Monday, June 28, 2021

altered carbon CH 13 - 18

CH 13 pg 116
Tak is getting tortured real bad.  It's digital torture and they put him in a small Asian woman's body, or the digital version  of one.  He's getting all the torture and it's very bad.  He tells them everything.  The problem is that they don't believe him.  They think he's someone named Elias Ryker.  He is digitally regenerated without all the torture damage.  He starts making a bunch of threats.  Saying the corps is gonna track them down and kill them all.  And if not them Mr Bancroft and his influential friends in the UN.  

CH 14 pg 125
Tak is back in the sleeve Bancroft gave him.  He is taken into a car with a robot lady, a meat head with a barcode on his head and the driver.  They are taking him to a second location and that will not do.  He kills the two "people" in the back with him and tells the driver if he doesn't land, he'll be super duper dead.  So he crash lands and Tak gets away in Mission street.

Ch 15 pg 131
Tak goes back to the cathouse he was abducted in and kills everyone except for the head dude.  He makes said dude take him to the lab where he was tortured.  He kills everyone there.  He leaves with the head of the main science dude.

Ch 16 pg 144
Tak goes to Bancroft's house.  He and Bancroft talk about hiw expensive this investigation is getting as he's had to pay off the cops and a couple local gangs to keep Tak from getting revenge killed.  They have a longer talk about what it's like to be married for 250 years and why he's so into prostitution.  Makes me think about how Dax from deep space nine was into Morn.  In the end Tak tells Bancroft that the prostitute's dad was his only suspect so far and he doesnt think he did it so at the moment Tak doesn't really have a suspect in Bancroft's murder.

Ch 17 pg 153
The sleeve Tak is in is Ortega's old boyfriend.  Tak is gonna try to use that to his advantage.  He basically tells her either she helps him investigate Bancroft's murder or he's just gonna keep getting into worse situations with more physical violence until this body he's in is damaged beyond repair.  They try to interrogate the guy that tried to kidnap Tak while he was checking into the Hendrix.  They don't get much out of him.  Tak has Ortega look to where the would be kidnapper's lawyer's office is.  They're gonna go for a ride and see if they can get anything out of the lawyer.

CH 18 pg 166
They go to.the lawyer and they dont get any info, but they do plant a bug.  Then they  get ramen noodles 🍜 and Tak has some flashbacks.  They talk about how on his planet they can't really fly cause theres an out of control defense network that shoots down anything that flies.  They get some intel from the bugs.  The lawyer made a call to new york, a call to a local fight club and a call to the Bancroft residence.  

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