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- Defeating WATCH/Turn the Other Cheek: At the exact time Caitlin and Matt are sharing a nice moment, WATCH commences their attack on Webmind. (Meaning there's a hilarious moment where Webmind texts Caitlin "I am under attack." right when things are about to get intimate for them.) The American government (his best guess at the time) has commandeered an AT&T switching station, and they are using that to erase any packets with mutated time-to-live counters. Through her websight, Webmind shows Caitlin where the packets are going. (I describe this section as "a creature watching itself begin to bleed to death", since Webmind doesn't know how much of him can be destroyed before it starts effecting his consciousness. Also, the switching station is depicted in websight - symbolically! - as the color of blood.) In a fit of inspiration (due to her mom's discussion of Unitarian values and "Turning the Other Cheek" meaning giving people more than they ask for), Caitlin gets Webmind to send all the spam he's been sequestering to the switching station. Success!