Princess Susannah, a British royal family member, is kidnapped. For her return, the kidnapper demands that the prime minister, Michael Callow, sex with a pig on live television. The demands gather attention on social media and then national news. Backup plans to fabricate footage of the act are trialled by Callow's staff without his knowledge and lead to a change in public opinion when the kidnapper discovers and reveals the plan. A failed raid on a suspected location leads to the injury of a jo
In a cabin, Matt and Joe talk about their past. Matt used to run an online group on the dark web who watched each other seduce women through "Z-Eyes" (mandatory implants that have replaced phones) that record vision and hearing. It ended after a mentally ill woman poisoned one of the attendees in a murder–suicide. Matt's former profession was training "cookies"—digital clones of people stored in an egg-shaped object—as personal assistants. Meanwhile, Joe's wife Beth "blocked" him with the Z-Eyes