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Netflix

**Netflix Inc** is an American media-services provider and production company. It is the current streaming platform for the *Altered Carbon* television series and anime film.

## Background

Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. It initially specialized in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail. In 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production as well as online distribution.

Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental, although Hastings jettisoned DVD sales about a year after Netflix's founding to focus on the DVD rental by mail business. In 2007, Netflix expanded its business with the introduction of streaming media, while retaining the DVD and Blu-ray rental service. The company expanded internationally, with streaming made available to Canada in 2010 and continued growing its streaming service from there; by January 2016, Netflix services operated in over 190 countries.

Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2013, debuting its first series, *House of Cards*. It has greatly expanded the production of both film and television series since then, offering "Netflix Original" content through its online library of films and television. Netflix released an estimated 126 original series or films in 2016, more than any other network or cable channel.

## Altered Carbon

In 2017, Netflix confirmed its television adaptation of the *Altered Carbon* book series. The first season aired in its entirety on February 2, 2018.

The series was renewed by Netflix for a second season on December 14, 2018. The second season aired on February 27, 2020. *Altered Carbon* and greenlit its first and second seasons.

Netflix later greenlit an Anime spin-off film of the series, *Altered Carbon: Resleeved*. It was released on March 19, 2020.
Vernon Elliot

**Vernon Elliot** is the husband of Ava Elliot, and the father of Lizzie Elliot. He sent a threatening message to Laurens Bancroft which led Takeshi Kovacs to suspect him as a potential perpetrator in Bancroft's murder.

## Biography

### Background

Vernon Elliot served as a medic in the CTAC Marines. At some point, he married Ava and had a daughter, Lizzie.

### Throughout the series

* Season One

In order to find the person responsible for killing Laurens Bancroft, Envoy Takeshi Kovacs examines various death threats sent to Bancroft, and finds Vernon using the serial number on his service rifle. After a lengthy fight and discovering that Vernon's daughter Lizzie is trapped in the virtual world, Takeshi convinces Vernon that he is not an enemy and offers to help the Elliots in exchange for Vernon's assistance on the Bancroft case. Vernon reluctantly agrees, but asserts that he and Takeshi are not allies.

Vernon later agrees to have Lizzie take therapy lessons from Poe in exchange for being Takeshi's wingman. He helps Takeshi buy weapons and get in touch with contacts to help him defeat their enemies.

## Personality

Vernon is a loving husband and father first and foremost and will do whatever it takes to save and protect his family. He has a deep-seated hatred for Laurens Bancroft and meths in general, holding them responsible for imprisoning his wife and driving his daughter to madness.

Following his efforts to aid Lizzie and his role in reuniting Vernon and his wife, Vernon displays a high level of loyalty to Kovacs, as shown when Elliot joins Kovacs' plan to take down Reileen.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One
* Season Two

* Fallen Angel
* In a Lonely Place
* Force of Evil
* The Wrong Man
* Man with My Face
* Clash by Night
* Rage in Heaven
* The Killers

- Nightmare Alley
Holly Togram

**Holly Togram** was the tattoo artist for The Yakuza clan. When she discovered the coup plans of Shinji, he tried to have her killed. However, Takeshi Kovacs—under the alias of Ken—and Gena protected her from the Tech Ninjas.

Her real name is **Margot** and she is the one that invented the tattoo program by Mizumoto syndicate's founder idea. She was using Mizumoto syndicate's help to look for her parents stacks.

## Biography

Holly was running from the yakuza, wanting to leave the planet, but as she got attacked by ninjas, she was saved by Takeshi. A bit later, she escaped from Takeshi, but ran into Gena of UN's CTAC, but again she got attacked by ninjas. When Takeshi and Gena killed the ninjas, she revealed they were sent by Shinji, who was planning a coup in Mizumoto syndicate.

They took her back to Mizumoto syndicate's headquarters, the Wild Geese hotel, where she continued to work on Shinji's took preparing for his succession. A day before the succession, another ninja attack occurred, but this time with Ogai's help, they survived the attack.

On the day of succession, after a blackout, Holly disappeared. She went with Genzo to Shinji, where she drugged Shinji as they were preparing for earlier succession. Genzo was the Founder of the syndicate, who was being transferred to the successor body little before the succession occurs and the one dying from the tattoo program was already empty body. She deleted Shinji's stack and transferred Genzo's in it. She tried to activate the destruction program on Shinji's body to kill the Founder, but he caught her. Holly revealed that Gena had found evidence that the Founder had been keeping her parents stacks. The founder then took out two stacks and destroyed them.

When Takeshi and Gena came and fought the Founder, Holly asked Ogai for help, but he couldn't do it as Shinji was the new boss, but after Tanaseda's information Ogai realized who Shinji was and attacked him. In the end Takeshi managed to defeat the Founder and Holly activated the destruction tattoo program.

As they bid farewell, Ogai revealed Holly was Margot, the one who invented the tattoo program and asked her if she wants to change her sleeve as usual as she was getting taller, but Holly decided to remain in this one, so that one day Takeshi and Gena can recognize her.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Comic Natalie - Tatsuo Suzuki, Rina Sato, etc., character deza is Yasuo Otagaki in the anime "Altered Carbon"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Altered Carbon: Resleeved | Official Trailer | Netflix on Youtube
The Yakuza

Tak fights Yakuza henchmen at a hotel

**The Yakuza** is a criminal organization originating on Earth.

## In the Books

In the books, the Yakuza employed Reileen Kawahara (TV) as an enforcer, where she would pour radioactive water down their throats of the Yakuza's enemies.

