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In this episode, we learn that suspiciously cheap motel rooms will still exist in 2038.
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We serve dinner that looks like it was thrown together by a toddler.
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And speaking of toddler food, we are surprised with the consistency of android brains.
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Very jello-y.
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Cathy.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Cathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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Scene 1.
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I would say you read my mind, but we do it every single episode.
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Still November 5th, but it's now 11pm.
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Kara and Alice reach the end of the bus line and have to get off and they start searching
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for a shelter.
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At some point, Alice wanders off to a bus station.
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And while there, a worker android approaches Kara and says, you look lost.
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I know someone who can help you.
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And then seemingly transfers some data to Kara who says, but that's on the other side
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of town.
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We need a place for tonight.
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This WR600 android is really creepy.
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I don't like that.
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Also, what's up with it always raining in these David Cage games?
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Like it's heavy rain.
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I think he just loves that game and any reference he can make to it.
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He just can't help himself.
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Well in hindsight, I don't know why they couldn't have just stayed at home with Todd's body
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and pretend like everything's fine until they could pack more stuff up, steal his money,
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and then leave.
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Like I get you're nervous and you want to leave, but at that very moment, no one's going
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to know Todd's dead.
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Well maybe the gunshots sound, so there's that.
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But still.
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Yeah, they could have gotten rid of the body or something.
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You know?
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They could have done something.
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They panicked.
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But now they're here and they enter a convenience store.
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And Kara uses Alice as a distraction to steal from the register.
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Okay, so Kara whispers to Alice, like, I need you to go knock those cans over.
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And Alice goes, knock them down?
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So loud it irritates me.
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I know she's just a kid, but read the room, Alice.
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But also those cans, are those lettuce juice?
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What are those?
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They look like lettuce juice.
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I don't know.
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Pull it up.
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That's so random.
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Oh, it's lemon juice.
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It looks like limes.
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Hold on, let me share my screen.
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To be fair though, have you ever seen a can of lemon juice?
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Oh, it's like a drink though.
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I was picturing like a bean kind of can.
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Not a drink kind of can.
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Okay, in all fairness, this shade of blurriness looks like lettuce.
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It must be lemon lime, because that's way too green to be a lemon.
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Right?
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The distraction works, and they leave with money and a candy bar.
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Alice is upset that Kara used her, and Kara apologizes.
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I'm glad Kara apologized.
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In this moment, she kind of reminds me of Haruka.
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Yeah, I could see it.
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But yeah, but what's up with David Cage constantly making you choose some kind of ethical dilemma,
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being that ethical dilemma situation where do you choose to steal or do you choose to
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starve yourself and die with this child?
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The way I see it, they've already killed somebody.
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That's true.
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You know, what's that candy bar and some hash gonna do?
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That is true.
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Who cares?
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At least they left the convenience store guy alive.
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It's true.
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Also, he was so nice to Alice when she knocked the cans down.
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If I were that guy, I would have been so annoyed at this little girl that just knocked all
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my cans down.
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But he's so nice.
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So despite Alice being upset, they now have money and can stay in the motel and not the
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creepy derelict house.
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But Androids are not allowed, so Kara has to get a change of clothes.
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So they head to the laundromat, and Alice gets mad again when Kara steals the laundry.
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But Alice just, she needs to understand the situation that they're in.
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I totally understand where she's coming from, but at the same time, breathe the room, Alice.
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You either go back with like CPS and only be ignored some more, or you stick it out
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and tough it out with Kara.
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And we already stole the money.
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Might as well double down, steal the clothes, stay in the motel.
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So they're in the laundromat.
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There's an article there, and you're sucking through it.
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And one of the news article headlines is, my husband got an Android pregnant.
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And I have a lot of questions I don't want to go into, but at the same time, I have a
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lot of questions.
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Oh yeah, I do too.
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I mean, I think that they're parts.
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That sounds like I'm talking about reproductive parts, but I just mean parts to Androids.
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They're called like bio components.
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So how much bio is there?
