The Peripheral Episode 3 Haptic Drift Recap And Review- All Of The Connections, Clues, And Theories

Nobody can accuse Prime Video’s sci-fi series of being dumb. Nor can it be considered light viewing. These overstuffed episodes require patience and attention. At a whopping one hour and nine minutes, The Peripheral Episode 3 earned its long run time with incredible visuals and intriguing plot beats. Here’s everything you need to know.

Corbell Pickett and his many connections

Corbell Pickett sporting a terrible head of fluffy strawberry blond hair, the would-be kingpin, killed off all his enemies in 2015. Before he took over the drug business in this region, he dabbled in cars, specifically high-end custom jobs. The gang running the drug trade in 2015 made the colossal mistake of trusting him. They ordered, and he delivered two large vehicles with all their modifications and a few of his additions. On one hot sunny day, he delivered the cars and took out the head of the proverbial snake. He made changes to the cars’ locks so the men could not open them and then left them to fry in the sun until he tied them to crosses.

This was a message that there was a new game in town, and the old regime could leave or find themselves a cross to change from. All of this he did while his nephew, who was just a kid, watched. All of this was done to safeguard the town from wickedness supposedly. Never mind that he has increased the drug trade in town or that he had no problem killing all kinds of people in the name of safety. Louis Herthum is having the time of his life playing this ridiculous villain. A significant departure from his work on Westworld, his Corbell is an indulgent man-child who hides behind the auspice of sanctimoniousness.

Dr. Nuland approached him through a shell corp to kill the Fishers. He is smart enough to listen to his shrewd wife, who advises caution. Her plan is to recruit Jasper to find out anything he can about the Fishers before accepting any money. Now a grown man, Jasper is married to Billy Ann, Flynne’s best friend, so he has access. Flynn has told Billy Ann everything, so the information is there, but Billy Ann seems to realize that her husband and his relatives shouldn’t be trusted. Hopefully, she keeps her information to herself, but Burton’s concern might be warranted.

For now, Burton’s literal warning shot and two hundred thousand dollars weekly offer is enough to keep Corbell off of their backs, but there are too many red flags for him to ignore. He wants to know where they are getting the money. Of course, this is under the guise that he wants to keep the town and the Fishers from getting involved with dangerous types. He doesn’t care that he is a dangerous type or that he is small potatoes compared to Nuland and her capabilities.

Wilf, Aelita, and Flynne in The Peripheral Episode 3

Flynne and Wilf share a kiss when a constable almost catches her. Their ruse pays off, and she is released, which raises some serious questions. Since they were synched at the time, the kiss was intense. Burton tells her that merge can feel like love. It is called Haptic Drift, and it is a double-edged sword. In The Peripheral Episode 10, it is both the carrot and the stick.

Wilf is a complicated character because he is haunted by something in his past. His boss says he should embrace all the many facets of himself, but you can tell this man can’t reconcile the good he wants to do with the bad things he has done. Since we don’t know why his employer wants Flynne, he could still be doing something wrong and not even realize it.

Wilf, who was previously Wolfgang before being scrubbed of his ethnicity by his adoptive parents, is Aelita’s brother. These two were adopted together when Aelita refused to leave the orphanage without Wolf. We see how much these two meant to each other through a flashback. This is why he is uniquely qualified to track her down. When he goes to question his mother if she knows anything, a window into their childhood is revealed. They did have every opportunity and privilege, but it came at a price. The pair grew up with exacting parents who didn’t tolerate imperfection.

A stunning scene between Wilf and his mother showcased just how wrong things were in that house. Their mother had a domestic unit programmed with Aelita’s face and voice. She claimed it was because she was lonely, but it felt darker. Their mother wants to control the robot and have it serve her in a way that the human version never would. However, the encounter does provide him a clue that he is able to decipher along with Flynne.

Wilf and Flynne find Aelita’s hideaway, but it was already ransacked, and Dr. Nuland had it monitored. For reasons we have yet to understand, Aelita had a clock that matched Flynne’s in her time and a stark white model of Burton and their home, complete with his trailer. Why Aelita knows so much about the Fishers and why she cares, we will have to wait to find out. Before they can get any answers, Daniel and a deadly bot arrive to kill them. Nuland watches all of this from afar, and when Daniel gets bested, she has the bot kill him before he reveals too much information. For now, these hints are like Flynne herself, just Polts. They are here and not here. Informative and maddening in equal measure.

Dr. Nuland’s motivations and her deadly bees in The Peripheral Episode 3

Dr. Nuland is a nightmare. She is ruthless, cunning, and inventive in her violence. When she determines Aelita’s friend Grace told her about the Stubs program, she took action. Pretending to warn her, she invited her for tea and unleashed a swarm of bees on her, inflamed by a pheromone steeped in the tea. It is a brutal death that is all the more terrifying by the cold indifference of T’Nia Miller’s Cherise Nuland. she is willing to go to any lengths to get back what Flynne has. Almost certainly, Flynne has something locked in her brain from the scan on her first mission and doesn’t know it. Whatever it is, it is worth dying for and probably is what makes the future world work the way it does. Nothing makes people defend the status quo more than change.

Burton and his team

Burton has taken some of the money and purchased the 3D printing store. He is a soldier used to being in charge and making plans. It is what he does. However, this doesn’t sit well with Flynne, who would prefer a think first and shoot second approach. Through Jack Reynor’s(Burton) chilling conversation with Corbell, we learned more about how the haptic unit work and what their problems are. These groups are recruited as intact units because there is an established relationship when they link up. They work as one and feel what the other feels. This is great for a group at war but not so much when an individual returns home.

Those connections become liabilities as they lose control of their emotions occasionally. This is why Burton nearly beat someone to death and got expelled from the FBI. One of his fellow haptic soldiers was beaten as a child by a man Burton saw decades later in a bar. Seeing him triggered the rage from the other man, and Burton blacked out. It means he is now a liability, but his connection with his unit means he is a formidable foe for Corbell and the older man knows it.

For now, the Fishers are safe, but Nuland is a dangerous lunatic, and people will begin asking questions about their mother and their money. We know the giant structures are carbon structures now, but we don’t see how the science works or why they were designed to look like monuments. The Peripheral Episode 3 gave us even more mysteries to solve. Hopefully, Flynne and Wilf can find Aelita, who no longer has her implant, before things get too dicey. Find all our The Peripheral coverage here.