First, when Mephisto is talking to Parker, Parker asks if he’s going to give him everything he wants. Mephisto responds, “No, I’m going to give you the tools.”
Second, while we never hear the exact terms of the deal, from either party, we get the ambiguous time jump where Riri has studied for months and created a new Natalie.
Riri thinks she has created a new AI Natalie, she even asks it to run diagnostics. Importantly she believes she brought Natalie back.
Now in this moment it looks like she’s rejected the deal. We see a bunch of formulas, some with mathematical notation, but also some that look like runes. Her magical knowledge might have come from working with Zelma.
But then we cut back. Riri and Mephisto talk more and it’s clear that Riri has taken Mephisto’s deal. This is further confirmed later when the scar grows on her arm.
The magical knowledge, at least in part, is a result of Mephisto and not Zelma.
Now maybe the deal only gave Riri the knowledge/power to revive Natalie, but even then she thought she was reviving AI Natalie and not real Natalie. As we saw with Parker the obsession seems to be consuming. I expect, like Parker, she won’t be able to just stop once Natalie is back. Riri, as repeated by Mephisto, wants to be “iconic”. Unfortunately “iconic” doesn’t mean “good”.
Where do you take that from? That is definitely not how I saw these scenes
First, when Mephisto is talking to Parker, Parker asks if he’s going to give him everything he wants. Mephisto responds, “No, I’m going to give you the tools.”
Second, while we never hear the exact terms of the deal, from either party, we get the ambiguous time jump where Riri has studied for months and created a new Natalie.
Riri thinks she has created a new AI Natalie, she even asks it to run diagnostics. Importantly she believes she brought Natalie back.
Now in this moment it looks like she’s rejected the deal. We see a bunch of formulas, some with mathematical notation, but also some that look like runes. Her magical knowledge might have come from working with Zelma.
But then we cut back. Riri and Mephisto talk more and it’s clear that Riri has taken Mephisto’s deal. This is further confirmed later when the scar grows on her arm.
The magical knowledge, at least in part, is a result of Mephisto and not Zelma.
Now maybe the deal only gave Riri the knowledge/power to revive Natalie, but even then she thought she was reviving AI Natalie and not real Natalie. As we saw with Parker the obsession seems to be consuming. I expect, like Parker, she won’t be able to just stop once Natalie is back. Riri, as repeated by Mephisto, wants to be “iconic”. Unfortunately “iconic” doesn’t mean “good”.