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Is that just what they're calling it?
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Because they look human?
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Or are there actual bio based things?
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I don't know.
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Is it possible?
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Why is cyber life creating reproductive parts so they can create life?
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You know what I mean?
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Why is one of the concerned, like let's put ovaries in this Android?
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Yeah.
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I mean, we'll see soon that obviously they're going to make a lot of money with having relations
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available with Androids, but why the need for reproduction?
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That's taking it too far.
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It's creepy.
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Or the other way around.
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What if it was an Android who got a human pregnant?
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That's creepy too.
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That's somehow weirder.
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You expect humans to be gross like that, but not an Android.
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I think we should move on.
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We absolutely should move on.
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We get back to the motel and we book a room.
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It's only $40.
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I don't believe it.
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I really don't believe you will ever be able to book a motel for 40 bucks in 2038.
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Alright next day, November 6th at 3 34 a.m.
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Marcus wakes up in what appears to be an Android landfill.
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However it took you until the absolute last moment in the scene to realize that this was
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Marcus.
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I'm embarrassed.
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Well, I mean, there's a lot going on.
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You see this thing crawling through more things and it's like, as you described, a scene from
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Toy Story where they're like sipping through trash.
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Very reminiscent.
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It's like a different potato head where you're just finding components to stitch together.
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So it's a lot going on.
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It is.
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But I like how you went, wait is that Marcus?
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Literally two seconds before he says my name is Marcus.
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Well, I didn't think that he would end up in the dump to begin with.
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I thought he would end up in jail similar to the other dude that Connor captured.
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As you alluded to, he has extensive damage and he has to find replacement parts.
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While wandering through the junkyard an android in disrepair grabs his arm and says there's
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a place where we can be free.
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Before seemingly shutting down.
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Marcus sees a flash image of a sign that says Ferndale.
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Well I'm wondering, is he getting the memory because he took parts from other people and
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therefore he gets their memory?
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Or is it the person who told him about Jericho, his last thing he did before he died, I guess,
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sent him that memory through whatever way androids have?
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We saw this hinted in the previous scene when the android transfers data to Kara through
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touch.
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I think that's what's happening here as well as he's giving him this information.
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Eventually he finds all the components that he needs and is able to reassemble himself.
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He also at some point lets an android live that has a part that he needs.
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Another one that he took a component from is convulsing after he took the Ethereum pump
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out of it.
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How do you feel about him scavenging parts off of androids?
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At first I wanted to say that he has some level of empathy because he let that one android
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live.
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But then he doesn't do that for everyone.
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At the same time I understand that if you don't take it from them they're just still
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gonna die so what's the difference between now and a bit later?
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It's a little bit of the Alice situation.
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You gotta do what you gotta do but it's pretty brutal when you see that one android convulsing.
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Marcus is able to crawl out of the pit and at the top he removes his LED and this is
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when he says, my name is Marcus.
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How did you feel about this scene?
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I feel like it looks good but it goes on a bit too long.
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I like that this scene shows Marcus literally crawling out of a pit, putting himself together.
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I feel like they overdid it a little bit and it takes too long and it kinda takes away
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from it.
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This is worse than Pharah having to clean the house.
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I was awake for it.
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Not that you could tell because the camera was off but I was awake for all of it compared
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to the other scene.
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I am curious about what that LED circle thing at his temple is for.
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Is it there to regulate emotions or is it part of their brain or is it Cyberlife's ability
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to virtually wipe them clear of their memories?
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I know that he's a deviant now so removing it doesn't seem to be an issue but let's
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say he wasn't a deviant.
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If he removed that, what's gonna happen?
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I think it's just an indicator light.
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I think it just indicates what's going on with them internally.
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That's my understanding.
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It's now November 6th at 9.56am.
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Connor is at some fancy garden thing looking for in Amanda.
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Walking around he finds an odd biosecurity thing or a screen.
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It has a handprint on it so he places his palm on it and gets maybe a slight shock or
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he's just surprised.
