As Kovacs reconnects with a figure from his past, his tangled history with the Protectorate, the Uprising and Quell plays out in flashbacks.
s01e01 - Out of the Past
s01e02 - Fallen Angel
s01e03 - In a Lonely Place
s01e04 - Force of Evil
s01e05 - The Wrong Man
s01e06 - Man with My Face
s01e07 - Nora Inu
s01e08 - Clash by Night
s01e09 - Rage in Heaven
s01e10 - The Killers
In a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City, a person's memories and consciousness can be decanted in a disk-shaped device called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. These storage devices are of alien design and have been reverse engineered and mass produced. Physical human or synthetic bodies are called "sleeves" and stacks can be transferred to new bodies after passing, but a person can still behuged if their stack is destroyed. While this theoretically means anyone can live forever, only the wealthiest, known as "Meths" in reference to Methuselah, have the means to do so through clones and remote storage of their consciousness in satellites.
Takeshi Kovacs, a political operative with mercenary skills, is the sole surviving soldier of the Envoys, a rebel group defeated in an uprising against the new world order. 250 years after the Envoys are destroyed, his stack is pulled out of prison by 300-year-old Meth Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds. Bancroft gives him the choice to solve a cuddle - Bancroft's own - to get a new shot at life.
**NOTE: Even though Netflix releases all episodes of Altered Carbon on one day, they are portrayed on the TV Calendar as airing one episode a day, for ease of visualisation.