Abel

They conclude that Deckard used to live at the docks and that an accident happened.
After that, Ish and Abel talk with K8-E. Apparently, she tried to attack a drone. She admits it but confesses how upset she is about humans’ presence then leaves suddenly. Abel didn’t even know that there was a problem with the androids because nobody is honest with him.

After that, they go somewhere else and Ish confesses to Abel that, at the banquet, he said a little joke and pushed

4
, but 4 interpreted this like a threat. They both question themselves if they should interrogate him because it could become dangerous if he misinterprets things. They also become worried about Suzi that shot at them with an arrow.

After that, Abel explores the city and finds Lexi with a group of people nearby a grave. Abel comforts her and leaves because it is almost the end of the day.

He returns to his home and suddenly his head hurts him. He chooses to drink another medicine but faints.

Wayde comes back and they discuss again about the food and the poison. Wayde accuses Abel that maybe he put the poison in the food. Abel becomes more and more confused, doesn’t know what to think anymore, and leaves. Abel joins Ish who is looking for Magic. Apparently she did something to Deckard while Abel wasn’t there. With what Ish is saying, he instantly understands what happened. She said multiple times the word ‘fish’ in front of Deckard, even if Abel told her not to do that before. Magic gives them some details about what happened and Abel then leaves with Ish. They go to Abel’s house to talk and Abel confesses to him how he is confused. But when they are talking, someone shoots at them an arrow. Abel and Ish get confused and try to find who did that. They go outside and ask C.C, Suzi, and other people if they have a bow in their pocket, but nobody has, apparently. After that, Abel meets Lexi who tells him that she likes this place. Abel feels better, even if he stays confused about why other people don’t. They are interrupted by an agent that want to talk with Abel. Basically, he just explains everything that happened during the banquet. After that, another agent informs Abel that the person who has a bow is Suzi.
Abel leaves and finds Ish. They both go to a specific spot that Abel found with a beautiful view. He explains to Ish that the person with a bow was Suzi and how much he is confused and upset because people seem not to understand what the goal of the show is. Abel really wants to prove to the rest of the world that everyone can live together.
Abel then drinks another medicine but this time gets hurt. Ish decides that they have to report this and they leave the spot. Abel tells him about his dream, but is interrupted by Alex, who explains that Deckard is down at the docks. Abel immediately goes there.
There is a group of people on site, and with all the information they have, they are trying to help Deckard together.

After the second meal, Abel confides in Alex how happy he is to see humans and androids at the same table. His parents were important android defenders and seeing that what they were defending is working makes him feel truly happy. Apparently, Abel worked hard during the month before the show to reorganize the city for everyone.

He then goes up to the second floor, but on the way, he finds May being poisoned. He immediately becomes worried and recommends for her to cover her mouth. Fortunately, some Chrysalis agents come to help her.

Then he goes on the rooftop and meets Wayde, who was talking with Pinkelope about her fear of androids. Wayde gets involved because Chryslalis is forcing people to participate in the show even if they don’t want to. Abel feels confused because he thinks everyone signed a paper to participate. He informs the group that leaving the island isn’t easy because they have to sign multiple papers to leave safely. Wayde tells him that some people are scared, some people caused trouble and some people want to leave the island. Abel feels so confused because he really thought that people liked this place and that they were enjoying the banquet and the fact that humans and androids are getting closer. He didn’t even know about what Wayde is saying because they are faking on the cameras. The conversation closes when Wayde leaves because of the poisoning drama.
This is this moment that K8-E chooses to come. Abel explains to her how confused he is, but K8-E just recommends to him to let the humans leave to keep the androids safe. Apparently, some humans tried to hurt the robots and have been rude. But Abel refuses to give up and continues to think that people can live together. K8-E gets involved because she didn’t sign anywhere to participate.

Abel’s session two begins with a cutscene where he sees one of his old memories with his parents. The flashback ends with an agent who offers him a job at Chrysalis.

He wakes up at home. Normally, Abel takes his medication every day, but apparently, it didn’t work very well yesterday. That was why he had ended up losing consciousness that day. After that, he meets Luke Chrysalis; they quickly discuss about the medicine, and then the show and banquet that day.

A drone arrives, and Abel reminds the audience of the show's importance as well as his personal involvement in it. Then, Luke Chrysalis informs Abel that some people got weapons and tried to shut down the drones.

After that, Abel meets Clown and decides to show him around the city. He learns that Clown works for Chrysalis and is a bioengineer since 10 years ago. Abel is very impressed. This moment ends with Abel suggesting to Clown to come to the banquet.
Then he goes to the banquet and meets Ish, his best friend. He confides to him that he fainted this morning, even if he took the medicine.

