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* Yes she'd suffered a cranium rupture but being that her brain was still intact that's well within the capability of medical techs to fix so long as she wasn't dead too long. Combined with David having taken out a Trauma Team plan for the whole crew using the pay from various gigs after he took over, he wasn't risking a repeat of what happened to the last person he cared about, they got to her shortly after Smasher left the area. She's still in recovery under pseudonym at one of the hospitals in Night City so she ended up missing rent and losing her apartment. Kiwi would have as well but the contract David took contained a Judas clause at his request that she tripped by turning on them automatically terminating her plan.

[[WMG: The music video for "Let You Down" by Dawid Podsiadło takes place during the events of the show, not before it, and Sasha's death triggers Maine's descent into cyberpsychosis.]]
The start of the music video shows the character of Sasha having drinks with Rebecca, Dorio and Maine at the Afterlife. In the show, we see that initially, Rebecca is refused to be allowed into the Afterlife, resulting in her pulling a gun on the bouncers before David sneaks her in and Rogue allowing her in due to being impressed with David's speed. If she had been at the Afterlife before, she would have been allowed in by the events of the show and the scene where she's refused entry wouldn't have occurred. If the music video is set before the events of the show, Rebecca wouldn't have been sitting with the group, as she would have been denied entry into the bar. That places the music video within the events of the show, as it could easily take place during one of the times where the rest of the crew are off screen. Seeing that David didn't know about Rebecca after joining the crew for his first gig, it's safe to say that Sasha may have not been introduced to David, with her being brought in on an occasion where she's needed (this is not too dissimilar from the fact that both Kiwi and Lucy, both highly skilled Netrunners serving on the crew. Faraday referred to Lucy as the group's backup Netrunner after Maine had inadvertently put Kiwi out of commission). By the events of the music video taking place during the events of the show, Sasha's death may explain why Maine was so keen to not cut back on the chrome, leading to him having cyberpsychosis, tying into the running theme of trauma leading characters down paths that eventually lead to their end, with David being a prime example of this theme. Maine may have blamed himself for Sasha's death, which resulted in him increasing his chrome to try to protect the remaining members of the group, much like what happens with David after Maine's death.

* Yes she'd suffered a cranium rupture but being that her brain was still intact that's well within the capability of medical techs to fix so long as she wasn't dead too long. Combined with David having taken out a Trauma Team plan for the whole crew using the pay from various gigs after he took over, he wasn't risking a repeat of what happened to the last person he cared about, they got to her shortly after Smasher left the area. She's still in recovery under pseudonym at one of the hospitals in Night City so she ended up missing rent and losing her apartment. Kiwi would have as well but the contract David took contained a Judas clause at his request that she tripped by turning on them automatically terminating her plan.

* Yes she'd suffered a cranium rupture but being that her brain was still intact that's well within the capability of medical techs to fix so long as she wasn't dead too long. Combined with David having taken out a Trauma Team plan for the whole crew using the pay from various gigs after he took over they got to her shortly after Smasher left the area, she's still in recovery under pseudonym at one of the hospitals in Night City so she ended up missing rent and losing her apartment. Kiwi would have as well but the contract David took contained a Judas clause at his request that she tripped by turning on them automatically terminating her plan.

** According to Mike Pondsmith, Smasher is a high-functioning Cyberpsycho who has the benefit of having state-of-the-art cybernetics custom-made for him as well as having a job that allows him to commit mass violence.

** Nah, Smasher's already gone Cyberpsycho, since before 2023. His stats in Shockwave (2023) list his EMPathy stat as "Yeah, right...", and the fact that when he was freelancing, all his gigs REQUIRED Collateral Damage and civilian casualties? Yeah, He'd gone full Cyberpsycho; He just happened to break in a way that was controllable by Arasaka.

** That said, you still permanently kill Smasher if you raid the tower, what with Alt basically absorbing Mikoshi.

* Smasher, as a long-time Arasaka employee is just an engram on a Relic chip. Which is why he's still so effective over 50 years after the 4th Corporate War. If he's ever defeated or finally goes psycho, a new body is prepped and the most recent backup engram loaded into it. Smasher has gone through dozens of bodies by 2077.

