Such a good episode. Although I wonder how real Nanette will feel when she hears Daly has died from dehydration after she broke into his apartment...

Man I can’t imagine how scary that would be. Trapped in a ship floating in darkness while your body is frozen in real life... gives me chills man...

Even worse is that when's he's finally found, he'll go down as a tragic moron that "game'd to death" on his own console.

He should have used task manager.

When your game freezes and you cant exit the game

I love this episode, Jesse plemoms is truly one of the more underrated actors around and deserves more work to show it off

I love how sarcastic and mocking “silent night” feels. Daly created the Infinity mod because he desperately wanted to feel powerful and he spent his last moments on earth with the knowledge with the knowledge that he couldn't even keep control over a bunch of helpless NPCs.

*Eventually he stopped thinking*

That's why you have manual physical safety features that automatically trigger after a set period of time. There's a reason skydivers have emergency chutes collected to a pressure sensor.

The concept of being stuck there is terrifying

Even if he didn't die and someone found him, or if somehow he managed to exit the game; he'd still have to live the rest of his life knowing that the characters in his own world outsmarted him and left him stranded in space. He'd have to go on knowing that he's a true failure, even in a digital fake world. And I'm sure he would never be able to look at his co-workers in the same way. So even if he didn't die in real life, digital karma certainly destroyed his depraved ego.

God, this has become one of my favorite episodes. So well done. It was wrong that he took his co-workers DNA and what he did with the copy of the director's son too. But I'd understand that he took his anger out on his digital copy of his boss, the one that took his credit and money. But the others, even if they weren't real, didn't do anything bad.

When I saw that Silent Night was playing I was like OH SHIT cuz I realized that he was gonna probably die since its Christmas and no one will know that hes stuck in the game until another 10 days or so to pull the thing off his head. He got killed by his own code. Kinda scary to think about using this technology when it literally locks you out of reality and the only way out is to say "exit game" so if that part fails you're stuck in a virtual reality until someone helps you

So ended Robert Daly, fearless Captain of the USS Callister. His spacecraft shut down as the stars of his world faded, and he floated through the endless void of cyberspace for the rest of time, never to return. He wished for death, but there was nothing out there to kill him. The spark of thought within him went dim... and then, _silent._

Saw this a month ago, with my cousin. Anyone notice that it's an ambient version of "Silent Night" playing at the end? I wonder what that symbolizes...

That's what he gets for killing Jesse's girlfriend!

This is my favorite part. When he was trying to assert his power to “undelete” and “exit fucking game” on a machine that has absolutely no idea that he’s even there.😂😂😂😂😂

Legend as it that he did not die in the game when he died in reality. He is trapped there forever. 🤯

All alone, in a pitch black small room, for all of eternity. Wow, he got what was coming to him.

I’ve never seen such an awesome way to punish the bad guy, this was truly a genius episode 👍🏼

This ending was oddly justified yet dark. This is an actual dude, he seems to live a pretty decent life in the real world, and doesn’t seem to be as much of an asshole outside his game. And we all know games can change how else act. And now he stuck basically in a coma. In a dark nothingness with only himself.

Todd deserves this

I just find it so hard to believe that we would develop a technology like this that is so easy to die in. My first thought after this scene was “wouldnt such a groundbreaking technology have a fail safe so people couldn’t just die like that?” its like every episode someone becomes trapped or dies with these things on and it honestly breaks the immersion for me

The people in the real world probably wouldn't even care about his death, the only girl that was nice to him was the new girl

At least he don't have to deal with Walton anymore in real life

As bad as a human Robert Daly is, I would not wish this fate to anyone. It’s horrifying

A classic case of the kid who was expert at Microsoft Paint

Oh dear - it’s going to be a quiet Christmas Robert.

The philosophical questions this clip brings up is that your creations, considering you treat them like shit, will eventually backfire against you.

One of the BEST Black Mirror episodes of the series. I remember having fond memories watching this episode around 2018 Christmas with my family and jumping on the couch with anxiety of what was going to happen 😂

Odious character for sure but goddamn, what an awful way to go

Eventually Daly stopped thinking

This is what Death (Brad Pitt) in the movie Meet Joe Black threatened Drew with. "Drew, make no mistake, should you choose to test my resolve in this matter, you will be looking at an outcome that will have a finality that is beyond your comprehension. And you will not be counting the days or the months or the years, but millenniums in a place with no doors."

Moral of the story: If you're bullying someone, keep bullying, they probably deserve it...

