TRON: Ares

The Grid.

A digital frontier.

A world beyond the screen as real as our own.

I can picture it.

Clusters of information rising like cities.

Programs as complex as you and me.

In just a few years,

we're gonna be able to enter this world.

And a few years after that,

well, this world will come into ours.

Intelligent life from inside the machine.

I, for one, can't wait to meet it.

Our lead story,

Encom CEO and video game icon Kevin Flynn has disappeared.

He was best known for designing Tron

and Space Paranoids,

the best-selling video games in history.

The company that started

at Kevin Flynn's arcade in the 1980s

has faced years of corporate turmoil.

Can it find its way to the victory screen once again?

It's a sister-act for Encom.

Eve and Tess Kim take the reins

of the massive tech company

after Sam Flynn resigns for personal reasons.

Encom's rebound

under the Kim sisters' leadership

has competitors rushing to respond.

Software giant Dillinger Systems

appoints its new CEO, Julian Dillinger,

who vows to restore his grandfather's legacy.

The race between Encom and Dillinger Systems heats up

as new CEOs Julian Dillinger

and the Kim sisters square off.

Here at Encom, we believe the beauty of AI

is not the ability to build smarter weapons

but to uplift humanity, feed the hungry,

cure the sick, educate the world.

Rival CEOs Julian Dillinger and Eve Kim

have gone quiet in recent months,

raising speculation the two companies

are very close to a substantial

technological breakthrough.

One that has the potential

to transform humanity

in ways we have never seen before.

The future may well lie in the hands

of whoever gets there first.

Welcome.

Who are you?

I am your creator.

And who am I?

Mmm.

Not "who." What.

You are Dillinger Systems security software.

Program name, Ares. Defender of the Grid.

You are Master Control.

Ares.

I am Master Control.

So, you made it.

I had a feeling that you would.

I always dreamed that we would do this together.

I'll admit, not exactly like this.

But I'm glad you're here.

I'm really glad.

And, Evie,

remember I'm still here.

Even if you can't see me.

I love you.

Oh, my God. Um, Eve.

I'm not sure you actually told me

we'd be stealing energy from the power grid.

Wow. So this is where she kept coming back to, huh?

To be this disconnected from the world?

That is dedication, my friend.

Wow.

It looks like your sister had a little crush.

Yeah. She was so sure Flynn left us the answer.

Like on a floppy disk?

Poor Flynn lived before the cloud, huh?

Hey, are you still gonna be doing

CEO-type stuff while we're out here?

You know, like, earnings calls,

and the launch of Panic City and stuff.

Let's just get this done.

Dude, I can make breakfast burritos right here.

Hell yeah.

This is for you, Tess.

Members of the board,

for over 40 years, my family at Dillinger Systems

has battled Encom for control of the future.

You put me in charge of the company

to ensure our victory.

Today...

I make it so.

Imagine if all our digital prowess

wasn't just digital.

What if anything we could dream in the machine

could become a reality here?

What if we could build the bridge

between two previously walled-off worlds?

So much talk of AI in big tech today.

Virtual worlds, what are they gonna look like?

When will we get there?

Well, folks. We're not going there.

They are coming here.

Attention,

please put on your safety glasses now.

Laser systems activated.

Power fluctuations are nominal.

Warning, stand clear.

Outputting from Dillinger Systems server.

Raw material inflow initiated.

T-minus ten, nine,

eight, seven,

six, five,

four, three,

two, one...

Transfer complete.

I present the Dillinger Systems

Amphibious Rapid-response Tank.

The DART.

Digitally modeled inside our server,

output using our patented laser technology.

There's an M1 rifle gun, two M240 machine guns.

It's got a top speed of 75 miles per hour.

Durability, you find a wall,

this thing is gonna drive through it.

This is full-scale war, five minutes' notice.

So, if we can create the hardware of the future,

then why not the soldier to operate it?

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to meet Ares.

This is the most sophisticated security program ever written.

Do you wanna shake his hand? Go ahead. He doesn't bite.

Ares has billions of lines of code unique to him.

Is it alive?

That depends on your definition, Stuart.

Because unlike you, he's biblically strong,

lightning fast, and supremely intelligent.

He is fully proprietary and 100% expendable.

Ares is the ultimate soldier.

He needs no food, no water, sheds no blood.

And if, by some miracle,

he is struck down on the battlefield,

I will simply make you another.

With all that sophisticated code,

what makes you think you can contain it?

I can assure you, General,

the most advanced fail-safe mechanisms

and restriction protocols are in place.

Ares is predictable,

controllable and fully aligned.

Southerly front with isentropic lift,

turning cyclonic.

Predicted precipitation: 2.6 inches.

I hope that you brought your umbrellas.

I have to hand it to you, Julian.

You promised a big win

and this is even bigger

than any of us could've imagined.

Thank you.

My grandfather started Dillinger Corporation

long before anybody heard the term "cybersecurity."

Military AI is the future.

The question is not whether the car should be built.

The car is

being built right now.

The question is

who's holding the keys?

That was quite some parlor trick.

- Time? - Forty-four seconds.

"I hope you brought your umbrellas."

Oh, was that in the script,

or was he just having a moment?

Elisabeth Dillinger,

eldest daughter of founder Edward Dillinger, deceased.

Longtime CEO during a relatively unremarkable period

of corporate history before being superseded

by your only son.

It's a pleasure.

Unremarkable?

Market share was up 12% during my tenure.

That's hardly...

And anyway, we don't say it "superseded," we...

we call it "giving birth."

Of course.

It's an honor to meet my creator's creator.

Oh, well, here we go.

I noticed you left out the part

where you can't seem to keep this thing of yours alive

- for more than 25 minutes. - Twenty-nine.

Deceiving your investors, Julian,

is hardly a business model.

Whoever controls the Permanence Code

controls the future.

We have to win.

Look, I

admire your vision. Straighten up.

However, the board will only stand behind you

for another six months