Family Day is the fourth episode of Season 2. It was released on March 11, 2022.
Synopsis[]
Official episode synopsis for "Family Day" from Amazon Prime Video:
Nora's loyalties are stressed as she is called upon to take revolutionary action. Nathan's visiting family prompts him to consider what he wants out of his afterlife. Luke invents a new sport.
Plot Summary[]
Nora, Ivan, and Matteo infiltrate a warehouse where clones are created. Those bodies are being produced in watery baths so that in the future, people can download their minds into them. Tmatteo and Ivan destroy many of them by pulling the plug. They go to Ivan’s place, and hide out for the moment; Nora is disgusted by the bachelor pad, and thinks he may be an incel. In Lakeview, it is Family Day. There is new prototype Horizen Digital Babies where they are simulations of an actual baby, and are in beta. Ingrid wants one. Nathan’s mother and sister come and visit him in the digital afterlife.
Family Day brings massive festivities outside. Nora fixes a chair that had some plant code in the software; she tells Dylan that it may take a while to fix somethings as he wants to be an adult.
Nora reveals she is a maintenance engineer now nad does not have a lot of time to deal with a lot of people. Nathan is playing sports with Luke; Nathan uses a special tool he had to play a modified form of tennis that uses system A.I. guy. Aleesha comes to deal with the hack, but is convinced to play tennis with the group.
Meanwhile, Ingrid’s interactions with others reveals she desperately want a digital baby, storming out of a hotel common area. She has an appointment with Helen, a theapist who appears as a white husky dog. Pausing for a moment, the therapist takes off her vr set, and tells the office that Ingrid wants to be a mom, prompting the entire office to laugh at that statement.
Tinsley reveals herself to nathan in her own avatar and tells him to meet Nora.
Nora and Nathan go out into the woods and talk; Nora reveals she is firmaly in a dating and that the Ludds good people who would not lie to her. She promises she will continue to find any leads of Nathan’s murder. Nora walks to a bush where Matteo enters the Upload and talks to Nora while posing as A.I. guy. They talk, and Matteo wants Nora to use a hack to be using the A.I. Guy to speak to everyone to deliver a message so everyone can hear it.
Soon enough, the message is broadcast, ensuring everyone can hear it. People leave afterwards. At her desk, Nora “solves” the issues, and impresses the other staff members, who applaud her for her “success” in dealing with the calamity.
Jesse tells Aleesha that Luke says good things about her, and she is wondering why. Nathan and ingrid spend time together, at the end of the episode.