He discovers his child is asian, which he nor Beth has those features. He finds this out because he found out Beth had died from a tragic train accident, which then had the block removed so he could now see his child. He finally makes out it is a girl, but then finds out it is not his. When she finally has the baby, he cannot she the child because the block extended to the child, but he can only see the silhouette.

He knows she spends christmas with her father who lives near him, so he spends the next few months watching her and sees her pregnancy stages when she is at her father’s house. He writes her letters for months, but gets no replies. He finds out Beth left her job from his friends Tim and Gita. Beth places a Z-Eye “block” on Joe,which means she cannot hear or see him, and leaves him the next day, unable to hear his apology because of his block.

Joe gets drunk and angry at Beth because he thinks she is being selfish and guilty of harming their unborn baby. Beth does not want the child and plans to have an abortion. After dinner Joe finds a pregnancy test in the trash, and thinks he will be a dad. One day they were having dinner with their friends Time and Gita, but Joe got drunk and Beth was mad. Joe had a serious relationship with a girl named Beth, but they broke up because Joe was an alcoholic. After joe gets a little drunk, Joe finally tells Matt his story about how his girlfriend’s father never likes him and explains his situation. In the present day, Joe doe snot like Matt’s career, in which later Matt observes Joe is a good person. Her cookie becomes catatonic and finally had the will to break. When she refuses to cooperate, he alters her “cookie”, making her experience six months of boredom and isolation, which in reality is just a few seconds. Matt provides her with a virtual body, a white room, and a computer desk to carry out her tasks. Matt helps accommodate a wealthy women named Greta. These chips can be removed and used in an egg shaped device to run as a personal assistant to the original person. Technology had created a tiny chip, also referred to as a “cookie”, which can temporarily implanted into someone’s brain to create a copy of someone’s consciousness. Matt describes his real profession in a flashback. Joe is hesitant to answer, so Matt answers his own question first explaining why he came. Matt is preparing Christmas dinner and talk to Joe about what brought him to the remote station in the middle of nowhere, which is something they have never talked about since they moved there, five years ago. To pass some time, they tell each other about their lives. The film Black Mirror begins with two men Matt and Joe who are living at a remote station in the middle of the snow filled wilderness.

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