Episode 5 story
Bea and Cloette have finally located David's clone, but the brain is missing. They continue their search while Tobias and Matilda investigate the code on the USB drive. A segment is missing and Matilda suspects that Mimi knows more than she lets on. When Roger is sent out to pick up a Hubot, he's in for an unpleasant reunion. Florentine's dream is about to come true - she's finally going to marry her Douglas. But perhaps human life is not all it's cracked up to be. Directed by: Harald Hamrell. Story by: Lars Lundström.
20 total · 5 major · 15 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a crisis of faith | major | Gordon, after being manipulated by Bea, rejected religion and pronounced that he might, in fact, hate God. He besought Ada for guidance but was snubbed. |
| coping with being disfigured | major | Jonas was sufficiently troubled by having burn scars all over his face and body that he planned to transfer some semblance of his consciousness into a Hubot body. |
| family affairs | major | The Engman storyline involved tension and drama associated with letting Vera go, going to a boring wedding, and letting the Lennart clone look after the youngest daughter. |
| human AI relationship | major | One storyline follows Douglas and Florentine, a Hubot, in the lead up to and celebration of their wedding. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Rick wanted to get even with Roger because of the way he had once treated Therese. |
| abandonment | minor | Jonas told of how he had been abandoned by his mother, Niska, when he was seven. He had hated her ever since. Vera, from her perspective, was abandoned by the Engmann family when Hans essentially sold her as scrap. |
| blood sports | minor | Jonas ran a battle simulation venue, called Hub Battle Land, where humans pay to track down and shoot up Hubots. |
| brother and sister | minor | Tobbe and Matilda were digging around for David Eischer's code. |
| contagious disease in society | minor | A strange virus was spreading among the Hubots. While technically a computer virus, its spread and symptoms were reminiscent of a real virus. |
| coping with post-traumatic stress | minor | Vera coped with her new and disturbing reality as being cannon fodder at the Hub Battle Land venue by clinging on to a baby doll as if it was her real baby. |