** Further compounded to not be the case as she takes a deep breath and smiles as she basks in the sun like David did in the braindance, making clear she's trying to process grief rather than having a mental break that could lead to cyberpsychosis.

** Not likely, given that she doesn't have the characteristic glitched-out eyes used to represent cyberpsychosis here.

* Near the end of the series Lucy is seen with a mirages of David. But what if those are not reflection of her memories, but halucinations, and Lucy's traumas are taking toll, turning BittersweetEnding into full DownerEnding?

* Near the end of the series Lucy is seen with a mirages of Davis. But what if those are not reflection of her memories, but halucinations, and Lucy's traumas are taking toll, turning BittersweetEnding into full DownerEnding?

* It’s not often an edgerunner’s final moments is to tell Adam Smasher, the NC Boogeyman himself, to go fuck themselves while getting in one last shot at him. And given how Rebecca is easily the show’s most popular character, this will be reflected in future content to ''2077'' as well as the tabletop.

* Going further back, a second season could go into more detail about the final days of the Fourth Corporate War leading up to Johnny Silverhand’s fateful raid on Arasaka Tower, while providing a chance for audiences to see Morgan Blackhand, Boa Boa Weyland and other characters from the tabletop for the first time.

It’s not often an edgerunner’s final moments is to tell Adam Smasher, the NC Boogeyman himself, to go fuck themselves while getting in one last shot at him. And given how Rebecca is easily the show’s most popular character, this will be reflected in future content to ''2077'' as well as the tabletop.

* It’s not often an edgerunner’s final moments is to tell Adam Smasher, the NC Boogeyman himself, to go fuck themselves while getting one last shot at him. And given how Rebecca is easily the show’s most popular character, this will be reflected in future content to ''2077'' as well as the tabletop.

* Rather than a Street-Kid again for a second season, the next season could focus on a Nomad or a Corpo, similar to the Lifepaths in the game.

** One of the legends brought up this time around will be V.

-->"You've never heard of V? Now ''that's'' a surprise - thought everyone knew them by now. No one knows where they came from - some say they were a streetkid, some say they used to ride with the ol' Bakker clan, hell, some even say that V used to be one of them suits up in Arasaka Tower. Whatever the reason, they popped up outta nowehre and sooner or later, everybody knew that if you wanted preem shit done, you called V. Last anyone heard, they raided Arasaka Tower and even managed to bring down ''Adam Smasher'' himself, but after that, nobody knows."

-->"You've never heard of V? Now ''that's'' a surprise - thought everyone knew them by now. No one knows where they came from - some say they were a streetkid, some say they used to ride with the ol' Bakker clan, hell, some even say that V used to be one of them suits up in Arasaka Tower. Whatever the reason, they popped up outta nowehre and sooner or later, everybody knew that if you wanted preem shit done, you called V. Last anyone heard, they raided Arasaka Tower and even managed to bring down ''Adam Smasher'' himself, but after that, nobody knows."

-->"You've never heard of V? Now ''that's'' a surprise - thought everyone knew them by now. No one knows where they came from - some say they were a streetkid, some say they used to ride with the ol' Bakker clan, hell, some even say that V used to be one of them suits up in Arasaka Tower. Whatever the reason, they popped up outta nowehre and sooner or later, everybody knew that if yoi wanted preem shit done, you called V. Last anyone heard, they raided Arasaka Tower and even managed to bring down ''Adam Smasher'' himself, but after that, nobody knows."

** One of the legends brought up this time around will be V. "You've never heard of V? Now ''that's'' a surprise - thought everyone knew them by now. No one knows where they came from - some say they were a streetkid, some say they used to ride with the ol' Bakker clan, hell, some even say that V used to be one of them suits up in Arasaka Tower. Whatever the reason, they popped up outta nowehre and sooner or later, everybody knew that if yoi wanted preem shit done, you called V. Last anyone heard, they raided Arasaka Tower and even managed to bring down ''Adam Smasher'' himself, but after that, nobody knows."