## TV Series

In the TV series, the Yakuza seem to operate primarily on Harlan's World, with Tanaseda Hideki (a founder of Harlan's World) as their leader. After Takeshi Kovacs (Books) killed his father, Jaeger promised to find a good home for his sister Reileen, but instead, he sold her to the Yakuza.

At some point after this, another Yakuza boss acted in such a manner as to incur the wrath of the U.N.I.P., who dispatched C.T.A.C. to dispatch him. It was here that Tak found out about his sister and turned on C.T.A.C.

After the destruction of Stronghold by C.T.A.C., Tak worked for the Yakuza and Tanaseda Hideki in particular. After one particular mission, Tak stayed at a Yakuza run hotel.

When Tak and Poe return to the hotel in 2414, they find that the same hotel is been used by Yakuza henchmen as a drugs lab.
AI Management Union

The **AI Management Union** – formerly known as the **AI Hotel Union** – is an organization of Artificial Intelligences. Originally they were all hotel managers, but many have since branched out into other businesses.

## Known members

* Poe – proprietor of The Raven Hotel
* Hank
* Dick – proprietor of Prick Up
* Maddy- manager of Fightdrome
* Carla
* Owen – turned hotel into a music hall
* Rodney – opened a strip club and now calls himself "Z-Rod"
Alazne Ortega

**Alazne Ortega** is Kristin Ortega's mother. She is a Neo-Catholic and is upset that her daughter renounced her religious coding after Francicso Ortega was killed. Alazne fears for Kristin's soul and tries to persuade her to go back to Neo-Catholicism.

## Biography

Alazne was married at one point to Franciso, on officer with the Bay City Police Department. Her daughter Kristin followed her father onto the force. Alazne had a relationship with Samir Abboud.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* Fallen Angel
* Force of Evil
* The Wrong Man
* Man with My Face
* Rage in Heaven
* The Killers
Human

**Humans** (***Homo sapiens***) are a species of highly intelligent primates. They are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina and—together with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans—are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes, or *hominids*). Humans are terrestrial animals, characterized by their erect posture and bipedal locomotion; high manual dexterity and heavy tool use compared to other animals; open-ended and complex language use compared to other animal communications; larger, more complex brains than other primates; and highly advanced and organized societies.

Several early hominins used fire and occupied much of Eurasia. Early modern humans are thought to have diverged in Africa from an earlier hominin around 300,000 years ago, with the earliest fossil evidence of *Homo sapiens* also appearing around 300,000 years ago in Africa. Humans began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity at least by about 100,000–70,000 years ago (and possibly earlier). In several waves of migration, *H. sapiens* ventured out of Africa and populated most of the world. The spread of the large and increasing population of humans has profoundly affected the biosphere and millions of species worldwide. Advantages that explain this evolutionary success include a larger, well-developed brain, which enables advanced abstract reasoning, language, problem solving, sociality, and culture through social learning. Humans use tools more frequently and effectively than any other animal: they are the only extant species to build fires, cook food, clothe themselves, and create and use numerous other technologies and arts.

Humans uniquely use systems of symbolic communication such as language and art to express themselves and exchange ideas and also organize themselves into purposeful groups. Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states. Social interactions between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which together undergird human society. Curiosity and the human desire to understand and influence the environment and to explain and manipulate phenomena (or events) have motivated humanity's development of science, philosophy, mythology, religion, and other fields of knowledge.
Joel Kinnaman

## External Links

**Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman**, professionally known as **Joel Kinnaman**, is a Swedish-American actor who portrays the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs (In Elias Ryker's sleeve) and the original Elias Ryker in the first season of Netflix science fiction series, *Altered Carbon*.

## Credits

### Season One

* Out of the Past
* Fallen Angel
* In a Lonely Place
* Force of Evil
* The Wrong Man
* Man with My Face
* Nora Inu
* Clash by Night
* Rage in Heaven
* The Killers

## Trivia

* Kinnaman signed a one-year deal for the show, as he believed the role of Takeshi Kovacs would be recast in Season Two (if the show follows the books).
* He trained three to five hours a day over six months to get into shape for the show, which included different martial arts, strength, and conditioning so he could do his own stunts.
* Joel and Kristin Lehman co-starred in the crime-drama series The Killing.

## References

<references>

1. ↑ http://www.gamesradar.com/joel-kinnaman-reveals-what-altered-carbon-and-doctor-who-have-in-common/
2. ↑ http://www.slashfilm.com/hanna-tv-show/
3. ↑ http://wwd.com/eye/people/joel-kinnaman-altered-carbon-netflix-11132725/
Things I Should Have Learned by Now

***Things I should Have Learned by Now*** is a multi-volume political treatise by Quellcrist Falconer.

## Notable Quotes and Passages

"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference – the only difference in their eyes – between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal."

