Episode 8

**Episode 8** is the eighth episode of the Amazon Prime video science fiction television series *The Feed*.

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## Synopsis

Official episode synopsis from Amazon Prime Video:

Ben spirals out of control when his actions have fatal consequences. Tom discovers he needs Ben’s help to stop the Takers, but can he find him in time?
## Plot summary

Meredith's assistant Natalie's home is invaded by one of the Takers who asks if she knows where they're from and seems prepared to assualt her with a pair of scissors when she becomes distracted by the thought of her daughter, Lucy, and then leaves. She tells Meredith about the conversation and asks her when they're going to go public. Meredith meets up with her board of directors and Sue and advocates that they need to tell people, but the others push back on the grounds that it would cause a panic and wreck further havoc on the company. Meredith tells Tom to meet her so they can flee once she sends word, but Tom tells her that for him and for Bea, this is genetic so there is no escaping it. She then attempts to go rogue, broadcasting a message to warn Feed users to stay vigilant but remain calm and not tamper with their Feed, but her account becomes restricted in the middle, cutting her off short.
Tom watches Kate wake up at the end of his shift. She wants to talk about what happened last night but he tells her she needs to go. After she's gone, Tia shows up looking for Kate. Tom asks for Tia's help in getting Kate moved safely far away from him. He continues to investigate his father's mundles and finds video of a mysterious lab; he send Evelyn a message to let her know. When he never gets a response he goes to Evelyn's house and overhears D trying to convince her to read him and willingly take the path he took to find and make a connection with her. Tom interrupts their connection and together they fight him off. Evelyn tells her that she saw D's wife, Stefanie, and thousands of others in a dark void. Tom believes the deleted place from his father's memory is connected to and pieces together that D and all the others were created by his father using the memories of a dead person. He says he killed Lawrence because he was going to mass delete all of them. Tom continues his search solo until he realizes he can't continue without Ben's help.
Kate meets her sister Martha at the airport. They return to the house together, planning to ultimately go off to the farm with Bea. Martha thinks they need to work things out and stick together, but Tom tells her to go see Tia and find a safehouse. Martha is supposed to keep watch over her sister while she sleeps but they both fall asleep. When she wakes up, Tia is there with an unmarked car to take them to the hiding location. Martha asks Evelyn questions while on the road with Kate to try to ensure she hasn't been taken. They arrive at an empty house in the country side and that night Kate realizes that her sister is really one of the taken. She tries to flee to a secured room in the house by locking it, but that taker that has Martha's body uses a hatchet to start breaking through.
Danny's friend Cass has been taken into custody by ICSA thanks to the video Danny and her friends posted the night before. It turns out they were faking it for views. She ends up bring processed with the rest of the takers. She tells them that she can't go off or she'll seize and she's forcibly turned off. The guards watch her seize, believing she's faking it, and she ends up hospitalized in what appears to be a coma. Danny and his friends are faced with the choice to try to find her or not, but they don't know where to go as attempts to reach her keep bouncing. That night, Danny sees Meredith's announcement on the feed.
Ben shows up to the house looking for Tom but only finds Kate and Martha. When he can't find his brother, he heads down to the docs to meet his real biological father. They go to have a drink together. He attempts to connect with his father but when he ends up insulting both him and the bartender because he doesn't have cash to pay with, things go awry. Tom breaks things up before it can become a proper brawl and convinces him to help him retrieve the other half of a deleted memory of a hedge maze that may hold the key. They go together in search of the location in Lawrence's mundles and find a hatch door with a ladder leading underground.
Evelyn wakes up and interacts with her virtual companion and then realizes one of the copies is D. He claims that the reason he took Max is because he wanted to reunite with his love. He says she needs a vessel and shows her what he claims to be the real Max: he claims that he is still there, waiting for her. When Tom leaves to find the secret lab on the family estate, she stays behind with D, who's been tied up and put in the tub. He continues to try to convince her to switch places with Stephanie, but Evelyn is unmoved.
Ben's app has been deleted; he wants to back out of a meeting explaining what he did, but Meredith insists they go through with it. They meet with a prosecutor and inform him that the app was planted on Gil and they wish to drop all charges against him. Unfortunately, Gil is already dead. Ben refuses to take responsibility; Meredith slaps him and accuses him of being a coward.
## 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 8 on the Internet Movie Database