Present Day - Underground Facility, Late Evening
Sophie stares at her monitoring equipment, watching data streams that tell a story no one else can see.
The empathy network should be operating at normal parameters.
Instead, it's being systematically infiltrated by someone with administrator-level access to systems that shouldn't exist.
"Mama, we have a problem."
Aria looks up from the recording equipment where Leon and Elena have been documenting their affair's psychological impact for educational purposes.
"What kind of problem, sweetheart?"
"Someone has been using the empathy network to monitor our conversations for approximately eighteen months."
The room goes silent except for the quiet hum of medical equipment.
"Monitor how?" Marcus asks, entering the room with technical spec