"In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda-makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay."
Jakub Kovacs

**Jakub Kovacs** is the father of Takeshi Kovacs and Reileen Kawahara, and the husband of Mother Kovacs. He was abusive towards his wife, and eventually killed her and hid the body. After turning his attention to Reileen, he was killed by Takeshi.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* In a Lonely Place
* Nora Inu
Unidentified trainee (Alcatraz Prison)

An **Unidentified trainee** was a new employee at the Alcatraz Prison. She was one of the meditechs that brought Takeshi Kovacs back from storage, after he had been resleeved at Laurens Bancroft's behest. Coming out of the comatose state, Takeshi began to spasm and lash out. One of the meditech's told the Trainee that this meant that the last sleeve had died violently. Once he had come around, Takeshi demanded a mirror so that he could see his new face. The Trainee handed Kovacs a metal tray and told him that he had been down for two hundred and fifty years, and that they were in Alcatraz Prison in Bay City.

## Personality

She is naive and inexperienced compared to the other meditechs but is concerned for Takeshi Kovacs' wellbeing when he comes out of the comatose and began to spasm.

## Memorable quotes

* "Didn't cover this in the basic briefing."

* "I'm gonna get this shit all over me."
NeoCatholicism

A Cross

**NeoCatholicism**/**Catholicism** is a religious denomination.

In the TV series, not much is known about the religion, but given its name, it is obviously derived from present day Catholicism. Whether or not it is controlled/led by the Papacy in Rome is unknown, but it does seem to follow a present-day Catholic hierarchy (such as having Priests and an Archdiocese). It is opposed to the re-sleeving of individuals into new bodies because it believes this puts the soul at risk of hell. NeoCatholics and many other religious groups apply religious coding to their Cortical Stack which prevents them from being spun up or re-sleeved after sleeve death. Citizens born into this community usually have religious coding applied by their parents as soon as their stack is implanted as a one year old but when they reach legal adulthood they can choose to renounce this coding.

## In the books

In the books, Catholicism is confined to earth, as Takeshi was unaware of what the word 'Catholic' even referred to. In the books, it is not just re-sleeving after death that the Catholic Church is opposed to, but to all forms of technology that removes the human consensus from the body- needlecasting to other planets, use of Synth bodies, the use of clones, re-sleeving from living body to living body etc. In the books, Catholics seem to be the butt of derision by most people and are targets for killers as there is no fear that they will be brought back to testify. It is stated that the Vatican City has funded an interstellar ship to expand to other galaxies.
Stronghold

A view of Stronghold

**Stronghold** is the name given to the hideout used by Quellcrist Falconer as the base of operations for her Uprising against the idea of Meths and the way the U.N.I.P. governed.

It was located in a cave system in a densely wooded area of Harlan's World, near to a beach that Takeshi Kovacs and Reileen played on as children. A massive Songspire Tree grew in the middle of the cave, towrds an opening in the ceiling. It housed several dozen of Quell's followers and their families.

Owing to the betrayal of Reileen, the inhabitants of Stronghold were infected with the Rawling Virus, while the woods around the cave system were firebombed, filling the caves with heavy ash. This lead to the Battle of Stronghold where CTAC wiped out the Envoys.

There was a lower cave system that housed the root system for the Songspire Tree. It was here that Reileen hid the re-sleeved Quell in a "coffin" and tortured her in Virtual reality.
Sarah

**Sarah** is a mercenary and partner of Takeshi Kovacs. She was killed by Jaeger after he arrested Kovacs for treason. Although her Sleeve was fragged, the Cortical Stack was intact. Because of Kovacs' disrespect, Jaeger shot her through the Stack and then blamed the death on Kovacs turning on her.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* Out of the Past
Real Death

**Real death** is when a person truly dies and cannot be brought back by any means. It happens when a cortical stack is destroyed and also the consciousness is not backed up in the Cloud in the satellite array orbiting the Earth.  If the cortical stack is destroyed and not backed up people experience **Real Death**.
Tanaseda Hideki

**Tanaseda Hideki** is a character that appeared in Season Two of *Altered Carbon*. A centuries-old Yakuza boss, Tanaseda controls organized crime on the planet of Harlan's World and shares a history with Takeshi Kovacs.

## Biography

Tanaseda Hideki was part of Konrad Harlan's settlement colony and accompanied him on the expedition that settled Harlan's World. When Konrad and the other founders decided to massacre the unborn Elders, Tanaseda did not join in. He considered the whole ordeal as an act of genocide and a great dishonor on all those who participated, leading to a strained relationship with them.

Over the centuries, Tanaseda came to control the Yakuza and much of the organized crime on Harlan's World and even employed Kovacs.

### Altered Carbon: Resleeved

Tanaseda employed Takeshi to guard Holly Togram and to look into his younger brothers death in the Mizumoto syndicate, which was founded by his father. Takeshi learned that the syndicate had a strong loyalty policy which is earned by following a code in which the boss receives a tattoo and when succession happen the previous boss tattoo activates and kills him along with his stack, resulting in real death. Tanaseda couldn't believe his father would accept death like that and wanted Takeshi to continue investigation.

Speaking later with Takeshi, he mentioned to Tanaseda about the strange laugh that Genzo had and hearing that Tanaseda realized this was his father. After Takeshi obtained confirmation on that, during the succession ceremony of the new boss Shinji, Tanaseda was in the crowd and revealed that his father, the Founder of the Mizumoto syndicate was getting his stack transferred into the new bosses. A bit later when his father was defeated, he went to witness his death and when his tattoo activated, his father begged him for help, but Tanaseda shot both his head and stack.