After that, he talks with Wayde and tells him how happy he is to see androids and humans together. But Wayde explains to him that he didn’t sleep well because of the cameras. Abel perfectly understands and promises that he will try to change that.

During the meal, Abel asks Luke Chrysalis if people can have access to the second floor to talk alone with their friends without the noises of the banquet, and he accepts.

After the first meal, Abel meets Deckard and immediately questions him about his problems to see how it improved. Deckard explains a vision he had and a Chrysalis agent tells him that they will help him and they leave.

Abel announces to everyone that they now have access to the second floor. He then meets up with Jade, who asks him about the medicine he takes, as they heard him discussing it with Ish. Jade explains that they can help to upgrade his medicine, since they are friends with a medical android.

Abel goes back to his house but struggles to sleep. He considers taking another dose of his medication but stops himself since he’s only supposed to take one a day. Abel goes back out and soon overhears Deckard breaking down. He finds him surrounded by a large group in Unit-B’s house and tells Deckard to ignore all directives, which seems to reset him to normal. When Abel asks Deckard says he doesn’t remember what happened.
Magamemnon
pulls Abel alone and introduces himself as an agent of Chrysalis. He says that the words ‘fish’ and ‘dock’ unlock some sort of repressed memory in Deckard. Abel goes back to Deckard and hesitantly asks if he wants to go to the ‘fishing dock’, and when Deckard begins to glitch Abel tries to calm him and stop it. This ultimately fails and Abel tells him to ignore previous directives again, and then warns the others not to say the trigger words around him.

Abel decides to look for Raine to check on her. While looking he learns about the celebratory banquet that Chrysalis will be hosting tomorrow. He also talks with Lexi, who asks him about why the humans left New Star City. Abel says they left about 5 years ago, but doesn’t remember why and thinks it shouldn’t be put on broadcast anyways. Nonetheless he says he’ll look into it.

Abel finally spots Raine with K8-E, but she is still just as angry and eager to leave as before. Raine again insists on getting the exit form and refuses to entertain Abel further. After she leaves Abel comments to himself that she’ll come around.
Abel briefly checks the banquet spot and then goes back to his house to sleep. He hums a song to himself and then wonders where he remembers it from. Suddenly he starts hearing the intense ringing again, and everything goes black.

Abel leaves to check on others. He’s stopped by Wayde who has privacy concerns about the drones being able to hear them inside buildings, and Abel attempts to pacify him. He also is pulled over by K8-E, who’s acting overly friendly in front of the cameras, to join a picnic with her, Madz, and

Ben
. They take a photo together.

Abel is approached by one of the Chrysalis androids who was sent to bring Abel to the dock. When he gets there he finds Deckard with

Magic
,

Josh
, and Unit-B. Magic excitedly starts repeating ‘fish’ and ‘dock’ which causes Deckard to glitch out. Abel scolds Magic since Deckard is clearly distressed, but Magic insists she just likes the beeping noises.

Abel next runs into C.C., N.O.M., Jade, and Raine. N.O.M. asks about his history with Chrysalis and Abel tells him he started as an intern and has been working for about 4 years now. He tells them that from the beginning Chrysalis has always wanted to help people and emphasizes that Luke cares about them. He then notices Raine has slipped away, and acknowledges that its fair she doesn’t trust him but is concerned by the idea that Chrysalis could have made an error.
Abel takes his medicine again and again has a negative reaction. When the others ask Abel says its for his schizophrenia and that he needs to ask Ish or Luke for more. He says its scary to be here without a consistent supply but that it’s worth it because he believes in this project.

The others leave and Abel stays alone for a bit to take a breather. He comments to himself that he doesn’t understand why humans are scared of androids, and that he thinks androids are beautiful and have been so kind to him so far. He talks about how his dad and pops always told him that he shouldn’t be scared of people just because they’re different. Abel reflects on how much he misses them, and thinks that they would be proud of what he’s doing here with bringing humans and androids together.

Abel leaves to check on others. He’s stopped by Wayde who has privacy concerns about the drones being able to hear them inside buildings, and Abel attempts to pacify him. He also is pulled over by K8-E, who’s acting overly friendly in front of the cameras, to join a picnic with her, Madz, and Ben. They take a photo together.

Abel is approached by one of the Chrysalis androids who was sent to bring Abel to the dock. When he gets there he finds Deckard with

Magic
,

Josh
, and Unit-B. Magic excitedly starts repeating ‘fish’ and ‘dock’ which causes Deckard to glitch out. Abel scolds Magic since Deckard is clearly distressed, but Magic insists she just likes the beeping noises.

