Episode
Total Recall 2070: Nothing Like the Real Thing
Overview
An accountant kills a deliveryman for seemingly no reason and then falls into a trance. Marks on his head suggest he had bought a cheap black-market memory implant, and Hume and Farve have to find the seller before more people get hurt.
Details
- Series
- Total Recall 2070
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1999-01-19
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Nothing Like the Real Thing is Episode 3 in Season 1 of Total Recall 2070. It aired on 1999-01-19. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 1: Machine Dreams (1)
David Hume and his new partner Ian Farve must track down a gang of androids with abnormally high intelligence gained from experimental use of memory implant technology from the big corporation Rekall.
Episode 5: Allure
After failing to stop a young woman's suicide, Hume is puzzled when he sees someone looking just like her. Things get weirder still when the suicide victim turns into a withered old corpse.
Episode 6: Infiltration
Hume and Farve's investigation of the murder of an Uber-Braun employee is severly hampered by the company itself and Rekall's new head of security Vincent Nagle.
Episode 7: Rough Whimper of Insanity
Farve starts behaving erratically after he and Hume investigate a service android that attacked two people who walked on the floor he'd just polished.
Episode 8: First Wave
The CPB's computer network goes haywire after a young man posing as a computer service technician sets off a security alarm. When interrogating him they discover that he's a product of a genetic engineering project that failed, and is now a member of a cult opposed to non-human sentience.
Episode 9: Baby Lottery
A baby taken from his parents because of a genetic disposition towards crime disappears from the Reproductive Selection Board. Investigating, Farve and Hume find that his parents aren't the only ones interested in him.
Episode 10: Brain Fever
The head of the Mars Miners Union is shot by a member who the attempts to kill himself. They are both sent to a hospital where Farve tries to find out why he felt a connection with the shooter, while Hume investigates the shooter's background.
Episode 11: Begotten Not Made
Dr. Latham is starting to cooperate, when a lawyer from Recall shows up demands his release. Moments after his release the doctor is assassinated. Surprisingly, an autopsy reveals it was just a clone, so Hume and Farve try to find the real Latham.
Episode 12: Brightness Falls
Farve and Moralez investigate the death of a cult leader who was crucified in his home, while Hume looks in on his paranoid father who's convinced the retirement home is spying on him.
Episode 13: Burning Desire
The CPB investigates the death of a man who was fried in his sublimator, and Hume becomes worried that the same might happen to Olivia.