Loveday Writing

Ingrid has joined an “After Wives” support group for wives and partners of Uploads. While she is there she admits that kissed and slept with Jamie after he came over to look for a hard drive of Nathan’s. She also tells them that she is contemplating freezing Nathan until she can be with him, as she doesn’t want to ask her dad for more money to support both Nathan and herself.

While Nora is at her desk, she watches a news report on death of Josh Pitzer and nine others who were taken in by a counterfeit Upload scam, paying $1000 each to have their heads burnt off by a fake scanner. She goes back to Lakeview to tell Nathan about his death and that one of his damaged memories was him trying to sell his Beyond software to Pitzer. While she’s there, she gets a notification that Dave is in a Horizen store, getting ready to visit Lakeview. When he first arrives he freaks out, takes the VR mask off and throws it against a wall. He calms down and puts it on again and takes a tour with Nathan.

In the dining hall, Dave sees Mildred and Luke sitting together, and finds it disgusting that Mildred is in black-and-white as she’s over 100 years old. Nathan tells him that they would have never met if not for Lakeview, however he is unaware that Mildred and Luke are aggressively flirting with each other. Once they leave, they get into a debate over whether souls exist, with Dave asking Nathan what he would say to convince him to Upload, when he believes his wife is waiting for him in “real” Heaven. Nathan says nothing. They continue on to a memory parlour where Dave asks to see Nathan’s last memory of his father, which reveals that Nathan’s father left him when he was a child and he doesn’t know whether his father is alive or dead.

While Lucy goes to lunch, Nora sneaks into her office to look on her computer for information on Nathan’s damaged memories. She finds an email from someone by the name of Luddlyfe, telling her that they have proof that someone is selling Upload memories on the black market and threatens to go public. She also looks for information on who has accessed Nathan’s avatar and finds an unknown employee ID. Meanwhile an unknown person bombs Lakeview’s servers causing affected computers to go in power saving mode temporarily, which causes Lakeview’s residents to turn block-shaped.

Later, Aleesha takes Mrs. Caputo dancing while controlling Mr. Caputo’s avatar and shocks Mrs. Caputo and everyone around her in Lakeview with “his” modern dance moves, which contrast with the soft piano music.

The episode ends with Nora and Dave catching the bus together where Dave admits he likes Nathan, and tells Nora that he wishes she met Nathan when he was alive. He also tells her that despite the successful tour, he hasn’t changed his mind about going to Heaven. Nora then asks him to say hi to her mother for her when he gets there.

Overall this was a solid episode with plenty of humour, especially with Mildred and Luke’s flirtation and Dave’s reaction to Lakeview when he first arrived. This surprisingly became an emotional and deep episode when Nathan and Dave get to know each other and debate about Heaven, with a heartbreaking ending when Dave tells Nora he still won’t Upload and she asks him to say hi to her mother for her, as she clearly will Upload.

We are also given more, intriguing puzzle pieces to the Nathan murder mystery, however where they will lead remains to be seen.

Stray Observations:

-Uploads are stored on a hard drive.

-Aleesha lost Mr. Caputo while she was printing a sandwich that got stuck between two fat printer cartridges and set his hard drive down.

-Apparently Horizen has a mandatory HR video preventing scan-angel romances for its staff.

-Nora’s current customer service star rating is 4.8.

-Batia is pickling something in jars at her desk.

-Dave calls Nora ‘Noni’.

-Yakety Sax is the end credits music for memory parlour movies, even if the movie itself (as shown with Nathan’s memory of his dad) is sad.