither capable nor expected to stand up to what amounts to regulated ball-lightning.

She has established full command/control over the City, and so no longer needs the physical connections she employed earlier - she now commands as Simon did, through direct mental transmission, so the cables withdrew. Her previously-placed autonomous subsystems appear to be supporting the administrative load of the overall network, relieving her of the strain that Simon experienced, having to command the entire city at once.

As far as entities in the network, she felt her father moving through the network as he was physically moving through the city - I think she felt Beausoleil the same way, as =he= was physically moving through the city.

But we'll see in the morning. :)