Meanwhile, Aleesha discovers that Luke had sex dreams about her that were uploaded onto the internet by her boss. In the process, they discover that David Choak, Nathan’s ultra-wealthy neighbor, was involved in his death. Nora and Nathan team up to hack the “Mind Frisk” program before it can go online. 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. Tinsley shows compassion to the AI guy after Ingrid scolds him, making him learn empathy, which he later uses to comfort Ingrid. Feeling guilty, Nora uses her new access in the real world to stop the attack. Matteo convinces Nora to plant a virus in Lakeview that propagates through the AI butlers and broadcasts Ludd propaganda as well as deleting residents. Nora and Nathan meet for the first time after she returns to Horizen. Horizen tries to sell virtual babies to uploads. Nathan’s family comes to visit with Ingrid still pretending to be uploaded. She is hired as a bug-fixer after giving an impassioned speech on the virtues of Lakeview. 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. 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. They convince Ingrid’s handler to help them win at a high-stakes Poker game by manipulating the cards using the device. Nathan and Luke use the penknife they stole before to siphon bandwidth from wealthy residents and giving it to the 2gigs. Nathan bonds with Tinsley after she reveals her true identity. They use his likeness to create a fake-servant avatar to enter Lakeview unnoticed. Nora meets Boris Netherlands, the actor whose likeness was used to create the AI servants. Tinsley uses Nora’s old avatar as she doesn’t have one yet, briefly reigniting Nathan’s hopes that she returned. Not satisfied with the AI butlers, she requests angels to help out, forcing Aleesha and her temp Tinsley to cater her. Ingrid hosts a dinner party with some of her friends but Nathan invites Luke and his 2gig friend Yang to attend as well.

The episode ends with Nathan leaving Nora a mailbox message professing his love. Nora watches them using a cat avatar and thinks Nathan is over her. It is revealed that Ingrid faked uploading and instead uses a VR bodysuit.

He reluctantly returns to Ingrid and starts making out with her as he feels guilty that she uploaded just for him. Meanwhile, Nathan tries to find Nora but has no luck. 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.

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