Ep. 14

Summary

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Okabe repeats the same two days through successive time leaps, trying different routes, warnings, and hiding places. Mayuri dies in every version. From Moeka, he learns that SERN targets the lab because its members created a time machine and intended to reveal it. Exhaustion and accumulated grief finally overwhelm him. Kurisu notices that he is carrying knowledge no one else possesses and persuades him to explain. She supplies phrases and details that will convince her earlier self to cooperate after another leap. Returning to the period just before the time-leap machine is completed, Okabe recruits Kurisu and tells her about the apparently unavoidable deaths. Suzuha approaches them with the larger explanation: they are trapped within the Alpha attractor field, a cluster of world lines that converge on Mayuri's death and SERN's future rule. Saving her requires passing one percent divergence into the Beta attractor field rather than merely changing local circumstances. Suzuha leads them to the “satellite” embedded in Radio Kaikan and reveals it is her time machine. She is John Titor, a traveler from 2036 who came to alter the future Okabe has accidentally helped create.