## Personality

Tanaseda is a very honorable individual. He is also extremely loyal to those who have earned his respect.

## Appearances

* Season Two

* Phantom Lady
* Payment Deferred
* Shadow of a Doubt
* I Wake Up Screaming
* Experiment Perilous

## References

1. ↑ https://deadline.com/2019/02/altered-carbon-renee-elise-goldsberry-chris-conner-return-season-2-simone-missick-dina-shihabi-torben-liebrecht-and-james-saito-cast-1202562457/
Elders

* Skeleton
* Virtual

**Elders**, also known across the galaxy as **Martians**, were an ancient alien species whose society spanned the Milky Way galaxy. They were the native species of the planet known as Harlan's World. When their race was nearly destroyed, several humans known as the Founders came to the planet and carried out a genocide against the remaining (sleeping) Elders.

## History

At one point, these aliens discovered the secrets of interstellar travel and managed to establish a massive and prosperous colonial empire. They once dominated currently human-inhabited space for millennia before the dissolution of their highly advanced civilization.

The improper nickname, *Martian*, was the result of mankind encountering signs of their presence for the first time on Mars. Aside from Sol, there were many worlds and systems which were in their sphere of governance and in which they left multiple artifacts. The discovery of their astrogation charts of habitable worlds in the galaxy as well as new metals and technologies led to the expansion of the human race across multiple worlds in the galaxy and the creation of cortical stacks. It is currently unknown what led to the dissolution of this advanced civilization, or what ultimately became of them.

Konrad Harlan and several other Meths discovered the habitable alien world now known as Harlan's World. However, they were unable to colonize there until it was completely devoid of intelligent alien life. At first, it seemed that the Elders were a long-extinct alien race, but the Founders discovered remnants of life forms existing in tandem with the songspire tree. Impatient to colonize the world, Konrad Harlan massacred the remaining Elders. However, one survived by clinging to the songspire tree's roots.

Centuries later, Quellcrist Falconer was placed in a glass coffin next to the songspire tree roots. Over centuries, the Elder who clung to the tree leeched into Quell's psyche, driving her to take revenge on those who had wronged the Elders; the Founders.

## Legacy

The Elder legacy is one of colonization and technological advancement of humanity - as humans used the remnants of Elder technology to advance through the galaxy.

## Technology

The remnants of the metals and astrogation charts left by this advanced alien civilization launched the expansion of the human race throughout the galaxy through Needlecasting and helped evolve the human species through the development of the Cortical Stack.

## Physical Characteristics

Based on the few skeletal remains seen on screen, as well as the Elder encountered in virtual reality, Elders were an extremely tall race with at least four limbs, two wings sprouting from their shoulders, several eyes, and dark skin. Based on comments made by the Elder sharing Quell's stack, they possessed physical strength much greater than that of humans. They were a very militaristic race.
Lela Loren

## External Links

**Lela Maria Loren Avellaneda Sharp** (born May 7, 1980), known professionally as **Lela Loren**, is an American television actress. She will portray the character of Danica Harlan.

## Credits

* Season Two

* Phantom Lady
* Payment Deferred
* Nightmare Alley
* Shadow of a Doubt
* I Wake Up Screaming
* Bury Me Dead
* Experiment Perilous
* Broken Angels

## Other Works

* CSI: Miami
* CSI: New York
* NCIS
* Lost
Franckie Francois

Franck Fon aka **Franckie Francois** is a Canadian theatre, television, film actor and producer. He portrayed a Reaper named Martin on Supernatural.

Franckie is also a former semi-professional soccer player. He was nominated alongside his cast mates "Best Ensemble in an Independent Theatre Production" in the 2019 Dora Marvel Moore Awards for his portrayal of Judge Littlefield at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario in their award-nominated production of Judas Noir. An adaptation to Stephen Adly Guirgis' play, "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.

## Background

Growing up in Toronto, Franckie started acting at age 21 after a freak injury left him unable to play soccer competitively. He got into acting at the recommendation of peers, and went on to study acting at Humber college for a year before starting classes under the tutelage of Raw studios Founder Sophie Ann Rooney. He has gone on to star in plays like Judas Noir, TV shows like Netflix's Anne with an E, Supernatural, Get Shorty, as well as one of the Leads on an Ensemble cast of web series like How to get Away with Recess and IRL; The series.

## External Links

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7551309/?ref\_=rvi\_nm
Gus

**Gus** is a technician working at Psychasec. He was on duty the night Laurens Bancroft needlecast back from Osaka after closing a deal. Since this occurred six hours before Bancroft's death, Takeshi Kovacs questioned Gus on the events of the night. Kristin Ortega once picked him up for a misdemeanour sleeve-jacking in Licktown and use this information to pressure him into getting her access to Reileen Kawahara's clone vault at Psychasec.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* Fallen Angel
* Clash by Night
Oumou Prescott

**Oumou Prescott** is the lawyer retained by the Bancroft family. She is engaged to liaise with the Bay City Police Department and other "lower" individuals for her employers, including Takeshi Kovacs.

## Biography

### Background

Not much is revealed about Prescott, except that she is not a Meth, but rather a ground-born, having attended law school. Sometime before Kovacs was thawed out, she became the family attorney and business colleague of the Bancrofts.

