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  • - [Man] This is the story of Black Mirror,

  • Season Four, people, in three minutes.

  • Let's begin.

  • When John Daly uploads his office crush's DNA

  • into his interactive space world,

  • she tries to hack his system

  • and notifies her real-world self

  • but Daly finds out and gets angry.

  • Cole comes up with a plan to get

  • Daly's control device but Walton is hesitant.

  • Cole seduces Daly and blackmails herself

  • with her own nudes.

  • Real-world Cole steals back the DNA

  • of the crew members and virtual Daly is abandoned,

  • now chasing his others through asteroids.

  • Walton sacrifices himself to repair the ship.

  • The crew is freed and Daly is forever trapped.

  • Marie implants her child, Sara, with a monitoring system.

  • Sara grows up an outcast due to her

  • parental advisory settings

  • and her mother deactivates it.

  • Fast-forward and Sara is normal

  • but goes out partying and Marie can't find her.

  • Marie begins to monitor her again

  • and finds out about her coke dealer boyfriend, Trick.

  • She threatens him and slips Sara a birth control pill.

  • Sara finds she was monitored this whole time

  • and beats her pixelated face in and runs away.

  • Rob and Mia kill a cyclist on the road.

  • They ditch his body and years later,

  • Rob tracks her down,

  • saying he's going to come clean about the crime.

  • Mia kills him while at the same time,

  • a pizza truck hits a pedestrian outside of her window.

  • When the pedestrian files his insurance claim,

  • investigators access memories of witnesses

  • and Mia is questioned.

  • When Shazia, the investigator, sees the murder

  • from Mia's memory, Mia kills her

  • and drives all the way to Shazia's home

  • and kills her family.

  • Police reveal upon investigating that the baby was blind.

  • Frank and Amy are set up on a date

  • by a matchmaking system

  • that only allows them 12 hours together.

  • They spend the night and go their separate ways.

  • Both critical of the AI's matchmaking,

  • they quickly assign their next dates

  • which lead to long, painful relationships

  • and short, shallow ones.

  • The two are eventually paired up again

  • and agree not to check their expiration date

  • but Frank does and they break up.

  • Amy's ultimate match is calculated

  • and as a last farewell, the two meet for dinner,

  • and climb the walls and find

  • it was all a simulated dating app.

  • Bella and her friends attempt to retrieve

  • a mysterious box to help their sick friend Jack

  • but are attacked by a mechanical guard dog.

  • It chases after Bella but she manages

  • to drain its battery while stuck in a tree.

  • Bella breaks into a house to steal supplies

  • but the dog catches up and though she blinds it

  • with paint, the dog's shrapnel shoots her

  • with a tracking device.

  • She destroys the dog but when she notices

  • she's been tagged, she sends a goodbye

  • to her loved ones and kills herself.

  • The mysterious box contained teddy bears.

  • Nish visits a museum where owner Rolo Haynes

  • explains in his past how he pioneered

  • a neurological implant for Dr. Peter Dawson

  • to feel what his patients felt.

  • Dawson experiences death and becomes addicted

  • to pain and killing others,

  • eventually becoming comatose.

  • Moving on, Rolo explains the story

  • of a stuffed monkey that came from a man

  • named Jack whose wife Carrie was in a coma.

  • Rolo implants Carrie into Jack's brain

  • and eventually the monkey.

  • Rollo shows Nish a conscious hologram

  • of a controversially convicted killer.

  • He explains how he swindled the rights

  • of the prisoner and allows museum-goers

  • to activate the electric chair.

  • Nish reveals that she is prisoner's daughter

  • and has poisoned Rolo, swaps his subconscious

  • with her father's, and with the help

  • of her mother's conscious, frees her father

  • while leaving Rolo in eternal agony.

  • And that is the story of Black Mirror, Season Four.

  • (mysterious music)

- [Man] This is the story of Black Mirror,

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