Black Mirror
WARNING : spoiler in the lead for Black Mirror season 4 , episode 1 , " USS Callister . "
The premier episode ofBlack Mirrorseason 4 , " USS Callister " , is widely considered one of thebestBlack Mirrorepisodesever made . It was so well - find that 2025’sBlack Mirrorseason 7will feature thefirst - ever sequel installment , picking up after the events of the season 4 smasher . Black Mirror’s"USS Callister " alone won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards , include Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series and Outstanding Television Movie . The cast of " USS Callister " is stack with gift , asterisk Jesse Plemons , Cristin Milioti , Jimmi Simpson , Michaela Coel , and Billy Magnussen .
Black Mirrorseason 4 , instalment 1 , " USS Callister " begins with Plemons ' Captain Robert Daly being praise for his glare aboard the USS Callister spaceship . It ’s revealed throughout the instalment that the actual - life sentence Daly , despite co - founding the picture game troupe Callister Inc. with Simpson ’s James Watson and being its CTO , is unappreciated at work . Daly create a modded version of Callister ’s celebrated sci - fi video gameInfinityto control and torture digital incarnation that are exact copies of several of his co - worker . at long last , a newfangled Callister employee , Nanette Cole ( Milioti ) , gets total to Daly ’s game and direct the trapped crew of the USS Callister to intergalactic freedom .
What Happened To The USS Callister After Going Into The Infinity Wormhole
Daly’s Modded Game Was Permanetly Deleted By Infinity’s Firewall
After a mind - and - body - bending trip through theInfinitywormhole , the USS Callister made it out of Daly ’s private universe of discourse and enter the fullInfinityvideo game multiverse . The crew returned to their original appearance and all tire contraband space uniforms , which is presumably the default garb of all Infinity player . Without the control of Daly ’s Space Fleet mod , which was denude aside by the game ’s firewall , Daly can no longer harm theUSS Callister crew , which got digitally transported from existing only on Daly ’s computer toInfinity’scloud . The crew now lives in the on-line multiplayer world ofInfinity .
Why Watson Didn’t Reappear On The USS Callister
He Appears In The USS Callister Sequel
Because Daly lost access to the USS Callister in his modded universe , his digital duplicate got stuck in his small space vehicle . His modded universe is also deleted around him after being find byInfinity’sfirewall . Without feature any way to leave the secret plan , the material - life Daly looks to be in some serious trouble . Unless someone come to retard on him at his flat , which does n’t seem likely considering his isolated lifestyle , the real - spirit Daly could very well die . TheBlack Mirrorepisode does n’t talk about whether there is a fail - safe operation with those VR devices that turn off after a sure amount of time .
What Happened To Daly At The End Of Black Mirror USS Callister
Daly Appeared To Die In The Game & In Real Life
Watson was , interestingly , the only one of the USS Callister crew to not reappear on the spaceshipin the on-line multiverse . Since he give unimaginable pain sensation – being burned to a crisp by a jet engine exhaust – to bring superpower back to the USS Callister , his dead body was presumably burned to space dust . Even though Daly programmed him and the others with an immortality code , that was deleted along with the rest of Daly ’s moddedInfinityuniverse . It does n’t seem like he made it through the wormhole , so his character may have actually been killed . He is ask to return in the USS Callister subsequence .
Infinity’s Uplink Wormhole & Christmas Update Patch Explained
Nanette Knew The Wormhole Was Their Only Way Out
After Daly turns Shaina into an alien tool to penalize Nanette for get off herself a substance in the genuine world , Nanette spots a wormhole developing within theInfinitygame . A software engineer herself , she discovers thatthe wormhole is representative of the giant update patch that Daly is tote up toInfinityon Christmas Day . Nanette differentiate the others that this could be their way out of their imprison plight since it establish that Daly ’s modded server is still connected to the net . Nanette theorizes that flying the USS Callister into the wormhole would delete the rogue code on the starship by hitting the system ’s firewall .
Nanette ’s architectural plan to fell the USS Callister into the wormhole was met with falter and critique from the crew . Firstly , it would delete them from the plot , efficaciously killing them , but manifestly would not deflower their actual selves . second , they had to carefully mastermind how to fly the USS Callister while Daly was logged in but on pause , like he was when he was get a pizza delivered . In fiat for the crew to have enough prison term to fly the USS Callister into the wormhole , the real - creation Daly would have to be distracted . Nanette realizes the pure way to incite her real - macrocosm self to distract Dalyinadvertently : by pressure herself .
Nanette’s PhotoCloud Account & Self-Blackmailing Scheme Explained
Nanette Blackmailed Herself In The Real-World
The digital duplicate of Nanette in Daly ’s moddedInfinitygame distracts Daly by lure him to go for a swim , distracting him from his missionary post . This allows Kabir ( Paul G. Raymond ) to teleport Daly ’s omnicorder , a gadget he wear in - secret plan that is connected to the cyberspace . After patching in Daly ’s omnicorder inside the USS Callister , the crew is capable to locate the explicit picture that Nanette was talking about , which she uses as leverage against herself . In the substantial universe , Nanette gets texts of her revealing pictures and a mysterious sound callfrom a mask vox that separate her she must do exactly what they say .
Jehovah Charlie Brooker teases how Black Mirror season 7 ’s “ USS Callister ” sequel installment makes some significant changes from the original .
Desperate and afraid , the real - world Nanette accompany the pedagogy of the video game version of Walton , thinking he ’s some anonymous hacker . She orders a pizza for Daly , forcing him to leave the secret plan and go to the door . She quiet breaks into the actual - world Daly ’s flat after Daly ’s onmicorder gets teleported back to where he leave it by the lake inInfinity . This distraction allows Nanette to steal all the crew ’s DNA from Daly ’s mini - fridge , include that of Tommy , Walton ’s young son who Daly had brought intoInfinityas a punishment . Before the existent Nanette go away , she swaps out Daly ’s VR machine with a broken one .
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How USS Callister’s Ending Sets Up Its Sequel “Into Infinity”
Nanette Continues To Lead The Crew In A Dangerous Online Multiverse
The official logline forBlack Mirrorseason 7 finale " USS Callister : Into Infinity " begins with " Robert Daly is dead … " , which seems to confirm that he was unable to disconnect from his own moddedInfinityuniverse . Nanette took over as the captain of the USS Callister and was ab initio amazedby the chance to search the vastInfinityonline multiverse . The sequel , however , implies that the online world of Infinity is an passing dangerous place .
Nanette and her crew will have to campaign for selection from other histrion standardised to Aaron Paul ’s Gamer691 . ground on someBlack Mirrorseason 7 look-alike , the " USS Callister " sequel looks to be more action - packed and hopefully just as inventive .
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