Diksha Sundriyal
The second season of Netflix’s ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners‘ introduces Capri, a powerful new weapon from the vaults of Arasaka. She is revealed to be an AI construct whose powers know no bounds when she is in the body of a compatible human host. However, finding said host is not as easy, and it leads to so many problems and bloodshed that it all circles back to the megacorp, posing even more danger to them. When Capri does find her perfect host, her exuberant personality comes to the fore. But at the same time, there are also quiet, reflective moments whose contents remain a mystery even to her host, D. In one such instance, D catches her looking at the sky, and she reveals she is looking at a satellite but doesn’t explain why. This mystery feeds into her and D’s open-ended fate in the season finale. SPOILERS AHEAD.
The Satellite in the Sky Could Be Capri’s Escape Plan
Capri comes into the picture as a powerful AI construct that is capable of fighting armies and bringing even the most powerful corporation to its knees. However, her unprecedented potency is what makes her creators limit her to a human body. As powerful as she may be, Capri cannot function without a human host, which is why she is shelved for so long. Compatibility with such a tech does not come easily, and the process of finding a host for her becomes so problematic that Arasaka decides to shelve the project permanently. It isn’t until the chip containing Capri is stolen that a chain of events begins to unfold, leading her to find not one but two hosts. Even so, the fact remains that she is bound to an organic form, which is naturally designed to age and die.
Even though her current host might be perfect for her, the fact remains that their body can be killed. They will either die at the hands of an enemy or of old age. Thus, once Capri finds a home in D’s head, it is likely that she starts thinking of a way out, or at least a contingency plan in case things don’t work out again. This desire would also be encouraged by the fact that if her host dies, she will be confined to the chip again, which means she could always fall into the wrong hands. Even if that doesn’t happen, she would have no way to ensure that she gets another perfect host like D or Talia. Thus, escaping the need for an organic body is the freedom she seeks, and there is a chance she may have found it in the satellite in the sky.
The idea of escaping the tough life of Night City by flying to an object in the sky is not new to the characters of ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.’ In the first season, Lucy dreams of escaping to the Moon, and thanks to David Martinez, she gets to do that. So, if she finds her freedom in space, who’s to say that Capri couldn’t find the same in a satellite orbiting the Earth? She doesn’t share all these things with D, and she doesn’t even explain why she was looking at the particular satellite in the sky. In the end, however, when they are confronted with the collective might of the megacorps intent on destroying them, Capri points to the light in the sky again, wondering if they could make it up there. D posits that they can, and then we see a red light shoot towards the sky.
Capri’s Escape Would Change Everything About Her Limitations
In the end, the news reports that a blackout followed a massive explosion. Meanwhile, there is no sign of D or Capri, except the taped message they leave for Roman. In the end, the star in the sky twinkles again, suggesting that D and Capri, or at least the latter, may have crossed that distance and reached the satellite after all. Since the red light is a visual projection of Capri, it wouldn’t be surprising that she leaves D’s mortal coil behind and shoots for the satellite herself. There is also a possibility that she may now be carrying D’s engram, essentially keeping him alive with her.
Still, the problem remains: Capri cannot exist without a human host. Could it be that Capri has found a way to do it somehow? Perhaps something about the satellite, or the fact that it gives her access to almost everything in the world, has allowed her a different path, a different way to survive outside of a physical body. The fact also remains that when Capri escapes, the chip would essentially remain in D’s body. The chip cannot move on its own unless a person physically handles it.
This means that the escape is basically Capri and perhaps even D’s code. Instead of the chip, Capri has now found a storage place for herself in the satellite, which gives her a lot more wiggle room, not to forget, essentially the power to have the world at her fingertips. Considering that this had been her endgame from the beginning, it is fair to assume that when she was intently looking at the sky all this time, she was actually trying to decipher whether she would be able to make that jump. It wasn’t just her fathoming the idea of freedom, but consciously working out an escape plan and calculating her odds.
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