![]() We learn that Bancroft traveled just before his murder, closing a big deal that he has no memory of doing. And you can even sleeve into your own clone, basically meaning you can live forever. The richest people in the world can now be immortal just get a younger sleeve when you tire of the one you’re in now. goes to a virtual poker game.īefore then, Prescott takes Kovacs to a company that sells high-end sleeves to the one percent. This is a nice development because it means Altered Carbon will present a world outside of that known only by its protagonist, and it’s a pattern that continues with a Poe-only scene not that much later, in which everyone’s favorite A.I. In the show’s first scene without Kovacs, we see Officer Ortega wake up, sparring with her partner and revealing she’s got a tracker on Kovacs. ![]() It’s time to get investigating!įirst, there’s a refreshing turn of events narratively. Anyway, Poe is there with an attorney named Prescott, played by the great Tamara Taylor. He wakes up in his room and there’s a raven there - is that his wake-up call? Cool. We learn more about Kovacs’s background this episode, and how his life was first destroyed as a part of an expunging of envoys by a team of killers. Meanwhile, Takeshi Kovacs is having hallucinations about his past lives, seeing ash in his lovely hotel room. A kid, fishing nearby with his father, wants to bring her in. “Fallen Angel” focuses on two murdered girls, the first of whom we see literally dropped into a lake. It may not quite be at the top of the TV mountain yet, but it feels like Altered Carbon is climbing in the right direction. It wasn’t quite as much a breakthrough as the premiere, but it still moves along at a nice clip, avoiding the bloat that comes with some Netflix shows (looking at you, Marvel). The second episode of Altered Carbon connects a few more dots in the mystery surrounding the murder of the ultrawealthy Laurens Bancroft, tying his death (and resurrection) to the killing of a prostitute named Lizzie Elliot.
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