Episode 9

**Episode 9** is the ninth episode of the Amazon Prime video science fiction television series *The Feed*.

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## Synopsis

Official episode synopsis from Amazon Prime Video:

As Tom and Ben get closer to solving the mystery of the Takers, Kate and Martha are locked in a desperate struggle for survival.
## Plot summary

Danny and his friends see an online video, a man with a disguised voice tells people that Meredith is a liar and says that it's now "kill or be killed." Believing that Cassie may be in danger now, Danny and his friends go to Jonah looking for help; they want to break into the Hub to rescue her. He tries reaching out to Tom for help, but he's preoccupied with other matters and says he'll help later. Danny wants to take action immediately and convinces them to help him get taken in as a taker himself so he can get to Cassie. When Danny arrives at the detention facility his Feed is forcibly turned off just like Cassie's, but even though the procedure shocks him he doesn't suffer the same seizures from before. He finds Cassie who is alive but disoriented.
Martha's taker claims that she just wants to talk. She makes her way through the barricaded door and commands Kate to use her feed to track Tom. She tells Kate that Lawrence promised them they'd be able to have bodies and live again. Their discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Naz, one of the Resisters, and 'Martha' goes down to greet him and obtain supplies. Kate attempts to escape while Martha's outside but doesn't have enough time. Naz realizes something is wrong, and 'Martha' kills him before Kate can stop Martha. She gets a message out to Tom and manages to get into a car to escape, but in order to do so she's forced to hit 'Martha' with her car first. Kate mistakenly believes that it's safe to stop and ends up having to fight with her. She hides in the forest until Tom comes to find her.
D cannot escape the tub and calls for help, but Evelyn is not there. Evelyn, who has gone to the Hub, where she is told by Amanda and Sue that they are running out of space to hold the exponentially increasing number of takers and more violent methods to handle things may be necessary. They task her with helping them to try to stabilize the Feed to prevent things from getting worse. In his continued struggles to get free he accidentally turns the water on.
Meredith returns to President Quan and attempts to broker asylum for herself and the rest of her family. She's put under a watch/house arrest with his sister Sen watching her. She attempts to encourage Sen to depose her brother to help the both of them, but Sen is unwilling, both on the grounds that her brother does terrible things to traitors and that their country is just fine under his leadership. President Quan returns with armed guards; Meredith makes it clear that without her, he won't be able to active or use the program. Sen rats her out. Meredith doesn't deny the accusation, and is escorted out by armed guard so he and Sen can speak privately.
Tom and Ben explore the lab and accidentally activate an AI that refers to itself as "Alba." There are almost 300 files that are related to various programs, including fetal monitoring, thought unification, AI soldiers, etc. One of the files, related to the Beta trial of SAVEYOU and a medical trial on consciousness manipulation, is corrupted; when he asks the program to show him how, it plays the same set of images that ran when he was at Max's birthday dinner and the Feed went haywire. The subjects of the experiment were deceased people who donated their Feeds for use after their deaths, and the program attempted to go beyond the usual mundles, to store not just memories but thoughts, feelings, and essentially the essence of the individuals. Lawrence had manipulated over 15,000 'people' to do various things, like increase mathematical capabilites, decrease empathy, etc. At some point, though, the individuals inside the experiment took over, reproducing themselves until there are now over currently 4 million of them and increasing.
Alba is unable to delete them, so they summon Evelyn to the site to look into the matter. They determine that the corruption is an encryption that is protecting them from deletion. Evelyn downloads the SAVEYOU file in an attempt to break the encryption so that the takers can be deleted. Tom arrives at the house to find his wife missing and an injured 'Martha' alone with Bea. Ben stays with Bea and has an exchange with 'Martha,' who tells him that they were trying to kill Lawrence ever since they originally came through but at first they were too disoriented. She then says that inside the void with Alba, she saw everything that Lawrence did to Tom, and successfully tempts him with that knowledge in exchange for him to take her back to the lab where the experiments were originally run with a piece of Lawrence's DNA, which they can get from Bea, who Tom has entrusted him with.
Evelyn and her team are trying to break the encryption, but it keeps locking them out. Evelyn tells Sue to get one of the imprisoned takers who built it to talk. Sue and Amanda go to the cages and tell them their efforts are futile, but offer those takers already in existence "better accommodations" in exchange for information. When they refuse, Sue activates a method of torture which selectively sends a terrible noise through all of the caged individual's heads (the tone is so severe, it causes many of them to experience nose or ear bleeds). One of them volunteers but tries to make a run for it; Sue gives the orders for all of them to be killed. In the chaos, Dannie tries to pull them to a safer position, but Cassie is shot.
## 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 9 on the Internet Movie Database