Thanks to Kovacs superior skill, they almost win, until reinforcement soldiers show up just in time to turn the tide again. Kovacs and the woman have limited weaponry, but stand their ground. A tac team of 12 heavily armed soldiers is coming to arrest them. He turns on his enhanced vision and looks into the hall. Woman: Have you always been such an asshole? Kovacs doesn’t care, as long as they get paid. He crosses the room to look out the window, where there are two moons looming over a dense, futuristic cityscape. Kovacs lies on the bed and smokes while his companion cleans the stolen stacks. The scene settles on merc Kovacs and his companion in a future hotel room. Only then can you be prepared for anything.” We are Envoys and we take what is offered. “The first thing you learn is that nothing is what it seems. The floor of the shower is littered with stolen stacks. We can see the stack insertion scar on the back of the showering woman’s neck. The future gets confusing at times, with all of the body hopping. The view of his body is interspersed with images of original Kovacs being intimate with a woman, and mercenary Kovacs showering intimately with another woman, or at least another sleeve (although they start out covered in blood). Overall, life has become cheap because it’s so easily replaced, and corporate decadence rules society.Įpisode 1 begins with images of modern Kovacs before he’s revived, dreaming that he’s floating in water. Neo-Catholics believe that being spun up in a new sleeve is a sin and vow to live only the single life span their original sleeve allows them. Normal people hope that their stacks aren’t damaged when they die so that they can be brought back, and that they can afford a decent new sleeve. Functional immortality using clones and backup stacks is fashionable for the very rich. His stack is then inserted into a new sleeve, also known as a body, that his patron bought for him to use while Kovacs works the murder case he’s been hired to solve.Įveryone in society is fitted with a stack when they are very young, but new sleeves vary in price. The method of his imprisonment is the removal of his “stack” from his “sleeve,” meaning the disc which contains his soul and consciousness was removed from his spine and stored until a wealthy man who requires his services pays for his release. Altered Carbon is a wild cyberpunk ride through a dystopian future starring Joel Kinnaman as Takeshi Kovacs, a centuries old supersoldier, rebel, and former mercenary who’s been imprisoned and asleep for 250 years.
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