- Kennex and Dorian respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him, and inexplicably knew his exact time of death. As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely "shut off." As the team fights to find the pulse of this 2048 tech-centric crime, Dorian reconnects with a decommissioned DRN.—Anonymous
- A man goes to see a hologram doctor, but she freezes before delivering her diagnosis. Another man busts in with a gun and holds it on a nurse until he's brought into the back, demanding a cardiovascular surgeon and a specific bypass machine he reads from a note, saying he's going to have a heart attack. He's trying to get the doctors to act when he actually has a heart attack. He slumps to the floor saying "they killed me."
John and Dorian are in the car when Dorian gives John a hard time for running a red light. John tells Dorian he should try breaking a rule sometime. John sarcastically tells Dorian to write him a ticket, so Dorian issues one from his head to the system, telling John that insurance premiums are designed to keep people in check. They get called to the scene.
At the clinic, another DRN like Dorian is repairing the holographic doctor. Dorian thinks it's sad -- they were designed to be cops.
The victim is Leonard Lee. He was diagnosed three years ago with terminal congestive heart failure -- he should have died then.
The doctor looks over Leonard's records and finds nothing about a heart transplant. They review security footage, in which Leonard says "it's almost 9:18!" -- which was his time of death.
Back in the car, Dorian gets in the car with DRN 494, excited to take him on a ride along. John refuses to start the car, so Dorian does it remotely for him. "You think this is the first time I've done this?" Dorian asks. He throws John's words back at him, telling him he should break a law sometime, and John acquiesces to letting the other Dorian join them.
In the backseat, DRN 494 entertains himself by blowing air out his lips like a three-year-old. Rudy calls with a report on the victim's biomechanical heart, a top of the line Vastral Alpha. He finds a tiny chip inside the heart, but isn't sure what it is yet.
When Dorian annoys John with the same air-blowing move, John stops the car and tells one of them to get out. DRN 494 hops out of the backseat and runs -- at a man trying to get into a car. He tackles him. The man's partner gets out of the car and runs off. The car they were getting into rolls down the block into a fire hydrant, setting off a spectacular chain of events that includes it rocketing into the air and taking out a drone flying overhead, which then careens off a few buildings and dive bombs into an MX writing a motorist a ticket, smashing the MX into a car.
When Dorian and John reach DRN 494, he has a man pinned to the ground. 494 has ID'd him as Raphael Vasquez, wanted for armed robbery. From the ground, Raphael says he did his time and 494 should update his files.
"I gave him his case files back, obviously they're outdated. My bad," Dorian says. He admits he gave him access to some police records, too.
John hears from Maldonado, who is super not happy about the damage and the destroyed MX.
John is really angry and doesn't understand why Dorian is so set on making 494 a cop again. Dorian explains that when he was asleep, he just kept hoping someone would wake him up so he could be a cop again. "You were that guy for me, John. I want to be that guy for him," Dorian says.
John relents, but tells Dorian that if 494 leaves the car, he's tossing him. "I'm going to be that guy for him," John says.
Back at the station, Detective Stahl meets with the victim's mother, who says Leonard had the transplant a year ago in an abandoned building.
Dorian and John follow up at Vastral Industires. There's a donation solicitation request for providing the biomechanical technology for children. Dorian nags John into donating, since he has a synthetic leg.
John and Dorian meet with an administrator at Vastral, Pauline Rivera, who ID's Leonard's heart as theirs, but says they didn't put it in him. She says the chip Rudy found isn't part of it. Her files show the heart was registered to a woman named Sylvia, who died two years ago.
When a person dies, the funeral home is supposed to harvest the biomechanical organ and destroy it. They send Vastral proof -- in the form of a document. John is not impressed with the "fail safe."
Someone washes off a biomech heart.
Dr. Keating goes to meet an older couple, telling the woman, Amelia, that he can find her a heart.
John and his Dorians go to Trimeddan funeral home to follow up on Sylvia's cremation two years ago. They confront the crematorium worker, Henry, who confesses he sold it and a hundred others. He argues that the resale law is only there to ensure the biomech companies make money.
Stahl calls John to report that Leonard Lee made the same payment every month since he got the heart.
Rudy checks in, saying the chips were essentially timers set to 30 days, and if someone didn't reset them remotely, the hearts would stop working. That's how Leonard knew when his time was up. It's an extortion racket.
