Static, then a cat on a monitor with the words "Signal acquired". A cat's eye: "It has been watching". A terminal types "waking subject 0x09", "memory: 9 lives, 0 regrets", "it is looking at you", over the caption "It learned from nine lives". An ASCII-art cat appears with "ACI, Artificial Cat Intelligence, soon". Sound, off by default: a low hum with bursts of static. There is no speech.