Red vs Blue: Reconstruction

Reconstruction Gags
Not Caboose's Fault- Throughout the series, Caboose has said "Not My Fault" when it really was his fault. An example is that when he came to see Lt. Miller, he said that Jones, "Untied me and shot himself in the back, somehow. But we don't think it's anyone's fault." or when he said "Not my fault, Tucker did it" when Church was talking about when he killed him. Later, when they confronted the Meta at the old base, Caboose was ordered to toss Spike Grenades at it. Right away Caboose stuck the wall. Washington said: "That was the worst throw ever.... of all time!" Caboose just responded "Not my fault, somebody put a wall in my way."

Church's Sniping Continuing from the original series, Church is very bad with a Sniper Rifle. When Washington and Caboose first confronted him, he attempted to snipe Caboose, and even after multiple tries, did not succeed. The one time he hits the Meta in the foot with his sniper, Wash says. "It only counts if you call it.", and it was a lucky ricochet off a wind turbine blade. Another time is that when Caboose was injured, Church shot his sniper at his body and he asked Wash "How 'bout now" after Wash said Caboose wasn't dead. Wash then replies, "Stop that! And you missed.". In episode 15, Church is unable to hit his intended target at the security checkpoint with a pistol, and empties an entire clip around him at point blank range, and did not hit him once. This is out of line with the Blood-Gulch Chronicals were Church shot Caboose in the foot at medium range with a crack shot.

Sarge's hatred for Grif Returning from the original series Sarge still despises Grif and not believing that Grif was promoted to Sergeant when Sarge refused to leave Blood Gulch, Because of this, Sarge has called Grif a bad leader and many other things. In Chapter 13 when Washington gives a favor to the Reds so they would help Wash and the Blues break into command, Sarge says to demote Grif to Private, only to say that he wanted an "adjective that's insulting or demeaning" leading Washington to demote Grif to Minor Junior Private Negative First Class.

Simmons' hatred for Caboose Although not shown prominently in the original series, Simmons despises Caboose due to Sarge's favor over Caboose which Simmons feels is competition. This is shown strongly during Chapter 15 when Caboose tries to convince Washington to take him as a prisoner instead of Church. Sarge remarked, "Sacrificing himself for his CO. Why can't you two be more like him?" Simmons then acted very strongly to it and attempted to win back some favor by sacrificing Grif by saying,"No, seriously just give me the word and I'll do it right fuckin' now!" Also later on he accidently voiced out his desire to kill Caboose.

Trailer
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The trailer (alternating from a third person point of view to a helmet cam of one of the soldiers) shows two visible soldiers, both from Project Freelancer, the same project that Tex was in. The red and blue soldiers are identified as being from the Recovery program, from the mini series Recovery One and are designated Recovery Nine and Recovery Six, respectively. There is a voice-over for the trailer, as the action shown is silent. It is of what sounds like a board member, representative, head researcher or chairman of the Freelancer project, apparently giving a report on the findings of the two soldiers, and mentioning that despite what "others" stated, they had no warning of the coming incident. The trailer takes place at Outpost 17-B "Valhalla", and the recovery agents are there to investigate an incident at the outpost.

The two agents find both Blue and Red soldiers dead and the bases barricaded. On one of the walls someone wrote: "We are the Meta". They then found a crashed ship and were killed shortly after by an unknown, camouflaged figure wearing white EVA Helmet and Scout torso with brown CQB and EOD soulders. This is the mystery person that killed freelancers and took their A.I.s and armor abilities as seen in Recovery One.

Red vs Blue Civil War Speculations
It is interesting to note that the two soldiers, both gray with ODST helmets, are marked with both Blue and Red details. Whether this fits into the fact the Vic in the original Chronicles seemed to be relaying orders to command is unknown. It may indicate that the blue and red teams were, in fact, working together at one time. However, it may just be a way of differentiating between the two because it is revealed in Chapter 3 by Lt. Miller that the two sides are still at war. Although, the opening scene depicts it a post-war. In addition, the agents are apparently from Project Freelancer and therefore take neither side. Another possibility is that Project Freelancer is the governing body of both Red and Blue team, as shown in the original Blood Gulch Chronicles, where Vic served as the middle-man for both Blue and Red command, evident that the civil war between the two is just a cover-up and to keep the teams occupied. This could be because every base mentioned so far in the Red vs Blue franchise is called an "Outpost", possibly guarding a perimeter of some sort. Another support of this theory is that in RvB: Reconstruction Episode 4, Agent Washington tell Church that "I know you're all wrapped up in your "Red vs Blue" battles, but this is important. Real military operations, not your fake simulation stuff.", implying that the "Civil War" is merely a simulation. Also in Reconstruction Episode 6 Delta calls Church a "simulation trooper"(paraphrase) further indicating this fact. It is revealed in Chapter 12 that the freelancers use the outposts as 'practice,' pointing out the fact that nothing ever happens unless command calls, or a freelancer shows up. Also, in Chapter 15, it is fully revealed that Project Freelancer created the Red vs Blue war and gave them their scenarios.



