Episode 4

Episode 4 is the fourth episode of the first season of Devs. It is the fourth episode of the series overall.

Synopsis
After Lily's behavior at Amaya, Kenton forces her to see a psychiatrist. Meanwhile, the Devs team disagree over the ethics of their invention, and Forest asserts his commitment to the project.

Plot
SPOILERS AHEAD

The episode opens with the team at Devs sitting together and doing their best to ignore the alarms wailing overhead. Eventually they do stop as Katie remains calm, indifferent to Forest arriving to assess the situation. He sits in the particle-room again and watches the faint outline of a woman crawling away; apparently this is the future and Katie enters the room and tells him he shouldn’t be watching it.

As they keep talking, Katie and Forest talk about the “tram lines”; the cause and effect nature of the past and future and how this can’t be changed. Interestingly they discuss the very nature of reading the future and how it’s as set in time as the past. It’s a fascinating concept and something that’s stumped man for as long as time travel has been a concept in fiction. As we soon learn, the woman crawling away happens to be Lily and as this glimmer collapses on the ground, her future is apparently written for her to be killed.

Lily wakes up at Jamie’s and as they drink coffee together, she tells him the company are going to come after her and kill her. Outside Lily’s house, Kenton arrives asking a Pete where she is. Only, the note in her window is all the proof he needs that Lily has figured out what’s going on.

Eventually Lily does return home, where she finds Kenton waiting. He tells her she needs to go and see a doctor and after some back and forth, begrudgingly she agrees to ride with him in his car. At the office, she and the Doctor discuss more of her past, including her family set-up. While they do, Jamie whips round his apartment and cleans everything.

Lyndon and Stewart stumble upon something in their prediction, with the former bringing the team together to discuss what he found out. Forest hangs back, with a narrowed expression and his gaze unwavering from Lyndon’s face. As he talks about his theories and algorithms, he plays a recording of a crystal-clear voice from the past, which he excitedly proclaims is that of Jesus Christ.

As the group talk excitedly, Forest calls him out and coldly mentions it’s a “cheap party trick”. He goes on to tell him that this algorithm will change so it’s not “our” Jesus per-se but “a” Jesus, one that could have a number of different variations. Sighing heavily, he tells him that he undermined the entire project and fires him.

Kenton drives Lily away after the doctor’s but en-route she pleads with him to stop the car, sensing what he’s about to do. When he refuses, she grabs the steering wheel and spins the car on the freeway and bolts as it crashes into the side. As she heads back to Jamie’s apartment, she snatches up the phone and reports Sergei’s murder to the police. Frantic, Lily tells him they were wrong and holds his hand for support.

Not long after, the police burst through the door, along with Kenton, who arrest Lily on account of her mental instability. As the police take her away, kicking and screaming, Kenton barges into the house and grabs Jamie. As he closes the curtains and the door.

Main

 * Sonoya Mizuno as Lily Chan
 * Nick Offerman as Forest
 * Jin Ha as Jamie
 * Zach Grenier as Kenton
 * Cailee Spaeny as Lyndon
 * Stephen McKinley Henderson as Stewart
 * Alison Pill as Katie

Guest-Starring

 * Corey Johnson as Dr. Goodman
 * Jefferson Hall as Pete
 * Amaya Mizuno-André as Amaya

Co-Starring

 * Amelia Sciandra as Detective
 * Joshua Lacey as Policeman
 * Alejandro De Mesa as Carlos
 * Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Angela
 * Akshay Kumar as Ray
 * Oliver Powell as Ozzy

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