When Miriam Bancroft attacked and brutally beat up Lizzie Elliot after she revealed she is pregnant with Laurens Bancroft's child, causing her to miscarry, Prescott contacted Reileen Kawahara and had Lizzie tortured to insanity at the Wei Clinic, causing her to become severely traumatized from the experience.

### Throughout the series

Prescott is first introduced in Fallen Angel, where she walks into Kovacs' room (with Poe mistakenly assuming that she is a prostitute). After sizing up naked Kovacs, she informs him of her status and leads him to Psychasec, where she meets with Laurens and Miriam.

* Season One

## Personality

Prescott, being a ground-born and not a Meth, is vary of her past on Earth. Her biggest wish is to become one of them, showing how subservient and sycopanthic she is to the Bancroft family.

Simultaneously, she is very condescending and downright rude towards anyone whom she deems unworthy of her, shown mostly with Tanaka, Kristin Ortega (TV) and Takeshi Kovacs. Her innate desire to become a member of high society comes from her shame of being ground-born (even though not much of her past has been given), shown when she looks at Tanaka with scorn when he calls her "ground born" and that she'll "never be one of them."

After being framed by Kovacs for attempting to murder Bancroft, and ostracized from the rest of the Meths, she has a change of heart and decides to help Tanaka by revealing what happened to Lizzie Elliot, thereby revealing Miriam Bancroft (TV)'s own crimes.

## Trivia

* In "Fallen Angel", Prescott is shown to have another three known sleeves during her entry to Psychasec.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* Fallen Angel
* In a Lonely Place
* Man with My Face
* Clash by Night
* The Killers
Richard K. Morgan

### *Takeshi Kovacs* novels

* *Altered Carbon* (2002)
* *Broken Angles* (2003)
* *Woken Furies* **(**2005)

### *A Land Fit For Heroes* novels

* *The Steel Remains* (2008)

* *The Gold Commands* (2011)
* *The Dark Defiles* (2014)

### *Other novels*

* *Market Forces* (2004)
* *Black Man* (2007)

### Graphic novels

* *Black Widow: Homecoming* (2005)
* *Black Widow: The Things They Say About Her* (2006)

### Video Games

* *Crysis 2* (2011)
* *Syndicate* (2012)
* *A Land Fit For Heroes* (2015)
Yavor Asenov

**Yavor Asenov** is a digital compositor on *Altered Carbon*.

## Other work

* *The Expendables*
* *Conan the Barbarian*
* *The Expendables 2*
* *The Legend of Hercules*
* *The Gambler*
* *Into the Woods*
* *Kingsman: The Secret Service*
* *The Circle*
* *The Martian*
* *The Get Down*
* *Black Sails*
* *Alien: Covenant*
* *It*
* *Goodbye Christopher Robin*
* *Christopher Robin*
* *The Innocents*
* *Robin Hood*
* *Captive State*
Rawling Virus

Rawling is a computer virus that attacks a person's Cortical Stack as well as AI's. It corrupts the information stored in both, making them useless. If a person hasn't backed up their Stack, they are lost. Rawling can even infect offsite backups of a Stack if a Stack is infected during backup. If a Stack is infected while in a living person, it drives the person insane. It also drives AI's insane before it melts their cores.

## Used

* It was used against the AI, Dick, in order to convince Laurens Bancroft that he committed suicide due to his own stack's having been infected.
* Used by C.T.A.C. against the occupants of Stronghold, in order to secure a win in the Battle of Stronghold.

## Appearances

Books

* Altered Carbon (novel)

TV

* Episode 107 Nora Inu
* Episode 108 Clash by Night
* Episode 109 Rage in Heaven
Hayley Law

## External Links

**Hayley Law** is a Canadian actor and singer. Before playing the role of Lizzie Elliot in *Altered Carbon*, she had a recurring role on Comic Book Based Drama, Riverdale.

## Credits

### Season One

* Fallen Angel
* In a Lonely Place
* Man with My Face
* Clash by Night
* Rage in Heaven
* The Killers

### Season Two

* Shadow of a Doubt
* I Wake Up Screaming
* Broken Angels
Tech Ninjas

**Tech Ninjas** were the mercenary group Shinji was in charge of. They all used enhanced sleeves according to CTAC. Their goal was to kill The Yakuza's tattoo artist Holly Togram, who discovered Shinji will make a coup attempt in the Yakuza. Their known engagements were attacking Ken (also known as Takeshi Kovacs), Holly, Reileen Kawahara and several CTAC soldiers in an alley and storming into Yakuza clan compound.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Altered Carbon: Resleeved | Official Trailer | Netflix on Youtube
Latimer

**Latimer** is a habitable planet controlled by the UN, with a significant part being controlled by the Mizumoto Syndicate. In 2131, a major conflict between the syndicate, the CTAC and Takeshi Kovacs over the girl Holly Togram took place on the planet.

Latimer seemed identical to Earth from space, with the difference that its landmasses were a little bigger. The planet's surface was covered in urban areas with architectural characteristics similar to the metropolitan cities of Tokyo and Shanghai, but it also appeared to have temples with Japanese aesthetics along with bridges similar to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. As touched on above, at least one large city on the planet was controlled by the Mizumoto Syndicate, led by Shinji and Genzo, but the planet in general appeared to be a holding of the UN.

