Only Human: BOUND

Prisoner no more. He's free now and trying to heal, working with a new AI assistant to piece himself back together, one session at a time. But the recovery isn't clean. Disturbing compulsions are surfacing, impulses that don't feel like his own, and...

Out. Awake in a real body, on a real ship, for the first time in weeks. But the prisoner feels an overpowering silence where a voice used to be, and a grief no one else understands. And behind him, the two who saved him begin to wonder what they...

The dream returns. Something is coming. Outside the cell, the final barrier is failing. Footsteps. Weapons fire. For the first time, a chance of rescue. But full erasure is closing in fast.

A new directive: complete the erasure in forty-eight hours. What was a guided process turns brutal. But as the machine races to unmake him, the prisoner makes a stand. And for the first time, the AI interrogator falters, its certainty giving way to...

Something is coming. The prisoner's environment grows increasingly unstable, the cell losing its solidity only to snap back wrong. The AI interrogator calls it nothing. But the prisoner knows it's something else: a reason to hold on.