We understand Anka works for Ted, an older police comissioner-type who seems intensely invested in finding out the truth behind Sophie’s story. During Anka’s interrogation of Sophie, she says that her child, Doron, suffers from a very rare disorder, Aphasia Afisima, which prevents him from understanding stories and narrative thought, hindering his development.
Sophie and Ulysses join forces and combine THEODORE’s predictive power with a new VR gadget which Ulysses has developed in the time since he left their company. This allows them to created real-life simulations of the future, which Ulysses intend to use to test scenarios to minimize the damages from Skyfall, while Sophie secretly hopes to put it to work towards her newfound obsession: figuring out why Lisa disappeared from her life. THE HEDRON, the VR interface born from this amalgamation, is produced and sold worldwide, becoming the most sought-after gadget of the decade, and further enhancing THEODORE’s predictive capacity with a whole new array of data streams flowing from its users.
In her investigations, Sophie watches an old video from the time when Sophie and Ulysses were young idealist tech entrepreneurs, and through it we understand the major disagreement that has made Ulysses leave the company: Sophie had used THEODORE to manipulate, for profit, the elections on Ulysses’ home country of Brazil, resulting in a major civil war that ravaged the land. Ulysses states that the only way to prevent such uses of THEODORE is to endow it with consciousness, i.e. narrative thought, but Sophie boots him from the company before he can do so. The image of Ulysses’ uncle house burning closes the video, bringing back memories that are too painful to forget.