Greek Letters
In the end "WE ARE THE META" switches to Greek letters, which in chronological order (different sized letters due to the font changing from caps lock to not all caps) says:) This is likely an anagram, used with Greek letters that resemble Latin ones, but this has yet to be confirmed.
 * EAOFaete
 * F e aet N E OR
 * EiNS FU Y a
 * and finally, before it changes to Reconstruction, it says RECONSTFUCTION

They then change into the word: Reconstruction

Plot
After all contact was lost with both Red and Blue forces in Valhalla, two Recovery agents are dispatched to gather information. They discover both teams barricaded inside their own bases, all killed. A cloaked being, later confirmed to be the creature from Red vs Blue: Recovery One (called The Meta), attacks the pair of agents and kills them. Later, a whole army of agents are sent to Valhalla, but the creature doesn't attack again. The large recovery team finds one remaining Red soldier, Walter. Through Walter's recount of the situation, Agent Washington and an apparent Field Director deduce the culprit to be Omega(O'Malley). Washington is sent for help on combat against Omega with the only people who have had experience, the Red and Blue forces of Blood Gulch.

Chapter One
Watch: Here It opens with a scene of a large amount of activity at Valhalla Outpost 17-B. Captain Rivas, apparently the CO of the operation is called by another agent or private announcing that they have found a survivor, Private Walter Henderson. The next is about Private Walter Henderson, who was called by one of the commanding officers of the Recovery program. He explains that when the ship crashed, the Blues captured it, and when they left, the reds only found some screwed up wires. Then there was an infection amongst the blues. Some trapped the others inside their base, and then destroyed the com towers of both Blue and Red teams. It became quiet and so the reds decided to send a squad out and discovered all blues were dead. The blues had tore off their helmet radios, though the reds believed it was to build something, Henderson knew they were breaking them. He also notices another body inside blue base. She wasn't blue, but her armor resembled that of another man who was witnessing the interview with Henderson and the boss at the time. The boss tells Henderson to ignore the man, and go on with the story. He continues by telling about how the reds took the headsets back to base and brought them online, the infection started for the red team. Soldiers were starting to act crazy and disobey orders. A man, thought by the reds to be help and was later revealed to be known as "Meta" first searched all the body's at blue base, then searched the infected body's at red base. In the end, he tried to kill everyone, succeeding in doing so to all but Henderson. Private Henderson is dismissed and then the boss talks to the other man in the room who turns out to be Agent Washington. Apparently he had survived the encounter by a healing unit he took from York's armor and confirmed the mystery person is the same as he fought. Only it is getting stronger. It is next revealed that the A.I. Omega, A.K.A. O'Malley, has joined the Meta. Agent Washington is next sent to Blood Gulch outpost Alpha where he is to contact some soldiers who have had some experience with Omega.

Chapter Two
Watch: Here Agent Washington arrives at Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha (Blue base) which is seemingly deserted. Just as he contacts command, a female voice is heard shouting and cursing at him. It is Sister, who is the only blue left as she reveals all the others were relocated separately. Agent Washington and Sister exchange dialogs ending up with Washington walking away as Sister has decided in her mind that he is a cop. Washington arrives at red base and is suddenly stopped by a cardboard cut-out of Donut with Sarge doing a voice over from further within the base, warning him to stay away. Washington proceeds, being stopped along the way by cardboard cut-outs of Simmons and Grif, with Grif's cardboard shot several times by a shotgun, evident that Sarge still is determined to kill Grif even in his absence, and at last a cut out of Sarge himself. It turns out to be the real Sarge. Sarge explains that Grif and Simmons left following relocation orders, and that he has gone AWOL thinking that command has lost their minds. He says that the war in Blood Gulch is still going as there is still one blue left in the canyon. When Washington asks him if anyone can tell him about A.I., Sarge says he should find Caboose as he has been infected before. He gets Lopez to give him the intercepted relocation orders for blue team saying that they may have been translated into Spanish so it'll be a little hard to understand.

