History Recap / AlteredCarbonS01E10TheKillers

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Poe disintegrates, Mickey tries to use the situation to disarm one of the Ghostwalker's mooks. Such a move usually has a high success rate in fiction but here Mickey dies trying.

* PetTheDog: Laurens faces his arrest with dignity, and hands over his business empire to Isaac, admitting that he should have done it long ago.

* VillainsWantMercy: Once Ortega has the Ghostwalker on the ropes, he starts desperately pleading for her not to kill him. She does it any way for what he did to her family.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Poe disintegrates, Mickey tries to use the situation to disarm one of the Ghostwalker's mooks. Such a move usually has a high success rate in fiction but here Mickey dies trying.

* BigDamnHeroes: Lizzie Elliot, who uploads her consciousness into a synth body on ''Head In The Clouds'' so she can save her parents and work with them to crash the ship.

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend:

* WouldHurtAChild: For all her talk of loving her children, Miriam only loves ''her'' children, and won't accept Laurens Bancroft having a child with anyone else, which might usurp her position.

** As shown with [[Recap/AlteredCarbonS01E05TheWrongMan Carnage]] and the synth-stripper performing for Kovacs in the first episode, synthetic sleeves have the ability of VoluntaryShapeShifting, changing their appearance at will. Lizzie, after needlecasting into one of Head in the Clouds synthetic sleeves, morphs from a generic female into her original appearance.
* ColonyDrop: Averted. Lucky for the protagonists, Head in the Clouds was orbiting above the former San Francisco Bay, meaning there were no casualties from the impact, save those already in the satellite.

** As shown in the first episode (with the synth-stripper performing for Kovacs) synthetic sleeves have the ability of VoluntaryShapeShifting, changing their appearance at will. Lizzie, after needlecasting into one of Head in the Clouds synthetic sleeves, morphs from a generic female into her original appearance.

* TheReveal: Miriam Bancroft is responsible for Lizzie's madness. Laurens had impregnated Lizzie as one of her johns, and Lizzie visited Sun Touch House to tell him. Instead she found Miriam, who attacked her and forced a miscarriage when Lizzie refused to be bribed into an abortion. (As she would later admit, she was probably avoiding a [[HeroicBastard child-of-wedlock situation that will]] [[MamaBear complicate her children's inheritance]].) She then had Prescott reach out to Reileen to "fix the problem", and Reileen then had Lizzie kidnapped and tortured at the Wei Clinic, which resulted in Lizzie being DrivenToMadness. Reileen then blackmailed Miriam with the information, forcing Miriam to drug Laurens with Stallion. Laurens, in his addled state, murdered a prostitute at Head in the Clouds. Mary Lou witnessed the murder, and tried to escape by jumping from the base, gambling that she would be re-sleeved. Reileen had planned to blackmail Laurens into stopping the Neo-Catholic legislation, but he committed suicide out of guilt so that his backup wouldn't remember the murder.

* KarmicDeath: Ghostwalker/Leung is KilledOffForReal by Ortega, with the same weapon that he used to kill her partner and her family.

* TheReveal: Miriam Bancroft is responsible for Lizzie's madness. Laurens had impregnated Lizzie as one of her johns, and Lizzie visited Sun Touch House to tell him. Instead she found Miriam, who attacked her and forced a miscarriage when Lizzie refused to be bribed into a miscarriage. (As she would later admit, she was probablly avoiding a [[HeroicBastard child-of-wedlock situation that will]] [[MamaBear complicate her children's inheritance]].) She then had Prescott reach out to Reileen to "fix the problem", and Reileen then had her tortured at the Wei Clinic and DrivenToMadness. Reileen then blackmailed Miriam with the information, forcing her to drug Laurens with Stallion, who set off the events by murdering a prostitute at Head in the Clouds and forcing Mary Lou to flee.

* RealityEnsues: When Poe disintegrates, Mickey tries to use the situation to disarm one of the Ghostwalker's mooks. Such a move usually has a high success rate in fiction but here Mickey dies trying.

** Same with Miriam, at least in Laurens' eyes; upon hearing she drugged him into the rage-induced [[FinalDeath Real Death]] of two prostitutes as vengeance for his philandering, he is genuinely remorseful.

* TheReveal: Miriam Bancroft is responsible for Lizzie's madness. Laurens had impregnated Lizzie as one of her johns, and Lizzie visited Sun Touch House to tell him. Instead she found Miriam, who attacked her and forced a miscarriage when Lizzie refused to be bribed into a miscarriage. (As she would later admit, she was probablly avoiding a RoyalBastard situation that complicate her children's inheritance.) She then had Prescott reach out to Reileen to "fix the problem", and Reileen then had her tortured at the Wei Clinic and DrivenToMadness. Reileen then blackmailed Miriam with the information, forcing her to drug Laurens with Stallion, who set off the events by murdering a prostitute at Head in the Clouds and forcing Mary Lou to flee.

* TheReveal: Miriam Bancroft is responsible for Lizzie's madness. Laurens had impregnated Lizzie as one of her johns, and Lizzie visited Sun Touch House to tell him. Instead she found Miriam, who attacked her and forced a miscarriage when Lizzie refused to be bribed into a miscarriage. She then had Prescott reach out to Reileen to "fix the problem", and Reileen then had her tortured at the Wei Clinic and DrivenToMadness. Reileen then blackmailed Miriam with the information, forcing her to drug Laurens with Stallion, who set off the events by murdering a prostitute at Head in the Clouds and forcing Mary Lou to flee.

* PetTheDog: Laurens faces his arrest with dignity, and hands over his business empire to Issacs, admitting that he should have done it long ago.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Vernon family survive, and Ava gets pardoned and her proper sleeve back, though Lizzy elects to keep her synthetic sleeve. One of the Ryder sleeves survives also, so Ortega can be reunited with him now that he's been acquitted.

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: When the Ghostwalker has Ortega at his mercy, he tells her that her mother prayed to God when she died. Ortega makes a point of reminding the Ghostwalker of this before she Real Deaths him.

* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: The U.N. representatives that run the investigation into the destruction of Head in the Clouds manage to safe Kovacs' stack from the reck, but Ryker's sleeve is killed on impact. They also apprehend his clone, place them both in virtual, and make them choose who will survive, as legally there can only be one DHF of a person at a time. They both accept the terms, and end up doing RockPaperScissors to determine. In the end, original Tak wins and lives, complete with Ryker's 3D printed sleeve.