John tells Henry to call his organ dealing contact, Oscar.
Waiting in the car for Oscar, 494 reviews his files and wonders why he's not a cop anymore. Dorian explains that some were unstable. They came up with a Luger test to determine which were faulty, but the powers that be got nervous and decommissioned the whole line. Dorian isn't sure the Luger test was even accurate.
Dorian shows 494 some of his upgrades, including the fact that his eyeballs are now removable cameras.
Oscar finally arrives at the funeral home for the organ pick-up then takes the box with the GPS chip.
Detective Paul follows him to a warehouse. They listen as Oscar delivers the heart. More cops pull up outside. John has everyone wait and listen.
Inside, Keating drops the timer chip into the heart.
They hear Oscar ask: "Can I watch while you cut her?" The police rush in and revive Amelia. She's upset, asking why they stopped, she needs the heart.
Later, Henry harvests another biomech heart and gets a call from a woman, Karen, telling him the cops are swarming and he shouldn't reset any of the hearts timers. Henry's facing a wall of timers.
In the station, Oscar claims to simply be a courier.
Amelia tells Stahl the police didn't save her, they killed her.
On the phone, Henry tells Karen that people are calling trying to pay them.
Keating tells John he's not the one running things.
Oscar says he gets paid by electronic transfer every month.
Karen reminds Henry that if she goes down, he's going down too. Then he asks if she's at home and says he'll be there shortly. A name marked "K. Lee" only has seconds left, "N. Walters" has minutes.
A nervous Asian woman tries to get through to make her payment, but can't.
Keating insists to John that he's just helping people. John asks about the timers. Keating thinks they're for remote diagnostics. Keating realizes he was manipulated. He gives them the name Karen.
The police sit around the table and go over their investigation as people with transplants realize their time is about to run out and they can't pay.
Facing the screen of timers, Henry debates pressing reset. But he walks away as they all count down to zero.
Later, at the scene of N. Walters' and K. Lee's death -- they find bitcoin waiting to be paid. John realizes they were right, the extortionists are shutting down.
Stahl calls from Walters' scene and says all the victims applied for aid through the same Vastral program, but were denied by the same administrator for lack of insurance. The administrator was Pauline Rivera.
John goes back to Pauline to confront her. At the station, Maldonado shows her picture to Keating -- but he says it's not her.
At Vastral, Pauline insists she's the only one with access to the information. John notices her assistant is gone.
At the station, Keating IDs the assistant as the woman who approached him.
John and Dorian storm a house and Dorian's thermal imaging finds the shape of a body on the floor, and bleach residue. The idea of a body gets them thinking about how whoever's doing this wouldn't just let good biomech hearts go to waste when people are unable to pay, but they have no records of bodies being found without hearts.
"Who do we know who gets rid of bodies?" John says.
Cut to Henry, about to incinerate "Karen."
At the funeral home, when John gets out of the car, Dorian tries to give his gun to 494, telling him he can be helpful in the car by following protocol if anyone comes out. But 494 won't take the gun, he admits he's terrified.
Dorian and John head inside and find Henry. He runs off. Dorian pauses and listens. While John is chasing Henry down a hallway, Dorian reaches through the wall and grabs him.
Back at the station, Stahl says Vastral is replacing all the second hand hearts at no cost.
In interrogation, Henry looks at Dorian and wonders what it must be like to have all the time in the world.
Dorian checks on 494, who's reviewing his old cases. He remembers a case where a man with a shotgun was in a rage and threatening to kill his girlfriend's son, who was hiding. 494 used his thermal imaging to find the hiding boy and, knowing it was a matter of time before he was found, went in against protocol and killed the man. When he found the boy, the boy just hugged him. "That look was the most human connection I've ever had," 494 says. "That was my proudest moment as a cop, I didn't realize how much I missed that."
Maldonado comes in and sees the two DRNs and yells for John.
Later that night, John drops both of them off at 494s job. "You're an incredible cop, I'm sorry you couldn't have been one for longer," Dorian tells him. Dorian scans 494 and takes away his memory of his cases he gave him, but leaves the memory of the boy.
When Dorian gets back in the car, John asks if he's ok. "You know what would make me feel better? If you let me drive," Dorian says. John considers it, but says no.
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