Chapter Three
Watch: Here Chapter Three begins with a voice over by the chairman of the oversight subcommittee asking the director of Project Freelancer for more information regarding the so-called "Meta." The screen scrolls sideways over damaged tanks and Warthogs and then shows Agent Washington meeting with a blue soldier at the Outpost "Rat's Nest." He is revealed to be a blue officer, Lt. Miller. They discuss having Caboose leave with Agent Washington, who is stationed at that outpost at the time. The commander happily agrees, as he is glad to be rid of him. He states that Caboose is useless, saying that he only talked to the vehicles and didn't repair them. The Lt. Miller sends one of his soldiers, Jones (Whom everyone else pronounces as Johannes), to retrieve Caboose. A gunshot and a scream is heard, and Caboose walks out. Caboose claims that Jones shot himself in the back. Washington tells Caboose that they need to retrieve information that only Caboose knows. Another blue walks over and says that Jones is dead, to which Caboose responds that it was nobodies fault. Washington then leaves with Caboose. Following the credits, a blue soldier in EVA Helmet, Scout Torso with CQB and EOD armor shoulders is seen watching Washington and Caboose leave. As they depart, the color of the figure's armor changed to white with brown shoulders and it turns around as the screen fades out quickly. This is obviously the Meta character, and it is assumed that it has been following Agent Washington for some time.

Chapter Four
Watch: Here Chapter four is set on High Ground. It involves Caboose and Agent Washington in search of Pvt. Leonard Church. Caboose assures Washington that Church is located here saying that Church attempted to hide his relocation orders from Caboose saying it was a game of hide and seek, also that the only way he would win was by dying before Caboose ever saw him again. Washington then asks if he has had experience with the Freelancer program, and Caboose states that Church dated Tex. Before Washington can finish his statement, most likely about how anyone could date Agent Texas, Church attempts to snipe them, missing the shot and claims it to be a warning shot. Washington takes cover but Caboose remains still trying to figure out who is yelling at him, recognizing the voice is Church after he fires and misses another round at Caboose. When Church finds out Caboose is there, he starts shooting like crazy (missing still), whilst Caboose is standing fixed in position. Washington comes out of cover and requests to be let in, Church says no and that "this is a secure facility, no one in; no one out." Washington points out that he will just have to walk through the giant hole in the wall to his right, and Church reluctantly lets them in. Agent Washington is contacted by Recovery Command and instructed to head with the Blue soldiers to Outpost 17 B or "Valhalla" to have the "experts" give their analysis of what happened there. Church is reluctant to leave and is especially annoyed that Caboose has not upgraded his armor from the Mark V to the Mark VI armor. It isn't until Agent Washington says they have found Tex's ship that Church decides to go with them. The female officer commanding Washington tells him that they have found all of the Blue Team members. Meanwhile, the Meta character is following them and intercepts transmissions between Washington and Recovery Command. The Meta alters them to issue orders as Red Command to Sarge, telling him to stop Washington at all costs. In the bottom corner of the screen is the beginning of the word Epsilon, Washington's old AI. At the end, Agent South (Recovery Two) appears along with Delta, also following them, and are in turn followed by the Meta.

Chapter Five
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Chapter Five is set on Valhalla. It involves Church,Washington,and Caboose investigating the crash site of Tex's Pelican. Washington is refused entry to the crash area by the guards, who tell him that they have direct orders not to allow anyone in. They tell him that he could use the Red base to call Command to gain entry. Washington then comes up with a a plan to distract the guards so Caboose and Church can gain entry to the crash site. Washington sets off a massive explosion in the blue base, and Church goes through the gravity lift, rolling eighty feet and only stopping when he crashes into a Warthog parked behind the guards. Washington and Caboose then enter, and investigate the crash site.Washington then attempts to access the last recording of the Pelican, but before he can do anything,Caboose interrupts and tries to talk to Sheila. Washington then activates the program,and then speaks to her as a human to an AI, which upsets Caboose. Washington convinces Caboose to let him continue, and they listen to the recording of Tex and Andy speaking to Sheila as they attempt to avoid a crash landing. Tex takes over manually, but is unable to stop the crash. The recording ends, and Washington informs Church that Tex's body was brought by the Blues to Blue base. Church, of course, wants to go see the body, but before they go, Washington gets a call from Command telling him to investigate a distress beacon. The beacon is a signal from Agent South Dakota, which states that she and her AI, Delta, are in danger. Washington receives the coordinates, and they set off.

