IOI Staff Member #1
Who is this Parzival and how the hell is he winning?
Nolan Sorrento
Here's a better question: who cares?
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Wade Watts
[Toshiro pulls Sorrento out of the OASIS by taking off his VR headset, halting him at gunpoint, as does Wade.]
Where is she?
Nolan Sorrento
How did you get in here?
Wade Watts
Art3mis.
Nolan Sorrento
Who?
Wade Watts
Samantha Cook! Where is she?!
Nolan Sorrento
If you want to talk, we can talk, but you gotta put that gun down.
Wade Watts
You killed my mom's sister. You think I won't kill you?
Nolan Sorrento
Whoa, whoa, whoa, just slow down, okay? That was a corporate decision. It was not personal.
Wade Watts
WHERE IS SHE?!?
Nolan Sorrento
She's downstairs, in the Loyalty Center!
Wade Watts
I know she's in the goddamn Loyalty Center! [advances on Sorrento] You're gonna tell me exactly which rig she's in, and the access code to contact her.
Nolan Sorrento
[Toshiro reinforces Wade's threat by placing his gun on Sorrento's rib.]
Yeah, that seems appropriate.
Toshiro
[Wade walks towards the door.]
Start with the access code.
Nolan Sorrento
645-725.
Toshiro
Where's the rig?
Wade Watts
[Wade walks through a door, revealing Aech's workshop, and Aech and Sho's avatars on the other side, which in turn reveals that they're all in the Oasis. He confirms this by unmasking himself as his avatar, Parzival.]
I think he pissed himself.
Aech
Good job, Z. We're in his account.
Sho
So he really doesn't know he's in the Oasis?
Wade Watts
[shows a screen to Sho]
This is what Sorrento should be seeing. [shows another screen to Sho] But this, this is what we're making him see. We grabbed him in transit just as he was logging out of the Oasis, so he thinks he's back in his office in the real world, but actually, he's here, in the identical office that Aech built.
Sho
So, you basically just remotely hacked his rig?
Aech
A fixed rig like Sorrento's is easy to locate, but hard to hack.
Wade Watts
Unless he's stupid enough to leave his password lying around.
Aech
Loyalty Center, I'm in.
Wade Watts
Okay, let's get to work.
Wade Watts
Citizens of the Oasis, I am Parzival, first to the key. I'm here talking to all of you now because our future's being threatened, by people who will stop at nothing to win this contest. Some of you already know this, and you've lost more than just your avatars, or your weapons. Some have lost their freedom. Some have lost their lives. And now, this. A force field around the third challenge. I only came here to escape the shitty hand that life dealt me. But I stayed, like many of you, because I found something much bigger than just myself. I found a cause. I found my friends. And, yes, I know it's kind of a groaner, but...I found love.
Wade Watts
[Samantha smiles. In the Sixer war room, Sorrento watches with several Sixers.]
And I don't want to lose that to this colossal douchebag Nolan Sorrento!
Nolan Sorrento
This guy. [laughs] Back to work, people. [signals to cut the screen as the Sixers move away]
Wade Watts
He thinks that we're all too distracted to even notice-
Wade Watts
[the screen gets cut, but Parzival can still be heard on another]
Nolan Sorrento thinks that we won't put up a fight!
IOI Staff Member #2
Sir! Sir! This is going out live! It's absolutely everywhere!
Wade Watts
And now we're supposed to hand him the Oasis?
Wade Watts
[Sorrento wipes the broadcast from the employee's tablet. He goes into his office with two other employees. As Samantha escapes the room, they help Sorrento into his VR suit.]
He thinks that we won't even put up a fight! Well, I say he's wrong. I say tell that to the Gunter clans in the gold mines of Gygax!
Helen Harris
Activate the Iron Giant.
Wade Watts
[In Aech's workshop, the Iron Giant awakens and connects its top and bottom halves together.] [as the Iron Giant and Sho stand next to him]
Ask yourselves: are you willing to zero out for the Oasis? Are you willing to fight?! I am Parzival of the High Five. In the name of Art3mis, in the name of Aech, in the name of Daito and Sho, we ask you to join us on Planet Doom. [raises his fist] In the name of James Halliday himself, help us save the Oasis.