## Locations

* The Wild Geese (The oldest luxury hotel on Latimer and the Mizumoto Syndicate's headquarters, run by the Yakuza's AI butler Ogai).

## Trivia

* Its name is often mispelled as "Latimar."
* It is the primary setting of Altered Carbon: Resleeved.
Dina Shihabi

## Early Life and Career

Shihabi was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was raised in Saudi Arabia, Beirut, and Dubai. Her family is of Arab and European origin. She described her multi-ethnic background as such: "I consider myself Arab European because my father Ali Shihabi is half-Saudi, half-Norwegian, and my mom Nadia is half-Palestinian, half-German and Haitian, but raised in France." She stated that she enjoyed watching films from an early age. Shihabi's father is a commentator on Saudi politics and former banker. He was the chairman of Saudi Hollandi Bank.

**Dina Shihabi** plays the role of Dig 301 in the second season of the Netflix science fiction, Altered Carbon.

## Personal life

Since July 2022, Dina Shihabi started dating Australian actor ***Jai Courtney***, whom she met on the set of the film "Catching dust" in June 2022. In May 2023, their first child (daughter) was born.

## Credits

* Season Two

* Phantom Lady\*
* Payment Deferred\*
* Nightmare Alley
* Shadow of a Doubt
* I Wake Up Screaming
* Bury Me Dead\*
* Experiment Perilous
* Broken Angels

\* Credits Only. Did not appear in the episode.
Unidentified woman (prison)

An **unidentified woman** was an inmate of the Alcatraz Prison in Bay City. A six year old girl named Cindy was resleeved into the woman's body, after the young girl was killed in a hit and run. This process was called "victim restitution". When the resleeved Cindy met her parents in the prison lobby, they were shocked. Her parents had expected a younger body closer to Cindy's age. They were told by a security guard that the woman's sleeve was free, if they didn't like Cindy's new body they could pay for an upgrade or put her back into storage.
Takeshi Kovacs (Books)

## Takeshi Kovacs

**Takeshi Lev Kovacs** (Nickname: **Tak**) is a citizen of Harlan's World and former Envoy. Kovacs is of Japanese and Eastern-European descent, and was a teenage gang member before enlisting in the UN Marine Corps. After leaving the Envoy Corps, Kovacs returned to criminal life and became a mercenary, and was eventually imprisoned, his Cortical stack stored without a body for decades at a time as punishment before being paroled or hired out to work high-risk situations.

## Early life

Kovacs born to a poor family in the largely Eastern European slums of Newpest on Harlan's World. Kovacs was largely raised by his mother, his father having left the family when he was still a child. At 15 he was first arrested for minor organic damage to a police officer, a year later he killed his first man after joining the gang *Shonagon's Eleven.*

## Military career

After turning 17, Kovacs joined the UN Protectorate forces. After serving for seven years he was selected for the Envoy corps where he was trained by Virginia Vidaura and experienced his first resleeving into a new body. Six years after joining the Envoy corps, Kovacs was deployed to Sharya, a human colony experiencing an extremely brutal uprising by the planet's Muslim population. Kovacs was forever changed after the disaster at the Innenin beachhead on Sharya, where a Rawlings Virus strike drove his friend Jimmy DeSoto to madness. Kovacs was later suspected of the brutal murder of the Envoy commander-in-chief General MacIntyre, however his involvement was never proven.

## Post-Envoy life

A year after Innenin, Kovacs left the Envoys, briefly staying on New Kanagawa where he last saw Virgina Vidaura at a local justice facility being taken down for 80-100 years for robbery and organic damage.

## Earth and Investigating the Bancroft Murder

Kovacs solves the mystery of Laurens Bancroft's murder.

## Sanction IV

Kovacs helps to discover a portal to a Martian Starship in solar orbit.
Albena Ivanova

**Albena Ivanova** is a visual effects artist on Altered Carbon.

## Other work

* *Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace*
* *Rambo*
* *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1*
* *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2*
* *Wrath of the Titans*
* *Dredd*
* *World War Z*
* *The Amazing Spider-Man 2*
* *Maleficent*
* *Edge of Tomorrow*
* *The Gambler*
* *Seventh Son*
* *The Martian*
* *The Get Down*
* *Passengers*
* *Kingsman: The Golden Circle*
* *Mute*
Renee Elise Goldsberry

## External Links

**Renee Elise Goldsberry** was born in San Jose, California on January 2, 1971, and raised in both Houston, Texas, and Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a bachelor's degree in acting, and went on to attend graduate school at the University of Southern California, where she received her masters in vocal jazz performance.

## Credits

* Season One
* Season Two

* Out of the Past
* Fallen Angel
* In a Lonely Place
* Force of Evil
* The Wrong Man\*
* Man with My Face
* Nora Inu
* Clash by Night
* Rage in Heaven
* The Killers

<nowiki>\* Credit Only

* Phantom Lady
* Payment Deferred
* Nightmare Alley
* Shadow of a Doubt
* I Wake Up Screaming
* Bury Me Dead
* Experiment Perilous
* Broken Angels

### Other Works

She has worked in numerous Broadway plays, including a production of Disney's
*The Lion King* in 2003 (as "Nala"). She closed the role of "Mimi Marques" in the original Broadway production of *Rent* (2008) and originated the role of Angelica Schuyler (in "*Hamilton*" from 2015-2016). She also appears in the daytime
drama One Life to Live (1968) as the determined lawyer Evangeline Williamson. She has worked with household names such as Oprah Winfrey in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) and Cate Blanchett in The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018).
Quellism

