Raph asks if she might be falling in love, and Astrid asks whether she means like Raph and Mathias Forest. In fact, it’s Nico who extracts the confession, in a rare opportunity for the character to shine.Īstrid pursues her relationship with mathematics student Tetsuo Tanaka, to the point where she has what looks suspiciously like an orgasm as he describes the beauty of mathematical mystery The Golden Ratio. The resolution, that one brother is driving the other to murder and suicide because he blames him for the death of the woman he loved, lacks some impact because the events of her death are described, but never seen.
But when Joachim turns up, he’s paranoid and raving about a dybbuk or spirit which is haunting him. In fact, it’s Astrid’s mate William, the hacker, who helps to access the AI personality and determine that it’s the doppelganger of the murdered wife of the other partner in the GOL-M business, Joachim, who has gone missing.Īstrid is predictably fascinated by the complex letter codings of the Jewish mystical kaballah and of its numerical counterpart gematria, so much so that she gets entirely lost in the work of the missing man’s brother. That couldn’t be further from the truth, Raph insists – Astrid definitely has empathy. Nonetheless, Astrid begins to question whether she herself is more like a machine than a person – unable to feel emotions or to respond to them. Astrid explains that though she enjoys the conversation with the holographic Eve, she wasn’t fooled, because the receptionist’s repetitive body movements gave her away. The possibility is rapidly dispelled when Astrid and Raph investigate the dead man’s company, an AI developer with a charming virtual receptionist.
In this case, a Jewish entrepreneur is found dead with clay around his head wound and clutching beads containing magical lettering – so was his killer a golem?
But will this case turn out to have a supernatural origin, or a more technological twist?įor those who don’t know, a golem is a clay man brought to life (and returned to inactivity) by cabbalistic magic, usually used as a weapon of revenge. Astrid and Raphaëlle have tackled zombies, ghosts, witches and aliens – so it is no surprise when they run into a golem, the clay monster of Jewish folklore.
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