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Episodes for Biohackers (TV series)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Arrival"	Christian Ditter, Tim Trachte	[[]], , [[]] &	August 8, 2020 (2020-20-08)
A ‘“cold open’” has Mia and Niklas traveling together in a train carriage. Several passengers suddenly fall ill with apparent heart attacks. Mia, a medical student, is trying to give aid as the title sequence ensues, after which the episode resumes two weeks earlier, at the University of Freiburg. Mia is moving into an apartment building she will share with several other students—In her room, Mia locks the door and hides some important documents—scientific papers, newspaper clippings, one with a photo of Lorenz, in a speaker case. Unpacking a figurine of a German boy she has a flashback to childhood when her twin brother gave it to her as a birthday gift. Mia first encounters the famous Professor Dr. Lorenz in a large introductory class for students in medicine. Lorenz explains that synthetic biology, the future of medicine,” turns us from creatures to creators”. Mia has another flashback to her childhood with her brother being rushed into an emergency room; on the PA system, she hears, “Dr Lorenz to the ER please.” After class, Mia pursues Jaspar, Lorenz’s assistant. They first meet in the library after Mia discovers a green fluorescent mouse loose in the library. “Mendel” is Jaspar’s pet and has escaped. Jaspar takes Mia for a walk to his personal lab in an isolated hut in the woods. They arrange a date, go to the freshman party, and are getting closer. Jaspar gives Mia the forms to apply as an assistant to Lorenz. Former colleague, now journalist, Dr Andreas Winter, is introduced, when he interviews Lorenz. The episode ends with a flash forward to the train carriage, where medics in hazmat suits are entering the train in the aftermath of the incident that opened the episode. One of the rescuers asks Mia her name, she replies: “Mein Name ist Emma”
2	"Secrets"	Christian Ditter, Tim Trachte	[[]], , [[]] &	August 15, 2020 (2020-20-15)
As the episode opens, Mia is having a flashback to childhood. The two children had participated in one of Lorenz’s studies and her brother had died. She overhears her parents arguing with Lorenz about her culpability in the boy’s death. Back in the present, Lorenz praises Mia in front of the class for her novel approach to a molecular biology problem. Mia convinces Lorenz to hire her as an assistant on human clinical trials. While discussing developments with her roommates, Jaspar and Jaspar’s close friend Niklas, Mia has another flashback to the car accident in her childhood that killed her parents, but which she survived. Lorenz was present at the accident scene and thinks that both parents and the girl are dead. Lorenz retrieved some documents from the accident site and drove away. After the flashback, Mia is walking with Jaspar when she receives an anonymous text message that asks: “Do you have new information.” At Lorenz’s lab the next day, Lorenz has Mia take swabs from volunteers in a study about genetic markers related to hormones and female fertility. When one volunteer decides not to participate, Lorenzo has Mia take her place. When Lorenz takes a throat swab from Mia, Mia has a flashback to the time that Lorenz had taken a swab from her and her brother as a child. Mia later swaps the tube with her sample with a swab from one of her roommates ( so that Lorenz won’t discover that Mia is already in her database). After Jaspar sequences the samples, Lorenz reviews them with Mia and is surprised that Mia’s DNA sequences aren’t consistent with Mia having freckles but not the gene variant seen with freckles. As the episode ends, Lorenz gives Mia a passcard to the lab.