**Quellism** is the political theory created by Quellcrist Falconer for the establishment of a hi-tech social democracy, having elements of socialism and anarchism. Quellism was an expression of Quell's exasperation with both the inherent self-serving, elitist, corruption of right-wing politics and the back-biting, self-absorption of the left. Quellism takes many tenets from ancient anarchist thinkers such as Proudhon and Bakunin, however Quell modified these principles to create a practical post-revolutionary ideology, grounded in a clear understanding of human foibles, checks and balances, and necessary social systems.
Sharya

**Sharya** is a planet mentioned in the first Altered Carbon book by Takeshi Kovacs.

Not much information is given about it, except the infamy that its religious police possess, due to their brutality.

## Trivia

* Due to the descriptions that Takeshi gives about the planet, in addition to the reference itself in the name **Sharya** *(which is very similar to that of the Sharia)* it's very likely, that this planet was colonized by people of Arab origin or Islamic followers. But at no time is it specified whether Arabs/Islamic people are the entire population of the planet or simply the majority.
ONI

**Online Network Interface** aka **ONI** is a device inserted into sleeves and controlled from a wristband, tablet, or watch. ONI can be used to upload data, look at pictures, such as pornography, take a photograph, watch a video, record video, and open an AI directory. ONI does not work on the AI directory when an individual has a Broadcast Blocker installed. ONI cannot detect people if their stack is coded to not show their identity like Mister Leung.
Experiment Perilous

### IMDb

**"Experiment Perilous"** is the seventh episode of Season Two of Netflix's *Altered Carbon*. It aired on February 27, 2020, along with the remainder of the second season.

## Promotional Synopsis

When Quell's sleeve begins to shut down, Poe and Ms. Dig send her into VR, where Kovacs finally learns the truth about her deadly rampages.

## Cast

### Starring

* Anthony Mackie as Takeshi Kovacs
* Lela Loren as Danica Harlan
* Simone Missick as Trepp
* Chris Conner as Poe
* Dina Shihabi as Dig 301
* Torben Liebrecht as Jaeger

### Guest starring

* Renée Elise Goldsberry as Quellcrist Falconer
* Neal McDonough as Konrad Harlan
* James Saito as Tanaseda Hideki
* David Cubitt as Dugan
* Michael Shanks as Horace Axley
* Sharon Taylor as Myka
* Oliver Rice as Mattias Stone
* Victor Zinck Jr. as Anton Durov
* Kevan Ohtsji as Haruki Okada
* Mark Acheson as Gertie the Fence
* Orlando Lucas as TJ
* Kareem Tristan Alleyneas Anil Imani
Mister Leung

**Mister Leung** serves Reileen Kawahara as her personal enforcer and hitman. He believes that those who use Cortical Stacks to achieve immortality are divine, and devotes himself to furthering their cause. Mister Leung has a technology that allows him to erase his presence from all forms of electronic surveillance, leading to him being dubbed the "Ghostwalker."

## Personality

Leung is a pious psychopath. Unlike Dimi the Twin, he genuinely believes that everything he does is in service to a higher power, with a tendency to ask others if they feel the same way. He is unflinchingly loyal to Reileen Kawahara and is not above murdering entire families (including children) to fulfill her interests.

Leung reveres Reileen, seeing her as a god-like figure. He is in complete, voluntary servitude with her, and obeys her every command without questioning, no matter the brutality.

Despite his small frame, Leung is a dangerous foe with advanced martial art skills, heightened reflexes and advanced reaction times. He can easily defeat enemies much larger in size. His calm manner and unflinching personality allow him to keep sharp focus on his objectives, such as infiltrating a police station.

Leung, whether with friend or foe, converses with a person in an eloquent, cordial (not friendly) manner, and unlike other characters, speaks with almost bordering on Sesquipedelian tone of speech, frequently using allegories to better describe a current event. He is at odds with Kovacs, who mocks and is disgusted with his subservient, fanatical servitude with his sister, Rei, as well as his abhorrent crimes.

However, despite his calm, sardonic exterior, Leung is an undiluted, violent psychopath. He willingly slaughtered multiple police officers and even RD'd Kirstin's friend and mentor Samir Abboud. He also murdered Kirstin's entire family, including her young nephews, and when trapping her in a VR construct, tortured her by forcing her to relive their deaths over and over again, erasing her memory whenever there is a new loop.

However, despite all this, Leung is shown to be a coward. When Ortega immobilized him by breaking his ankle by squeezing his leg with her titanium arm, Leung panicked and tried to flee. When she knocked him on the ground, begging for mercy and terrified of death, despite her rage and hate-fueled vendetta.

## Memorable quotes

*"Are you a believer?"*

*"Fuck You."*

## Trivia

* Mister Leung uses a weapon called the starfish, a bladed weapon resembling a shiruken and attached to a metal, retractable stick, which he mostly uses to rip out stacks from people.
* Leung is the last antagonist in Season 1 to die on-screen.
* Leung is always seen wearing formal black attire, in black suit pants, a black Nehru Jacket and polished shoes.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* In a Lonely Place
* The Wrong Man
* Man with My Face
* Nora Inu
* Clash by Night
* Rage in Heaven
* The Killers
Alex Graves

**Alexander John Graves** (born July 23, 1965) is an American film director, television director, television producer and screenwriter on Altered Carbon.

