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Cyclops utilizes his last strength and manages to fire an optic beam, causing master Mold to drop him. The robot leaves him for dead and goes though with his plan to merge with the base’s computer systems and launch the death spores. Though somewhat damaged, Conscience is still functional and he gets Cyclops to come around. The discuss their strategy and, learning that Master Mold represents Stephen Lang’s rational mind and Conscience his emotional side, Scott comes up with the idea to merge the two. Callisto helps them reaching the control panel needed for Conscience to interface, though when they run into an army of Servitors its again Scott’s optic beam that clears the way. Conscience plugs into the system and tries to override Master Mold’s core, which doesn’t like the second presence in its mind and warns Conscience about them all being destroyed. Elsewhere in the base, Moira MacTaggert makes a startling discovery while going through the Retribution Virus research data. Looking at the virus-ridden body of her lover, Sean Cassidy, held in a stasis tube, she thinks that she has only one chance to try something out.