When a top prosthetics researcher is found dead, Neil receives a anonymous e-mail containing, Omega, the final letter of the Greek alphabet, and telling him that the man was murdered by the "Synthetics" the physical manifestations of "Sentients", and that they are now after the man's six-year-old niece Stevie, all because of a "cybiotic interface" he was working on which would allow computer technology to control organic systems. Visitng Stevie's teacher, they find out that she is deaf and received a cochlear implant which her uncle had been tinkering with.
Eventually, the team locates Stevie and finds out that her implant allows her to control a swarm of insects that have been fitted with cybiotic interface chips. Kurt reveals that he speaks the Deaf Language, a man of many talents. But mysterious figures who may be Synthetics relentlessly track Stevie to Kurt's place. Kurt escapes with Stevie through his landlady's window, but they are captured.
Maybe I missed something, I should have been concentrating more during this, but this was a rip-off of the X-Files episode "War of the Coprophages" about the cockroaches with artifical intelligence, and I was having conversations at the same time. So I have some questions:
The scientist who was killed during the episode -- was he the boss of the researcher they were investigating (Stevie's Uncle)? Did we know why he acted so nervous?
The 'mysterious figures' -- they turned out to be human, but not these humans with 'programmed minds' -- so why are they doing what they are doing? Someone said that they could be for or against the 'Syntheics' -- surely they must be for the 'Syntheics' or else why kidnap Kurt and Sarah and Stevie?
That brings me to my next point. I know it's a TV and Cinematic convention to do this, but in real life if someone came at me with a gun, and I knew that they were planning to kill me whatever I did (as opposed to robbing a bank, stealling my property or money, or kidnapping me for ransom) then I think I would take my chances with them. At least that way I would have a chance! That's why I don't understand the kidnapping and subsequent scenes -- these 'mysterious figures' are prepared to kill the scientist because he is in the way, they would just kill Kurt, Angela and Stevie too. End of story.
The homebrews made by Kurt's landlady were interesting. Do you think that we are going to see a longterm romantic interest there? Will she be the one to change Kurt's ways?
Angela's problems with 'husband to be' -- "How do you know my father's name?" -- and Sarah's problems with her father are all interesting, but I'm begining to want more from this show:
I agree with Tabitha's comment about the 'cliffhanger' scene from "Astronaunt's Dreams" two weeks ago -- it's as if it never happened. Chuck has never been called to account, no playing of cctv recordings, no fingerprint or DNA checks on the scanner he used.
It ends this week with Stevie safe, and playing with insects in a garden somewhere. She wouldn't be safe, even if it were a government controlled relocation these people are going to find her; the conspiracy is at least as deep as that.
