Once you understand where Crocodile is heading, its already too late.
But itsBlack Mirror, so everyone pretty much assumed that anyway.
Shes tortured and vulnerable, but more than anything, shes a person of conviction.
Credit: Netflix
Thankfully, I mean that in more ways than once.
Seriously, Netflix should send a self-driving bar cart to the homes of whoever makes it through this episode.
Thanks to Realm insurance and their Recallers, everyones recollection is potential evidence to a crime.
And thats the first big red herring of the episode.
Crocodile doesnt end up saying much about memories and their relation to some idea of an objective truth.
The technology here is the means to another end and a different message entirely.
The welcome features her name surrounded by the expanding circles of water repeatedly struck by falling droplets.
Because of the Recaller technology, no ones experiences are their own.
They happen while were surrounded by people, who then form their own memories.
Its so rare that anything we do in modern life happens in isolation.
Our actions may only affect ourselves or someone near us, but they can belong to anyone.
The way the first two murders work demonstrates the difference.
Broadly speaking, Mias actions are the same.
No outside parties witnessed either murder, and she made a clean disposal of the body.
And she would have gotten away with it, if it werent for that meddling self-driving pizza truck.
(Thats definitely happening soon, right?)
The two murders are also connected in how theyre eventually dredged up: guilt.
Whats different is how willfully the admissions happen and the extent of the fallout.
I might go draw a bath to think it over…after locking up the toolbox first.
