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Upload Season 2 Episode 5 Recap “MindFrisk”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of Upload Season 2 Episode 5 “MindFrisk.” Horizen introduces a new software ‘MindFrisk’ that allows them to read the minds of uploads following the Lud attack. Meanwhile, Luke loses his mind as he notices he is being watched, while Ingrid finally gets a digital baby. Here’s what you missed!

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Previously on Upload Season 2 Episode 4, Horizen tries to get new customers by trialing ‘Family Day,’ while Nora ends up putting a virus in Lake View as she sides with the Luds.

Warning… Spoilers below!

On Upload Season 2 Episode 5, Nathan and Ingrid are lying in bed before a huge alarm wakes him up. He asks her, ‘hey, what is that?’ But she does not respond. The scene then shifts to Ingrid eating on the sofa, as she watches a show about bringing up babies.

Having still not woken up, Nathan goes to investigate. We see that the ‘AI Guy’ is the one making the alarm. He tells everyone to ‘head to the nearest exit.’

Tinsley arrives and tells Nathan it is just the new security system that has malfunctioned. She struggles to get it under control, despite her best efforts as Nathan goes back to sleep.

We then arrive at Agent Cheeto/Ivan’s apartment. Nora has doubts about Pastor Rob and asks Matt if he can be trusted. Nora stresses that uploading should be run by families.

But Matt doubles down on his beliefs that ‘Lake View’ has to be destroyed. Clearly annoyed, she tells Matt they need some space. He goes to sleep in the hallway, as Nora retells the story to Aleesha.

Nora informs Aleesha she will not dump Matt, as well as Nathan’s belief that the ‘Luds’ tried to kill him. She drops a bombshell that, according to Matt, Horizen may have been behind it, much to Aleesha’s shock, who denies that this could be possible.

Moving onto breakfast, we join Nathan and Luke. The latter is shaking his sausage, as he looks nervous. Nathan asks if he is fine, to which Luke replies: ‘what was that?’ Luke has not slept in three days and feels he is being watched.

Luke summons Aleesha to declare that Horizen are spying and taking his dreams. However, she tells him that he is crazy before leaving. Moving back to Ingrid, she has a meeting with Lucy.

Ingrid tells her that she wants a digital baby before Lucy asks if she has Nathan’s consent. Ingrid has his ‘blessing’ which is an attempt to hide the fact that she has not agreed to this with Nathan.

Lucy tells her she has to start at the lowest level with a baby simulation, to which Ingrid threatens to scream unless she is given the highest level of a digital baby. Ingrid screams to the top of her lungs, as Lucy exits.

Shortly after, Lucy jumps into a meeting with Craig. He tells everyone that the government has relaxed the privacy guidelines governing uploads following the Lud attack on Lake View.

This means they can screen-grab without consent and have a new software, ‘MindFrisk’, which allows Horizen to search uploads’ thoughts in real-time.

Any thoughts that could comprise the security of Lake View can now be detected. Nora and Aleesha look on with a worried look on their faces. Nora immediately messages Nathan and informs him that they need to talk.

She tells him about Horizen reading uploads’ thoughts. She believes Ingrid’s dad, Oliver, was here to meet someone other than Ingrid, perhaps the executives of Horizen.

This explains his brief appearance on ‘Family Day.’ In and amongst that, they ask each other about their respective relationships. Nora lies and states everything is fine with Matt.

Nathan suggests Oliver could read his thoughts, if he reached an agreement with Horizen. Nora replies that once ‘MindFrisk’ is on, Nathan could be deleted given he has his memories.

As Nora’s boss ‘Craig’ programmed it, they agree to work together to see if they can hack it. Meanwhile, Aleesha discloses Luke’s spying concerns to Lucy.

Lucy says they have been spying, as recordings of uploads’ thoughts can be sold for money. Aleesha is shocked that Luke was right all along. Lucy then rejoins Ingrid, as she is still screaming. Lucy agrees to Ingrid’s demands and gives her a baby.

The spying concerns still continue, however. It turns out that Lucy has been doing it, as she makes a screenshot of Luke, which he overhears. Luke screams ‘get out of my head’ as he is losing his mind.

Lucy asks Aleesha to put Luke to ‘sleep’ in case he has a ‘system failure.’ Aleesha drops in and tries to convince him to sleep. He refuses to do so, citing that they want to steal his dreams.

In the process of trying, Aleesha accidentally pushes Luke out the window, as opposed to the bed, as he runs off. Much in the same way, Ingrid’s role as a mother is harder than first thought.

She tries to put the baby to sleep, but she is struggling. Mildred says she always has the ‘Angels’ if she needs help. In an attempt to make the baby sleep, Ingrid buys some ‘nap tokens’ for 99 cents, but they do not work.

As Craig finally leaves the office, Nora enters and gets Nathan on the phone. However, his computer has a biometric password. Nathan tells her to download an app that will allow her to detect his DNA through things he has touched in the office.

Nora finds Craig’s hair that allows her to get in. Once inside, she searches for ‘MindFrisk.’ Nora enters inside the folder: Craig’s VR office is the same as his real one except for a poster of a woman in a bikini on the wall.

It turns out that Nora is in ‘Lake View,’ where ‘MindFrisk’ is located. Meanwhile, Aleesha has ended up on ‘Dream Hub’ while she is in Luke’s dreams, as someone recognises her.

Aleesha immediately phones Lucy and tells her that Luke is having sexual dreams about her. Lucy states that Luke will ‘die’ tomorrow unless he goes to sleep before hanging up.

