Plot Synopsis

Based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name, ALTERED CARBON is a one-hour scripted set more than 300 years in the future. Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned -- on ice -- for 250 years until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder...that of Bancroft himself. The series opens with Takeshi waking up centuries after his death to discover he's been resurrected to help a titan of industry solve his own murder. While Kovacs tracks down a man who sent Bancroft a death threat, Lt. Ortega bends the rules to keep tabs on his whereabouts. Then, Kovacs recruits an unlikely partner to watch his back during a banquet at the Bancroft home, where Ortega oversees the night's grisly entertainment. On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT, Netflix released the 10-episode first season of this series.
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The sophomore season of ALTERED CARBON premiered on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT, as Netflix released the entire nine-episode new season. Season 2 finds Takeshi Kovacs, the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer. After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself recruited back to his home planet of Harlan's World with the promise of finding Quell. Haunted by his past and responsible for investigating a series of brutal murders, Kovacs is stunned to discover his new mission to solve the crime and his pursuit to find Quell are one and the same. With the help of his loyal A.I. Poe, Kovacs must now partner with new allies to outwit his enemies and find the truth: Who is Quellcrist Falconer?