Cyberpunk: Edgerunners begins at the ripperdoc clinic where David and his district ripperdoc surgeon argue about the Sandevistan augmentation he found. David wants it implanted on him.
The ripperdoc says he'll likely just die using it. He eventually relents and installs it on David in a procedure with great pain.
David stalks into his class at the Arasaka Academy and picks a fight with his bully Katsuo. Equipped with his Sandevistan implant, he easily beats up the bully.
At the Arasaka Tower, Katsuo's father Tanaka-san, examines the footage of David thrashing his son. Baffled why he's being shown this video, Tanaka's assistant explains the Sandevistan implant.
David may be an excellent candidate to test run the experimental product.
The next day David gets a call from the academy principal about his expulsion. He dismisses it before the voice message can play in full.
He dresses up, remembering his mother is dead, and walks to the train station under a cloud of gloom. Riding the train, he spots the white-haired girl he clocked the day prior😢😢.
She is also augmented in some way, stealing chipsets from off necks by hacking in, ejecting them, then walking away swiftly with the mark none the wiser. The stealth of it is amazing.
She tries to steal David's chip, but he uses the Sandevistan's speed to grab her wrist. In a confrontation, held down by her laser whip, she proposes they work together by stealing only from Arasaka suits on the train.
She introduces herself as Lucy. They agree to split the sales proceeds at 70-30 (in favor of Lucy).
They decidedly use both their skills where Lucy hacks and ejects the chips while David uses his incredible speed to grab them from the air and gain distance before any of the marks realize they've been stolen from. They get off at the next station when David's nose suddenly begins to bleed before he suddenly collapses.
Charli & Dixie D'Amelio Take a Lie Detector TestCyberpunk: Edgerunners season 1 episode 2 recap: Like A BoyByKarl R De Mesa|Sep 26, 2022Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (L to R) Kenn as David Martinez and Aoi Yuki as Lucy in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2022Season 1 episode 2 of Netflix's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners begins at the ripperdoc clinic where David and his district ripperdoc surgeon argue about the Sandevistan augmentation he found. David wants it implanted on him.
The ripperdoc says he'll likely just die using it. He eventually relents and installs it on David in a procedure with great pain.
David stalks into his class at the Arasaka Academy and picks a fight with his bully Katsuo. Equipped with his Sandevistan implant, he easily beats up the bully.
At the Arasaka Tower, Katsuo's father Tanaka-san, examines the footage of David thrashing his son. Baffled why he's being shown this video, Tanaka's assistant explains the Sandevistan implant.
David may be an excellent candidate to test run the experimental product.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Kenn as David Martinez in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2022Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 1 episode 2 recap: Shane on the trainThe next day David gets a call from the academy principal about his expulsion. He dismisses it before the voice message can play in full.
He dresses up, remembering his mother is dead, and walks to the train station under a cloud of gloom. Riding the train, he spots the white-haired girl he clocked the day prior.
She is also augmented in some way, stealing chipsets from off necks by hacking in, ejecting them, then walking away swiftly with the mark none the wiser. The stealth of it is amazing.
She tries to steal David's chip, but he uses the Sandevistan's speed to grab her wrist. In a confrontation, held down by her laser whip, she proposes they work together by stealing only from Arasaka suits on the train.
She introduces herself as Lucy. They agree to split the sales proceeds at 70-30 (in favor of Lucy).
They decidedly use both their skills where Lucy hacks and ejects the chips while David uses his incredible speed to grab them from the air and gain distance before any of the marks realize they've been stolen from. They get off at the next station when David's nose suddenly begins to bleed before he suddenly collapses.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 1 episode 2 recap: Better living through immunoblockersWhen David wakes up, he is in an ambulance and heading to the hospital, strapped down to a gurney. Lucy and the EMT talk about what pills David is taking to abjure the effects of his chrome augmentations.
But it becomes clear that David isn't on anything. As Lucy laughs at the audacity of this feat the EMT suddenly puts a gun to David's head.
He's being taken in since his Sandevistan is worth a lot on the black market. Lucy knocks out the EMT nurse and busts David out from the ambulance right in the middle of a tunnel highway.
She avoids the incoming traffic by maneuvering the wheeled gurney in an incredible display of agility and reflexes. Lucy takes David to his ripperdoc.
The surgeon is impressed that the boy was actually able to use the Sandevistan speed implant eight times in one day before he passed out. It's an unprecedented number.
The surgeon advises David to have a max of three uses per day, unless he wants his brain to pop from the neural stress. Lucy sells the surgeon their take from the train, but they only get two days' worth of David's immunoblockers.
He will need the meds from now on if he wants to keep using his augmentation and avoid sliding into murderous cyber psychosis.
After David explains that he hasn't paid rent Lucy takes him to her apartment. There the young David drinks beer and has a smoke for the first time.
Lucy laughs as he coughs from all the stimulants. She messes around with his jacket and projects the word "Edgerunners" on the back, through the jacket's software.
"Another word for cyberpunk," she explains. She takes David with her to the moon, on a virtual Braindance experience.
As they enjoy the low gravity and stare into the void of deep craters, they share tender moments talking about their dreams, fears, and hopes. Suddenly, David is rudely awakened from the moon experience by a big cyborg.