Dark Matter
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Matt, his faithful bartender, tells him hes just missed last call, betraying no sign of recognition.
Jason B, meanwhile, wakes up next to his beautiful wife.
Hes unimpressed with the clothes he finds in his closet but awed by the sight of his sleeping son.
She also tells him that theyve found no record of the wife and son he asked them to contact.
Jason B admonishes these kids to respect the opportunity!
His newfound passion anger, even makes his audience sit up straight.
She greets him and immediately introduces him to her agent.
The Jason who inspired the show?
Ryan arrives, but he looks different from the one we met before.
Hes puffier, bearded, and with more desperation in his eyes.
Daniela invites both men to a smaller gathering later, then goes off to play host.
Ryan wants to know where Jason A has been.
Thereve been rumors of his psychiatric break and/or death.
He asks how those compounds I made for you worked out.
Jason perks up at the mention of Velocity, which enrages Ryan.
Before he can lay into Jason, Daniela silences the room to welcome everyone to her exhibition.
Strong disagree, Jason B interjects, contradicting his counsel from a day before.
Relationships are a negotiation, and whoever speaks first kind of loses, he says.
Thats a cynical view of love, my love, Daniela says.
But shes too besotted by her husbands newfound passion to question his sudden shift in personality too closely.
Daniela asks Jason A.
Ruling out LSD and multi-tiered deepfake punking, Ryan says the guy experiencing all this must be crazy.
Jason A asks Daniela B if he really inspired her show.
You told me that our existence is all about choices, she answers.
You said our choices create worlds, and so theoretically, we simultaneously inhabit an infinite number of them.
Jason B went on to tell her that his worst choice was the one hed made with her.
And that he was working on a secret project.Andthat hed probably never see her again.
His first words to her in years were to ask where Charlie was.
So now Daniela B wants to know: Whos Charlie?
Our son, Jason A tells her.
To Ryan B, this all sounds like a particularly cruel joke.
Daniela B is more receptive to Jason As story, however.
She invites him to stay with her until they can figure out whats happening.
After she goes to bed, Jason A takes a rubber band and puts it on his ring finger.
Jason B stole his wedding band, but Jason A wants a physical reminder of what hes lost.
As he concludes the call, the camera zooms in on his wedding band.
Jason is struck by a monochrome photograph of a waterfall.
Ive never been there, Daniela B says.
It was the trip of a lifetime, Jason A assures her.
Jason goes upstairs into what should be their sons bedroom.
Daniela B is exhibiting a near-superhuman capacity for empathy.
This all feels like the kind of lame, over-explanatory stuff youd shoot for a trailer.
The episodes final moments are much, much better.
Daniela B asks Jason A what their marriage is like.
she asks, and he blushes.
Theyre both vulnerable enough that she ventures a kiss.
Through the peephole, Jason A recognizes Dawn, Velocitys leg-breaker.
General Relativity
Composer Jason Hills score forDark Matterhas been exceptional thus far.
Fine work from the composer ofGone Girland other David Fincher projects.
