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, but missed the first shot and claimed it was a "Warning shot" and even after multiple tries, did not succeed. The one time he hits the Meta in the foot with his sniper because the bullet ricochet multiple structures around the area, Wash says. "It only counts if you call it". 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 Chapter 15, Church is unable to hit his intended targets at the security checkpoint with a pistol, and empties an entire clip around him at point blank range, and did not hit any of the 2 checkpoint guards once.

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 f**king' now!" Also later in the chapter on he accidently voiced out his desire to kill Caboose.

Confetti and Big Guns In chapter 15 of Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction, having successfully breached Command's security Washington tells everyone no celebrating yet. Grif replies "Awe shit! and I was going to be in charge of confetti." This is a reference to episode 2 of the original Blood Gulch chronicles. When sarcastically telling Grif the war was over Sarge said "and Simmons here is in charge of confetti". In chapter 13 Caboose, watching the reds get chased by a warthog, says "oh man, that jeep has a really big gun." to which Church replies "don't get any ideas". This of course is a reference to episode 6 in which Caboose says "Oh man, that's not good. Oh God that jeep has a really big gun." and proceeds to use the tank out to drive off the Reds, eventually killing Church in the process.

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 (Sister) 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), while 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. Caboose then replies to this by saying that 5 is better than 6 on a top 10 list. 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 due to his experience with Epislon, 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 Omega AI. 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. He then speaks to Lopez telling him not to forget him with Lopez (in spanish) saying that he will erase all his memories of him. 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 a 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 an 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 (represented by 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. As Wash and Church reach the first checkpoint, Church is revealed to still be a lousy sharpshooter, even with a Magnum Pistol at close range, as he could not kill a checkpoint guard with at least half a dozen of shots. After Wash and Church left, the 4 of the remaining team members converse about random things, such as how bored they are of waiting, and also notably Simmons expressing his hatred for Caboose. 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 AIs to Church. Apparently the AI program only had one AI to work with, so they attempted to clone it. That failing, they then tortured the Alpha AI and subsequently captured the personality fragments that he shed. Back in Command, Sarge hatches the plan to purge all records of Blue Team from Command's database. In the AI storage facility, Wash talks about Church's relative safety throughout the series, and why he always agrees with Delta. Then, Washington reveals to Church that he is not a person and he is in fact, the Alpha AI, which is why he can jump from person to person, not because he is a ghost. This also suggests that Tex is an AI and possibly has been taken by the META.

Chapter Seventeen
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The Chapter starts with an awkward silence between Church and Agent Washington. Church is staring at Wash, dumbfounded by the fact that he is the Alpha AI. Meanwhile, Simmons is hacking Command's mainframe at Sarge's request to delete all mention of the Blues. Back at the AI storage facility where Wash and Church are, Church reacts to the revelation rather negatively. Wash then replies to Church's question about his childhood memories and explains that A.I. are programs based on a natural human mind, and are bound to have residual memories. Church stubbornly insists that it is far more likely that he is a spirit.

Back at the base, Simmons has not yet successfully hacked the mainframe. He complains of a beeping noise, which turns out to be a call from the field. A voice from the other end states that they have "completed their mission and found the item in the sand." He requests backup, and when Grif replies positively, he says "bow-chicka-bow-wow." Both Grif and Caboose recognize the voice and the catch-phrase, a trademark of Tucker, a RvB main character who has not yet appeared in the Reconstruction series.

In the AI storage facility, Washington tells Church that he needs his help in defeating the Meta, even if he can't come to terms with the fact that he's an AI. Church suggests to Wash that he ask for Tex's help in the matter. It is revealed that Wash is, in some way, jealous of Tex because she was favored during training in the Freelancer program. An alarm sounds, and the two leave the facility. Simmons is ready to delete the Blues, but hesitates, wondering about the Red's purpose without the Blues. Meanwhile Caboose appears and spots several freelancer guards running toward the base, firing thier weapons and throwing grenades. The episode ends with Simmons questioning the consequences of deleting the Blues and Sarge ignoring him and deleting the blues anyway.

Chapter Eighteen
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The Chapter begins as a Freelancer soldier rushes to the opposite base to help his commrades with firepower upon the base the Reds and Caboose are in. Church and Washington return to the base, which is now under attack. Church asks Simmons why he is still on the computer and Simmons explains that the computer contains all the records of both Red armies and Blue armies. Church takes this opportunity to prove to Washington that he is not the Alpha AI but Simmons apologizes and reveals that he just deleted all the Blue army files. This annoys Church heavily, as not only now is he unable to prove Washington wrong and now he isn't paid anymore. On Grif's suggestion, Caboose decides to get Church to "Do something only a computer would do" but Wash tells them that Church has been suffering trauma and would not be able to function as an AI properly because most of his features have been disabled due to trauma. Then the Meta reveals itself to everyone, including the Command soldiers. One of the soldiers, possibly a Recovery Agent, orders all soldiers to attack the Meta.

Meanwhile, in the base, Wash reveals that he had planned all the events of reconstruction to happen the way they were going to. He explains that he knew the Meta would not be able to resist getting his hands on Epsilon and all the other remaining AIs stored at Command. He takes the group down to the vehicle motor pool and orders Caboose and the reds into two jeeps and to escape with Epsilon A.I., but says that he and Church must stay so they can detonate the Project Freelancers' last resort weapon, a massive EMP weapon (which all the characters call EMP not E.M.P) in the directors office that is capable of destroying all the AIs. Wash orders Church to help him but Church refuses, saying that "it's not my fight", and that Wash is going to have to detonate it himself. Wash tries to convince Church otherwise, finally saying "it's your choice. Whats it going to be?"

Chapter Nineteen
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As the Chapter begins, the Meta, also known as Agent Maine, is seen finishing off one remaining Warthog being driven by a couple of Freelancer infantrymen. Back at the Motor Pool, Agent Washington bid his farewell to the Reds and Blues, asking them to get as far away from the current area as possible or else Epsilon A.I. will be destroyed. They then mount on the Warthogs and leave the area. The Meta spots them, but upon seeing Washington, instead chases him. He pursues him, which leads him in another Project Freelancer facility. Agent Wash then meets the Councilor, but not in person. The Councilor is talking to Wash through a computer mounted on the ceiling. The Councilor then tells Wash the Director of Project Freelancer would like to meet him, but not in person as well. As their conversation progress, the Meta arrives and interrupts, but Wash activates a Security-Breach Shield door which prevents Agent Maine from entering in. The Director, meanwhile threatens Agent Wash that if he doesn't work with him, he will die. Soon, Agent Washington activates the Electro-Magnetic-Pulse, but before he can fully activate the system, the Director disables the shield doors and lets Agent Maine in and orders him to kill Wash. Wash gets shot, but survives. One of the AI inside of Maine then says in a whispered, eerie voice, "Where is Alpha?", and the Director tells them the Alpha is far away from here, and to "Attend to the Matter at hand." But the Councilor explains to Maine that what the Director is TRYING to say is, he is testing if he can still trust Maine. Wash then interrupts, asking the Meta "Why wait? Why don't you meet Alpha...right now?", to which Church appears. Then, as all the AI inside of Maine appear as they see the Alpha before their eyes, they all say in whispered eerie voices "Its him! ALPHA!" (And we can also identify the AI Delta, and 2 other AI's that look VERY identical To Tex and Vic from Blood Gulch Chronicles).

Meanwhile, Caboose accidentally slams his Warthog to a rock, which Church's lifeless body falls, and Caboose stops, yelling "His body fell out! He's gonna need it!" but Grif yells at Caboose, and they should continue to run as far as possible. Back at the Facility, Church ensures Wash he will be fine when the E-M-P goes off, by saying the now-famous quote "When it goes off, I'll be fine. It only affects computers, remember? And I, am a motherfuckin' ghost." He then goes inside Agent Maine's body and stabilizes him, along with the other A.I.s inside Maine. The Councilor tries to calm Agent Wash, saying they can settle this in a more civilized way, to which Wash quickly and fully activates the E-M-P, to which the Com says, "Activating Emp", which annoys Wash as in the previous Chapter he and the other Reds and Blues argue that it should be called Electromagnetic-Pulse or E.M.P., not "Emp", and then the Pulse activates. This also shuts down the entire A.I. storage facility, several other facilities, including all the vehicles at the Motor Pool. The Pulse's shock wave then reaches outside. Caboose's Warthog, which is just ahead of of the disabled Reds' Warthog, jumps for the cliff, just in time to escape the shock wave.