Chapter Six
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Chapter Six is set on High Ground. It involves Washington, Church, and Caboose responding to South's distress beacon. It opens with South pinned down inside a domed energy shield while the Meta fires at her with its Brute Shot. Delta reports that the barrier (which is in fact a bubble shield) will collapse soon, at which point South tells him to transfer himself and her armor upgrade into a storage device, so she can escape while the Meta is distracted with pilfering Delta. Delta is about to comply when Washington, Church, and Caboose ride in on a pair of Mongoose, just as the shield collapses. Washington immediately engages the Meta, and tells Church and Caboose to keep South from escaping. Church tells Caboose she is on their side, and that Caboose should help her. Caboose promptly shoots her in the back, and claims "She got in the way when I was trying to help her". The Meta cloaks, and Washington explains to Church that it must have gotten the cloaking unit from Tex. He then tells Church that the Meta steals Freelancer upgrades, which causes Church to yell about Wyoming and run toward a Rocket Launcher on the ground. Telling Caboose to grab a pair of Spike Grenades Washington tells Caboose to throw the grenades, causing Caboose to stick it to the wall between them prompting Washington to claim, "That was the worst throw ever...of all time." To which Caboose responds, "Not my fault, somebody put a wall in my way.". Just as they jump over the wall to avoid the explosion, Church retrieves and fires the Launcher, right at the uncloaked Meta. The Meta suddenly stops time, using Wyoming's upgrade, and moves towards Washington. It pulls out a pistol and aims at Washington's head. Before it can fire a shot however, it twitches and sparks play across its armor, which causes it to run away and unfreeze time. The trio move over to South's prone form, and Delta reports that she is critically injured. Washington has Caboose insert Delta into his own armor. South says she can't walk, and Washington tells her that he won't leave her there to escape. Delta then mentions her attempt to abandon him, and that she did the same to Washington and her brother, Agent North Dakota. He ends by stating that she will only hamper their progress in her wounded state, and suggests that they "not allow her to hamper [our] progress. South begins to taunt him about shooting her but before she can finish saying the word "shoot" Washington promptly pulls out a pistol and shoots her in the head. The Chapter ends with Church commenting on the cold nature of the Freelancers, and Caboose stating that he has no trouble walking and takes full responsibility for the grenade incident.

Chapter Seven
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After killing Agent South, Church and Caboose are convinced that Agent Washington is insane. Agent Washington claims that he is "perfectly sane, now if you excuse me I need to go blow up this dead body." As Wash proceeds to blow up her remains, Church asks Delta whether or not Washington is actually sane. To which, Delta responds that he is sane for his current status, but that is subject to change. Washington announces that he is finished and informs Delta that Command passed along their sympathies for South's passing. Washington explains that he blamed Caboose for the killing Agent South, much to his surprise Command apparently has a shortcut on their keyboard for his team killing reports (Ctrl+F+U). They then proceed to find one of their mongooses stolen by the Meta. Then, Agent Washington tells Church about Alpha, the original AI and how each other AI is allegedly a copy.

His recovery beacon goes off with Command informing him that the Meta is actually Agent Maine. Washington's transmission is jammed and Delta is unable to receive the coordinates from Command, Church makes the point that the Meta is having fluctuations with his power supply from all the armor enhancements, which Delta agrees. Church then comments that he may know a location where the Meta could gain power. The group then sets off for the Power Station (Last Resort). It is assumed that the Meta knows of this location because of his assimilation of the AI O'Malley. In the sponsor's extended cut, two Red soldiers, Burke and DeLario, are shown standing guard on the wall. DeLario comments on how a soldier by the name of "Tubbs" always pulls motor pool duty, whereas he and Burke always have wall duty. The camera zooms in on DeLario as he talks, and he suddenly realizes Burke isn't responding. Turning to see what's happened to his friend, he finds himself face-to-face with the Meta. He only has enough time to ask "Where'd you get that helmet?" before the Meta nails him with the Brute Shot melee.

Chapter Eight
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The episode begins with Church, Caboose and Agent Washington on the beach at a power station in Zanzibar (Last Resort) finding the Meta's cycle, along with a number of dead bodies and attempting to ambush the Meta. As Delta was standing by to assist Caboose, Church questioned him about Washington's reluctance to discuss Alpha. Delta explained to Church that this was due to the events that took place during the AI experiments and of the failures of the experiment on Agents Washington, Maine, North, South and Carolina. Church, Caboose and Washington prepare to attack the Meta and Washington unexpectedly (to Church and Caboose) quickly engaged him in combat. However after a short fight, the Meta escaped, knocking Washington to the ground. Caboose and Delta attempted to flank round to the right to launch an attack on the Meta while Washington and Church attempted to pursue him. As Washington and Church made their way quietly onto the beach they recognized the sound of the radio from Red team's Warthog and Sarge, Grif and Simmons charged in on their Warthog making a loud and clumsy attempt at attacking Washington, as ordered by the Meta using manipulated voices, when they drove directly into a blade of the power stations turbine. After inquiring on the attacking team Church explained that they were the Blood Gulch Red team and that they were harmless and unintelligent. As the Turbine lifted the Warthog up, Simmons fires the Turret at Washington and Church, both of whom attempt to take cover.

In a corridor within the power station complex Caboose lay unmoving on the floor as the Meta approached. Delta then appears and six other AIs appear around him. One of them say "We're so glad to see you" to which another with deep voice responds "So glad". The same that first talked says "We missed you, Delta" and the episode ends. It has also been noted that as the Meta approaches Caboose, a character with active camouflage can be seen darting away from the doorway at the end of the corridor.

