EPISODE CONTEXT

Coming off the escalating family tensions in Episode 8, 'Reload,' this ninth installment deepens the cracks by pulling back the curtain on the father's role in the virtual world of Planet and the mystery surrounding Black Bird. Positioned at the three-quarter mark of this 12-episode series, it serves as a critical inflection point — transitioning from revelation into consequence. Episode 10, 'Registry,' will push the Arima family further into the entanglement between their fractured household and the digital world they can no longer cleanly separate from.