Epilogue: Back at Outpost 17B Valhalla, along with the Director speaking, he explains he lost someone he loved when he was young, and how he pondered for a very long time if he could have saved her, and that the memory of her haunted him for all these years, and more so in the past few years than he could ever imagine. The view zooms into Red Base, where Red members Sarge, Grif and Simmons have their new base and a new Warthog to continue training exercises until the base is needed for actual military operations (which Sarge doesn't seem to understand), and it is revealed they are now under a 'new' force, the UNSC, which Grif and Sarge are not sure what it is, and they say "it sounds made up." While the view heads towards to Blue Base, the Director explains that all A.I. are based on someone, and the Alpha A.I. was no exception. And once arrest troops come to arrest the Director for his crimes, he will not resist arrest. The troops will find the Director an old man, filled with more memories than hope. As the view heads inside Blue Base, Blue member Caboose is seen with Epsilon A.I., trying to insert the A.I. to a body nearby, whose identity is unknown, but the armor appeared to be black, and since Valhalla was where the Pelican crashed, it can be assumed that it was Tex's robot body. As the Chapter ends, the Director reveals that the Alpha A.I. and the A.I. Agent Tex was based on him and someone he lost in his early life. He then ends the series with the final quote "Sincerely yours, the former Director of Project Freelancer...Dr. Leonard Church." So he was the real Church all along. The Church we have come to know and love from Blood Gulch Chronicles is the Alpha AI. :(

Thus, the story of Red vs Blue Reconstruction comes to an end.

Maps
These are the maps which each chapter took place in:
 * Coagulation- The canyon where the main Red and Blue army characters' bases are. In Chapter 2, Agent Washington visits the canyon to find Private Caboose, only to discover majority of the soldiers in the canyon are relocated somewhere else. With the help of the canyon's Red team leader Sarge, he finds where Caboose is relocated to.
 * Cold Storage- The Monitor in the map is seen in a short, brief image flash Epslion A.I. gave to Church. This Monitor is also used as a "speaker" for the Councilor and Director in an attempt to stop Wash from activating the EMP, in Chapter 19.
 * Epitaph- It is the Freelancer A.I. storage facility, as seen in Chapters 15, 16 and 17, where Agent Washington brought Church to retrieve Epsilon A.I., and explain to him more about Project Freelancer.
 * Foundry- It is the Freelancer Motor Pool, where vehicles such as Warthogs are stored, as seen in Chapter 18, where Agent Wash brought the Blues and Reds to evacuvate the facility.
 * High Ground- The fortress is an unnamed outpost where Church lived for months to defy relocation orders, in Chapter 4. In Chapter 6, Agent Washington and the Blue members Caboose and Church return to the outpost to save Agent South and Delta A.I. from the Meta. In Chapter 14, the very back of the fortress is used as a checkpoint into Project Freelancer's facility, where Agent Wash and the others have to pass through in order to infiltrate the facility.
 * Last Resort- A power station that was guarded by a few Red army soldiers, and which later the Meta invaded the facility and killed all the soldiers in order to reach the core of the station and recharge himself, and couldn't be stopped by Agent Washington or the Blues and Reds in Chapters 7, 8, 10 and 11. This is also the location where Wash learns that Church is a "Ghost" in Chapter 12.
 * Rat's Nest- It is Outpost 28, where there is a Red base and a Blue base for each army. In Chapter 3, this is where Washington retrieves Blue member Caboose to aid his mission to find the Meta. In Chapter 9, it is where Red member Sarge goes to retrieve his teammates Grif and Simmons, it is revealed that all the Blue base soldiers in the outpost are killed, while the Red ones live. And while they live, they were going to execute Grif and Simmons for selling ammunition to the Blues at the opposite base when the Sarge arrives and save their lives. They then head off to find and "stop" Agent Washington.
 * Standoff- Project Freelancer's bases. It is seen in Chapters 15, 16, 17 and 18 where Agent Washington, Caboose, Church, Simmons, Sarge and Grif are camping inside one of the bases of the map. Part of the base is a checkpoint to enter the next level of checkpoint Agent Wash and Church needs to pass through to reach the A.I. storage facility. In Chapter 18, the base comes under heavy weaponry fire by Freelancer troops as the Reds and Blues including Wash are found out to be wreaking havoc on the facility. It is also where the Meta reveals himself to the Freelancer troops. In Chapter 19, Grif, Simmons, Sarge and Caboose along with Epsilon A.I. escape the area to prevent Epsilon from being destroyed.
 * The Pit- The room where the Energy Sword spawns on the map is the room where a Pvt. Henderson from Outpost 17B is interoggated by Command, as seen in Chapter 1.
 * Valhalla- The main scene where Reconstruction started. In the Reconstruction trailer, every Red and Blue soldier in the gorge is killed, and two Recovery Agents are ordered to investigate, but are soon killed by a mysterious person, known as the Meta. In Chapter 1, a large Freelancer Battalion which includes vehicular armor like Scorpion Tanks is sent to the Outpost to investigate the entire incident, only to find a Red soldier still living, hiding inside a cave. In Chapter 5, the entire area is revealed to be "Locked down" due to concerns of rumors going along the Freelancer soldiers. However, Agent Washington, Church and Caboose managed to pass through the defenses. The Pelican crashed at the site is revealed to be controled by the A.I. called Sheila, which is the Blue team's Tank A.I., and everybody else in the vehicle is gone. In Chapters 13 and 14, Red soldiers Sarge, Simmons and Grif attempt to get a Warthog for Agent Washington and the other Blues, but are intercepted by a Warthog, and then a Hornet, which Wash later takes care of. The team later use another Warthog and a Freelancer Tank to infiltrate to Command. The bases are later used as new bases for Caboose, Simmons, Sarge and Grif, after they are under a new command, in Chapter 19.