Chapter Nine
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The scene opens with Sarge receiving the Meta's transmission, posing as Command, that Agent Washington has reassembled the Blues and that he must gather his team and stop them at all costs. In Rats Nest, Simmons and Grif are about to be executed by their own men when Sarge shows up and saves them. It is revealed that Grif is now the same rank as Sarge, something that Sarge cannot comprehend. Sarge, Grif, and Simmons drive off in the Warthog, leaving the Reds somewhat confused. In the extended cut Lopez reveals that he is now lonely.

Chapter Ten
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The Reds attack Church and Agent Washington, but the two manage to keep safe by staying behind cover. Agent Washington's first priority is to get to Caboose, who was hurt by the Meta, and the Reds stand in his way. While they are firing, Grif tries to take command of the situation, much to the dismay of Sarge, who still cannot accept the fact that they are equals. Agent Washington tells them he is from Command, and gets them to cease fire by using Red Command's codeword, which, of course, happens to be CODEWORD. Meanwhile, the Meta watches the scene and changes his armor color to red. Grif, against Sarge's advice, tries to prove himself by asking the disguised Red Meta to help. The Meta responds by letting out a guttural cry and picking up a Warthog and throwing it at Grif, thus proving to Church and Agent Washington that the Meta is not working with the Reds.

Chapter Eleven
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The episode starts off with Grif running from the Warthog the Meta threw at him in the last episode. The Meta then starts throwing more things at the other Reds and Grif. Sarge and Simmons then come into cover with Church and Washington. Washington goes to Caboose to help him while the others distract the Meta. Washington uses the healing unit (which is actually an ONI Regenerator) to heal Caboose, then leaves with a turret to help Church and the Reds. He starts shooting the Meta until it uses its time-distortion powers to run away. Washington and Church start to argue with the Reds until they remember about Caboose. Washington then goes to send in an evacuation request when Simmons suggests that Church should phase into Caboose. He explains that Washington doesn't know that he is a ghost, so Simmons distracts him about a fictional medic. Church goes into Caboose's mind and finds his mental images of Agent Washington (or Agent Washingtub) and Caboose. He then finds a memory of Delta that he left telling Church to tell Washington that "Memory is the key". Church then phases out of Caboose's body, only for Washington to see his ghostly "abilities", and then the episode ends.

Chapter Twelve
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Chapter twelve begins with Church explaining about why he was a ghost, and being constantly interrupted by the Reds and Caboose. Washington pointed out that no one else had the kits Sarge used to build Lopez's, Church's, and Tex's bodies. He also points out that the Red and Blue teams never had anything to do unless Command called or a Freelancer showed up, indicating that their 'war' is just a simulation. Eventually, he orders the Reds to check the vehicles, and Church back into his body. Church, being constantly interrupted tries to tell Washington that he has a message: "That memory is the key." Washington then goes to the Reds and says they need to leave, but the jeeps are wrecked. He then says that they can get vehicles elsewhere. Upon being questioned, he states, "We're going home... We're going to Command." At an extra segment Doc arrives at the scene, but there is no one present.

Chapter Thirteen
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Washington and the two teams head back to Outpost 17-B, and watch as the Red Team steals a Warthog. After an enemy Warthog gives chase and attacks them, Washington leaves to rescue the Reds. Meanwhile, Church ignores Washington's previous orders and leaves Caboose and his body in the middle of the canyon. He heads to command to take a look at Tex's body, since he thought that something was mysterious about Washington not wanting him to get near her body. Back in the Canyon, Grif decides to drive off a cliff, claiming he can make it. At the last minute though, he decides to turn around, and gets the warthog stuck on the cliff. The enemy warthog drives past them, driving over the ridge, and is destroyed by Simmons shooting it. After the enemy Warthog is destroyed, Washington yells at the Reds that they needed that vehicle. After a few seconds, a Hornet appears, attacking the Reds, which prompts them to take cover. Washington notices the now frozen-in-place Church and queries Caboose over the radio. Despite a blatantly obvious attempt by Caboose to distract Washington from the truth a explosion occurs and Church's uninhabited body falls over. At the same time Church manages to possess a solider and enter the base to find Tex's corpse.

Chapter Fourteen
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Red Team keeps the Hornet busy while Washington goes to find Church who went looking for Tex. Inside Blue base, Church (in a possessed body) looks for Tex, but only finds her lifeless body. The other guard at blue base comes to investigate and is suspicious about Church. Washington knocks the guard out and after a small argument, he and Church go to help out Red Team. Washington destroys the Hornet by launching a fusion coil from the man cannon on Red base into the Hornet, destroying it. Later, the Reds say that they won't go with Washington and the Blues to command. Wash then decides to do a favor trade with the Reds, asking what they want in return for helping them infiltrate command. After a small discussion, Sarge says that they'll go if Grif gets demoted to something humiliating. So, Wash demotes Grif to "Minor Junior Private Dexter Grif Negative First Class". After that, Caboose comes up with an idea on how to get into command. Church (in a guard's body) and Washington take a warthog and the rest cram into a tank. They drive to command, which is Standoff. They easily get past the guards. Unknowing to all, the Meta was clinging to the back of the tank and got into command with them.

