Ortega and the police arrest Miriam Bancroft and the Meths at Suntouch House. The original Kovacs manages to kill Rei before the floating pleasure house Head in the Clouds crashes into the bay after an extended battle sequence. Kovacs' plan to spread the virus through Rei's clones works, but it also affects his own clone and the A.I. The plan backfired and was exposed, leading to the Protectorate passing the proposition and the murdered prostitutes being resleeved to participate in the trial. Rei, as a crime lord who made money by programming religious coding into the murder victims of her clients so that they couldn't be resleeved, manipulated Bancroft in order to defeat this law. back-up.Īnd all this violence was to prevent the ratification of Proposition 653, which would have allowed murder victims to be resleeved in order to testify against their killers. With the past realization that Laurens caused the "real death" of Lena Rentang, he destroyed his own stack just in time to prevent the awful memory from being saved to his D.H.F. Laurens' wife Miriam, whom Lizzie ran into while seeking help, killed Lizzie and dumped her sleeve, brainwashing her so that she became stuck in a VR trauma loop until she can be re-sleeved into a new body. This led to Laurens killing a prostitute and then raping Ava's daughter, Lizzie Elliot, impregnating her. It's revealed that Rei managed to get Miriam to drug her husband Laurens with Stallion, a powerful chemical that makes men become erratic, uninhibited, and exceptionally violent. Kovacs realizes this too late to save Ortega's family from Rei's hitman, but he takes the opportunity to enact his plan to spread the newly created virus through her remaining clones. At the same time, those clones awake and attack Ortega after she infiltrates their storage location Rei then manages to back herself up before taking over Ortega's sleeve. Together, they work to develop a virus that will take out all of Rei's clones. While Ortega acts on Kovacs' orders to figure out how to take out Rei, Kovacs himself goes to recruit the services of the incarcerated dipper, Ava Elliott. Dipper - Needlecast hackers who sell memories on the black market.The Envoys, including Takeshi Kovacs, were led by Quellcrist Falconer. Envoy - "Super-soldiers" with varying allegiances, perceived as freedom fighters by some and terrorists by others these outstanding fighters and skilled tech-users were developed long ago.backup that serves as protection against "real death" Meths can also afford a duplicate remote stack, a D.H.F. Meths - Derived from the Biblical figure Methuselah, these are the ultra-wealthy who can afford to basically live forever by using a potentially endless line of cloned sleeves.Real Death - If your stack is destroyed-or "slagged"-you die, unless you happen to be a Meth.Needlecasting - The process of transmitting a Stack consciousness into a Sleeve the original purpose of this technology was to facilitate interstellar travel.can be downloaded into a body, making a person's physical appearance both highly variable and customizable while also making the flesh more "disposable", since a consciousness can be "resleeved." Sleeve - If the Stack is the mind, the Sleeve is the body.Materialists can think of this as the brain while the more spiritual among us can think of it as the soul, consciousness, or mind. This essence of what it means to be a human is stored digitally in what are essentially server banks, which can then be downloaded from or uploaded into Stacks. Stack, or Cortical Stack - A device (of extra-terrestrial origin) implanted in the spinal column that houses the "true" self, consciousness, or Digital Human Freight (D.H.F.).Our quick recap of Season 1 follows below, after a handy terminology guide: Get ready to watch with this recap of Season 1! Anthony Mackie is Takeshi Kovacs in Season 2 of Altered Carbon, streaming February 27.
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