Incorporated Season 1, Episode 3 The opening scene with the Inazagi indoctrination cartoon is a good example of such a detail, and it had the added benefit of providing the defector with a reason to ask for extraction in the episode’s central plot. Together with details like the Spiga scout selling candy, the dirty water dispensed in Elena’s diner, or the executives maintaining eye contact will bowing, 2074 is starting to take on a greater scale that provides context for the characters’ actions. For instance, who among us wouldn’t steal $600 worth of bacon, even if there wasn’t a neighbor with a sick child involved? Once again, Laura Larson remains one of the most sympathetic characters as she tries her damnedest to better this godforsaken world. Sparing her maid’s job is one thing; offering to examine the neighbor girl is quite another, especially given what happens with the crowd outside the gate. It gets to the point where you want Ben to give her a baby just to make her happy, damn the consequences for Aaron’s cover identity. But when the big reveal came as Theo mournfully slipped the ring onto his little finger, his sister’s message explaining the possibilities of being the victim of an NDA (a brilliant euphemism for a memory wipe) is both touching and informative. The only difficult part of the realization that Elena is still alive — because of course she is — is that Ben was about to give in to Laura’s desire to get to work on having children. Poor Laura… she deserves better. It was nice to see a few familiar Syfy faces among the executives this week. Rob Stewart, who plays Khlyen on Killjoys, made an appearance as a Spiga board member admonishing Elizabeth about the “permanently closed” Peterson file, and he will hopefully recur in this role. His counterpart from Inazagi, EVP Mason, was familiar to 12 Monkeys fans as Damore Barnes, who plays Whitley on that show. Always good to mix up the sci-fi actors now and then! The little touches are what really made this episode of Incorporated shine, even though the Aaron flashback was lacking, especially with the contrived primal scream scenario on the roof. Whether you were grossed out by the fat guy celebration (what the heck was that anyway?) or intrigued by Julian’s tenderness in delivering the dead girl’s personal effects to her parents, it’s the small moments around the show’s protagonist that redeem the story. Now hopefully Ben can catch up.
