This instalment is set in a future where the United States is divided; the eastern cities have embraced a high-tech society while those living in small communities in the west, known as bubble people, eschew such technology and the surveillance it involves. When Foster Lee moves east with her mother she wants to use the technology as anybody without the equipment is considered suspect; her mother is against it though. She gets help from a fellow student to get the device. When she first uses it she has difficulties so acts for help. Thanks to 'hear gel' she hears the voice of an operative. Soon afterwards she is contacted again and it isn't long before she is being asked to follow classmates who have behaved suspiciously; told that anybody, including her mother could be involved in terrorism.
I really enjoyed this episode; it had an atmosphere that is mildly oppressive but not excessively. This meant it wasn't one hundred percent obvious whether Foster was being dangerously guided by the voice she hears or if she is going to help uncover a plot... although I suspect most viewers will guess. Annalise Basso does a really fine job as Foster making her character believable as she must decide who to believe. The only real disappointment was the ending; after the story is over it goes back to explicitly explain what happened at various key moments. This felt completely unnecessary to me as the way the story concluded made it easy to guess how it had happened without being shown. Overall though this was a really fine episode.
I really enjoyed this episode; it had an atmosphere that is mildly oppressive but not excessively. This meant it wasn't one hundred percent obvious whether Foster was being dangerously guided by the voice she hears or if she is going to help uncover a plot... although I suspect most viewers will guess. Annalise Basso does a really fine job as Foster making her character believable as she must decide who to believe. The only real disappointment was the ending; after the story is over it goes back to explicitly explain what happened at various key moments. This felt completely unnecessary to me as the way the story concluded made it easy to guess how it had happened without being shown. Overall though this was a really fine episode.