Incorporated Recap S01E07
Caplan’s car has come to a stop in a place where it’s likely to be stripped, just as Ben intended, but it’s got a danger beacon? The question is, will anyone be coming to find out what’s in the car?
The bread crumbs Ben left making Caplan look like a defector seem to work at first…until Julian takes a closer look. He’s not a stupid man, he knows something’s off. He talks to Caplan Sr., and finds out about Elena.
In the meantime, the intelligence from the Inazagi defector about a scientist who has discovered how to make plants that thrive in salt water is starting to pan out. They’ve found someone who should know where the scientist is being hidden, now there’s just using Everclear on him to get the intel.
The guy is a recovering alcoholic, several years sober. They grab him at an AA meeting in the Red Zone, and since Ben did some last fine tuning on Everclear with Hendrick’s help, it’s ready to use.
Incidentally, during that bit of help, Hendrick finds out what Ben did to Caplan.
Everclear the band? Everclear the booze?
Ben uses Everclear on the poor schmuck they nabbed, and through a little creative thinking, figures out where the scientist is being held. He also figures out how to selectively erase memories. This is important later.
He goes looking for Julian, only to find out he’s got Elena. Thinking fast, he goes to tell Julian that he’s found something, making sure Elena sees him. She’s clever–obviously, to survive where she is, she has to be–so when Julian comes back, she lies and tells him Caplan was trying to get dirt on Krauss, who incidentally, she’s ‘seen’. That successfully makes Julian too uncomfortable to ask about anything else. He still knows something’s wrong, however.
Julian, Krauss, and Ben figure out that if the guy they get the location from can’t remember being questioned, they probably won’t move the scientist. They have Ben erase the memories, cover the guy in booze, and dump him on the street. Poor dude assumes he’s fallen off the wagon.
Laura shows once again what stern stuff she’s made of when a street boss interrupts her impromptu clinic. She saw the kid with the appendix problem, then when she went to leave, she found a line at the door of people needing medical attention. Having a big heart, she couldn’t turn them all away. So, as she’s looking at a young woman with cataracts, this street boss (Goran) has her dragged off. For a bit it looks as if she’s going to be too freaked out to do much, but she picks herself back up and makes a deal with Goran. He wants good PR (if he can provide a clinic for the people, they’ll see him as a more benevolent dictator) by having the clinic, but if he wants her to run it, she’s going to need quality supplies. Nothing half assed. Once again, Laura shows that she’s probably got more strength than any of them.
Oh Theo. Poor Theo.
Poor Theo is definitely in over his head. Slimy Terrence puts him in a fight with a genetically and physically enhanced fighter, and dopes him up with some sort of rage drug. Theo goes so crazy he bites the guy’s face after beating the crap out of him. He tries to ‘calm Theo down’ using means that communicate even more that Theo is just a thing Terrence thinks he owns (really, guys? ew.). This can only get worse.
The retrieval finally happens on Caplan’s car, and he’s found dead. Ben’s plan didn’t quite work. Julian thinks things through a little more, and he knows the only one who benefits from all the shenanigans is Ben. He locks Ben out of Everclear, and gets Krauss’ permission to use it on everyone. He thinks he has Ben now, but Ben thinks a little faster once he discovers he can’t log into Everclear.
He goes back in the old Red Zone lab he used to use, and enlists Hendrick’s help. He’s smuggled out the Everclear plans in microtype on a sheet of paper (because who looks for that anymore, apparently) and 3D prints out the headset. He wants Hendrick to erase all the Aaron memories out of his head so he can beat Everclear.
Yeah, nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan.
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