December 18, 2011, written by Jesse Armstrong and directed by Brian Welsh.
in a world where people get to keep a digital record of all their memories
through a tiny recording implant called a grain.
a permanent video camera, recording everything that happens, from dinner
parties to work meetings. Recorded memories can be played back in two different
ways: internally, within someone’s mind, and externally, on a screen. The grain
even has editing options that allow you to delete memories.
Kebbell), a young lawyer who begins to suspect that his wife, Ffion (Jodie
Whittaker), may have cheated on him in the past. Emotionally spiraling out of
control by this realization, he uses his grain (and Ffion’s) to replay memories
and verify his suspicions. It turns out he is right: Ffion has indeed betrayed
desire to see into the past—literally, frame by frame—Liam ultimately ends up
worse off by knowing what he knows. The episode ends with him manically
attempting to cut the grain out of his head.