Altered Carbon
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Lets hope the pace picks up again in episode six.
Thats why shes been particularly interested in the last envoy hes running around in her boyfriends body.
Meanwhile, back in the future, Kovacs comes back to the Raven Hotel more than a little aggro.
(Guess VR torture will do that to you.)
He snaps at Vernon and Poe, both of whom basically take a backseat in this episode.
Its one of the first scenes in The Wrong Man and there will be a couple that feels overwritten.
Shell double what her husband is payingandbuy him a new identity.
More on that later.
Before then, Kovacs has a pretty poorly written scene with Laurens Bancroft in a biohazard of a slum.
Kovacs points out, This isnt sacrifice, its theater.
Its a bit of the old-fashioned hurt her and Ill kill you stuff.
Kovacs points out that hes not here to save anyone.
After Ortega gets a quick shower peopleloveto shower in the future she heads out to the scene with Kovacs.
The great character actor plays the head of the entertainment complex that Bancroft visited the night he died.
They go to Isaacs house and the case comes off as coming together.
Did the son kill the father that he could never replace?
Heres a crazy thought what if he already has?
What if someone took the place of the real Laurens Bancroft?
How would people know in this world?
My head hurts thinking about it.
Ryker seemsstunnedthat anyone thinks he murdered a guy we saw him about to murder, but whatever.
Ryker and Ortega caught on and someone framed Ryker to stop their investigation.
The guy goes nuts, slicing and dicing and kicking.
Ortega is about to get a bullet anyway, but the Ghost Walker assailant is out of ammo.
Other Notes
Did the Matt Frewer scene remind anyone else ofBorderlands?
A lot of the locations inAltered Carbonfeel inspired by the cartoonish vision of sci-fi in that award-winning game.
By the way, Id pay good money for aBorderlandsshow, if any Netflix execs are reading.
In case you didnt notice, every episode is named after a classic noir.
This one is the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles.