I love how the notation of this rendition of Silent Night during the "Sleep in heavenly peace" lyric shows up when Daley is shown dead in his chair, juxtaposing his painful death in the virtual world with a pain-free death in the physical world.

Plemons was Emmy-nominated for this episode and should have won.

I'm glad I gave this show a second chance, it gets so good after the last of the second season.

If you listen closely, you can hear the computer saying "my mind is going," just like Hal 9000

From the beautiful space to the dark void, how terrifying it was

The only scene in all of Black Mirror (and frankly all dystopian movies) that has ever given me chills about the future. I saw Sora the other day, and I don’t think this tech is far off from now.

0:18 😂😂😂😂😂 lol I'm sorry I know his situation is fucked up but his tantrum has always been funny to me. "EXIT. FUCKING. GAME!!!"

This traumatized me for weeks

That fucking “sleep in heavenly peace” riff man… just.. perfect-ly gut-wrenching.

I love how everyone is quick to say he's going to fade when he dies IRL, but wouldn't just that much more interesting if every time he enters the simulation, a temporary copy is generated like a back up save meaning he would be trapped inside till the end of time.

This is my favorite episode. I was on my heels the whole time.

Why do I feel so bad for him even though he deserves it for what he did?

Happiest ending in Black Mirror

*Discord* Captain Daly: _Playing Infinity for 10 days_

Don't worry guys the pizza delivery guy will probably save him

One of the best episodes from all the seasons.

Somehow this ending broke my heart😔and with this bgm. ...and the tear rolling down his cheek @0.36

and he eventually stopped thinking

He deserved it after treating his crew like crap. God this guy was no Captain Kirk ironically, and after having trapped his people into his game, he deserved to get this coming to him. This is if not one of the best episodes of the dark series Black Mirror and I truely enjoyed it since it combined Twilight Zone of "Its a Good Life" with Star Trek, both 60s franchises, and does it in the most spectacular writing Ive seen in years. :)

matt damon doppleganger

The Silent Night in the music is really subtle and tasteful. Love this episode.

He was so good at this role

Eventually, he stopped thinking.

I don’t know why people are assuming he’s stuck in blackness. Who is to say his consciousness wasn’t literally deleted in that moment? The way the head chip works is never truly explained, what if it literally moves your conscious onto the ‘hard drive’ of the computer. If that was the case, that final scene we are just looking at an empty flesh shell

This ending hunted me for months after watching it for the first time. Never saw BM the same again after this episode

I always thought he died. The universe was deleted which included him and his ship. Dont know why people say he is stuck.

This vaguely reminds me of Brain-Death in Neuromancer. Where Wintermute would communicate with case by making him flatline. Except now, Daly flatlines in a void. So he died, IMO.

Daly was a horrible person, but we do have to consider how he got that way. Even Walton admitted he treated him as a doormat, but since Daly killed his digital son, he no longer felt bad. Everyone at the company treated him like shit even though arguably he was the reason the company had a successful product and subsequently they all had jobs. Daly was once probably an alright guy, just a little odd and introverted, but years of resentment for being treated like shit made him spiteful and sadistic. Even Lowry tells Cole to "give him a wide berth" because he's a bit odd. Humans are social animals, and if people treat someone like a creep because they arent socially adept, they put them in a catch 22 by denying them the social interaction that could help normalize them and in doing so turn them into the creep they accuse them of being(notice how his demeanour was significantly more friendly and likeable when Cole first showed up and actually treated him like a human being). Being treated the way people treated Daly fucks with people's heads. When we hear stories about kids who shoot up their schools, it's easy to just condemn them(and certainly, it's not a defensible course of action), but does anyone stop to think about how they got to that point? People arent "born evil", and normal, happy, well adjusted people dont go on murder sprees. I guess my point is people have to be accountable for how they treat others. We cant just brush off everything as "nobody is responsible for the actions of others". We can influence the lives of other people, for better or worse. We tend to be eager to accept when someone says "X was such an inspiration in my life" or "Y really helped me when I was in trouble". On the other hand if someone says "X ruined my childhood" or "Y held me back in my career", we generally pass it off as someone blaming others for their own failures. Now that is a possibility, but it's foolish to admit we can have positive influences in the lives of others but not acknowledge we can have negative consequences as well. Sometimes peoples lives are genuinely ruined by others. Every monster in society was created by said society. Be mindful of how you treat others. A few moments of reaching out and showing genuine empathy and friendship to someone who had experienced a lifetime of being ostracised could be the difference that keeps them from going over the edge and killing someone.

