Mia disbelieves Shazia's promise to keep the information secret, and uses the Recaller to learn that she told her husband Anan ( Anthony Welsh) whom she was visiting. Shazia tries to leave but her car does not start and Mia smashes the window, knocks her out and ties her up in a shed. Mia tries to divert her memory away from the accident but fails, and Shazia sees memories of both of her killings. Hoping to get bonus pay from a quick investigation, Shazia makes a lengthy drive to meet Mia.Ī tense Mia only allows Shazia in when told that refusal will be reported to the police. In each case Shazia makes them smell beer from the nearby brewery and replays a song that played in a passing car to strengthen their memories. She finds a woman he passed on the street before the incident, who directs her to a dentist, who saw Mia looking at the accident from her hotel room. The pedestrian is visited by Shazia ( Kiran Sonia Sawar), an insurance investigator who uses a "Recaller" to view his memories, as best as he can picture them, on a screen. Playing pornography in the room as an alibi, she disposes of Rob's body. Out of the window, she notices a self-driving pizza delivery truck hit a pedestrian. An argument ensues and Mia breaks Rob's neck, killing him. He is going to write an anonymous letter to the victim's wife, after seeing a news article indicating she never moved on, but Mia is afraid the letter will be traced. After she delivers an important presentation, a newly-sober Rob meets her at her hotel. ![]() Rob's companion Mia Nolan ( Andrea Riseborough) helps him throw the body off a cliff into a lake.įifteen years later, Mia is married with a nine-year-old son and works as an architect. Riseborough and Sawar's acting, as well as the visual aesthetics, were acclaimed.ĭriving intoxicated after a party, Rob ( Andrew Gower) hits a cyclist on a mountain road, killing him. Some reviewers found the Recaller technology to be interesting, but not meaningfully explored by the episode. Critics mostly found its bleakness and violence to be excessive, with further criticism of the plot twists. ![]() The first draft featured a male protagonist and Scotland as its setting. The writers were inspired by Nordic noir and by a similar memory technology in series one's " The Entire History of You". Meanwhile, Shazia ( Kiran Sonia Sawar) is an insurance investigator who uses a "Recaller" that can project people's visual memories onto a screen. The episode follows Mia ( Andrea Riseborough) fifteen years after she helped her friend Rob ( Andrew Gower) cover up a hit-and-run death, as she commits several murders in order to cover up her past crimes. The episode first aired on Netflix, along with the rest of series four, on 29 December 2017. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by John Hillcoat. " Crocodile" is the third episode of the fourth series of anthology series Black Mirror. Promotional poster released as part of the "13 Days of Black Mirror"
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