![]() Poe is generally more helpful than Vernon, truth be told. Actually, a stalker is just what Tak needs right now. Vernon gets defensive, and somehow flips that around into accusing Poe of being a stalker. Then he suggests that Vernon apologize to Tak for being such lousy back up at the party. Poe describes cycling in and out of insanity during his decades of loneliness. Vernon rudely tells him that holidays are about people and families, something an AI couldn’t understand. Tonight is the big night, and he adores the holiday’s traditions, the history, the way various cultures come together. Poe is deadly serious about this, as in Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, Dia de los Muertos dead. Vernon wants to talk to Lizzie, but Poe says that, while she’s making progress, she’s still not ready yet. ![]() Vernon finishes watching the surveillance footage he downloaded from Sun House, but is frustrated because 3 hours are missing from the record of the night before Lizzie was found in the alley. The lab technicians monitor their progress using an injury and pain chart. He’s been beating Tak with the chain as he talks, herding him toward a lab table. He breaks Tak’s arm as he mentions his bones. The program is a bit low tech, since the torturer can’t control the entire thing from inside.Īs he attacks Tak, the torturer explains the condition of Tak’s VR body: no neurochem, no combat conditioning, no reflex aggression, slowed reaction times, limited strength and stamina, weakened bones. Actually one of the technicians sends it to him. The torturer holds up his hand and requests a chain, which immediately appears. Tak asks who he is, and the man says he’s the one asking the questions. The man who kidnapped him appears a moment later. Tak appears in a run down room, wearing only pants. I’m sure they’re appreciating the female form by dissecting her as well. What’s wrong with that? As they’re talking, the camera moves around behind their work area to show Alice’s body, naked, bruised, still in her hooker make up, about to be sliced open. Miles retorts that he’s just expressing his appreciation for the female form. Īl stops him, reminding him that they taught him not to talk about women that way during sensitivity training. Miles tells Al that he’s going to ask out the piece of *ss in payroll with the…. The torturer is already on his table and ready to go. ![]() He reminds them that they need to finish on time for once and leaves them to it. ![]() The episode begins with the clinic manager, Mr Phillips, checking in with the two technicians assigned to Tak’s “procedure”, Al and Miles. Yes, the body is naked, and Tak is fully clothed in the real world, partially clothed in VR. Of course it’s also there because when violence is done to Tak, it must also be done to a woman. Maybe it’s being filmed for voyeuristic purposes. It’s never clear why, unless I missed it. Her body is being dissected by high tech devices in the background over the course of the episode. Tak is in room 5, so there at least five interrogation rooms. There’s a routine and a schedule for torture extraction sessions. The facility is large, clean, brightly lit, fully staffed, organized, and obviously part of a larger organization with franchises or branches. Probably the most disturbing part of the episode is the Wei Clinic, an interrogation facility which specializes in “extracting data from unwilling subjects”. We also get to see more of Ortega’s personal life, and begin to discover why she’s so interested in Tak. We learn more about his life, his relationship with Quell, and how heartbroken he still is. The real torture is in the emotions that the characters suffer over the course of the episode, especially in Tak’s flashbacks. But it’s not very different from what we’ve already seen on Altered Carbon. Which isn’t to say this episode isn’t violent, gruesome, and, you know, tortuous. Maybe I’ve just seen too many seasons of creatively dragging entrails on The Walking Dead. The Outlander season 1 rape/torture episode was much, much worse. Though it was difficult to watch, it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, based on the warnings. Tak’s in the virtual reality torture chamber for much of the episode. Gird your loins, kids, this is the torture episode.
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