Loveday Writing

We then go back to Dylan and Nora playing a board game together, where Dylan expresses his frustrations that his avatar isn’t matched for his age. We go back to Nathan and Ingrid’s therapy session, where Nathan asks her if she knew that his vitals were going up before he was uploaded, and Ingrid reluctantly admits that she did know but claims she uploaded him so she wouldn’t lose him.

Nathan goes downstairs and sees Nora and Dylan, where Dylan takes his frustrations out on him. Dylan reveals that he died falling in the Grand Canyon and his death was captured on video and posted online. Nora encourages Dylan and Nathan to be friends, while she is doing so she is getting calls from her dad but she is unaware of it. Meanwhile Luke is browsing Nitely profiles and Aleesha catches him and tells him to get off the site, but he continues looking for a hook-up.

While Nora, Dylan and Nathan are playing, she gets a voicemail from her dad via the AI Guy telling her he is at the hospital. They tell her to go and Nathan promises to look after Dylan. While Nathan and Dylan are at the bar, Luke rushes in to tell Nathan he got them matches on Nitely and they are meeting them on the hotel floors, where the living come to visit and party. Luke tells Nathan he’s going to the Grey Market—a VR equivalent of the dark web to get a hack to be able to go to the hotel floors. Nathan reluctantly agrees to go with Dylan tagging along as Nathan has to babysit him. As they walk through a hedge on their way to the Grey Market, a timer appears above their heads, which leads to Luke revealing that Uploads are tracked every hour to make sure they aren’t lost.

While they are at the Grey Market, Nathan pays money to spy on Jamie to find out why he has been avoiding him. He doesn’t get a clear answer when he observes Jamie in a meeting regarding their software. While Nathan is watching the footage of Jamie, Dylan disappears. Nathan and Luke eventually find him getting a puberty power up in the form of a tattoo. They manage to return to Lakeview at literally the last second, with Nathan putting a tired Dylan to bed, while Dylan is sleeping his power up starts to kick in.

While Nora visits her father in the hospital, she tells him about Nathan without identifying him, and on her way out asks a doctor whether Upload scanners ever damage memories by accident. The doctor tells her they never do and that memory damage is the fault of either the person designing the avatar (angels) or someone else is messing with the avatar. She asks him if there is anything she can do to fix the memories, he gives her a download card for the Memboost Turbo app. When Nora uses the app, she manages to restore another memory and discovers that most of the damaged memories in the folder she set up are missing.

Luke goes down to the hotel floors to meet with his and Nathan’s Nitely matches, and Dylan finally wakes up unaware that his puberty power up has made him female, and walks around Lakeview topless. The AI Guy notices and tries to cover him up, leading to Dylan calling for Nora’s help. Both Aleesha and Nora go to Lakeview to reprimand Nathan and Luke, Nathan apologises and Aleesha goes to find Luke. Aleesha makes her presence known to Luke by dancing towards him and letting his matches know he isn’t living. Dylan asks Nora to change him back. Luke comes back to ogle Dylan’s female body, only to be disappointed he missed out on seeing it. Dylan points out to him how demeaning that is, and reminds him that when he was alive he wouldn’t have wanted his missing legs to be the only thing people noticed about him.

The episode ends with Fran in her self-driving car on her way to meet Josh Pitzer. She is reading an article about Pitzer’s attendance at a CodeDisrupt conference when she notices Jamie in the background of the article’s accompanying photo. Her car starts to malfunction and she begs for it to stop. The car stops for a moment when a pedestrian walks in front of it, Fran tries to beg the passenger for help but he doesn’t hear her and walks away. The car starts again and drives Fran over the edge of a pier.

Overall this was another solid episode due to being Nathan-lite, with the spotlight on the show’s supporting characters. I enjoyed the exploration into Dylan’s frustration of his avatar not matching his age, something which was touched upon in an earlier episode when he tried to call his best friend without success. I also liked seeing another Angel-Upload relationship with the interactions between Luke and Aleesha, which were hilarious.

Stray Observations:

-Running gag: Everyone around Nathan commenting on how he looks in the skinny jeans Ingrid bought for him.

-Dylan’s 19^th birthday is in three months.

-Dylan died falling into the Grand Canyon and dabbed on the way down.

-Uploads aren’t allowed on the hotel floors.

-One of the Nitely matches wasn’t okay with Luke being an Upload and the other match was a teenage boy catfishing them.

-Nora asks Dylan if his female body is more in line with his gender identity, and both her and Nathan offer to support Dylan if he is gender fluid.

-Apparently Dylan’s female body was the talk of the lobby, according to Luke.

-Some of the files on Fran’s self-driving car’s desktop are a photo of Nathan, notes on her investigation into Nathan’s accident, a photo labelled “stupid dog”, a file labelled “21 Reasons Phoebe’s Smelly Cat is Your Soul Mate”, and ukulele-for-one class notes.