![]() Humanity, through the use of technology installed at the base of the neck, has developed the ability to encode and transfer the human mind into other bodies, or “sleeves.” This “cortical stack” technology has allowed humanity to spread far beyond Earth’s solar system into the stars. We don't see this sleeve's face, but presumably if Altered Carbon is green lit for a second season, Kinnaman will play Ryker and a new actor will take over the role of Takeshi.Altered Carbon doesn’t hold back when exploring its futuristic setting and, in the midst of that, delivers a smart, captivating cyberpunk story with equally engaging charactersĪltered Carbon is Netflix’s first serious, big-budget attempt at telling a cyberpunk story in live-action. ![]() Thus, Ryker will be allowed to return to a sleeve that at least looks like his original body, and Takeshi's stack is transferred to a new sleeve. Ryker's original body is killed when Head in the Clouds crashes into the ocean, but fortunately Takeshi made a clone and sent it away for a relaxing island vacation as a diversion. Ortega is determined to protect Ryker's sleeve so that she can clear his name and return his stack to his body, but this concern eventually transforms into a genuine attraction to Takeshi.Īt the end of the series, it's revealed that Ryker was set up by Rei, and thanks to her confession (recorded on a hidden camera in Takeshi's eyeball) his name is cleared. ![]() He's actually wearing the sleeve of Elias Ryker, Ortega's former lover and partner, who was framed for a murder he did not commit and had his stack put on ice. Takeshi goes ahead and kills Rei anyway, but at the end of the season he declares his intention to track down the back-up of Falconer's mind - wherever it may be, and no matter how long it takes to find it.Īfter he is tortured in Simulspace and repeatedly called "Ryker" by his tormentors - who believe he is still the person whose body he is wearing - Takeshi realizes that there's more to Ortega's concern for him than dedication to her job. In a last-minute gambit, however, Rei reveals that she made a back-up of Falconer's mind and hid it somewhere - telling Takeshi that if he kills her, he will never get Falconer back. This plan failed due to to Rei's betrayal, and Takeshi believed that Falconer had been killed permanently when her escape ship was blown up by Prectorate gunfire. In an effort to prevent this, Falconer orchestrated a plan to corrupt the DHF code of every human permanently, so that no person's mind could survive for more than a hundred years. Falconer was gifted with great foresight, and realized that her creation would lead to the Meths taking over the world and humanity eventually destroying itself. The great love of Takeshi's love is Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldberry), the leader of the Envoys and - it's ultimately revealed - the inventor of the stacks technology that made immortality possible. Bancroft charges Takeshi with finding his would-be killer, with the promise of an official pardon and a massive payout if he succeeds, and Takeshi reluctantly accepts. He survived, however, thanks to a back-up of his mind stored on a satellite - which unfortunately has no memory of the two days preceding the shooting. Kinnaman's character, Takeshi Kovacs, was killed and had his stack put "on ice" as punishment for his role in an uprising, but has his mind placed in a new body by the obscenely wealthy and influential Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy).īancroft was found in his study, shot through the neck (thereby destroying his stack) in an apparent attempt at killing him off for good. ![]() The show is set hundreds of years in the future, in a society where people's minds are stored on disks at the top of their spines (called "stacks") and can be easily transferred from one body (or "sleeve") to another - allowing the very wealthy to effectively become immortal by keeping a stash of clones and remote back-ups of their minds. Altered Carbon, the twisty new sci-fi thriller series starring Joel Kinnaman ( Suicide Squad) as a rebel fighter brought back from the dead, has now arrived on Netflix.
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