Let's talk Black Mirror season 4

[GrandizerII]

Episode 3

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Another sad episode. This mother did way worse than the one in the previous episode. The car accident victim at the beginning wasn't her fault, and I can sort of understand what was in her mind when she didn't end up calling the police (for the sake of her partner at the time). But after some years, she has a family (husband and son), and builds up a reputation as a great architect of communities. So when the previous partner ends up visiting her in a hotel room to let her know that he was finally planning to tell the truth about what happened at that time, she pleads for him to stay quiet and (when he refused to give in) choked him to death. Then it spiraled downwards after that, and she ends up also murdering an investigator, then the investigator's husband, and their baby (probably out of mercy). Then after police show up to a public place where she happened to be, the episode ends and we're left hanging, wondering if the police were after her or not.

Tragic episode, not sure what to think about the woman. She killed a number of people to keep her reputation intact, but there is no way she could live life like that forever, knowing she is able to feel guilt and shame. If only she called the police the first time to confess rather than live such a torturing life and end up killing other people to protect herself.

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LOL... You should watch the episode again. I don't think you quite got all of it.

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The woman didn't kill the child, "out of mercy". You're forgetting, that the main sci-fi technology of the episode is the ability to read visual memories directly from a brain. She thought the child saw her, which meant the police could identify her, just like the investigator did earlier. She killed, in order to protect herself, because she's clearly a psychopath. The tears she cries are supposed to be "crocodile tears", hence the title of the episode.

What she didn't know was, that the child was blind (which I found a bit "on the nose", but whatever), so she would have been safe. However, while murdering the kid, she was most likely seen by a pet guinea pig, which was kept in that room and which the police got hold of and took in to "read", at the end of the episode. 

So, yeah - the police were almost definitely after her. She wasn't in a random place - she was at her kid's school, watching a school-play with her husband. Not to mention, that in the future, were people can read minds, determining someone's location must be fairly easy. It's pretty easy now, thanks to people constantly updating their social media.

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I see why they brought up the blind part now. Thought this only worked on adult humans (not babies or animals). Makes sense now ... uh ... sort of.

You say she's a psychopath and her tears were crocodile tears. Are you saying she was trying to fool the audience (us) into having sympathy with her then? If she is a psychopath, I don't see why she would be feeling any guilt or shame (as she explicitly said at one point) and cry tears when on her own (unless I misremembered this part and she only cried in order to manipulate people in front of her).

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Never seen that one,[...]

Kids, these days...

lol, read, watch, classic fiction, popular phrase, whatever.

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Episode 4

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Neat episode. I didn't quite get what was going on exactly. Something to do with Simulation Theory. Prob explains why the System was so shit at matchmaking. It was all an experiment.

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