Chapter Fifteen
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After getting in, the team of six still need to reach the Alpha's AI storage facility. In order to gain access to the facility, Agent Washington takes Church along, to pose as another survivor of the incident at Outpost 17-B to pass the seven levels of armed checkpoints. Caboose tried to volunteer to take Church's place, which caused Sarge to tell the reds how they should be prepared to sacrifice themselves to their superiors, which annoys Simmons. After Wash and Church left, the 4 of the remaining team members converse about random things, such as how bored they are of waiting. After entering the holding cell for the AI's Washington explains to Church that all the AIs (including the rejects and bad variants) were kept here. To find "what they are looking for", they split up. Wash finds what they were looking for, and he calls Church who is fooling around with a hologram someplace else, when suddenly Church receives sudden hallucinations from the AI Wash found. This AI turns out to be Epsilon (represented by a Portable Gravity Lift), which used to belong to Agent Washington.

Chapter Sixteen
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Agent Washington continues to explain the story of the A.I.s to Church. The meaning behind Delta's "Memory is the key" message from Chapter 11 and 12 is actually a phrase for informing Wash that Epsilon A.I. is still alive. He also explains once again to Church that Project Freelancer only had one A.I., and no more than that. They tried to copy it, but to no avail. The director then had a theory, since they can't copy the A.I., they split it into A.I. fragments instead. To do this, they tortured Alpha so much that he had to fragment himself to keep his sanity and protect itself from analyzing what was happening to him. The fragments are like multiple personalities of Alpha, some good, others evil. Delta was its logic, Epsilon was its memory, Omega was its rage, Gamma was its deceit, and Sigma was its creativity. Meanwhile, the Reds Simmons, Grif and the Sarge were getting bored to death. As the camera zooms into the base the Reds are in, the Meta in its Camouflage can been seen crossing the camera. Sarge then asks Simmons, whether he's good at the "Computers", telling him that if the base they are in is Command, so the computer Internet they are looking at now is the data of all the Red and Blue armies. He then asks Simmons whether he can erase all data of the blues, as in, "Terminating the process" of the blues, to which Simmons replies, "Sir, you just blew my mind...".

Back at the storage facility, Agent Washington reveals that Alpha A.I. purged the insanity in his mind into Epsilon, Alpha's memories, and Wash himself was "unlucky" to have it as his A.I., and had flashes of Epsilon's (Alpha's) memories when the A.I. was inside Wash's head, flashes of what the director did to it. Which is why Epsilon went insane, it was all of the horrible experiences the Alpha A.I. needed to shed to survive, and that's why it had to be removed from Agent Washington. Nobody knew Wash had the memories, but they had their suspicions (then we are shown a flashback of when South told Wash that no one got an AI that was behind him in line from the second episode of Recovery One). Wash then continues by saying he would never allow them to plant another A.I. in his head, as he was afraid he would not be able to hide what he knew from another program. Soon, Wash explains that after the first attack on Command, Command knew the A.I. would convince the Freelancers to come looking for it, so they hid it in someplace nobody ever thought they could find it. As Church grows more agitated as Washington gives him vague answers and explanations, Wash tells Church that Delta was the logic A.I., and he was able to figure out things before anyone else could. As explained by Wash, Delta intentionally left a message to Church in a way he knew Church only could find, and in a way that lets Wash see Church getting it. Wash finally reveals that he knows what Church is, even if Church himself doesn't know, how Church can seemingly live without a body, why Command stuck Church into an useless backward canyon no one ever goes (Blood Gulch), why everybody in the outpost Church was in was relocated elsewhere (then we are shown a brief flashback of Church explaining "I've been here 14 months" when Caboose and Wash found him at High Ground), why he always agreed with everything Delta A.I. said (then we are shown another flashback of when Delta was saying "we should simply be happy the Meta is gone", and Church saying "that makes sense to me!"), why Church didn't feel anything when Omega A.I. went inside his head (then we are shown another flashback of Episode 100 when O'Malley was constantly infecting other people, and he goes into Church and Church says "I actually don't feel that different...that's kinda weird, huh?), why he can jump from person to person's bodies the way Omega can. Wash tells Church there's "No such things as ghosts", and after a dramatic pause, Wash reveals Church is an A.I., one of them, and he IS the Alpha A.I.

