Thursday 21 July 2016

Dark Matter - 'I've Seen the Other Side of You'

"Android's down."
"Again?"
It's episode three and the crew are all back on the Raza. You know, and one of them is in a coma and there's the dead one, and those three tagalongs.

The Android's inability to neural link with the ship turns out to be a result of the nasty brain spikes they put in her head, so she has to shut down and let her nanites realign her brain. This naturally means that the ship is about to get invaded, but this time it's by the crew of the Raza. Turns out the crew left brain patterns in the computer back before a job which might have knocked out the Android (and which sounds a lot like it was the job that led to Portia Lin (the future Two) becoming a nanite-ridden superhuman. Unable to find the Android, the ship looks for another neural link matching one of those prints, inadvertently kicking Two, Three and Four's brains into regression.

What's important about this episode, beyond the gunfights with the newcomers and Five using the copy of Lin's memories in her own brain to sync up and engage in some Matrix fu, is that it acts as confirmation that the crew really weren't misunderstood outlaws. They were - even if for mostly accessible reasons - utter shitheels, quite happy to bust a cap in a teenager's ass and move on with their day. Also, it allows them to finally make a choice between the old and the new, as the Android is eventually able to offer them a choice of remaining as they are, or integrating the old them into the new.

Also, Arax turns out to be the 'asset', attempting to steer the Raza towards a rendezvous with the posh lady who calls Five 'pumpkin'.

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