an enormous high-tech crucible has been erected; gantries and support structures rise above it.
the convoy heads through the gates and arrives at the machine site. enormous winches are wheeled in place; cables attached.
we see a technician in a hard-hat walking towards one of the superstructure's elevators. as he approaches, we recognize joseph, now clean-shaven, wearing spectacles.
joseph rides the elevator up the gantry. under his vest we can see his body wrapped with plastic explosives.
the entire superstructure begins to rumble. a giant erbium dowel shudders downwards, crashing into the sphere and ripping a hole in the machine. the controllers stare as another explosion rents the bottom of the machine, weakening the support structure. gantries begin to collapse around it as the giant sphere falls off its support --