Episode 1

Episode 1 is the first episode of the first season of Devs. It is the first episode of the series overall.

Synopsis
When her boyfriend Sergei vanishes after starting a new job at the secretive Devs division of tech company Amaya, software engineer Lily begins to suspect that his disappearance may not be as clear-cut as it seems.

Plot
SPOILERS AHEAD

This episode begins at Park Vista Apartments, as Lily Chan and Sergei head out their apartment and travel across the city to work. Once there, Sergei pitches an idea to the head developers, Forest and Katie, who both look impressed with his work. At the end of the presentation, Forest invite him to join the secretive branch of the company called Devs.

The next day he’s brought into a meeting with the head of security named Kenton, who tells him he can’t disclose anything about the company before asking him questions about beliefs and religion. Eventually this cold welcome paves way for Forest to arrive, who officially invites him into the project. They walk together through the woods and discuss Devs, while Lily watches from afar as they walk away from the main complex. Isolated and far away from other people, the duo make it to the Devs building, complete with strange gold bars outside.

Inside, the place is a work of art. Pulsating gold walls, glass doors and an open-plan set-up hide something oddly off-kilter about the place. Sergei admires the main processor showcased in the middle of the room before eventually being shown to his computer and work station. Unfortunately things start to go awry when Sergei feels sick and finds himself in the bathroom throwing up.

Eventually he returns to his desk where Katie approaches him with a bottle water. He asks her about the code infront of him and, wide-eyed, he tells her if the code is true it changes everything. She disagrees though, going on to nonchalantly tell him it changes nothing which is the point of their experiment.

Outside, he runs into Forest who accuses him of stealing his code. After offering his hand for forgiveness, Sergei makes his choice and runs right into Kenton who tackles him to the ground and chokes him out with a carrier bag.

Meanwhile, Lily awakens to find Sergei missing and immediately suspects something is wrong. At the company, she speaks to Kenton about Sergei’s disappearance but he shows her footage of him walking away from the complex that night. Forest arrives not long after and feigns surprise, telling her they’ll go by the book and phone the police to report him missing.

Not content with this, Lily does her own investigating back home, partly thanks to obtaining Sergei’s phone. She finds a suspicious app for Sudoku, commenting that Sergei hated the game out loud. When she tries to open it however, the password protected app leads her out to find someone to help, Jamie, who she tells about Sergei’s disappearance. Spelling it out, she wants his help cracking Sergei’s phone as it may hold some clues. Instead, he tells her to go fuck herself given their history, and leaves her sitting alone in contemplation.

In the middle of the night, Lily is called in to the company where footage of Sergei covering himself in petrol and igniting himself is shown to her. It’s all too much and she charges through the complex to the site the burning occurred, subsequently finding his charred remains on the ground.

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
 * Karl Glusman as Sergei
 * Alison Pill as Katie

Guest-Starring

 * Jefferson Hall as Pete
 * Linnea Berthelsen as Jen
 * Aimee Mullins as Anya
 * Amaya Mizuno-André as Amaya

Co-Starring

 * Caitlin Kimball as Callie
 * Shay Vawn as Ronnie
 * Alejandro De Mesa as Carlos
 * Akshay Kumar as Ray
 * Oliver Powell as Ozzy
 * Eysteinn Sigurðarson as Lazlo
 * Liz Eldridge as Cop

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