Episodes 01

“Welcome Back, Mr. Brown”

Nora’s father brings her to the woods to live with the Ludds, a group of technic-sceptic anarchists who despise the fact that only the rich profit from the technological advances where she meets Matteo. Meanwhile, Nathan tries to find Nora but has no luck. He reluctantly returns to Ingrid and starts making out with her as he feels guilty that she uploaded just for him. It is revealed that Ingrid faked uploading and instead uses a VR bodysuit. Nora watches them using a cat avatar and thinks Nathan is over her. The episode ends with Nathan leaving Nora a mailbox message professing his love.

Episodes 02

“Dinner Party”

Ingrid hosts a dinner party with some of her friends but Nathan invites Luke and his 2gig friend Yang to attend as well. Not satisfied with the AI butlers, she requests angels to help out, forcing Aleesha and her temp Tinsley to cater her. Tinsley uses Nora’s old avatar as she doesn’t have one yet, briefly reigniting Nathan’s hopes that she returned. Nora meets Boris Netherlands, the actor whose likeness was used to create the AI servants. They use his likeness to create a fake-servant avatar to enter Lakeview unnoticed. Nathan bonds with Tinsley after she reveals her true identity.

Episodes 03

“Robin Hood”

Nathan and Luke use the penknife they stole before to siphon bandwidth from wealthy residents and giving it to the 2gigs. They convince Ingrid’s handler to help them win at a high-stakes Poker game by manipulating the cards using the device. Nora fake-interviews for a job as a coder at Horizen in order to access the coding floor and scatter ring drives with malware in hopes that someone will plug them into a computer to give the Ludds access. When she hears that the coders have found the penknife and Nathan is forced to discard it, she helps Ingrid win her match against David Choak. She is hired as a bug-fixer after giving an impassioned speech on the virtues of Lakeview.

Episodes 04

“Family Day”

Nathan’s family comes to visit with Ingrid still pretending to be uploaded. Horizen tries to sell virtual babies to uploads. Nora and Nathan meet for the first time after she returns to Horizen. Matteo convinces Nora to plant a virus in Lakeview that propagates through the AI butlers and broadcasts Ludd propaganda as well as deleting residents. Feeling guilty, Nora uses her new access in the real world to stop the attack. Tinsley shows compassion to the AI guy after Ingrid scolds him, making him learn empathy, which he later uses to comfort Ingrid.

Episodes 05

“Mind Frisk”

Horizen uses the Ludd attack Nora started as a cover to officially scale back uploads’ privacy rights and search their minds and dreams as well as profit from selling that information on the internet. Nora and Nathan team up to hack the “Mind Frisk” program before it can go online. In the process, they discover that David Choak, Nathan’s ultra-wealthy neighbor, was involved in his death. Meanwhile, Aleesha discovers that Luke had sex dreams about her that were uploaded onto the internet by her boss. Ingrid tries out an AI baby to prepare her for virtual motherhood, but it overwhelms her.

Episodes 06

“The Outing”

Nathan and Luke tour New York City with Nora and Aleesha in an attempt to find out why billionaire David Choak has downloaded into a robot body and gone to the city. They discover that Freeyond has one location in New York City and Los Angeles each but hundreds of locations in swing states like Pennsylvania or Florida, concluding that the free system is designed to lure poor voters into uploading to skew the election results since uploads don’t have voting rights. It is revealed that Ingrid has been growing Nathan a new body in order to download him.

Episodes 07

“Download”

After Ingrid reveals that she is not really dead and has been growing a clone body for him to download into, Nathan happily breaks up with her as he realizes he owes her nothing. Nathan tells Nora he is willing to download into the clone body in order to use his retina to access the backdoor he installed into the Freeyond code despite the risks associated with downloads. Aleesha restricts Luke’s dream state to only experience kid-friendly dreams, which at first annoys him but he later starts enjoying the simple puzzle games. Nora enlists the Ludds’ help to break into the cloning facility where Ingrid is watching over Nathan’s clone body. They convince her to let them download Nathan and leave to return to New York. Meanwhile, Tinsley restores Nathan’s mind from a backup, thinking he had been accidentally deleted and Ingrid uses a hair she finds on Nathan’s old hairbrush to continue her plans. Nora and Nathan sleep together on the Hyperloop. The episode ends with Nathan discovering that his nose is bleeding.