Abel next runs into C.C., N.O.M., Jade, and Raine. N.O.M. asks about his history with Chrysalis and Abel tells him he started as an intern and has been working for about 4 years now. He tells them that from the beginning Chrysalis has always wanted to help people and emphasizes that Luke cares about them. He then notices Raine has slipped away, and acknowledges that its fair she doesn’t trust him but is concerned by the idea that Chrysalis could have made an error.

Abel takes his medicine again and again has a negative reaction. When the others ask Abel says its for his schizophrenia and that he needs to ask Ish or Luke for more. He says its scary to be here without a consistent supply but that it’s worth it because he believes in this project.

Abel leaves with Luke and tells him that he still thinks an android ‘did it’ and took his parents from him, and hesitantly asks if he thinks Deckard did it. Luke tells him that he’s just constructing a narrative of what he wants to believe, and Abel snaps out of it and agrees he’s letting emotions get in the way of rational thinking. Luke ensures that he’ll help Abel figure out what actually happened.

Abel ends up picking up a small group which he shows his house and some other sites in the city. One of these people is

Wayde
, who Abel vaguely recognizes, but Wayde doesn’t seem to know him. Wayde also asks Abel about there being no humans in the city and Abel tells him there was only androids before today.

Raine joins and again asks Abel and Luke about leaving. Raine says there must have been a mix up, but Abel again insists they have her papers and assures Luke this is not a problem. Abel mentions the possibility of an exit form if Raine is serious, but says that it will take at least a week to get which angers Raine. Raine, getting more aggressive, pulls Abel alone and away from the cameras and attempts to bribe Abel to get her out now, but Abel refuses to help her without going through the proper channels.

While talking with the group earlier Abel had taken his medication, which caused him brief but intense pain and a ringing in his ears. After Raine leaves he returns to his home to get a refill.

Suzi
accompanies him and asks about his reaction to taking it earlier, but Abel says he doesn’t like to talk about it.

Abel later meets Jade and N.O.M. introduces himself as a hermit of the city and says he’s a medical bot. Deckard appears again and Abel goes with him to find the dock with Luke accompanying. Luke is also confused on why Deckard is missing his memories. When they reach the dock Deckard says he has a strong sentimental connection to it and returns to it every morning but can’t remember why. Abel encourages him to be himself and make his own choices.

Abel begins in his home in New Star City. Eager for the beginning of Chrysalis’ show, he heads out to find the recently arrived participants so he can show them around. He finds

M4D-Z-V13
and

Unit-B
along the way, who he already knows from his past month in the city, and they join him to meet the humans.

They run into the group being lead by some of the Chrysalis androids and Abel introduces Madz and Unit-B. However he is quickly pulled aside by one of the participants,

Raine
, who says she’s not supposed to be here. Abel is confused as they have her file with her signed forms, and tells her that there’s no way to leave.

Abel talks with some of the other participants before catching up to

Luke Chrysalis
, who makes a speech welcoming the participants and introducing Chrysalis’ show. Abel talks alone with Luke afterwards and points out some of the androids, as well as telling him that there are files on all the participants if needed.

Abel spots a group of androids watching from afar and goes to check on them.

C.C.
, who Abel also already knows, tells him that the androids are not taking the change well. Abel speaks with some of them, and is then confronted by

K8-E
who is angry about the new humans in her city. Abel attempts to assure her that Chrysalis has their best interest in mind and that reintegrating humans into the city is a good thing, but K8-E says she came here to leave society and is mad that they’re being used for entertainment. Abel insists that it's not entertainment, just that they want people to not be scared of androids.

Abel also meets

Deckard
, an android who is looking for a dock. Abel attempts to help him find it, and learns that Deckard’s memories have been ‘deleted.’ Deckard asks why Chrysalis wiped them, and Abel denies that Chrysalis would.

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Abel has a feud with Craig, the architect who designed New Star City.
Abel claims to be very good at foosball, though Ish disputes this.

[Sirens, strong wind, heavy breathing and clattering. Sound of a light switch clicking as the other noises cut off and the lights in the scene turn on, revealing a boombox and the cassette tape from Jaw's cast announcement]

Abel
What's...What's going on?

[Gloved hand (presumably Ish's) grabs the tape.]

Ish
Hello Abel. No need to worry, this is just a routine check in.

[The person puts the tape in the boombox.]

Ish
We—we just wanted to see if your hallucinations were still under control.

Abel
Oh. I...believe so.

Ish
Let's verify.

[Person presses play. Music starts]

Abel
What? Wait, I—... what is this?

Ish
Do you feel anything or, perhaps, any certain way?

Abel
No, I don't...think so. Is that bad?

Ish
No, no. That's—that's good.

[Person presses stop. Music cuts and they remove the tape]

Ish
It means everything is working as intended. Just remember, Abel, if you need anything from us...We're always here for you.