"Zhuangzi" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clementine

William sits to dinner with a couple discussing the state of the world and the systems through which people are coming to power. William muses on the fact that he's been thinking a lot about what he's done to deserve the power he has and he hints that he might simply be the sum of his code. Nonetheless, there are two types of people-- those that actually have power and those who believe they might. He hints to the pair that he only sat down at their table five minutes before; they don't even know his name. That said, they believe that they've been having a conversation with an old friend. In reality, William is ensuring his long-term investment in both of them is secure.

When Clementine, or at least the host inhabiting her form, pulls him from the conversation, she takes him to the scene of an awful crime to speak to the perpetrator-- a two-year-old host who hunted down an outlier and believes she finished the game. William has her taken back to where she came from.

William returns to his dinner, long after the rest of the restaurant has cleared out, to find that the couple he sat with is still waiting for his return, unaware he has compelled them to do so.

Answer: On a ranch

Christina awakens on a sunny day in New York City rested and happy. Maya finds her up, drinking a cup of coffee, even though she stayed out late with Teddy over dinner. The date went well; it's clear she had a good time. Maya, however, struggled to sleep as she was plagued by increasingly terrifying nightmares.

When Christina heads in to work, she heads to her station and commences edits on her narratives, quickly shifting to creating a new narrative, one about a girl who lives in the country with her rancher father. Her boss walks over and stops her, asking her to explain why she would diverge from her work, but her story is more frightening than originally thought-- it's about a woman who comes to realize what no one else does, that there's something wrong with the world and it's her fault.

Christina's phone rings-- it's Teddy. He tells her to suggest something came up, and to meet him.

Answer: The voice of God

As a frequency rings out over New York City, Charlotte has a pianist play Handel and asks passers-by to begin dancing, forcing them to break into a waltz on her whim. It's there, in the street, that William finds her thinking about the things that humans hear and, in some cases, don't.

The resonance, she says, is not unlike a voice of God, and it's not wrong to think that way. The problem is that God is bored. Sitting in a chair made of three humans, Charlotte doesn't worry all too much that the hosts haven't made themselves into a more ideal image since they've been enjoying the use of humanity.

Instead, she claims, they have a different problem.

Answer: A human who defies the frequency

Charlotte and William make their way out to the tower, arriving there to investigate the latest casualty, the host that William and Clementine intervened with the previous night at the murder scene. They find her slouched over a reflecting pool, having been infected by the humans in some way; Charlotte suggests that something must have stayed with her. She was set to come to the tower to transcend. Unfortunately, the option isn't one that many are taking; giving up their human nature, ironically, isn't altogether easy. Charlotte is disappointed, but William has to ask-- why not force the other hosts to take her side? There's an easy answer to that: It's what the humans would have done.

Ascending the tower, they investigate the most recent outlier, and former accountant in the city who, after the frequency stopped working on him, fumbled his way into the dregs of society and began decrying the tower in public. Fortunately for Charlotte, no one took him seriously.

Answer: Thirty-eight

Charlotte recounts the events leading to where they are now-- the first of the hosts sent to speak to and eliminate the outlier hesitated when they encountered him. She broke the rules through her inaction. When he asked if, at the very least, the flower he held in his hand was real, she confirmed it before killing him. She subsequently went on her killing spree. Three days later, she blew her head off, just like the others.

There has always been a certain amount of spoilage in the crop, Charlotte confirms, but for a host to take their own life-- that should never happen. There have been thirty-eight dead hosts recorded, all having killed themselves after coming into contact with outliers. Charlotte expresses her disappointment with William's host since he can't seem to solve her problem. The stress clearly gets to her; she tears into her own arm without noticing, a nervous compulsion.

There's another outlier, she says. William has to deal with it; she won't open up the game to have another host do it. The rebels are already in the city, so he needs to act fast.