Chapter Seventeen
The Chapter starts where Chapter 16 took off, where Agent Washington tells Church that he is the Alpha A.I., and they both stare at each other for a few minutes. Meanwhile, Simmons is revealed to be finding the Blue army data and records on the Com that is in that base, and he tries to find a way to get access to delete them. Grif then suggests that Simmons should try "hacking the mainframe", to which Simmons replies by telling him that the com isn't the mainframe system. Grif makes another suggestion, but Simmons interupts and asks him to shut up. Simmons then explains the com system they are using compared to other stuff, and Grif this time suggests putting a virus into the system, and to Simmons' great annoyance, this time he asks Grif to shut the F*** up and let him work. The camera changes back at the storage facility where Wash and Church are, and Church begins scolding vulgarities at Wash, to which Wash says, "That's not the reaction I expected...", and Church asks him whether he thinks he's a computer progamme, and Wash asks him why is that "hard to believe". Church explains is because he has memories since he was a kid, and he doesn't remember being a calculator. Wash then explains that A.I. are progamme based on a natural human mind, and are bound to have false memories. Church then asks Wash to "Give him a break", which Wash renames Church as "a Spirit", and Church stressfully accepts that fact.

Back at the base, Sarge asks Simmons how's the progress of termination, and Simmons tells him he's almost done. Simmons also notes the light besides the com is distracting him. Grif returns to the room and tells his comrades that he told Caboose to watch out for the guards in the other room inside the base, which should give the Red team "Some relief". Sarge then tells Simmons that if the light besides the com bothers him so much, why not just turn it off, and Simmons expresses great frustration since he's working, so Grif volunteers to turn off the light. Grif presses a button, and a loud, and somewhat familar voice voices over, asking for Command. After a pause, the voice asks why isn't anyone answering, which Grif asks Simmons what to do, and Simmons tells Grif that he doesn't care, just get rid of the person that is voicing over. Grif pretends to be a Command respondent, to which the voice says that this is a distress call, and needs help ASAP. Grif, somewhat confused and irrated, replies to the voice that there's "No one to take the call now", and immediately the voice shouts a loud "What?". Grif then asks the voice whether he can take a message, and the voice replies to Grif that "They suck", which Grif asks whether is that the message, and the voice tells Grif that's not the message, and the message is that "They" found what they are looking for, and its under the sand. And demands help now. Simmons whispers to Grif, asking what that guy is asking about, but Grif replies he doesn't know either, so Grif just takes note of the message. Grif's final sentence to the voice is that he will pass a meesage when Command gets back, and the voice happily responds, "Bow Chicka Bow Wow", which surprises Grif, and asks the voice to repeat the sentence, but a loud crash is hear in the background, so the voice has to end to call. Grif tries to recall who the voice actually might be, and Caboose enters the scene, asking whether someone said something. (The person over the call is probably Blue team member Tucker, which appears in the previous Red vs Blue series' episodes, but has not make an appearance yet in the Reconstruction series.)

The camera view agains returns to Agent Wash and Church's site, in the storage facility, and begins when Wash tells Church that he can deny that he's the Alpha A.I., but he can't change the fact that he is, and Wash needs him to beat down the Meta. Church questions Wash why it has to be him, and Wash replies to Church that no one else can. Church makes a suggestion, which is Tex, and Wash explains that even if he can find her, even if she's still alive, he doesn't think he can trust her, and while Wash continues explaining, he loses his words to describe Tex. This has led Church to believe Wash is jealous of her receiving special treatment from the superiors, and Church laughing at him. Wash tries to calm Church down, by telling him he does not know everything, but what he knows is that the Meta, in the current state, is a danger to everyone. As the two continue to talk, and alarm is sounded throughout the entire facility, and asks Church to take Epsilion A.I. and get out of here while he leads the way out, and Church obliges to do it only if it doesn't give him any more "images", otherwise he will throw it into a trash can. Back at the base where Caboose and the Red team members are, Sarge asks Simmons whether he triggered the alarm, but Simmons tells him he didn't did it. Caboose slowly walks towards the windows of the base, and sees a free Freelancer soldiers apporaching the base, and they "look bad, really bad". Sarge immediately orders Grif to close the window shutters, while Simmons announces that he had found all the information linked to the Blue army soldiers. Sarge asks Simmons whether he can erase all of the data, Simmons agress, but ask Sarge to rethink about the deletion for a moment. Simmons explains that what good is a Red soldier if there's no blue army to fight against, to which Sarge ignores his explaination and he himself presses the button to deletion of the data. Meanwhile, Grif asks where Caboose went, which shocks Simmons which led him to think whether the deletion of the data affected reality, but Caboose appears behind him, telling him and his comrades he went to the bathroom, since Church always hated Caboose when he has to go to one in the middle of a battle. The Chapter ends as Grif sacrastically asks Simmons to explain what made him think that the deletion of the blue army data affects reality, but Simmons refuses to reply him.

