“It’s Sim vs. Sim as Anna tries to tip the battle in favor of Amasso, but she’ll have to go through the new and improved Cleaner 2.0 first.”

Location: Antarctica

The Gemini Division is keeping things pretty close to the vest with “Kill-Switch” — the series’ penultimate episode to season one.  True, there is an all-out battle between the SIMs and Gemini Division.  But the final revelations of the series remain cloaked in mystery, misdirection and foreshadowing.

In this episode:

• Anna says, “You always said it was going to end like this.”
• Amasso gives a speech: “Tonight, my brothers, we take our final stand against Gemini … this fight is for our future, Anna Diaz.
• “If she dies, our lives will mean nothing.”
• Anna says, “This is my fight too”
• Anna uses a recorded Gemini Division satellite video to review the battle
• Gemini launched a full-scale assault on the SIMs
• Gemini sent SIMs 1.0 to kill Amasso and the rest of the SIMs
• Amasso says, “I cannot kill my own race.”
• Anna says of “He was becoming a great human.  One I was actually starting to like.  At exactly the wrong time.”
• Anna learns that Gemini Division’s SIMs would be controlled from a single mobile control facility
• Anna takes over the mobile base, but is confronted by the Cleaner 2.0
• Anna succeeds in flipping the kill switch
• All the Gemini teams are wiped out
• I SIM tells Anna, “Amasso needs you.”
• Anna responds, “I’m not alone.”

For starters, the narrative choice of “Kill-Switch” to tell the story of the battle by way of an overhead satellite video feed was quite entertaining.  It’s a bit like watching a game of Warcraft or Command & Conquer play out.  Amasso’s growing humanity is certainly notable — demonstrating that life is indeed finding a way toward the promise of hope.  But it is the reappearance of the Cleaner (aka Van Gogh) which just might foreshadow the ultimate resurrection of Nick and, potentially, any other SIMs whose cores have survived.  What’s remarkable, though, is how open the story still is at this point.

Topics: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Web Reviews
Filed under: Gemini Division

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