Even if Your Husband Removes the Chip He Implanted in Your Brain, He’s Still Not to Be Trusted
Byron appears genuine and sometimes even sweet when he’s interacting with Hazel as he tries to win her back. Early on, he agrees to remove her “Made for Love” chip, along with his. While Hazel is suspicious (she swallows the chips, assuming he won’t actually destroy them), she has no idea he’s secretly made a copy of her consciousness. Why? Well, it’s so that the copy of his consciousness can interact with the copy of Hazel’s consciousness in a stilted, sterile virtual realm where nobody has any genitals—in other words, Byron’s version of heaven. In fact, as we soon learn, that’s what Gogol’s ultimate goal as a company is: creating a virtual afterlife. What could possibly go wrong? Well… keep watching.