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I feel like he's entering into a virtual environment.
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Kind of like an RE situation where Jaden has to put on his sunglasses and I'm assuming
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there's some kind of key to confirm it is him.
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So I feel like that's what he's doing that he's somehow connecting with this other virtual
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environment.
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He does eventually find Amanda.
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She seems to be some kind of handler for him.
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She asks him questions about the investigation and kind of gauges and judges his responses.
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She seems fond of Connor despite her line of questioning.
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What are your impressions of Amanda so far?
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Well, it's like where does she come from and how does she know this level of detail?
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Is she just reading Connor's mind?
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Because she seems to have some pretty in-depth knowledge of what's going on.
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Speaking of, she references We multiple times.
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Who do you think We is?
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I'm guessing Cyberlife.
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She says,
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More and more androids show signs of deviancy.
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There are millions in circulation.
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If they become unstable, the consequences will be disastrous.
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And then she says, hurry Connor, there's little time.
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So does she know something?
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Why do we have this countdown sort of feeling from her?
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I feel like she's either out to destroy the DPD or she's going to take Cyberlife and go
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rogue with it.
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I don't know.
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Connor arrives at the police station to meet Hank who is not in yet.
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After he does arrive, Connor sits in on a meeting where Hank is upset about being assigned
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to the deviant cases because he hates androids.
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I love when the captain kind of brushes Connor off and Connor just goes, have a nice day,
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captain.
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It's so passive aggressive.
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I love Connor's sass.
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So when Connor is waiting for Hank, he's going through his desk to learn more about him.
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And we learn that Lieutenant Anderson has a lot of experience with red ice and he was
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like on a special task force.
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So right now there's two big issues.
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One this red ice and two the deviant.
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So I'm wondering what's that connection?
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Maybe red ice is something that can help power deviant or not deviant, but just androids
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in general instead of the blue stuff.
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Maybe if they take red ice, something's going to happen.
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I don't know.
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I think we've seen red ice at, well, we saw Todd using it and it was at the Carlos Ortiz
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crime scene.
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So it seems like maybe when the humans take it, it could cause more aggression, but it
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is interesting because it contains thorium, which is in blue blood.
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So there is a connection of some sort.
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After the meeting, Connor wanders around to find Carlos Ortiz's android in a holding
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cell.
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He knows the android held something back in the investigation.
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So he asks about the sculpture.
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All the android says in responses, I'm going to die.
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As Connor starts walking away, the deviant self-destructs by repeatedly slamming its
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head against the glass.
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And we both felt like that shouldn't be enough damage to take an android out.
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It seemed, yeah, underwhelming in terms of the amount of damage.
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If Marcus can survive through whatever he went through, this guy should have been able
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to survive.
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Connor returns to Hank's desk and tries to make a connection with him.
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After some hit and miss conversation, Connor gets to work.
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But I- in this hit and miss conversation, one of my favorite lines.
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I like dogs.
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Which you-
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I wrote that too.
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You noticed as well and I was so glad you did.
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It's so awkward, but it's so endearing at the same time.
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I don't know if you remember, season one, I said a majority of my favorite video game
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characters have some odd connection to dogs.
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This is one of them.
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Oh.
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Obviously, Majima, Big B. There's one more that's like one of my top characters that
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also has to do with dogs.
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It's weird.
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It's random.
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Anyway, I love this question.
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But again, sass and passive aggression come out of Connor here.
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He says to Hank,
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Is there any reason in particular you despise me?
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So honest.
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And just the way the line is delivered is fantastic.
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I really do like Connor in this scene.
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I feel like he's developing more personality.
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Maybe that's like building off of Hank's personality because he told Amanda that he would adapt
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to him.
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Hank responds, yeah, there is one, but does not elaborate.
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So in scrolling through the deviancy files, he discovers an AX 400 murder demand last
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night.
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So that's Kara.
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And he thinks it's a good starting point, but fails to convince Hank to go.
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However, an officer walks up with information on the same case, spurring Hank to check it
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out.
