Ep. 2

Summary

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Doc installs the military Sandevistan in David despite warning that the implant is not designed for an ordinary teenager. The device accelerates David’s perception and movement, allowing him to act before others can react. He immediately returns to Arasaka Academy and repeatedly strikes Katsuo, avenging the earlier beating in full view of school security. The attack gets David expelled, but Katsuo’s father, Arasaka executive Tanaka, becomes interested in David’s unusual tolerance for the implant. With school behind him and no clear plan, David wanders Night City and notices Lucy stealing data chips from corporate commuters. He helps her use the Sandevistan to rob passengers, and the two rapidly earn money together. David overuses the implant, collapses, and is taken back to Doc, who supplies immunosuppressants and sets a strict usage limit. Lucy later brings David to her apartment and shares a braindance of the Moon, explaining that leaving Earth is her dream. Their intimate moment abruptly turns into a trap when Maine’s edgerunner crew arrives, revealing that Lucy has delivered David and the implant to them.