Strange Days
Genre: Sci-Fi/Noir
Executive Producer: Julia Docournau
Writer: Chad Taylor
Based on the 1995 film
Season 1 Episode 6 - December 30, 2029
Cast:
Zoe Kravitz .... Ozzi Tilden (Regular)
Boyd Holbrook .... Digger (Regular)
Victor Rasuk .... Luis (Recurring)
David Arquette .... Tick (Recurring)
James Woods .... Senator Jack O'Fallon (Guest)
Jamey Sheridan .... John Doe/Phil Windt (Recurring)
Don Swayze .... Chief Phegley (Regular)
Mark O'Brien .... Officer Mandrake (Regular)
Eve Hewson .... Gwen Donaldson (Guest)
Ben Feldman .... Len (Guest)
Aimee Lou Wood .... Ellen (Regular)
OPENING CREDITS SONG: "Ivory (Rework)" - MOVEMENT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15u92C9pxg
Plot: It’s 12:01am on the West Coast. Ozzi (Zoe Kravitz) and Luis (Victor Rasuk) are having an intense conversation that is teetering on a fight. Luis says that he is heartbroken for her over Sian’s loss but he is worried she is becoming too consumed in trying to play detective. She apologizes to him and knows she has been distant the last few days. She explains to him the tape and thus why she feels on the verge of making a breakthrough in discovering the truth. He asks her more about the technology and why he has never heard about it and she finds herself unable to explain. She comes to a realization and says she has to go. He drops his head in anguish but she kisses him and says he just led her to where she needs to go.
Ozzi tries to contact Digger but can’t get ahold of him. We briefly see his dead phone sitting nearby Ellen (Aimee Lou Wood). Ozzi goes instead to Tick (David Arquette), who is surprised to see her. She says that this case is driving her to the edge and she remembered that Digger described Tick as a Playback expert. He seems a bit embarrassed but confirms that he is. She asks him what he knows about the history of the technology. Why was it relegated to the black market?
Tick says that it is complicated. A series of flashbacks start as Tick describes to her what he knows. Playback was started by Silicon Valley prodigy Gwen Donaldson (Eve Hewson) 12 years ago. Gwen saw vast potential in the neural-linking technology. Sure, it quickly became associated with things like pornography, as most new technologies do. But there were many benefits to re-creating full sensory experiences. Tick asks Ozzi if Digger ever told her how they met. She shakes her head. Tick says that he has been in a wheelchair nearly his entire life. A while back, he and Digger lived in the same apartment complex. When Digger first got into Playback dealing, the first person he went to was Tick because he knew what this technology could provide him with the experiences that he could not have otherwise, physically. And that’s why his life has become to devoted to the defunct technology ever since.
He returns to his story and says that those were the type of goals that Gwen had for the technology. But it soon became embroiled in a political tug-of-war. The main issue is that one side of the aisle wanted the technology to become mandatory for all members of law enforcement to wear so they could be held fully accountable for their actions. The police unions lobbied hard against this and their loudest supporter in Congress was Senator Jack O’Fallon (James Woods), a charismatic career politician who knew how to play the game. Tick breaks again to say that he has heard rumors that O’Fallon is a fervent Playback user himself to this day, which is a bit ironic.
Ozzi asks whatever happened with that case. Tick says it was derailed when Gwen was arrested for running a Ponzi scheme on investors. Playback fizzled out, never hit the shelves, but the technology still remained and so it found its way to inner-city Los Angeles. He stops his story there and says he should be getting to bed — and by the looks of it, she should be too. She thanks him for his help. She then decides to leave the Sian tape with him because things could get dicey for her the next few days.
In the morning, Ozzi immediately begins investigating further into Gwen Donaldson and finds that she committed suicide before starting her prison sentence. She digs even more into the case and finds interviews with Gwen’s husband who is adamant that his wife was framed. Ozzi is interrupted by an e-mail inviting her to Sian’s funeral tomorrow, New Year’s Eve.
Ozzi pays a visit to the home of Gwen’s widower, Len (Ben Feldman). When he hears she is hear to talk about Gwen’s death, he declines. She then says she is curious to hear more about why he thinks it was a set-up. Len is now more open to talking. He says that she was Sianing to go against some powerful people, people with the power to cover up crimes big and small. Ozzi nods, this all sounding familiar to Sian’s case. He says that he hired a private investigator after her death and the P.I. gave him a name: Phil Windt. Apparently Windt is some kind of fixer for the LAPD. But the leads ran cold from there. Ozzi thanks him for his time and says she is sorry for his loss.
When Ozzi gets home, she takes a deep breath before searching Phil Windt. A look of twisted relief appears on her face Phil Windt is John Doe (Jamey Sheridan). The last piece of the puzzle. As her eyes scan through more of the results, her stomach drops. From years earlier, Windt is pictured with his family, including his son: Colin Windt (Boyd Holbrook).
Mid-Credits: Senator Jack O’Fallon paces his office, clearly irritated. He is on the phone with Chief Phegley (Don Swayze). O’Fallon says he has heard rumors that a young woman has been poking her nose into business that she shouldn’t be. He says he thought Phegley has everything dealt with. Phegley says he thought he did, giving a glare to Officer Mandrake (Mark O'Brien). O’Fallon says good, or else he Sian have to once again have to take things into his own hands.
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