In 2020, we saw the return ofAltered Carbon,a sci-fi cyberpunk television series that follows Envoy-elite fighter, Takesie Kovacs, in his quest to find his love, the visionary Quellcrist Falconer. At the end of the first season, Kovacs learned that his sister, Rei, had been the mastermind behind many crimes committed in and prior to season one. She also was the reason that he had been brought back (his stack, conscious) and put into a new sleeve (body).

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Rei loved her brother, but her love was dangerous. When she and Kovacs were Envoys, Rei was jealous of her brother's love with Quell, the leader/visionary of the Envoy. So, Rei betrayed the Envoys and killed Quellcrist. Fortunately, before Quell could die a real death, Rei had backed-up Quell's consciousness, meaning that Quell was alive. Kovacs decides to search for his love. We begin season two with many questions, and some have been answered. We leave season two with more questions fromboth of the first two seasons.

We know that Quell's consciousness was backed-up by Rei, but we don't know the details about what happened to Quell after that. In Season two, we learn how cruel Rei had really become. Quell was kept in a glass-like coffin, her sleeve made to cool-down and warm-up on repeat, her mind kept awake the whole time. This was for hundreds of years until Rei died, and Quell was freed by another extraordinary force.

All during that time, other than Rei's visits and the elder (the extraordinary force), Quell was kept in solitary. Rei's treatment of Quell further revealed how bad Rei had become, as Quell said, "whatever appetite Reileen harbored for cruelty, immortality made it worse."

Quell was made into a sort of a religious figure in both seasons, as people quote and idolize her. Originally, she had wanted to bring back the real death. While she had been the one who invented stacks (where consciousness can be stored), she discovered that it was being abused by the elite, intensifying class divide. She believed that immortality corrupts; it brings about the worst.

But she was re-sleeved and has now lived for hundreds of years. Her love has been re-sleeved a number of times and lived for hundreds of years. Does she still believe that all must die, including Kovacs and her?

Kovacs thinks of Rei often; it hurts that he was the one to kill his beloved sister. However, he sees it differently. In his memory, he feels like Rei was asking him to kill her. She could have stopped him, but Kovacs believed that she wanted to die. She would never stop what she was doing and the pain she was causing others.

Corrupted by immortality, Kovacs believed that Rei was calling out for help. This idea helps Kovacs deal with the fact that he killed her. Still, Rei's death weighs on him heavily.

Now that Quell is back and that she's revered, quoted, and worshipped, will she create a new Envoy group. While there was a pseudo-group led by a pseudo-leader, Quell could take over and make them a legitimate Envoy group.

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What will be her purpose now that she is back? Loving Kovacs is important to her, but it isn't the most important thing. Quell believes in a higher mission, and, while aspects of the world have changed since she was last an active part of it, certain aspects have either stayed the same or gotten worse. This could give Quell enough motivation to begin again.

Season one ended with Kovacs on a quest to find his long-lost love. This is quickly answered: yes, he finds her. While she is in an altered state when he finds her, his love for her gets through to her, awakening her. Later, he finds a way to help her recover her memories. So, not only does Kovacs find Quell, but he gets through to her, bringing all that is Quell, back. Also, their love is still there, strong.

At the end of season one, Ryker's stack is returned to his sleeve. Ryker's body had been the sleeve that Kovacs wore in season one. He also had been Ortega's love. Ryker, considered a corrupt cop, had been framed after his investigation came close to the truth. Ortega, Kovac's friend, tried to preserve Ryker's sleeve because she wanted Ryker back and back in it.

We end season one with that happening. Were Ortega and Ryker able to enjoy their romance? What happened to this couple?

Poe, our favorite AI, seemingly sacrificed himself to protect his friends. However, since he is an AI, we had high hopes that he would survive. Quickly, we found out that he did, and that Kovacs keeps him close. While he did survive, he wasn't in full recovery since he suffered a number of memory and technological glitches all throughout season two.

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In season two, he appears to help glue/connect the two seasons together.

Kovacs left season one after returning Ryker's sleeve. At first put in the sleeve of a singer as a diagnose, he is later put in the sleeve of an enhanced soldier. The soldier sleeve is strong, has a connection with weapons, and has wolf genes added to it. Most of this comes in handy in the second season except for the wolf gene. When Kovacs runs into the sleeve's former alpha and Kovac's former trainer/father-like figure, he can't fight against him. His sleeve won't let him.

While his sleeve doesn't have the intense back-story of Ryker, a point that seems to make season one just a little stronger, we do learn that Kovac's sleeve was a soldier and had known Quell. While we wish we knew more about this sleeve and the people who were important to the person's life, we weren't told many details. However, what important and interesting thing we learned was that sleeves can have memoriesbody-memories. This idea could be further developed in the third season.

Additionally, now that his season two sleeve died, and it seems like his consciousness was kept safe/backed-up in Poe, he will have another sleeve. So, this question is still pertinent to season three.

Kovacs had been double-sleeved, revealing a younger Kovacs, before Kovacs became part of the Envoy. At first, the younger Kovacs seems like a villain, killing innocent people. However, he changes after realizing that he had been tricked. While this younger Kovac is both the same and different from Kovacs, his storyline could be very different. What will happen to him in season three? Will we get to know more about him and how he also grapples with his sister's death?

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