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Anything else on scene three?
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Nope.
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So a little less than an hour later, we're back to Kara and Alice.
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Kara removes her LED like Marcus did and also changes her hairstyle and appearance.
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Oh my gosh, can a woman have a different hairstyle than a bob or long hair?
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Unlike Madison, my goodness.
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But no, you had to choose a Madison haircut.
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Had to choose the Madison haircut.
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At least she didn't rip her pants to be booty shorts.
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It was the default copy of the Madison club scene.
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Thank goodness.
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While waiting for Alice to take a bath, Kara sees a news report that is about her and about
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Todd's murder on the TV, and we see that this has had a negative impact on public opinion.
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Currently, the public is skeptical.
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Kara decides that they should check out the address the andread gave her last night, but
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before they head out, we see that Connor and Hank have arrived at the motel looking for
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them.
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Everything's moving pretty quickly.
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Like, how did they find Todd's body so quickly?
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How did Connor know to go to the motel?
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And how is Kara hearing about it so quickly that she knows she needs to make her escape?
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There's a line of drug addicts at Todd's house.
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Their drug dealer's dead.
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It caused a commotion.
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But Connor and Hank question the motel clerk who gives them the room number.
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But Kara and Alice have already fled.
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Also, they forgot the chocolate bar in the hotel room.
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After all that hard work.
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The other thing too is, doesn't Connor address Kara as she when talking to the motel clerk,
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but then Hank addresses Kara as it?
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So I think it also goes to show how the humans are seeing androids as things versus Connor
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himself as an android sees other androids as peers.
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After some close calls, Kara and Alice are able to get on a train and make their escape.
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Okay, moving right along to scene five.
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It's now 430 p.m. on November 6th and Marcus is on a train and we hear a news report saying
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that, well, referencing Connor and then we hear it say a line, this is the first time
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an android is helping with a criminal investigation.
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So there's a lot riding on Connor right now.
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He's the test.
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He's the example.
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Can androids be detectives?
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The humans don't trust cyber life enough to program androids in a way that they won't
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be crossing the line.
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And until the police have an ability to control what those limitations are for androids, I
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don't think androids should be part of the police force no matter how good they are.
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Yeah, it seems like there's maybe a lot riding on this for cyber life because if it goes
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well this could be a whole new market for them.
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Marcus arrives at the Ferndale station, which is what he saw when the dying android told
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him to find Jericho.
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That image is the first in a set that creates a scavenger hunt leading to Jericho.
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What's with the guy that bumps into him after the escalator?
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I thought for sure that he like stole something from him, picked his pocket, but I don't
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think anything ever comes of it.
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Yeah, I don't know why that scene was included.
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Maybe it goes to show that Marcus isn't aggressive?
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Because if that guy bumped into Todd, Todd would beat the living daylights out of him.
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After the scavenger hunt, Marcus finally arrives at Jericho.
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It is a ship.
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Also a bridge breaks so he climbs up, but then he jumps off into the water?
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So I don't understand why he had to climb up.
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Why could he not just jump down from the get-go?
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This scene makes as much sense as the construction scene in Heavy Rain where it's absolutely
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unnecessary to do all that stuff.
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And then also, once we're inside the ship, why all the unnecessary horror?
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It doesn't even go with the style of this video game.
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Yeah, it's odd.
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And I feel like with the last Marcus scene, they were kind of trying to do a little bit
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of horror too with the wall of arms and the jump scare of the guy grabbing him.
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Like, why?
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Why are we adding unnecessary horror into the Marcus chapters?
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I don't get it.
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And then he falls again.
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He makes it to the people, the androids of Jericho.
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And scene ends.
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Great.
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Yep.
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Now, 3.02 PM, Connor and Hank stop so that Hank can get some food.
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Connor's goal in this scene is to reconcile with Hank.
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He watches him make an illegal bet.
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When Connor confronts him about it, I love how matter of fact Hank is.
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And Connor just seems so confused because he's like, he knows it's wrong, but Hank
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is so matter of fact about it not being a big deal that I think it just confuses him.
