I think she may be more advanced than the others in terms of being able to fit in as human. Either by design, or she just taught herself out of necessity. She has normal looking eyes and can simulate eating. Perhaps she can also simulate sharing?

I'm guessing the police don't require a mandatory medical though, that might be more difficult to pass!

I think the line was "You have died, George", which was even more final

The people who spotted Hobb had wired up Fred are right - I rewatched. Hobb tells Voss that he has a way to know where the other synths are. We then see Fred twitching in way that suggests it's out of his control. It's realistic that Hobb would be able to do that, given his background. So that's one thing answered.

It's Niska .. and at the time we weren't privy to what she whispered in George's ear. The very last thing she said to him before she left the house was: "I wish I could save you. I'm sorry!"

I'd assumed Fred had been tampered with while he was being held, I thought he was giving out their location, maybe without being aware it was happening.

Probably way off though!

When Pete went to Kate Voss' old school to see if there was anyone there who remembered her, he was shown a photograph of a netball team. The member of staff pointed out Voss (who looked nothing like the young Voss - as we know her - would have looked in her youth) and said that she had died the following year from lymphoma.

Would this have been David Estler's way in to legitimately give his Beatrice substitute an identity for the future? But no, surely not, because he made her to replace his wife, so of course he called her Beatrice too.

So what was the school picture all about?

I've noticed on 4od that the Humans catch-up programmes are all denoted 'Series 1 Episodes 1/2/3, etc.'.

This would tend to give the impression that there's a second series planned. Do we know what the future holds?

It showed Pete (and us) that "Voss" had taken on the identity of someone who had died as a child. Elster didn't give her that ID, she did.

It's a genuine form of identity theft, and is often used in fiction.

Niska scares the hell out of me!

I took it to mean he just grabbed any spare chassis that was lying around - he presumably had a shed full of standard models for his research and wasn't all that interested in the external features because his main interest was to take off the lid and poke around with a soldering iron.

It does look like there's a whole series of standard heads (though not interchangeable, comedic moments denied!) or faces and it would be possible to either do some randomised tweaks so they look recognisably different (useful to identify which butler saw exactly what) or to randomly generate a new one. Maybe.

Same! The actress is very good, as she plays a complete nutter very convincingly.

I do like Gemma Chan, but I almost get the feeling that she spent too long training to be Anita, as she doesn't seem as 'human' as the other synths when playing Mia. It might just be me.

That said, I think Ruth Bradley has played Beatrice more synth like since the reveal. Before that, it was almost impossible to tell; there were just a few subtle hints that she might not be human.

It's a shame George had to die - I really like William Hurt, and his connection with Odi was sweet. I suppose Odi will be truly scrapped now which is a shame as Will Tudor was great in the role.

She probably does share (not everything obviously).

The others kept themselves hidden away so never got into the habit of Sharing with normal synths. As long as Karen shared and never tried to give an order to a normal synth, normal synths would not announce to the world that she was a Synth.


None of them are in human bodies.

There's probably laws that a synth can't look exactly like a living person (though you may well have some public figures with synths looking just like them for security purposes.)

Actually watched the first few minutes of the Swedish version earlier today and the Odi in that looks plastic.


Karen/Beatrice just took the identity of the dead girl to blend into society.




Found it amusing that Mia joked about Synths taking over the planet only for her to find out later that the others know a way this could happen.


As to Fred, yeah it seems pretty clear he'd been hacked by Hobbs to send a signal out once all the rogue synths were together.

It's such a shame they killed off William Hurt. It was a very powerfull scene but now they've lost him if they get another series.

I think Voss is the same in the scenes when she has to be mistaken for a human - it's just that now we're seeing her in scenes where she doesn't have to so she isn't putting it on. As for Anita/Mia - I think she's very different in the two. Watch the very beginning again when you see Mia. She's at least as 'human' as Fred and Max. Niska has always seemed a bit more human. Maybe because of how Elster treated her... .

So how and why was Leo eating? I'm pretty sure he was plugged into a hand dryer in a previous episode when he was on the run with Max.

He's an upgraded version I assume, the Son of the creator.

Cause otherwise he would die.

Leo is human, just with synth technology inside him.


He has to plug in now and then to keep his part synth brain working.

Leo is a cyborg, like RoboCop.

He was a young boy who drowned, and was re animated by his dad using synth technology and parts.

Some synth parts were put inside him to give him life, and a synth brain to store his memories.

Why are you watching a series you clearly do not enjoy enough to even bother to get to know the characters' names?

I haven't quite given up on Odi

Could be wishful thinking but....

Odi has been taken to the lab to see if they can extract any memories from him as to what happened when George was killed before being scrapped.

The other Synths will probably end up at the lab to be studied before decommissioning/killing them

Hobb is not unsympathetic and a scientist so may allow them to work out what is hidden in their programming.....and if it is a way to make synths conscious then maybe Odi, being handy, will be their guinea pig.....


Or maybe what is hidden in their heads is Esher as I originally thought but I am hoping they make Odi a 'real little boy'

Has the series already started transmission in the US? I was wondering how it is being received there.

The season started in the US on June 28 two weeks after the UK showing of the first episode. There's an interesting professional review here.

The wiki page suggests they are a few episodes behind us in US/Canada. It's being broadcast on AMC (I have never heard of that channel) as they part-funded the series after XBox studios went under.

Would be interesting to see if they try and bring George back as a synth in the second series. He could have some useful info about David or the general concept of Synths they require to achieve something

AMC are responsible for such brilliant shows as Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Mad Men to name but a few.

I think it could've been a terrific show, but the wooden acting and perfunctory writing has been a consistent drag.

Being a joint-production with AMC, I was expecting something a bit more polished.

Oic, TWD + AMC does sound familiar. To be fair I don't watch a lot of dramas (time consuming). Heard of BB + MM obvs.

I was looking forward to a couple of plot points from the Swedish version showing up in ours. Especially the Can't see that happening now.