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Byron has decided he needs to prepare to meet Hazel where she lives: the real world.
Was his last time out and about the day he spotted Hazel on that college campus?
So, Byron is engaging with a Hazel simulation on a beach.
Its intriguing to me that Simulation Hazel gets to wear a color (blue!
And shes wearing heels.
Simulation Hazel has this perfect weird computer voice, almost Siri-like but not quite.
I want to connect with you.
He gives her what I thought was a flavorball but I later learn is a doughnut hole.
Or is it a doughnut-hole-flavored flavorball?
Suddenly, Simulation Hazel shorts out and Bennett is summoned.
Is there something wrong with the algorithm?!
(Bennett: A divorce?)
No, Bennett: authenticity!
The problem with Simulation Hazel is that she is FAKE.
Just like Hub Hazel!
Byron has Bennett crank up the simulation to level ten, which maximizes real-world variants.
Real Hazel wakes up strapped to a gurney.
and Lyle are excited that Hazel isnotactually dead because this means Byron must have reconsidered merging.
They have five minutes to get the chip out, but twist!
Hazel says shes changed her mind.
(Lyle: My fingers are rotting in a cooler.)
Hazel gets into Fiffs head, telling Fiff she is just like Byron.
Thats not the kind of person she wants to be!
She sets Hazel free.
(I love Cristin Miliotis helpless-toddler sound at not being able to unbuckle the gurney strap.)
They leave her in the desert so Byron wont see them when he comes back online.
How is Hazel supposed to get home?
Thats a problem for another part of the episode!
Meanwhile, Fiff gives Lyle an envelope of cash to cover his hotel stay.
Fiff doesnt know whats next for her, only that she has to move forwardwithoutByron or Ignacio.
She says shes going back to the Hub to confirm Zeldas transfer is complete and then shes resigning.
!But because we havent merged, Fiff cannot hear my thoughts.
Byron does not actually accept her resignation but instead sends her to the pasture cube.
Hazel gets home somehow but it takes her forever.
She bursts in on Dad and Diane, who are sleeping soundly, and loses her shit.
Wasnt he worried about her?!
He left her at the bowling alley13 hours ago.
Like, can you imagine a real person saying, This is just like when I was a kid.
You have never given a fuck about me …
I havealwaysbeen an afterthought to you.
People never just up and articulate the central theme of their lives like that!
Herb points out that Hazels been gone for ten years, so whats a few hours?
Hazel switches over to: You treat the doll better than you have ever treated me.
To underline this point, she attacks Diane, and Herb pushes Hazel off to protect the doll.
Girls with shit fathers.
She also gives Hazel a fake name, and its … Judiff.
I am LOSING IT.
See, Judiff and Herb used to date.
Shes actually very nice about this, considering she got dumped for a mannequin.
Hazel explains her situation.
Judiff doesnt even know who Byron is, but she knows that what he did to Hazel was abuse.
He robbed you of your solitude.
Hazel is getting very emotional worrying about how Byron will ruin Judiffs life, but Judiff isnt concerned.
Hazel will just have to trust.
In the meantime, Judiff says, do whatever you want to do.
If he wants to watch your every move, that doesnt make him powerful, that makes him pathetic.
I like this perspective!
(This is what I mean about it all feeling kind of obvious.
Drinking by the grave is such a go-to movie and TV trope!
How common is this in real life, I wonder?)
Doesnt mean I dont care.
Somebody is watching Byron as he gets his first parking ticket.
Judiff already at work?
Some third party I am not yet considering?
Well find out when the final two episodes drop next week!