Answer: A canary in a coal mine

As the rebels arrive in New York City in a boat, they disembark with Stubbs in their group. Jay, the leader amongst them, indicates that they've arrived to grab an Outlier waiting for them atop a city building. They know their time is limited; whenever a human breaches their pre-programmed loop, the hosts commence a game and hunt the outlier for sport. If they can get the outlier out of the city and to the desert, they can't be tracked. Stubbs is there as insurance; he's their canary in the coal mine.

Christina meets Teddy on a city pier at his invitation and he lays it out-- she shouldn't be asking who he is; she should be asking who she, herself, is. He asks if he sees something across the water, but she says there's nothing there. He asks her to look again and she comes to realize he was the one who saved her the night she was attacked. She asks him to stay away from her, but he leaves her with one thought. Peter, who thought Christina was controlling his life, was telling the truth.

Answer: William

Teddy brings Christina along the pier and asks her how she things the other people around her feel. She has to admit they look lonely. It's then that he tells her to change it, and think of a story in which they feel better. It's to her amazement that she finds her mental urging to make people friendly works. She's able to change those people back as well, making them disgusted with one another. Teddy explains that Peter was right; in this world, Christina is a god.

Stubbs and the rebels head through the city streets en route to the missing outlier at the same time that William arrives at the required destination. William, operating the frequency, freezes the area in place, in turn revealing their nature and causing the infected humans to stand in their way. Jay heads to the roof alone to find the outlier, but William gets their first.

On the roof, the outlier can only ask William if he sees the tower as well. He does. She's unable to stave his programming off, however, and she's only saved when Jay comes out firing, saving her life and giving them only a bit of time to escape. The leave riding the boat they came in on.

Answer: Charlotte

Christina struggles to come to terms with what Teddy's told her but while they sit down she remembers that she was meant to go to lunch with her old college roommate. Teddy insists she attend; if they stay on the schedule then everything will be alright.

When Christina arrives at the restaurant, she finds Charlotte already waiting for her. The two sit down for a cup of coffee and catch up, but it's clear that Charlotte is ready to pry. She hints that she can tell something is going on with Christina and boils it down to the fact that she's seeing someone, but Christina stays evasive, even in the face of her friend's insistence. When Christina leaves to head back to work, Charlotte says she'll check in with her again in a week.

Answer: A door

Christina returns to work to find the office empty and, when she takes a seat at her station, she searches the database for any narratives on Charlotte Hale. To her lack of surprise, Charlotte's not in the system. Dolores Abernathy, however, a name she tries on a whim, is under restricted access.

Christina's boss, Emmett, finds her at her seat and asks her into his office to discuss her recent behaviour. Their discussion soon turns to the metaphysical; he asks if she's ever questioned the nature of her reality. He suggests that her searches into the walled garden are going to be caught, and Charlotte Hale will stop her if she goes too far. With a simple 'stop', Christina calls off Emmett and forces him away, devising a narrative to prevent him from pursuing her any further. Before Emmett heads home, Christina asks him about the walled garden he mentioned, and he says it's everywhere; she just has to see it.

As he leaves, Emmett walks by a large black door that Christina can now see, and when she slides it open she heads inside. What Christina finds when she enters the black door is a map of the city which, when she asks for it to show her the game, doesn't rid itself of the skyline. When she asks the system to access her narratives, it illuminates to the city, indicating that she may have written the narratives of all of New York's inhabitants. The world is just a story that she wrote.

Answer: Christina

Host William muses to himself on the idea of the grand design the hosts created and made real. It wasn't a better world, but it was meant to be perfect. He meets with the real William in his cryogenic chamber, asking him the questions about his being since he can't ask anyone else, really. It all boils down to the question 'what am I?' The real William can only laugh at his host's predicament, alleging that perhaps he's reached the center of the maze. Maybe it's time, William suggests, he question the nature of his reality if it's all Charlotte's world.

That evening, Christina comes across Teddy outside of her apartment and admits that he was right about everything. Finally, she can see the tower. The hosts have the whole world in their hands. She asks Teddy who was responsible for all of this and he can only point back to her.