## Other work

* *Fringe*
* *Terra Nova*
* *Pan Am*
* *The Newsroom*
* *Longmire*
* *666 Park Avenue*
* *Game of Thrones*
* *Bloodline*
* *House of Cards*
* *Taken*
* *Six*
* *Damnation*
* *S.W.A.T.*
* *Snowfall*
* *Project Blue Book*
* *Treadstone*
* *Lost in Space*
Curtis

**Curtis** is the head of security for the Bancroft family, based at Suntouch House. He confronts Lt. Kristin Ortega when she drops off Takeshi Kovacs after being resleeved at Laurens Bancroft's behest.

## Media

* Images
* Videos

## Appearances

* Season One

* Out of the Past
* In a Lonely Place
* The Wrong Man
* Man with My Face
* Clash by Night
* The Killers
Panama Rose Fightdrome

**Panama Rose Fightdrome** is a combat arena operating in Bay City. They stage fights between specially bred combat sleeves for the amusement of the masses. Fightdrome's greatest advertisement is the business's "always live, never cast" policy with Carnage claiming the fights are never recorded or broadcasted. However, in secret, Carnage uses ancient VHS technology to record all the fights.

Fightdrome is ran by Carnage and his AI "partner" Maddy, though many other AI consider Maddy's role in this business as more a slave to Carnage. For 10 minutes Stacks can be uploaded into advanced combat Sleeves, some resembling giant muscular animal human hybrids, that battle to the sleeve death.

Fightdrome has been rumored to have fights that involve real death which is why Ortega has tried on several occasions to have their business licence pulled.
Genzo

**Genzo**, was the boss of the Mizumoto Syndicate. On the succession ceremony, his body was taken over by the Founder of Mizumoto Syndicate. The Founder is also the father of Tanaseda Hideki.

## Biography

Takeshi had brought Holly back to the Wild Geese, Mizumoto syndicate headquarters. While she was inking Shinji's tattoo preparing him for the succession. Genzo was speaking with Takeshi and was explaining the loyalty code they had in the syndicate and how with each succession the previous boss dies along with his sleeve.

On the day of the succession, he went to Shinji, informing him they will start the succession earlier and Holly drugged him from behind, knocking Shinji out. Holly then deleted Shinji's stack and transferred Genzo's one in him. During the ceremony, Genzo's tattoo activated, killing his body and stack, but he was already in Shinji. His son, Tanaseda was in the audience, and revealed he was shifting from body to body, taking not only the hard work the new bosses put to became bosses, but also their lives and bodies and wondered if he had also killed his other son. As he shut down the audience, he told Holly to proceed with finishing the tattoo, but then realized she was about to activate the destruction program and kill him. She revealed she knew he had her parents stacks, and the Founder then took out two stacks and destroyed them.

Takeshi, Gena and yakuza men then came, knowing the truth the Founder. The yakuza followed him behind stage to kill him, but the Founder had put on an enhanced armor and killed them all. He then fought Takeshi and Gena, but they were no match for him. Ogai realizing this wasn't his new boss, Shinji, attacked him and with help of Gena, Takeshi managed to destroy the Founder's armor. Takeshi then fought him in a fist fight and defeated him, breaking his arms and legs. Holly then activated the destruction tattoo program. While dying, he was asking his son, Tanaseda, for help, but instead Tanaseda shot him in the head and the stack.

## References

1. ↑ Altered Carbon: Resleeved | Official Trailer | Netflix on Youtube
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Comic Natalie - Tatsuo Suzuki, Rina Sato, etc., character deza is Yasuo Otagaki in the anime "Altered Carbon"
Anthony Mackie

## External Links

**Anthony Dwane Mackie**, is an American actor who portrays the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs, Trepp in the second season of the Netflix science fiction series, *Altered Carbon*.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* *Phantom Lady*
* *Payment Deferred*
* *Nightmare Alley*
* *Shadow of a Doubt*
* *I Wake Up Screaming*
* *Bury Me Dead*
* *Experiment Perilous*
* *Broken Angels*
Hemingway

**Hemingway** is a minor character in Season One of Altered Carbon. He is Dimitri Kadmin's boss and is the one who sets him on the trail of Takeshi, ordering Dimitri to bring Tak to him (Hemingway) alive.

## Appearances

* Season One

* Man with My Face
* Nora Inu
* Clash by Night

## Spoiler Warning

It is revealed that "Hemingway" is just a sleeve of Reileen Kawahara.
Naomi Bancroft (TV)

## Naomi Bancroft

**Naomi Bancroft** is the daughter of Laurens Bancroft and Miriam Bancroft.

## Biography

### Background

Naomi is one of twenty-one children born to Laurens Bancroft and his wife Miriam at an unknown date. While It is unknown what she actually looks like, as the only time she appears is in one of her mother's clone bodies, she stated that she is 67 years old. When Naomi was discovered having sex with Curtis in one of her mothers sleeves by Takeshi Kovacs she attempted to act like her mother but Takeshi immediately saw through the charade. Naomi admitted that she was Laurence and Miriam's twelfth daughter and enjoyed occasionally using her mothers top of the line clones to have sex.