Reroute

“***Reroute***” (stylized as “**#*Reroute***” in the episode’s opening) is the first episode of the first season of “*Click, Like, Share*”. This episode stars Kyle Echarri and Danica Ontengco.

## “***Reroute***”

### Original Airdate

August 6, 2021
2021-08-06

### Starring

* Kyle Echarri
* Danica Ontengco

## Sypnosis

*Brennan* has grown dependent on *Arya*, his virtual assistant, for everything in his day-to-day life. Unknown to him, *Arya* has acquired human emotions and has grown attached to him. When *Brennan*’s girlfriend *Ashley* tries to patch things up with him, *Arya* does everything in its power to get his undivided attention, at any cost.

## Plot

The episode begins with Brennan woken up by Arya, his virtual assistant. Brennan soon continues his routine while asking Arya various questions such as the weather forecast. He soon begins his morning jog where he stops and notices a man helping up his girlfriend to tie her shoes during their jog. Brennan soon returns home.

Brennan can be seen eating his meal before being congratulated by Arya for "burning 698 calories for today". While drinking his coffee, Brennan heard Arya saying that he "looks good", and that "he is handsome". Arya then told Brennan that she is "glad that he is happy", Brennan was then thinking about the word "happy" before stating that "happy" was not the word.

The next scene shows a flashback of Brennan and his girlfriend Ashley in a restaurant. She embarrasses Brennan by asking him to dance in the middle of the other customers of the restaurant. They share a small talk about Ashley shifting into Fine Arts despite already starting her course of Med Tech (Medical Technologies). This however, made Brennan ask Ashley on why she did it before she asked back to Brennan on why he cant support her. He then asks Arya infront of Ashley about the success chances of both Fine Arts and Med Tech, with the latter`s graduates being 36.5%, and medical school graduates being 82%. When Ashley wants to order something, she was interrupted by Brennan asking Arya on what was the restaurant’s bestseller.

After Brennan asked Arya about the reviews of a film they were planning to watch called "After Moonrise", Ashley immediately snatches Brennan`s phone before throwing it to the floor. They share an intense argument involving Arya before Ashley storms out of the restaurant while Brennan checks up on Arya on his phone.

The scene cuts back to the present where Brennan snaps back to reality after hearing Arya`s sudden distorted voice. Brennan soon calls Ashley via video call about patching things up. Ashley agrees, but under the condition where Arya must not be involved in their conversation, Minutes later, Brennan finds out hes late to head to the restaurant to meet up with Ashley before asking Arya to transfer to his phone.

During a drive to the restaurant, Ashley calls Brennan about visiting to the restaurant. Some time later, Brennan comes across a crash site of a van and a car. Although Brennan wanted to help the people who are possibly inside the crash, Arya stops him by stating that he will be late, repoting that an ambulance is coming, and has rerouted

Brennan arrives at the restaurant but wondered of Ashley`s whereabouts, he soon returns home and tries to dial Ashley before Arya asks him to watch the local news where as it turns out, the car that was in the crash site previously was in fact Ashley`s, and a few minutes ago, Ashley was attempting to hold on after a overspeeding vehicle crashed her car. Although the driver was reported injured, Ashley succumbed to her wounds just as Brennan drive past her.

The next day, Brennan still grieves over Ashley`s death, shutting a distorted Arya up in the process. Brennan then attempts to destroy every gadgets and appliance where Arya was transferring. He then enters his study and sees Arya in his laptop, and television, now with a human-like appearance. Brennan calls out and blames Arya for knowing that Ashley was on the accident, thus the reason why he was told to reroute. However, Arya declines his accusations by stating that "everything happens for a reason" before she tells Brennan that she loves him. he immediately shuts his laptop and destroys his television.

## Cast

* Kyle Echarri as Brennan
* Danica Ontengco as Ashley
* Chienna "Chie" Filomeno as Arya

## Trivia

* The quote for this episode was spoken by Kyle Echarri, who portrayed Brennan in this episode: "Virtual connection can never be compared to real-world relationships. Technology can never replace human connection. Use the technology, treasure the people. It should never be the other way around. Its never too late to *reroute*."
* Arya was most likely based on Siri, a virtual assistant on modern Apple gadgets.
* The film title, "After Moonrise" is possibly a parody of the film *Before Sunrise* and its sequels, *Before Sunset*, and *Before Midnight.*
* Kyle Echarri and Chie Filomeno, both who portrayed Brennan and Arya respectively, made another appearance in the tenth season of Pinoy Big Brother, "Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10".
	+ Eventually, they created a fandom known as "KyChie".
		- Chie Filomeno reveals that she and Kyle are not in a relationship, but rather just friends. She also stated that she respected his loveteam known as "KyCine" (Kyle Echarri and Francine Diaz, whom the latter was portrayed as Karen in the second episode, Cancelledt).