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 and Donut. 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 Tucker makes a call to command which Grif receives, and he even says his trademark catchphrase "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. However, Tucker did not appear in the final Chapter of Reconstruction.
 * 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 possession. 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 possession at the end of 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 aggression, 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 contain 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 ridiculously complex explanations for seemingly simple situations, all further back up this theory. This would fit in with the purpose of the Blood Gulch war. However, despite all this evidence and all these theories, Sarge isn't Sigma at all. In episode 19 of Reconstruction, Sarge, Grif, and Simmons's warthog got hit by the emp. If Sarge WAS an AI, he would've been deleted on the spot. But he wasn't. So he is flesh and blood, a proud red soldier...with no name.
 * In all the Reconstruction episodes, Agent Washington never called Simmons by his own name.
 * Reconstruction only had 19 episodes. However, Rooster Teeth has stated that episode production is not going to stop. They are going to make a new series taking place at an unknown time (possibly after Reconstruction) that is set to be released in the Spring of 2009, and they are also making a new series of all the events that lead up to Reconstruction.
 * Church and Tex's origins are finally revealed in the season finale; Church was cloned from the Director's brain. In the epilogue, the Director mentions someone dear to him who died early in the Great War. One could conclude that this person is Tex, or the person that the Tex AI was cloned from. This would explain why Church and Tex were able to look like ghosts and had possessed the memories of dating each other.
 * It is possible, if the animated video released by Rooster Teeth is canon, that the A.I. Church is still alive.
 * At the start of each episode, a letter of corrospondence between The Chairman of an unspecified subcommittee, and the Freelancer director, is narated by the respected writers. This provides A major part of Reconstruction's backstory, though there are a few that still seem somewhat vague.
 * Since Epsilon is the Alpha's memories, it is possible that Church could be brought back in the body shown at the end of Chapter 19. Although he probably would not know of the events that transpired during Reconstruction-or the rest of the series, since epsilon was created suposedly before The Blood Gulch Chronicles.