Episode 5

**Episode 5** is the fifth episode of the Amazon Prime video science fiction television series *The Feed*.

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## Synopsis

Official episode synopsis from Amazon Prime Video:

When Tom and Kate make an alarming discovery about Bea, they confront Lawrence and Meredith at a family dinner which exposes long held secrets.
## Plot summary

Tom is hooked up to Sara, but the mundles he experiences don't belong to her. He believes that they belong to the hacking perpetrator. Tom rushes to make it in time to Kate's surgery. Their attempt to remove the Feed from Kate ultimately fails after signs point to continued efforts potentially resulting in permanent brain damage. She begs them to remove the Feed from Bea, but after checking Bea with imaging equipment he says that Bea's transmitter can't be removed because she doesn't have one. He then asks for a family dinner
Danny goes back to hanging with his friends and tries going offline again unsuccessfully. One of his friends brags about turning the Offliner Danny met in as a Resister even though he knew he wasn't. He goes to Jonah's place to try to check on him, but a neighbor informs him that he was rounded up as part of the police raid and may not be back. Jonah returns home a few days later and finds Danny sleeping on his stairwell. He knows that either Danny or one of his friends turned his pictures over to the police and that as a result he spent the last several days being interrogated by ICSA. He tells Danny to go home.
Gil is assigned by Lawrence to keep watch over Max after the procedure to make sure everything stays all right. Max proposes to Evelyn. That night, a man recently infected by the virus attacks Evelyn.
Ben stays home from work. Despite multiple efforts to delete the app, he still can't remove it. Gil requests to speak with him, and Ben has to hastily terminate the connection so that Gil won't notice his odd behavior. His mother goes to visit him, suspecting that something is wrong, and wants Ben to go onto the Feed so she can upload a beta security patch. Meredith tells Ben that they're very close to finding the source of the leak; Lawrence found a Ghost App in Sarah's old chip, a highly illegal app that is believed to be the source of the problem. That night, in a moent of pettiness, he transfers a copy of the infected app to Gil, hoping to infect him too.
During the family dinner, Tom accuses his father of having implanted Bea somehow without their permission. However, Lawrence reveals that it's not Bea who was subjected to the Feed in utero, but Tom. Tom's carbon based in-ute chip imprinted on his DNA by way of polymeric conductors, and Lawrence encouraged the change to become a genetic one. This procedure made Tom sick as a child, but Lawrence sees this as having been a necessary evil to make sure that he could roll out the procedure en masse. Lawrence insists to Tom that people want progress more than freedom and that his innovation will help unite people onto the same path and keep them controlled.
Kate and Tom are shocked and devastated to know that Bea can never be made safe from the Feed. After dinner, Kate bargains with her father-in-law: in exchange for Tia's freedom, she allows for Lawrence to share his mundle with her. She tells Tom that although she does now believe that Lawrence truly loves his granddaughter, the process left her feeling creeped out: Lawrence feels that same intense, paternal instinct toward all people, as though everyone is a child he needs to look after.
Tom goes to Sue with the ICSA and tells her that she needs to remove her father from being in control of the Feed, but Sue tells him that without a mountain of evidence Lawrence is too powerful for her to take on. Tom then broadcasts his conversation with his father, sharing world-wide his admission that everyone enabled in-ute now carries the gene. The next morning, Meredith announces that Lawrence will be stepping down fromm his position effective immediately and that in the interim until a more permanent solution can be found she will be taking over. Lawrence confronts him, accusing Tom of destroying everything, and cryptically states that he doesn't have any children, just "one child."
## 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 5 on the Internet Movie Database