Four EPs.

[smart_house]

[Back in Eureka, SARAH attempts a little investigating, and she's not nearly as quick as she should be.

Also, she needs to learn how to lie better.]

"How exactly does a bunker travel?" Zoe had asked, and it's a good question, too.

"I do not understand fully how it operates, Zoe. For some time it was simply random, whenever both you and Sheriff

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[cutting_edgex23]

X-23, who has just slipped in from outside, goes very still for half a moment. Her nostrils flare as she scents the air, and her shoulders go tense.

But she has never been very good at running away.

And she's probably worried about SARAH. Which explains why she approaches the AI (and the rest), expression perfectly composed.

"Hello."

It seems like a reasonable enough approach.

[smart_house]

"Hello, X-23. Please do not hit anyone."

With a segue like that, it has to be good.

There are footsteps audible on the stairs.

[director_global]

"SARAH, what do you..."

His question dies off as Stark steps further into the room and glances around.

"...Ah."

A short, precise beat.

"Laura, wasn't it?"

[cutting_edgex23]

"Yes."

She doesn't move, just looks at him out of clear green eyes.

"You do not have any permanent damage?"

Not that she hit him very hard, but it seems polite.

She is practicing.

[director_global]

"No."

A beat.

"You're quite an accomplished little thief, aren't you?"

[felon_spice]

Zoe exits then and narrows her eyes when she spots X-23.

"I've met you," she says. "In Eureka."

[cutting_edgex23]

"Yes," X says. Though whether that is in response to Zoe or Stark is unclear.

"I was helping SARAH."

Beat.

"She is my friend."

[smart_house]

"You do not know what EG was doing, Doctor Stark."

[director_global]

"But I take it you did."

Interest glints in Stark's eyes before he adds,

"We should talk about that. I'd like to hear your version of events."

[cutting_edgex23]

X's gaze flickers from Stark to Zoe and back again.

Then--

"You are not in trouble?"

She worries.

[smart_house]

"No. They had to find out eventually."

As obliquely as SARAH is capable: "I am intact."

[felon_spice]

"What happened with Eureka Gardens?" Zoe asks, trying to follow the conversation. "I remember hearing something about the manager getting arrested."

She turns to X-23. "Did that have something to do with you?"

[cutting_edgex23]

X is silent for a moment, considering.

Then--

"The EG AI hacked into SARAH's databanks and stole data. About Milliways."

Beat.

"She did not want him to have it."

This next pause is a little bit longer.

"I did not, either."

[director_global]

"Really."

It's likely that Fargo would recognize that dangerously pleasant tone, whether or not anyone else present does.

Stark makes an internal note to go back over the reports from the event with a much more careful eye.

[felon_spice]

"Is every building in Eureka AI or something?" Zoe asks.

[smart_house]

"I would lose my charm, if that were the case."