Total Recall 2070 (1999)
Total Recall 2070 is a science fiction television series first broadcast in 1999 on the Canadian television channel CHCH-TV and later the same year on the American Showtime channel. It was later syndicated in the United States with some editing to remove scenes of nudity, violence and strong language. The series was inspired by the 1990 film Total Recall, based on Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", and by Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, with a visual style heavily influenced by the film Blade Runner, itself very loosely based on the same novel. However, other than the Rekall company and the concept of virtual vacations, the series shares no major plot points or characters with any of these works. Philip K. Dick is not credited in any way on the series main or end titles. The series was filmed in Toronto. It was a Canadian/German co-production. Only one season, consisting of 22 episodes, was produced.
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Episode 1 - Machine Dreams (1)
Release Date: 1999-01-05David Hume and his new partner Ian Farve must track down a gang of androids with abnormally high intelligence gained from experimental use of memory implant technology from the big corporation Rekall.
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Episode 2 - Machine Dreams (2)
Release Date: 1999-01-12The Detectives hunt for the androids take them to Mars.
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Episode 3 - Nothing Like the Real Thing
Release Date: 1999-01-19An accountant kills a deliveryman for seemingly no reason and then falls into a trance. Marks on his head suggest he had bought a cheap black-market memory implant, and Hume and Farve have to find the seller before more people get hurt.
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Episode 4 - Self-Inflicted
Release Date: 1999-02-02A corporate doctor just returned from a space station finds her husband in the bathroom dying and coughing up blood. CPB investigates it as a potential biohazard situation, but have to fight over jurisdiction with the doctor's employer.
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Episode 5 - Allure
Release Date: 1999-02-09After failing to stop a young woman's suicide, Hume is puzzled when he sees someone looking just like her. Things get weirder still when the suicide victim turns into a withered old corpse.
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Episode 6 - Infiltration
Release Date: 1999-02-16Hume and Farve's investigation of the murder of an Uber-Braun employee is severly hampered by the company itself and Rekall's new head of security Vincent Nagle.
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Episode 7 - Rough Whimper of Insanity
Release Date: 1999-02-23Farve starts behaving erratically after he and Hume investigate a service android that attacked two people who walked on the floor he'd just polished.
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Episode 8 - First Wave
Release Date: 1999-03-02The CPB's computer network goes haywire after a young man posing as a computer service technician sets off a security alarm. When interrogating him they discover that he's a product of a genetic engineering project that failed, and is now a member of a cult opposed to non-human sentience.
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Episode 9 - Baby Lottery
Release Date: 1999-03-09A baby taken from his parents because of a genetic disposition towards crime disappears from the Reproductive Selection Board. Investigating, Farve and Hume find that his parents aren't the only ones interested in him.
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Episode 10 - Brain Fever (1)
Release Date: 1999-03-16The head of the Mars Miners Union is shot by a member who the attempts to kill himself. They are both sent to a hospital where Farve tries to find out why he felt a connection with the shooter, while Hume investigates the shooter's background.
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Episode 11 - Begotten Not Made (2)
Release Date: 1999-03-23Dr. Latham is starting to cooperate, when a lawyer from Recall shows up demands his release. Moments after his release the doctor is assassinated. Surprisingly, an autopsy reveals it was just a clone, so Hume and Farve try to find the real Latham.
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Episode 12 - Brightness Falls
Release Date: 1999-03-30Farve and Moralez investigate the death of a cult leader who was crucified in his home, while Hume looks in on his paranoid father who's convinced the retirement home is spying on him.
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Episode 13 - Burning Desire
Release Date: 1999-04-06The CPB investigates the death of a man who was fried in his sublimator, and Hume becomes worried that the same might happen to Olivia.
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Episode 14 - Astral Projections
Release Date: 1999-04-13Hume and Farve travel to a crashed interplanetary cargo transport that went down in the freezing ""New Territories"". While all the six crewmembers survived the crash itself, 3 of them were murdered before help could arrive.
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Episode 15 - Paranoid
Release Date: 1999-04-20When investigating the murder of the head of the Nexus dating service, Farve finds a list of people implanted by a Rekall mind-control project, and much to Hume's horror Olivia is on it. Adding to his trouble is his father, who once again has trouble with his retirement home.
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Episode 16 - Restitution
Release Date: 1999-04-27Brant is kidnapped on his way to a Mars safe house, and the assessor's office is prepared to pay the 40 million ransom in fear of loosing him to Rekall. Meanwhile Hume's personal problems continue as Olivia's memories don't seem to be returning.
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Episode 17 - Bones Beneath My Skin
Release Date: 1999-05-04Farve and Hume investigate the destruction of an android at a chemical company. The owner blames his human workers, who came from the company ""Muscle and Blood"" run by the extremely anti-android Belasarius. Meanwhile David and Olivia split up, while they deal with the fact that she was under Rekall's control during their entire relationship.
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Episode 18 - Assessment
Release Date: 1999-05-11On their way to investigate a report about berserk androids, Farve and Hume are ambushed and captured by a rouge section of the assessor's office. They seek Hume's help in discovering Farve's part in what they see as a plot by machines to eradicate humans.
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Episode 19 - Eye Witness
Release Date: 1999-05-18When visiting a friend's apartment Olivia hears screaming, and finds her friend's rich husband standing over a bloody corpse. She is willing to testify, but given her recent memory problem she starts wondering if she just imagined the whole thing.
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Episode 20 - Personal Effects
Release Date: 1999-05-25Olan decides to keep a vial found on corpse in a crashed shuttle out of her report because of concerns of what it might be. Unfortunately, its real owners, Vari Dyne Inc., is willing to go to great length to get it back.
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Episode 21 - Virtual Justice
Release Date: 1999-06-01After seeing a fellow cop killing a cornered prison escapee, Hume looks into the dead mans case and finds that the cop may have been taking the law into his own hands.
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Episode 22 - Meet My Maker
Release Date: 1999-06-08After Hume nearly dies trying to interface with Farve's backup memory banks, Farve finally takes Hume to meet the alpha-android's creator.