Back at Lake View, Nathan joins Nora in the office. Nora discovers a file on Nathan that Horizen have, which showed they knew about his ‘Beyond’ project.

They then open ‘MindFrisk’, and test it out. Nathan suggests they search his thoughts. They agree, and it works as they are both left mesmerised as ‘MindFrisk’ knows everything that Nathan is thinking.

Back with the baby, Ingrid is exhausted. However, her baby has grown up to be a toddler. They get along as they play ‘peekaboo.’ Still being exhausted, she tries to get him to sleep.

A short while after, the baby has grown into a young boy. This time, he is demanding his father and other mother. The boy tells Ingrid that she is not a good mother.

Back with Nora, she asks Nathan if he can practice controlling his thoughts to bypass ‘MindFrisk.’ They try once again, but this time on audio mode.

Nathan cannot control his thoughts, as Nora hears him thinking, ‘My God, look at her, she is so beautiful. I still wanna kiss her so badly’ as Nathan turns ‘MindFrisk’ off in a moment of awkwardness.

Nora is left in shock, while Nathan tells her it doesn’t mean anything. They agree to disable ‘MindFrisk.’ But before they do so, Nathan requests that Nora search who is thinking about him. The results show one person: Mr. Choak. 

Nathan wonders why Mr. Choak would be doing that. To make matters complicated, he has paid for the highest levels of privacy so that no one can see his thoughts. Nora disables that, and they hear Mr. Choak talking to someone.

Nathan and Nora want to know who it could be. The camera then shows us that Mr. Choak is talking to the man that Nathan killed to save Nora’s life.

The man looks to have told Mr. Choak that Nathan killed him. The man tells Mr Chaok that he did not see Nathan’s face but only heard his voice.

The man tries to negotiate a deal that would allow him to be upgraded to Lake View, so he can get his revenge on Nathan. Mr. Choak’s thoughts reveal that he was not impressed with the man.

After all, the man let Nora, his target, go and died in the process while requesting to be upgraded to Lake View. Mr. Choak’s security shows him out, but in the process of hearing the thoughts, Nora and Nathan know who Mr. Choak was talking to.

It turns out that Mr. Choak and the man had been working together. And because Mr. Choak believes Nathan does not have his memories, he believes he is in the clear.

After all, it is implied that  Mr. Choak had Nathan murdered by backing Oliver and got away with it. All the while, Nathan and Nora overhear his thoughts.

Nora is puzzled why Mr. Choak would be involved. She tells Nathan to calm down, but he is not having any of it. Nathan states he has to go to the memory parlour and enhance his memories.

Nora puts Mr. Choak’s thoughts on mute and tells Nathan it may be wise to remove his memories, as she will hold them for him. This way, Nathan cannot think about something that could get him in trouble with ‘MindFrisk.’

Nathan does not want to do that, as he likes being the person that he is now. Nora and he agree they must stop ‘MindFrisk’ before it goes live.

Meanwhile, Ingrid’s child has grown into a man. He has locked her out of the house, as he blasts some music. She begs him to allow her to enter.

In contrast, Luke looks to be snorting cocaine to deal with his problems before Aleesha jumps in to stop him. Luke breaks down and starts crying.

Aleesha confronts Luke about his sex dreams. In a final ditch to convince him to sleep, she suggests they get in bed together. After all, if it is on ‘Dream Hub’, she wants it to look good.

As he joins her on the bed, she quickly puts him to sleep remotely and leaves. However, he has begun dreaming about her as she gets a notification from ‘Dream Hub’, much to her annoyance.

Back at Lake View, Ingrid wakes up to find her child as an old man. She tries to reverse the ageing process, but it fails. He looks to be dying, as he thanks her for everything she has done.

Her son’s final wish is that she gives him a name. Ingrid says ‘No eer’ as she is not keen. However, he interprets this as ‘Noah’, which he likes before he dies and disappears as Ingrid is left crying.

Meanwhile, at the memory parlor, we see Nathan watching some old footage as he sees Oliver and Mr. Choak having met each other. In their conversation, Mr. Choak is heard telling Oliver to ‘get rid of him’ [Nathan].

Nathan then checks out his memories about Nora, including the phone call he had made to her when she went missing, as he declared that he did not deserve her. The following day, Craig logs into his computer.

He notices that the bikini woman poster has been ripped off the wall, while Mr. Choak’s thoughts can be heard by everyone, given that Nora had disabled his privacy access.

Now the residents of Lake View stare at Mr. Choak, as they can hear his bad thoughts about them. Mr. Choak demands Craig’s assistance, who then is met with a message on his computer saying: “You were hacked by Robin Hood and Black Widow.’

Craig is in a panic, as he bangs his head on the desk as the episode ends.

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Air Date: March 11, 2022

Upload Cast

  • Robbie Amell as Nathan Brown
  • Andy Allo as Nora Antony
  • Allegra Edwards as Ingrid Kannerman
  • Zainab Johnson as Aleesha
  • Kevin Bigley as Luke
  • Owen Daniels AI Guy

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Upload Season 2 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
2 7 Download” Upload Season 2 Finale March 11, 2022
2 6 The Outing March 11, 2022
2 5 MindFrisk March 11, 2022
2 4 Family Day March 11, 2022
2 3 Robin Hood March 11, 2022
2 2 Dinner Party March 11, 2022
2 1 Welcome Back, Mr Brown” Upload Season 2 Premiere March 11, 2022

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