Episode 3

**Episode 3** is the third episode of the Amazon Prime video science fiction television series *The Feed*.

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## Synopsis

Official episode synopsis from Amazon Prime Video:

Tom and Kate escape the city and join Max and Evelyn at a digital detox farm, but is all as idyllic as it seems?
## Plot summary

Kate and Tom leave town on the pretext of going on a digital detox retreat with Max and Evelyn, but in truth they're considering moving out of the city. On their way out of town, Evelyn bids her sister goodbye. At the retreat, they are introduced to a more communal lifestyle and shown how to do things like cooking and monitoring the baby without the feed. However, not all is well as Max begins to behave strangely. He enters a brief state of unawareness and grates his skin instead of a vegetable during meal prep and later finds himself unable to move while watching on as baby Bea cries in her crib.
Meredith visits the "Mekong," a country which has marked itself as a sort-of safe haven against the Feed and digital ingress. Here, she hopes to sell an old model of the Feed to the President in the hopes of proliferating to the entire country. News of their meeting gets out, prompting protests that turn violent. Rioters break into the building and the president is killed in the chaos. Meredith and her guard are forced to go into hiding to save their own lives, and Meredith blames herself for the President's death. Lawrence, who was worried about this visit all along, asks Sue, the head of the Security Council, to send in a special task force to extricate her despite the legal issues. Meanwhile, Meredith and her bodyguard make their escape by car through the city and into wooded forestland, where Lawrence is there with the security forces to greet her.
Ben makes a breakthrough by examining the brain activity during Anton and Sarah's sleep cycles and finding strong similarities. He requests Lawrence give him the results of the algorithm's check to look for other matches. Utilizing the data, they find other incidences of violence in which the perpetrators stabbed themselves in the eye afterward, misattributed to an act of passion and drugs. Lawrence zooms in on the central nerve exhibiting the strange light pattern and finds an image of a waving robot displayed there, the same as the final image run during the data breach.
Incidents continue to occur in real time, and Ben is left to work on monitoring situations and contacting the authorities to prevent the random acts of violence from resulting in more deaths. Feeling overlooked by his parents' preference for Tom, Ben goes to visit Miyu, with whom he has become estranged. Miyu rejects his attempt to reconcile, saying that she's not the person he originally fell in love with anymore.
Max and Tom take Bea for a drive to try to get her to fall asleep and Tom asks Max if he knows anyone who can help remove the Feed mesh from Bea. Before Max can give a proper answer, he experiences a headache more extreme than any of the others and loses control of the car. He warns Tom to run before losing control of himself. Tom attempts to escape into the woods to avoid Max, who is pursuing him with a bow and arrow, but Bea's crying prevents him from being able to lose their persuer. Max shoots Tom in the shoulder and, unable to run anymore, Tom is forced to take cover long enough to remove the arrow from his shoulder. He and Max get into a direct altercation and Tom pretends to have been drowned long enough to sneak up on Max and stab him before he can kill the baby. Just when it seems like Max is about to slit Tom's throat, Max is shot in the shoulder: Kate and Evelyn have arrived on scene and have the baby safely in hand.
## Cast and characters

Starring:

* Michelle Fairley as Meredith Hatfield
* Guy Burnet as Tom Hatfield
* Nina Toussaint-White as Kate Hatfield
* Jeremy Neumark Jones as Ben Hatfield
* Claire-Hope Ashitey as Evelyn
* Osy Ikhile as Max
* Shaquille Ali-Yebuah as Danny
* Chris Reilly as Gil Tomine
* David Thewlis as Lawrence Hatfield

## External links

* Episode 3 on the Internet Movie Database