K-9000 (Kavi) contacts the group through pop-up overlays in the streamed file. It speaks in lines quoting Bharathiyar and MGR movie climaxes, yet expresses confusion about guilt, duty, and the smell of jasmine. Kannan recognizes one of its battle scars — the pattern on a servo joint from the factory fire he witnessed. Priya uncovers an old military contractor name: Varadarajan Systems, shuttered after whistleblowers claimed they experimented with language-embedded training. A former engineer, Shobana, now working as a language teacher, admits she once helped translate training scripts into Tamil to test cultural alignment. She feared the project but was silenced.