The Deep Meaning of Episode 3 "Crocodile"

Ariane 2022-04-21 09:02:51

(This article is full of spoilers)

This episode is a bland crime flick on the surface, but the deeper sociological implications are easily overlooked.

The heroine is an accomplice in a hit-and-run accident and becomes a celebrity in the professional field more than a decade later. One day the murderer came to say that he wanted to repent, and the hostess took into account her reputation, so she killed the murderer and became the murderer herself. At this time, he happened to witness another car accident. The next day, an insurance company worker using memory-reading technology came to investigate the car accident and found her on the head, reading her memories of the murder and the car accident more than ten years ago. The heroine killed him and used this technology to know that the husband of the staff member knew his whereabouts, so she sneaked into her home and killed her husband and son (blind baby). In the end, the police captured the hamster by reading the memory of the hamster raised in the staff's home.

From start to finish, the heroine killed a total of four people and participated in a car accident throwing their bodies. It can be called "serial murderer" and "crocodile". However, it is not difficult to find that what prompted it to become a "crocodile" was the memory-reading black technology used in the investigation. If it is assumed that this technology does not exist, the female protagonist may reduce the possibility of repeating the murder.

From the perspective of measuring value, this kind of black technology did help find the murderer, but this is based on the results of several bloody cases and annihilation. However, if there is no such technology, the heroine may close her hands earlier, so as not to become a crocodile-like serial killer. Then we need to think, is the blood-stained “justice” promoted by this technology really worth enough? Do we hope to indulge the murderer but cause less bloodshed, or do we hope for more tragedy but catch the murderer? This is a question.

Even today without this kind of technology, we can still see a statement like "justice is never late", but this practice of killing one thousand enemies and self-destructing eight hundred (not even hurting oneself, but causing harm to others) Whether the value of innocent people) is high enough, more blood cases and thinking are needed.

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Extended Reading

USS Callister quotes

  • Robert Daly: I'm coming to get you!

  • Robert Daly: [Furiously patching through to Walton, who is fixing the engine manually from the jet fader] Walton, you're going to pay for this.

    Walton: Robert, listen.

    Robert Daly: I'm going to bring Tommy back in.

    Walton: Hey, Robert, listen...

    Robert Daly: God so help me, you are going to regret all of this SO HARD!

    Walton: Bob, I wanna talk to you here! I was thinking i should say... sorry.

    Robert Daly: [Beat] Go on.

    Walton: [Breathlessly as he fixes the engine] You created Infinity. You're a fucking genius. I exploited that. I treated you like the golden goose and I got fat off the profits, figuratively speaking. And I was thinking, I should have appreciated you more, you know? I should have treated you better. Yeah, yeah I was thinking I should say all that.

    [Beat]

    Walton: But then you threw my son out of an airlock, so... FUCK YOU TO DEATH.

    [Activates the engine which incinerates him]