abstract
| - Embedded codes are blue screens of code that can be seen from Machine Point of View (MPOV), disrupting the flow of data. Over the course of the second half of season two, the number and frequency of the code screen disruptions increased, suggesting degraded functioning of some type by the Machine. The codes first appeared in the episode “One Percent”, following the upload of viral software into the internet by Kara Stanton. (“Dead Reckoning”) Over time, we learned that the virus was developed by Decima Technologies, whose representative, Greer, recruited Stanton. Once Stanton's mission was complete, Greer monitored the virus for the arrival of its zero day, when it would become active. As he did, Finch monitored the virus, having determined its target was the Machine, unable to do anything to stop it. At the time, it was unclear whether the blue screens were part of the virus's activity or the consequence of it.
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