Time to follow this
nonsensical storyline further - they need to bypass Altura’s security so they
have gone to Hackersville, an old telephone switching centre which is now
occupied with Hackers who have been hacking into Altura’s systems. At one point
we even see people using mobile phones
To which I have to
ask… how?! Why? For most of this series people have been hard pressed to even
find electricity - and a radio mast is something unique and special. The whole
power of Citizen Z was that he still had the technology to speak to the world.
So where did this all come from?
And why does Altura
even have public network? How are the Hackers attacking this? Why does Altura
have a network that isn’t self-contained? Given that outposts are pretty self
sufficient in this new world, why would it have any kind of open internet which
the hackers can access? And why would they connect their CCTV to it? My own
firm doesn’t link their CCTV to the internet! Why is Altura? Why can Altura connect
to the internet?
But hey let’s not let
common sense get in the way of a plot. So they go see the Hackers and
shenanigans ensue. There’s a series of geeky clues to get in which is solved by
George kicking down the door. The head of the hackers can be a little awkward
but Warren keeps pointing a gun at him. Because she has no time for arguments.
Also Citizen Z is super protective of Kaya and it’s nice to see the power of
their love… but at the same time there’s way too much jealousy about it all
There’s a brief
attack by zombies and some nifty drones hunting them down which everyone loves
except Warren who has no time for these nonsenses.
Between them they do
guide Kaya through Altura and past the security to find Estes’s laptop. There
they find about his plan for “The Final Mercy” which has some unpleasant words
about elimination. This is not good.
Estes himself is away
because he’s tracked the missing Talkers to Limbo where he confronts Murphy and
the others about the Talkers they’re hiding. They try to hide them with Murphy
both pretending to be co-operative while at the same time making it clear that
he hates Estes and everything he stands for. Despite their best efforts they
cannot hide the Talkers because Estes is entirely awful and uses a lost child
for leverage. And Murphy shows he’s still a decent guy despite pretending not
to be and insists on going with the Talkers.
And he may be the key
to saving them all though… As Sun Mei continues to try find a way to stop the
Talkers craving brains. She is testing more and more blood samples and she has
a match… to Murphy. Which is a problem because there’s so much weird stuff in
Murphy’s blood she has no chance to isolate it.
But we see how it
could be effective when a new Talker, who died from an infection, is brought in
by Red. She wants Sun to find some way to help since they have no biscuits and
no other choice than to kill her. So they use Murphy’s blood as a last resort…
… and it works. Ish.
Murphy’s blood makes her more human, meaning she doesn’t crave brains. But she
then becomes vulnerable to the virus that is killing her, she dies again… and
craves brains. And Murphy’s blood kicks in again for her to live and die and
live and die and live and die over and over again. It’s a truly horrific fate
and Sun Mei is left with no choice but to Mercy her. Which is somewhat bleak
