History NightmareFuel / ThePeripheral2022

** Flynne then tackles Daniel before he can execute Aelita, allowing her erstwhile 'puppet master' to escape, but leaving to the peripheral's "death" when Daniel blasts it in the head.

** The following episode reveals he survived, but only barely. Against squishy human organs, the sonic punch is as good as lethal, putting Pickett ina coma he isn't expected to wake from.

* The Koids are as sinister as ever -- we get a nice long shot of one forming from the inside out, it's glowing skeleton of wires slowly expanding, and furthermore, the Met Police models look relatively human, but this is restricted to the small amount of skin revealed by a balaclava, and the rest of their faces are blank.

* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Tommy's snap decision]] to PayEvilUntoEvil by shooting Jackman and blasting Pickett with the sonic punch can come as somewhat of a shock. Even if Pickett survived the hit -- and it's fairly likely he did -- he'll probably wish otherwise when he wakes up.

* The [[RobotMaid Koids]] are very, very sinister. We're first introduced to them when two ''walk out of the floor'' in front of Peripheral!Burton as he enters the Buckingham Palace party ([[{{Nanomachines}} Thanks to the Assemblers]]). They [[MurderousMannequin look a bit like shop-window dummies]], talk in an eerie synchronised manner, and apparently consist of a bunch of glowing wires with a hollow 'skin' layer stretched over the top, which is revealed when their blank 'faces' split apart.

* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Tommy's snap decision]] to PayEvilUntoEvil by shooting Jackman and blasting Pickett with the sonic punch can come as somewhat of a shock.

* Bob [[DeliberateInjuryGambit opens up a deep gash on his arm]] in order to take Ella hostage at the medical centre, leading to a ''spectacularly'' brutal fight with Reece which averts InstantDeathStab '''hard''' -- the poor guy is shanked roughly a couple of dozen times before going down, and even then Bob has to choke him to death.

* Lowbeer reveals that the stub timeline not only diverges at least a decade back, but that is actually accelerating toward the Jackpot even faster than her timeline did, implicitly intentionally driven by R.I. as part of their research. Considering the already short window before the first event, Flynne's timeline is, to put it simply, about to crash.

* After receiving some medical tests, Dee Dee informs Flynne and Burton that she's suffering from some sort of bacterial infection, which may be the cause of her seizures... But this raises the pressing question of ''[[MindScrew how the hell the bacteria got there]]''? Since the TimeTravel is limited to data, did the signals from the headset somehow induce the microorganism to develop? If so, what [[ParanoiaFuel how much else can it do]] that Flynne doesn't know about?

* The [[ProfessionalKiller eponymous character]] also deserves a mention. A sociopathic [[FightingIrish ex-IRA]] hitman who Koid!Daniel decides to sic on Flynne and Burton after his living self's past failures, he's downright ''terrifying'' during the bowling alley scene:
** The scene is relatively peaceful for a while, as Bob sits at the bar with [[FriendlyEnemy Frank]], who was planning on [[PapaWolf going after his daughter]]. Then Frank's three young sons square up to Bob with the aim of removing him from the premises, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown and perhaps something beyond that]]. When one puts their hand on his shoulder, Bob remarks "[[PreMortemOneLiner I loved you like a brother, Frank]]". He then strikes his would-be-assailant in the throat, whips out a pistol, and guns down all his enemies ''in less than ten seconds'', before [[OffhandBackhand casually dispatching]] the bartender, who had been foolish enough to go for a shotgun.

** His [[TheSocipath mean streak]] is displayed in full shortly after. As he walks back to his car, it turns out one of Frank's sons was NotQuiteDead, and takes a few shots at him while bleeding profusely. Bob almost resignedly ducks under the car, and bends underneath to blast the man with the "sonic punch" gun he'd been given by Daniel. The blast really seems to do a number on him, as he's left paralysed, with blood trickling from his mouth. Bob chastises him for [[ToDumbToLive not just pretending to be dead]], but says he'll let him live [[KickTheDog if he can move out of the way]]. The unfortunate man can do nothing but scream as Bob gets in the car and accelerates towards his prone body...
* And as Bob is transported to jail in Tommy's police cruiser, the vehicle is rammed by one of the invisible SUVs. The last thing Tommy sees before he blacks out are a pair of ornate cowboy boots... Yup, Corbell Pickett has got his hands on the assassin. That can't be good.

** Two years later, a [[ThePlague The Blood Plague]] spread, attacking the viscera in the body, filling it with blood until the abdomen burst.

** Two years later, a deadly [[ThePlague plague]] spread, attacking the viscera in the body, filling it with blood until the abdomen burst.

* We finally get an explanation of the titular Jackpot -- the reason why the future seems so devoid of human beings -- in the form of a kind of 3D animation. There really are a lot fewer human beings in the world, and the reasons are [[BigBlackout every]] [[ThePlague bit]] [[GaiasLament as]] [[NukeEm bad]] as you might expect.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[MedicalHorror Do you know what enucleation means?]][[note]]It gets worse. ''Far'' worse.[[/note]]]]

* Wilf goes to tell Lev that his family are all dead in the stub -- brutally murdered. Lev, who up until now has seemed AffablyEvil at worst, smiles and explains that ''he'' arranged their murders -- ''because he found their existence philosophically disturbing.'' Oh, and he wants access to a stub as a location for things like unsupervised drug testing.

* We finally get an explanation of the titular Jackpot -- the reason why the future seems so devoid of human beings -- in the form of a kind of 3D animation. There really are a lot few human beings in the world, and the reasons are [[BigBlackout every]] [[ThePlague bit]] [[GaiasLament as]] [[NukeEm bad]] as you might expect.

* We finally get an explanation of the titular Jackpot -- the reason why the future seems so devoid of human beings -- in the form of a kind of 3D animation. There really are a lot few human beings in the world, and the reasons are every bit as bad as you might expect.

** When the surgeon's remove Peripheral!Burton's eye, ''there's no GoryDiscretionShot''. It comes out, attached nerves and all, in plain view. {{Squick}}.

** Her brutal execution of Grace, a scientist and Aeilta's friend, who was unfortunate enough to tell Aelita about the RI's TimeTravel work. She invites her for a nice cup of tea in her apiary, and calmly informs he that her tea was laced with pheromones that will [[ScaryStingingSwarm cause her bees to think she's a hornet]]. You can guess the rest.

* ''The eyeball scene''. Dear Lord, '''everything''' about the eyeball scene. It's the page image for a reason. Well, several reasons:

* ''The eyeball scene''. Dear Lord, '''everything''' about the eyeball scene: