Altered carbon prologue pg 3 through ch 6 end pg 56

 Prologue pg 3

Someone is smoking one of Sarah's cigarettes.  They have gun 🔫 and fun different types of ammo.  Clingfilm condoms must not be good.  It appears someone's name is Tak and gun shooting is going to happen soon.  A wall exploded and a bunch of commandos rush in.  They kill Sarah.  Tak, who the cop calls Kovaks is told not to even thinks about it.  But Tak does it anyway.

Ch 1 pg 9

Kovaks has come back from the dead.  He's part of something called the Envoy Corps.  He is on earth.  The cops want to talk to him.  His new body is a thin white guy 👦 that smokes.  This is way in the future because they refer to earth as an ancient planet.  I guess he's done sort of private investigator or assassin.  He has six weeks to get the job done.

Ch 2 pg pg 15

Tak has been hired by a rich powerful man to solve his murder.  If he succeeds the rewards are great.  If he does anything untward, the punishment will be severe.  The cops tell Tak that his employers case was an open and shut suicide.  The cops say they're going to take him to his employer.  Issue is the employers letter specifically said he'd be sending a driver who was.Also his number one most trustworthy employee.

Ch 3 pg 22

Mr Bancroft is the client.  He is pretty sure he didn't kill himself.  He has beef with the police.  Nobody ever really dies in 2500.  Everyone has digital backups.  Rich people have clones at the ready to have their digital selves transferred into.  Mr Bancroft and his wife are over 250 years old.

Ch 4 pg 36

Take interviews Mrs Bancroft.  She's combative and illusive.  He doesn't get much out of her other than an initial sexual excitement of being near someone so old in such a young body and then after talk to her for a while in her room full of antient maps a feeling of horrified oppression from being surrounded by so much old.

CH 5 pg 41

Mr Bancroft's most dedicated employee and driver Curtis gives Tak a ride to the middling to dangerous part of town so Tak can stay at a moderately affordable hotel.  He goes to the Hendrix hotel.  There's a computer there to great him.  He says he will be staying indefinitely and the computer says he will need to put down  a 600 deposit.  Someone puts a gun to his most important digital implant and says if he doesn't then Tak will be fur real dead.  Then the computer says something odd and Tak has the idea to wipe his spit on it to authorize the DNA payment.  At this point he's a paying customer and the hotel defends him by filling his would be kidnappers with bullet holes.

Ch 6 pg 47

Tak has a long conversation with Ortega, the cop that picked him up at what I'm calling the airport.  They dig a bunch of hardware out of the body parts of the would be kidnappers.  They figure out this is two of the same person.  If they can prove it, the penalty is Erasure.  This is shocking to Tak, cause where he's from that was outlawed a long time ago. Ortega calls Bancroft a Mes, short for Methuselah, and talks about how a lot of Meses lose their humanity, or the start thinking of themselves as human and anyone that hasn't lived hundreds of years as subhuman and disposable. Ortega gives Tak a name he can use as a starting point for his Bancroft investigation.