Cybersix S1 E9

## Plot

The episode starts with Sylvester delivering a package to José from his father. It's a striped egg, which hatches into an eyeball. Ew! Nope! It's Von Reichter's newest cyber-engineering project, and he wants José to test it for him. The eye suddenly seems to hypnotize them, and José only snaps out of it after a Fixed Idea hits him. The eye can drain people's minds, somehow. José orders the eye to follow him at all times unless he orders it otherwise. Meanwhile, Lucas is showing his students liquid nitrogen. When it's cooled to -190ºC, or -310ºF, it turns into a liquid state. Um, Lucas? Every time I've seen someone bring in liquid nitrogen to a classroom, they always wear protective clothes and gloves, and they specifically tell us *not* to come closer unless we at least have gloves on. Ignoring this chem teacher's blatant disregard for people's safety, he pours the liquid nitrogen on a tennis ball, which Adrian hears, and she sees what's going on through the door. And only then does Lucas finally put a glove on to pick up the frozen tennis ball. He drops it, and it shatters when it hits the floor. After the lesson, he returns the canister of liquid nitrogen to a closet, and tells Adrian that it can freeze any material on contact. The eye starts draining the minds of people in Meridiana, including Lori and her trio of idiot guys. José decides that it's time to set their sights on something bigger. I can't tell if that was an intentional pun or not. Lucas and Adrian run into Lori and her friends, and they realize that something is wrong with them. Adrian tells Lucas to keep an eye on them while she looks around. Was *that* an intentional pun? Out of universe at least, since Cyber 6 doesn't know about the actual eye yet. Speaking of which, José takes it to city hall, and it drains the minds of everyone there, including the mayor, but not before he alerts the police, who surround the building. It turns out that the eye can blast through things like a window with a laser. It drains the minds of the cops before any of them can get a shot off, and then blows up a car. Also, it's slowly been getting bigger throughout the episode as it drains more minds. José gets a call from his father, who knows what he's been up to, and demands that he return the eye to him at once. It hasn't been properly tested. Instead, José hangs up on him. Adrian sees mind drained people everywhere. With everyone else incapacitated, José does whatever he wants, like drive cars around. Adrian sees him and the eye, and sees that they're heading to the school. She sees the eye mind drain people, and is too late to stop it from draining Lucas's mind. She immediately heads home and changes into her vigilante outfit. While running on rooftops, Data 7 meets up with her. It's kind of weird to see those two running around while the sun is still out. The eye mind drains people at the National Bank, and blasts a hole through the safe, allowing José and the Fixed Ideas to steal all the money. Cyber 6 and Data 7 fight the Fixed Ideas, but the eye is able to mind drain Data 7. Cyber 6 throws a pole at it, but it just destroys it with its laser, and then tries to kill her with it. She uses a piece of glass to reflect its mind draining gaze back at itself, which makes it change color and gives it a different colored laser. It no longer follows José's commands. It heads to the soccer stadium, and Cyber 6 follows it. She throws a woman out of a room, and uses a computer to type a message to the audience on the jumbo-tron: Do Not Look In The Eye!! Then she gets on the speakers and tells them not to look, but it's too late. The eye drains all their minds, grows several sizes, and leaves. Von Reichter contacts José again, who claims that it was Cyber 6's fault that he lost control of the eye. Von Reichter orders him to regain control of the eye and return it to him immediately, and he asks Sylvester if he's telling the truth. Sylvester tells him that the eye is too powerful to control and has taken control of the city. Von Reichter tells him to keep an eye on José. Is *that* a pun? If he doesn't regain control of the eye in three hours, then Sylvester must bring José to his lair, so Von Reichter can deal with him personally. That night, Cyber 6 sees the huge eye and wonders how she can possibly beat it. She thinks about Lucas and remembers the liquid nitrogen. She takes a canister of it from the school. Lucas is still there, and she promises to save him. Meanwhile, José and the Fixed Ideas are driving around the city with rope, giant harpoons, nets, and cannons. It turns out that the eye can get tired and possibly fall asleep. Cyber 6 grabs onto one of its freaky tendril things, which drags it closer to the ground. And then José orders the Fixed Ideas to fire the cannons. It's covered with the giant net, but that wakes it up. Eyes should not be able to make sounds. How? It has no mouth or any kind of hole for sounds to come out of, or vocal cords to make sounds with. When exactly did this show decide to be about horror? According to the 2014 DVD commentary, it was originally just supposed to represent how television affected people. Now you could make that comparison to computers, tablets, phones, blue light disrupting proper sleep, etc. Anyway, the cannons are pulled off their supports. Cyber 6 falls off and hits the ground. Ouch. Good thing she's superhuman. José and the Fixed Ideas are knocked off the cannons. The net gets snagged on a statue thanks to Cyber 6, who pours the liquid nitrogen on the eye as the ropes start to snap. José realizes what she's doing and actually orders a Fixed Idea to *not* fire rockets at her, but it doesn't listen. Cyber 6's feet are frozen to the eye. She's able to break through the ice with the canister and jump away just before the rockets can hit her. Instead, they finish the job of destroying the eye, and everyone returns to normal. When Lucas returns to normal, he leans in to kiss Cyber 6, but she just says that she's glad he's okay. He can't remember anything. José tells his father it was all a big misunderstanding, and Von Reichter asks him how many times he'll fail him. This is episode 9 of 13, so only three or four more times before he finally has enough of you, you evil, vile, abusive, literal Nazi asshole.