Why Does Katie Ask Senator Laine For Help?
Short Answer
Katie asks Senator Laine for help because Devs has outgrown private control after Forest's death and now contains simulated lives.
Connected Story Threads
Katie becomes the surviving custodian of Devs after Forest dies.
The simulation gives Lily a continued subjective life after physical death.
Katie decision gives Forest the reunion he sought.
Keeping the simulation running raises whether simulated people can be shut down, saved, or governed.
Katie asks Laine for help because Forest is dead and the simulation still contains active lives.
Laine marks the point where Amaya's private control gives way to government interest.
Direct Answer
Katie asks Senator Laine for help because Devs has outgrown private control after Forest's death and now contains simulated lives.
Evidence From The Series
Katie is the surviving operator after the elevator crash, and preserving the simulation involves deaths, technology, and possible conscious beings that state power will care about.
Why It Matters
The call shifts Devs from corporate secret to political object.
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More Questions About Katie
Senator Laine is the government figure Katie contacts after the finale because Devs can no longer remain only Amaya's secret.
Katie keeps the simulation running because Lily and Forest now exist inside it, and she treats their simulated experience as something that should not be destroyed.
Devs is not a plot sequel to Ex Machina, but both Alex Garland works examine powerful tech founders, enclosed research spaces, and created consciousness.
The ending means Forest's deterministic certainty fails, but Devs remains powerful enough to create a morally serious simulated afterlife.
The Devs machine is Amaya's quantum system for reconstructing the past, forecasting futures, and sustaining simulated lives.
Katie believes the Devs machine has enough authority that predicted events can be treated as already meaningful.