History Recap / AlteredCarbonS01E01OutOfThePast

** Stallion, Merge and Reaper are among the drugs offered by the street dealer, while Kovacs sees virtual advertisements for Fightdome and the Raven Hotel. When he checks in at the latter, Poe offers him {{High Class Callgirl}}s from Head in the Clouds.

** Stallion and Reaper are among the drugs offered by the street dealer, while Kovacs sees virtual advertisements for Fightdome and the Raven Hotel. When he checks in at the latter, Poe offers him {{High Class Callgirl}}s from Head in the Clouds.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Jaeger's German is sound although he has an American accent.

* AlienSky: Twin moons are used to show the difference between flashbacks set on Kovacs' planet of origin, Harlan's World, and the contemporary scenes on Earth.

** Stallion and Reaper are among the drugs offered by the street dealer, while Kovacs sees virtual advertisements for the Raven Hotel and Fightdome.

** Stallion and Reaper are among the drugs offered by the street dealer. Kovacs says he'll have AllOfThem.

->''"The first thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see...what you hear. What people tell you...what you think you remember.\\

Let experience wash over you, absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing. Only then can you be prepared for anything. Your body is not who you are. You shed it like a snake sheds its skin, leave it forgotten behind you. One thing I can promise you, coming back from the dead is a bitch. When you wake up the world will not be what it was, and neither will you. They have forgotten who or what we are. Make them remember. There will be places where they'll wait, the people left behind. Wait to see their parents, lovers, children come back to them, riding unfamiliar bodies out from digital exile. They'll look into the eyes of strangers, searching for a glimpse of the person they have lost."''

->''"The first thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see...what you hear. What people tell you...what you think you remember. Let experience wash over you, absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing. Only then can you be prepared for anything. Your body is not who you are. You shed it like a snake sheds its skin, leave it forgotten behind you. One thing I can promise you, coming back from the dead is a bitch. When you wake up the world will not be what it was, and neither will you. They have forgotten who or what we are. Make them remember. There will be places where they'll wait, the people left behind. Wait to see their parents, lovers, children come back to them, riding unfamiliar bodies out from digital exile. They'll look into the eyes of strangers, searching for a glimpse of the person they have lost."''

* BondVillainStupidity: Dimitri wastes time beating up Kovacs and trying to goad him to fight. This only gives him a chance to reach the front desk and touch the console to leave his DNA trace (blood from a split lip) and officially check-in, which gives the Raven the legal right to KillEmAll.

* AlienSky: Twin moons are used to show the difference between flashbacks set on Kovacs' planet of origin, and the contemporary scenes on Earth.

* AfterActionPatchup: The episode opens with one, combined with ShowerOfLove, as Kovacs and his companion clean a copious amount of blood off themselves in a hotel shower, and then proceed to have sex in the same shower.

* NakedOnArrival: Kovacs comes out of cold storage fully naked.

* StartsWithASuicide: But is it a suicide?

* TheNthDoctor: The opening scene has Kovacs re-sleeved, and the actor portraying him switches from Byron Mann to Joel Kinnamen. As a perk his new body comes equipped with military-grade neurochemistry and combat muscle memory.innovate.test

* GladToBeAliveSex: Implied to be the reason Kovacs and his partner hook up in the opening. [[NoodleIncident Whatever]] just happened to them previously, it was bloody and violent. It's somewhat spoiled by the fact that Kovacs is [[ReplacementLoveInterest fantasizing about Quellcrist the whole time]].