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Well, it's also that kind of personality that Cyberlife doesn't take into consideration
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when programming how to interact with other people.
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Like Hank's level of sarcasm extends to the point where he makes personality attacks
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on Connor saying that, oh, your looks and your voices and everything that Connor can't
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change.
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He's still trying to figure out Hank for sure.
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Speaking of Connor again asks him why he hates androids so much and all he says is, I have
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my reasons.
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So we're still in the dark about that.
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But then Connor provides some information about deviance.
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He says that they believe a mutation in the software causes deviancy.
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His quote is, they don't feel emotion.
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They get overwhelmed by irrational instructions.
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It makes a lot of sense because emotions include pain, but I don't think androids experience
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that.
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So it's like, you need some kind of stimulant to make them get panic attacks, essentially.
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I mean, it seems like Cyberlife has coded them to replicate human emotions, so something
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in the software would be telling them when to emote.
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So it makes sense that they would get overwhelmed in highly emotional situations like being
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abused.
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And then one of my favorite, I like the scene in general.
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I think this is a good little break and I like the dynamic between Connor and Hank.
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I feel like these actors have great chemistry and I think this scene is a perfect example
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of it.
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At one point, Hank asks Connor what all he knows about him and says, so what's your
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conclusion?
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And Connor responds, I think working with an officer with personal issues is an added
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challenge, but adapting a human unpredictability is one of my features.
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And then he winks.
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The wink is so funny.
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And I think it was also improvised too.
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So soon Connor receives a report of a deviant only a few blocks away, so they leave to go
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check it out.
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They arrive at the location to find signs of a deviant, which Connor eventually locates
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and chases down.
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So we know that he likes to touch blood with his fingers and lick it, but he does it so
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quick in this scene.
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It's a quick lick.
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He does a quick lick.
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He doesn't want Hank to know.
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He doesn't.
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He's self-conscious now.
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Isn't there more RA9 written on the wall?
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Yeah.
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So, lots more.
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Yeah.
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So I'm wondering if RA9 has something to do with Jericho.
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We know, what we know so far is from the Android interrogation where he says RA9 is the one
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that's going to set us free.
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He was the first of us to awaken.
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It's kind of cryptic right now, but it is very much a thing with the deviants.
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Do you think RA9 is short for the model number, like RA900 or RA9000 series?
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I think it could be that, or I think it could be code, potentially.
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I don't really know anything about code.
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We'll see in the next couple scenes when Kara's having trouble remembering things, there's
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just letters and numbers popping up, and it looks kind of similar.
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It's not RA9, but it's similar, so I feel like it's maybe a code type thing.
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While running from Connor, the deviant pushes Hank over a ledge.
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Hank is holding on, but now Connor has to make a decision.
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Stop the deviant or save Hank, who has an 89% chance of survival.
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What do you think I did in my original playthrough?
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Of course you didn't save him.
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No, I didn't.
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89% is fantastic odds.
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I was not going to let that deviant get away.
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So what happened if that was the route you chose?
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Oh, he just gets real pissed.
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He gets real pissed at Connor.
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Hank?
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Yeah.
00:26:30
Oh.
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In this playthrough, I saved him, which results in both a large spike in software instability
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for Connor, and Hank is considerably warmer towards him.
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But this decision is...
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I hate it.
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I hate this decision because I think it happens way too early in the game.
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We know that in this playthrough, I'm trying to make decisions that are more narratively
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pleasing, and this is the decision that just makes it difficult for me, because I feel
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like at this point in the game, Connor's so focused on his mission that he would look
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at the situation and say, Hank's gonna survive.
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I need to catch the deviant.
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But if he does that, I feel like the impact on his relationship with Hank is too extreme.
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I wonder how much it impacts the game too if you continue playing as you left Hank alone.
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We'll discuss more later at the end of the game about decisions because I don't want
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to spoil things for you.
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Scene 7.
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November 6th, still, 5.13pm.
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We're back to Marcus.
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The androids of Jericho introduce themselves.
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We've got Josh, Simon, and North.
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So there's some conversation.
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Marcus isn't very happy with the state of Jericho.
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He says, hiding just to stay alive, that's freedom to you.
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And one of them responds, we have more freedom here than you ever did.
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And Marcus rebuttals and says, waiting in the dark for something to happen.
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That's not how I see freedom.
00:28:03
What's on our first introduction to Jericho?
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He's coming in hot with that kind of argument of immediately leading a revolution in the
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android history of just being like, we don't stand for this.
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And immediately changing the dynamic that they have at Jericho, which is either going
00:28:22
to be good or it's going to backfire on him.
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I think he's really frustrated because there's all this secrecy about Jericho and then he
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gets there and it's just people hiding in the dark.
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So I understand his frustration.
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But yeah, he came in real hot.
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Well first of all, he came in falling from the ceiling like he was sent from heaven.
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North tells Marcus to see Lucy.
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She might be able to help you, she says.
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Lucy does help Marcus heal.
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He's got a big gash in his side.
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She cauterizes it and then hands him a bottle of blue blood.
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That looks so satisfying.
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The shape of this bottle, everything about this bottle.
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It reminds me so much of the Hercules movie.
00:29:05
Do you remember the potion from that movie?
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Was it blue?
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I'll show you.
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I get flashbacks.
00:29:13
It's pretty similar.
00:29:14
It's not, obviously it's not exact, but.
00:29:18
Oh.
00:29:19
Right?
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Do you remember this?
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For whatever reason, when I was a kid, this potion just looked, I wanted it.
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I needed it.
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I mean, I didn't want the potion.
00:29:30
I don't remember it, but now that you show me, I can kind of recall it.
00:29:37
Lots of connections to old movies for us in this episode.
00:29:41
So after healing him, she asks for Marcus's hand and analyzes him.
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She says,
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You had it all.
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And you lost it all.
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You've seen hell and now hell lives in you.
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Your heart is troubled.
00:30:02
A part of shadow and a part of light.
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Which will prevail.
00:30:13
Your choices will shape our destiny.
00:30:15
Pretty generic fortune telling right there.
00:30:18
Right?
00:30:19
This part's a little over the top for me.
00:30:22
It's applicable to everyone, not just Marcus, so.
00:30:25
Yeah.
00:30:26
A lot of this dialogue is just kind of generic.
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And cliche?
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I don't know.
00:30:32
It reminds me a little bit of the guy that called him a demon.
00:30:38
While wandering around, Marcus scans a cyber life crate and discovers the location of a
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warehouse.
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He gets the others on board to rob them.
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He says, we can steal what we need without fighting.
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And someone agrees it's better than waiting here to be shut down.
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What do you feel about what Marcus is doing so far?
00:30:57
I guess you don't have anything to lose.
00:30:59
That's the main thing.
00:31:00
Yeah.
00:31:01
I mean, we just saw one die.
00:31:03
So who's next?
00:31:07
Are we ready for the final scene?
00:31:09
Yeah, let's do it.
00:31:11
Now 7 45 p.m.
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Kara and Alice arrive at Zlotko's house, the place that the android informed Kara about.
00:31:19
But it seems kind of sketchy.
00:31:21
It does not take long for things to take a turn.
00:31:24
Zlotko and his android Luther take them down to the basement after Zlotko says Kara needs
00:31:30
to have her tracker removed.
00:31:32
She's hooked up to this machine.
00:31:35
And this is when he reveals that for some reason the tracker stopped working in deviance.
00:31:41
So he's actually going to reset her memory and sell her or use her in his experiments.
00:31:47
I had a really bad feeling.
00:31:49
And I told you that when we were watching the gameplay together, why should they trust
00:31:54
this dude?
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And also, if there was a tracker, it's too late to take off the tracker because they
00:31:59
would have known where she was and they would have known where she was way earlier.
00:32:04
So much to Alice because she goes, I have a bad feeling.
