All of this is paraphrased to jog my memory since I'm going back to bed
Sam wasn't in it but it took place in some alternate universe where new management had taken over ENCOM and they had recently found Flynn's
original computer and were building commercial software directly onto the harddrive because the code was very advanced for it's time
The whole operation was under heavy surveillance with supervisors at every corner to make sure everyone was coding everything according to
new management's plans since a lot of Flynn's original staff was still employed and still had their hearts with Flynn's original
visions for computer software tech (That they were aware of). Some of his more loved staff had actually been brought to the Grid but
they grudgingly complied with the new management and coded as carefully as they could overtop Flynn's original computer hoping they
Weren't causing too much havoc for the actual citizens of the Grid. It was only about 5 or 6 staff members out of a team of over 100
Meanwhile inside the Grid everything had grown much more militant and terrifying and a lot of the Grid was paralleling the outside world.
It was a lot like a police state with Guards at every turn and because the Grid was being rebuilt from the outside the programs were
responding to these code changes, and rebuilding from within as well. There were lots of programs at computer-like terminals over flat
gridspace with guards standing over them to make sure they were rebuilding according to Clu's vision, too. There was a heavy feeling of
With all this established some other dream shit happened where I went on a car ride with a seeexy computer programmer who ditched me for a
for Kelly from the Misfits and i was mad*
and then back to the dream, where this cute somewhat older woman who looked like michelle pfieffer with curly black shoulder length hair who
actively interfacing with Tron throughout the rebuild because she had been brought to the Grid by Flynn before.
And Tron kept promising he'd get her back into the Grid. Tron himself just had this almost omniscient run of The Grid and was upgraded by
Flynn before he went missing with all these crazy permissions and was just constantly aware of what was going on inside The Grid intuitively
But he was also screwed up from Clu and was heavily modified as Clu worked on him to become Rinzler so he was halfway between himself
and halfway between Rinzler, and fighting with this dampened awareness. His interaction with this User-woman was flying completely under
Clu's radar. Clu had no idea
And she wanted to get inside The Grid so she could change it from the inside and just in general had been dreaming of it ever since Flynn
Finally Tron told her he had found a way, and he was speaking to her through some terminal where he could see her from outside because
Flynn's computer was wired right into the Encom system and Tron had figured out how to gain access to live camera feeds
And she knew he was looking at him and it was very flattering for her. And he told her he figured out a way and she could come back and
And her computer screen more or less zapped her into the Grid (screw shiva lasers) and she entered through a portal way up in the sky and
began free-falling towards the ground
Tron was riding some crazy-ass tentaclebeast in the sky that was made of a 3D wireframe instead of being a complete creature
I remember it had wings and swam through the sky like a squid swims. It was just really horrific
And he flew on it to go meet her and she free fell, and at a decisive moment he lept off and landed on the woman's back. she was already in
a gridsuit except the belly was exposed and Tron was like "Don't worry, you'll be fine. I'm going to disguise you as a program"
they were still free-falling and there was no weight on her backside even though Tron was on it because they were free-falling I guess
anyways he put her hand on her back and the gridsuit filled in the space and became a one-piece instead of a two-piece, and underneath his
hand a hub for a disc appeared on her backside
and based off his own discs, he created a new disc, but he briefly slipped into rinzler mode and copied his corrupted
copied part of his corrupted red disc into her new disc, which manifested directly onto the hub as Tron willed it to be
But the data on the disc was based off his own and when they hit the ground (and were totally fine) she felt violently ill and Tron
brushed it off as being due to the fall and didn't tell her shit, or that she was infected with his own corrupt data now.
meanwhile Clu realized he could get into the real world by merging data with magma that could be drilled into via the ground
so he started a drilling crew because apparently in the grid, when you drilled deep underground there was a network of magma and somewhere
at the core of the grid in this magma was where the world between the grid and the real world met
and then i realized that they weren't actually just computer people or IN THE COMPUTER but rather that Flynn's computer gave him access to
an alternate dimension that he could modify at will, but it was layered directly on top of our own. people didn't actually change size or
become digitized at shiva lasers. they went into an alternate dimension, which is why his Grid paralleled New York the way it did
and apparently Clu had realized earth magma was also Grid magma and by installing data into it he could fracture the barrier between their
worlds and enter earth idefk
anyways there was some shot of new grid drilling crews and tron realizing shit was about to hit the fan and that clu needed to be stopped
tron gave off this perpetual aura of illness and damage and he was constantly battling this inner urge to just kill the user woman.