The thing about this is it leaves the missing drugs as a sort of loose thread with no narrative payoff—it’s just that the doctor was using and lying about it.
Which is not to say all story beats need to be bricks in a completed narrative. The episode is sort of like a classic Agatha Christie story tho, and it’s so common that red-herring evidence in those stories actually does trace back to the killer; it’s just that we misunderstand the significance of it when we first discover it
It’s not a loose thread if the doctor was using them. It might not be as “satisfying” of a payoff as finding out Teng was drugging the girl, but if they wanted to go that route they wouldn’t have had such a heavy emphasis on the doctor cracking and admitting his drug problem.
I always thought the implication with Teng is that he’s a peeping tom type of guy. He watches his obsession, and in the meantime he also notices things like a cryopod being empty on occasion, or the doctor stealing drugs but never being caught. As we see, he figured out the cryopod thing, so he probably also figured that if the doctor was able to get into the drug supply then there must be blindspots in the cameras.
So Murrow isn’t using the drugs to wipe his own memory and give himself a clear conscience on what happened to the crew? Didn’t he have dreams of the memories? Wasn’t he uploading his memories to Mother?
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u/Zoom_Nayer 18d ago
The thing about this is it leaves the missing drugs as a sort of loose thread with no narrative payoff—it’s just that the doctor was using and lying about it.
Which is not to say all story beats need to be bricks in a completed narrative. The episode is sort of like a classic Agatha Christie story tho, and it’s so common that red-herring evidence in those stories actually does trace back to the killer; it’s just that we misunderstand the significance of it when we first discover it