I know it's all paradoxes... But some things just didn't seem to make sense.

When Grace comes back, she uses Ellis's code to "help" Marcy and "Reset" the director, resulting in a 'temporary' power struggle. What does that means exactly? Why would you "reset" an AI to "prevent it from being corrupted?"

And if the Quantum Frame was surely the Directors contingency, then why did it ONLY benefit the faction (who also were the ones to send the message back to destroy it) despite the fact that Ellis got the mission from the Future HE CAME FROM, not a messenger, or a weird box. IN PERSON. He trained and knew what to build, he's seen the tech first hand, and came back to do this specific job.

But the frame NEVER helps the director, and because of it, the Faction gains SUBSTANTIALLY more power than they would have had. Not to mention 001 becoming his own Quantum frame, or overwriting the Director himself, because at the end he definitely uploads himself to Ilsa and then the internet (what, when did someone build those cables, and how? WITHOUT Simon?)

It's just weird. We learn from jenny all mission from s01e11~ to her final Oxy attempted overdose episode, that all missions came from the faction because of Grace's reset. So all I know from this is that the Director was POSSIBLY going to get corrupted, despite being Quantum, and living outside of time, so he sent a frame back (which would have allowed him to do what Mac did, kind of, or something cool anyway) and keep living. Instead this never happens, 001 wins, and Grant reboots the program, because why not?

SO confused about like 30 things....