"Come on, Sarah," Elias murmured, a cold smile twitching at his lips. "The audience is waiting."
"Elias?" she gasped, her voice cracking. "What are you doing? Get away from there before the Director kills you!" [S2E8] This is Where the Plot Thickens
"The Director isn't a person, Sarah," Elias said, his voice dropping an octave into a polished, terrifying calm. "It’s a title. And I’ve been holding it since before you learned how to breathe." "Come on, Sarah," Elias murmured, a cold smile
"You thought this was a revolution," Elias said, stepping into the light. "But I just needed someone to clear out the old board members for me. Thank you for doing the heavy lifting." Sarah’s hand trembled. "You... you're the villain." Get away from there before the Director kills you
The doors hissed open. Sarah stepped into the server room, gun raised, her face streaked with soot and triumph. She stopped dead when she saw the man in the chair.
Outside, the rebellion was hammering at the blast doors. Sarah, the supposed hero of this story, was leading the charge to "shut down" the system Elias had spent years pretending to maintain. She thought she was saving the world from a machine. She didn’t know the machine was the only thing keeping the atmosphere from venting into space.