Trivia

 * A lot of what happens in this series doesn't match up with the original chronicles, such as only the main characters (and York, with his healing unit,) went into the future, so how Wash, Maine, and the other Reds/Blues were still alive is unknown, as a war wouldn't go on for 800 years. However, it is worth noting that there wasn't really much evidence that they went into the future. The only one that ever said they were in the future was Wyoming's AI, Gamma, and he was tricking them. When the teams are at Freelancer Command, Washington says that Command is responsible for all of the "ridiculous scenarios" that have happened to them, possibly meaning that the whole "going into the future" plot device was another experiment orchestrated by the Director, conducted through Wyoming's time distortion unit. There was also a joke in Episode 15 of Reconstruction when Sarge said "My clock says we've been here 3 days!" and Simmons says "That's because you chose not to synchronize at the start of the mission! You said 'its 'like' we're in the future, and we can see the enemies' thoughts and movements before they actually happen!'"
 * The Meta has multiple powers, mostly because of all the AI and equipment, that include changing its armor colors, turning invisible, creating overshields and stopping time.
 * Luke McKay also made a comic making fun of the announcement trailer. It shows the Red striped Recovery Agent saying, "'We are the Mets?' What the hell is a baseball team doing here?" The Blue striped Recovery Agent then replies, "Would you clean your visor already?"
 * The director's commentary for Chapter 3 states that the reconstruction refers to the time after the Human-Covenant war.
 * In Chapter 1, there are four Scorpions and six Hornets. It remains a mystery how this happened because only 2 Scorpions and Hornets can be placed on a map. Most likely they used an editor program to do this. Also note that there are more than 16 people on the screen, further supporting the idea that there was editing involved.
 * In the sponsor version of Chapter 7, Burke and DeLario were actually cameos for Chris Burke (one of the lead crew members of 'This Spartan Life') and Frank DeLario (member of the Ill Clan), who voiced and played their own respective characters.
 * In Chapter 9, Sarge says that he can't get Donut back. This possibly means he is either dead, or too far away to get.
 * Every Blue and Red (with exception of the original characters) encountered has ODST helmets, possibly meaning that their helmets got upgraded.
 * The only main original characters that haven't appeared yet are Tucker, Donut, and Tex (although she does appear on Sheila's logs in Chapter 5). But it was stated at RVB:TO by Burnie Burns that Tucker and Donut wouldn't contribute to Reconstruction's storyline, so they will not be returning in this series. However, in Chapter 17, during a voice over conversation Grif has with an unknown soilder of command, the soldier voice sounded like Tucker's, and to further support this theory, the soldier says "Bow Chicka Bow Wow", which Grif asks himself whether that person over the distress call is Tucker. It also catches Caboose's attention from another part of the base during the scene. This may mean that they will be returning in the series, but much later.
 * In the sponsor version of Chapter 12, Doc arrives after the credits
 * In Chapter 8, Delta meets six other A.I.'s which are in Meta's possesion. They all taunt "We missed you Delta". Then in Chapter 11, Delta is in Meta's possession. Three of the A.I's were Omega, Gamma, and Theta. It is unknown who the other A.I's were.
 * So far, it is shown that Project Freelancer guards wear steel and silver armor, with ODST helmets.
 * In Chapter 16, Wash explains to Church that he is an A.I. (Not a ghost, like it was assumed previously). So that would also mean that Tex was/is an A.I. too. If that is the case then she might have been one of the A.I.s seen in the Meta's possesion, chapter 8. However, this conflicts with information from the very first season of Red vs Blue, when Church says that he and Tex dated in high school. Or that could mean both were given false memories. This could also mean that Tex is the Alpha's aggresion, as it has been stated many times Tex is mostly aggressive.
 * There is some speculation that the AI Sigma, is in fact Sarge from Red team. Washington said that Sigma was Alpha's creativity, and it was the only AI the was not previously heard of before Washington stated that. Further proof to back up this theory goes back to season one, when Caboose shoots Sarge in the head. Sarge believes he is a ghost when he meets Church on the spiritual plane. However, Sheila is there as well, but she was a computer program similar to an AI. So when Sarge, Church and Sheila appear on the spiritual plane, they may just be AIs in transit from one host to the next. The fact that Sigma and Sarge both begin with the letter S, and contin the letters G and A, his apparent lack of a name, the fact that Sarge was able to build robots that look like soldiers, repair Grif's mutilated body, completely convert Simmons to a cyborg and his ability to come up with rediculously complex explanations for seemingly simple situations, all further back up this theory. This would fit in with the purpose of the Blood Gulch war.