Even if he survive and is rescue....For a human being trap in endless darkness can cause permanent damage to the psyche...Only darkness and you toughts....Even if he survive there is not going to be nothing to save

Reminds me of "What is Reality" from Batman: TAS

Killing a kid goes full circle for Jesse Plemons

I am unsure how to feel about this. Yes, Daly made life a living hell for the NPCs, but he was a real person, and I sympathized with him in how he hated his life and used the game as an escape. Plus, video games and the NPCs in them are created for the sole purpose of entertaining the humans who play them.

This scene stressed me the fuck out. Just IMAGINE that happening to you. DO IT RIGHT NOW!!

In space No one can hear you scream

Worst thing is when you realte to some aspects of this character. We all been treated like shit for no reason, we all have hated our boss at some point, we all have worked shitty jobs, we all have felt lonely. What a good episode, one of my favorites fr

This was a good ending, but I was really gunning for Daly to have some sort of redemption moment aka after his asshole brother apologized Daly should have logged out realizing what he is doing.

Now I'm wondering what would happen if he tried to kill himself in the game, like break a window and allowed himself to asphyxiate in the vacuum of space, would he wake up or would he die in the real world?

That was very satisfying for me. I laughed out loud at the end. Yeah, dig it.

the fact that they played an errie version of silent night makes this ending way more dark

At least he died in his own fantasy universe with his great hair.

Imagine you were in there and you could never die just stay there forever

He wont be there forever. When they find him dead in his apartment, they will work out his mind is in system and likely delete him or put him into the internet

Aaron Paul’s voice as Gamer691 is cherry on the cake 😅

Bruh seeing todd alquist panicking and showing full emotion here is so strange to see lol

Some of you in the comments don't understand that this simulation, works on a conscience system. If his physical body dies, his conscience too.

When your minecraft house is burning but you put the game in full screen and minecraft crashes

just googled ... The average time until dehydration occurs is about 2 to 6 days, but people can even survive until 12 days .... hmmm we will never know ...

This is what my evil playthrough of fallout VR is going to look like.

My understanding is he didnt hurt anyone IRL because the other players were virtual clones. That said why do yall think he deserved to die?

I feel bad but the same time he deserves it, nobody's gonna know if he's is playing or not

I know how he feels. Sometimes I get so angry I just want to stop playing. Some games just try to get a rise out of me.

Daly eventually stopped thinking

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Well its was creepy but i like the ending because he derverse it

I could totally understand the reasoning for doing that to him, but I agree that I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. This is my first time watching the ending in a long time. I really like the episode a lot, but after the first time, I would always end it as this part was about to start. I guess it upset me more than I thought it would, being all alone in the dark forever.

I wouldn't wish this even on my worst enemy

Daly didn't deserve to die - he took out his valid frustrations (from being bullied in real life) on video game characters. If you were given the exact same information as Daly, this is a perfectly harmless outlet. Game!Walton may have realized the error of his ways, but don't forget that Real!Walton is very much an asshole and regularly torments Daly. Just goes to show how eager people are to judge when they have the benefit of perfect hindsight.

I wonder if after 3 days, will he die along with his physical body or will his subconscious be trapped in the game forever

"Undelete! UNDELETE!" Now all I can think of is Strong Bad and the e-mail from Ali and Ali's Sister XD

Can’t wait for season 6!

Did he really have to encode Infinity so as the clones would have the memories of their former selves?.... Oh yes, he probably did that on purpose to enjoy breaking their spirits.

Pretty awful to know that given the episode was set during the christmas holiday, Daly set the display on his apartment door to say he didn`t want to be disturbed and suffered the fate of either getting mentally trapped in his game or died as a result of being unable to exit the game before it got wiped. Either way, by the time anyone, a neighbour, friend ( if he even had any ) or coworker come by to see how he is doing, it`ll likely be far too late.

How terrifying and well deserved. Great Christmas episode!

Wouldn't who ever finds him know that his mind is plugged in a game and would be able to retrieve at least his uploaded mind? His actual body may be dead by that point, but his avatar is looking for revenge.

crazy that they never played the "sleep in heavenly peace" line in silent night cause mans is stuck in there forever

This scene, edited right, could be really fucking funny like his frantic “exit fucking game”s remind me of the kid who said “get out of my room I’m play MiNeCrAfT” and overall it made me chuckle then get really sad so edit out that sad part wha bam you got yourself a meme and a half