00:32:08
This thing got me so stressed though.
00:32:11
It is stressful.
00:32:14
Kara does have her memory wiped and she meets Luther upstairs as instructed.
00:32:18
But on the way she experiences flashes of her memories, especially Alice, Kara is then
00:32:25
tasked with bringing Zlotko his dinner, which appears to consist of two bags of chips, a
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sandwich, a loose donut, some cookies.
00:32:36
I think two mini muffins and then whatever milk tots are.
00:32:40
I don't know what a milk tot is.
00:32:44
But this is what I mean.
00:32:45
This looks like a toddler put this meal together.
00:32:49
Ah, this still makes me want donuts though.
00:32:52
Dude, we saw donuts on Hank's desk and we have wanted donuts ever since.
00:32:56
Yes, maybe we do donuts tomorrow together.
00:32:58
Just gonna order a box.
00:33:00
Just gonna come over to your place and just eat it all.
00:33:04
Just inhale some donuts.
00:33:07
Kara overhears that Alice will be taken to Zlotko in 10 minutes, so she must find her
00:33:12
before time runs out, all while trying to remember who she is.
00:33:17
She does eventually regain her memory and locates Alice.
00:33:20
They make a run for it being chased by Zlotko and Luther.
00:33:23
While she's exploring the house, there's a lot of RE9 written on the walls again.
00:33:31
So what's going on?
00:33:33
It's just their graffiti of choice.
00:33:37
Also there's a freaking polar bear?
00:33:40
Is that what it is?
00:33:42
Yeah, cyber bear.
00:33:44
What's it doing here?
00:33:46
I don't know, but that bear saved the day.
00:33:48
I was for sure.
00:33:50
He's a hero.
00:33:51
Also though, the stuffed ostrich.
00:33:53
The taxidermy obsession.
00:33:55
Odd choice.
00:33:57
In the backyard, they are cornered until Luther turns on Zlotko, who is then attacked by his
00:34:02
experimental androids that sound kind of like dinosaurs.
00:34:07
So Luther has become a deviant and he wants to go with Kara and Alice.
00:34:11
He says he knows someone who can get them to Canada.
00:34:15
I don't want to trust him because of what happened, but at the same time, if he wanted
00:34:20
to do harm to them, he would have already done so.
00:34:24
There's nothing left to lose.
00:34:26
Agreed.
00:34:27
Here's the real question though.
00:34:30
Who's worse?
00:34:31
Zlotko or Dr. Formaldehyde, Colin Mochrie?
00:34:39
Don't forget the ass grab.
00:34:40
Definitely, I feel like Dr. Formaldehyde was attempted and maybe an actual rapist versus
00:34:49
Zlotko.
00:34:51
He's at least only resetting androids.
00:34:56
They're both crazy in terms of experiments, but one also wants to rape his victims, so
00:35:02
I feel like that's worse.
00:35:05
Yeah, he was creepy.
00:35:07
I think he's worse too.
00:35:09
He's yuck.
00:35:12
Well, anything else on part two you want to discuss?
00:35:19
This was an intense episode going from horror and ethical dilemmas and possibly dying and
00:35:29
then getting your memory wiped.
00:35:31
It's intense.
00:35:33
It is intense.
00:35:34
I find it curious how easy it was for her to get her memory back.
00:35:38
But I think they want to get the point across that emotions are stronger than anything.
00:35:45
The feelings that she had for Alice is enough to overpower any type of external override,
00:35:53
I guess.
00:35:55
What is that telling us?
00:35:56
Because if you have your memory wiped, do they have a backup?
00:35:59
Seems like it should just be gone.
00:36:02
Do they create their own memory system, maybe, when they're deviant?
00:36:06
I think so.
00:36:07
But I think we agree that deviants have so much different in their code, maybe, that
00:36:13
they can have a little bit more of a tanu, even in their code, in creating their own
00:36:19
code maybe.
00:36:22
Well, is that all for part two?
00:36:26
I think so.
00:36:28
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