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Kabir Dunani is a major character of the Black Mirror franchise, serving as a supporting protagonist of the season four premiere "USS Callister" and its sequel, the season seven finale "USS Callister: Into Infinity.'
He is portrayed by Paul G. Raymond.
Biography[]
USS Callister[]
Aboard the spaceship USS Callister, Captain Robert Daly and his crew destroy their arch-enemy Valdack's ship, but he escapes. The crew celebrates, with Daly kissing both female crewmates.
The real-life version of Daly is CTO at Callister Inc. The company was co-founded by Daly and James Walton, the company's CEO, which produces the immersive virtual reality-based massively multiplayer online game Infinity, in which users control a starship in a simulated reality. Daly is treated poorly by his fellow employees, who appear identical to Captain Daly's crewmates.
New programmer Nanette Cole praises Daly's work on Infinity, but the more assertive Walton interrupts to show her around the office. When Daly returns home, he opens a development build of Infinity which is modded to resemble his favourite television show Space Fleet. As Captain Daly, he berates the crewmates, strangling a subservient "Lieutenant" Walton.
After employee Shania Lowry (Michaela Coel) warns Nanette to beware of Daly, he takes a discarded coffee cup of Nanette's and uses her DNA to replicate her consciousness within his development build. As "Lieutenant Cole", Nanette finds herself aboard the USS Callister, where "Lieutenant" Lowry explains that they are digital clones of Callister Inc. staff members. Confused and distraught, Nanette attempts to escape the ship but is teleported back to the bridge. She refuses to obey Daly's commands, so he removes her facial features, suffocating her, until she relents.
The crew embark on a mission in which they apprehend Valdack but spare his life. After Daly leaves, Nanette finds a way to send a game invitation containing a message for help to the real-world Nanette. When the real-world Nanette asks the real-world Daly about the message, he dismisses it as spam. Daly enters the game to interrogate his crew and transforms Lowry into a monster when she defends Nanette. Once Daly departs, Nanette identifies a distant wormhole as an uplink to Infinity's next update; she surmises that by flying into the wormhole, they will be deleted and therefore die. Walton is very hesitant to help; he explains that Daly has previously recreated his son Tommy within the game, throwing him out of an airlock to punish Walton. He also points out that since Daly still has all their DNA, he can just recreate them and punish them further. Nanette promises the crew that they will recover the lollipop containing Tommy's DNA.
When Daly returns, Nanette persuades him to take her on a mission to Skillane IV alone. She strips to her bathing suit and runs into a nearby lake, enticing a reluctant Daly to swim with her. He leaves behind the omnicorder, which allows him to control the game, on the shore. The crew teleports the omnicorder onto their ship and uses it to access sexually explicit images of Nanette on her PhotoCloud account. They use those photos to blackmail the real-life Nanette into ordering a pizza at Daly's apartment and stealing the DNA samples while he answers the door. The cloned crew then teleport digital Nanette onto the ship.
As Daly resumes play, he discovers the crew are escaping. He commandeers a crashed spaceship to pursue them through an asteroid belt. The Callister collides with an asteroid; Walton repairs the thrusters manually, incinerating himself, and the ship accelerates into the wormhole. The firewall detects Daly's modded build and locks his controls, rendering him physically unable to exit the game as it is deleted around him. In the real world, Daly is left sitting motionless, implying he has died from the side effect.
The crew reawakens in the un-modded version of Infinity with Plowman and Lowry restored to human form. Now free, they continue their adventure, with Nanette leading them, after interacting with an annoyed user, "Gamer691."
Into Infinity[]
Three months after the events of "USS Callister", the digitally cloned crew of real people, led by Captain Nanette, have been surviving in the Infinity game universe by robbing players of their game credits, which earns little reward at high risk. Due to them not having gamer tags, players think they are cheating or glitches and complain about them on the Infinity game forum. After a player encounter that nearly kills the whole crew, Nanette concludes that the crew needs to gain access to the game's source code in order to send themselves into a private server to ensure long term survival. To do so, they need to get back Lt. Walton who had died in a previous event.
In the real world, an investigative reporter questions Callister Inc. CEO James Walton about the players without gamer tags and Robert Daly's use of an illegal DNA cloning device. Nanette Cole, the real-life counterpart of Captain Nanette, spies on the interview. She offers to help Walton look into the rogue players. After reviewing gameplay footage of the clones and examining DNA samples she had stolen from Daly's apartment, she concludes that Daly had cloned various co-workers who had infiltrated the game. She shares her findings with James.
The crew figures out that Lt. Walton had respawned shortly after the crew entered Infinity and manage to locate which planet he is on. Simultaneously, Nanette chooses a planet that the clones might be on which happens to be the same planet that Lt. Walton is on. Nanette and Walton enter the game. The two groups encounter each other, retrieve Lt. Walton, and reboard the USS Callister. While Captain Nanette explains the situation to Nanette and Walton, Walton attempts to shoot the clones, killing clone Karl Plowman in the process. Captain Nanette kills Walton and orders Nanette to stop Walton from respawning. She disconnects herself, takes away the game and controller, and lambasts him as they leave the office. Nanette is suddenly hit by a car, leaving her in a coma. The crew later discovers what happened after attempting to call Nanette.
Lt. Walton explains the truth behind the "Heart of Infinity" where the source code is kept. To procedurally generate planets for game content, Walton used the illegal DNA cloning device to create and trap a clone of Daly in the Heart, forcing the clone to help him and the real Daly update and expand Infinity indefinitely in solitary. The crew travels to the Heart and Captain Nanette teleports inside it alone. Inside, she meets the clone of Daly, who is willing to help the crew after she explains the situation. He then shows her he has access to Nanette's body in the hospital via cerebral implant. He offers a choice: he can merge her consciousness with Nanette's to revive her and re-enter the real world but doing so would erase the crew, or he can create a private server for the crew. After Captain Nanette chooses the latter, Daly says she passed his test and he can actually do both options and starts to copy and paste her. However, she realizes that this would leave a copy of herself to be Robert's companion and demands that he cut and paste instead. Infuriated that she plans on leaving him to be alone again, Daly's clone attacks her.
Meanwhile, Walton enters the game and poses as Lt. Walton. He sends out an invite to all the players the crew had robbed, and exits the game. The crew struggles to defend themselves from scores of angry players.
Captain Nanette manages to kill Daly's clone and his death triggers a dead man's switch that starts to delete the entire game. She manages to execute the cut and paste command right before the Callister is destroyed. Captain Nanette wakes up in the hospital to find her consciousness melded with the real Nanette's consciousness, is in control of real Nanette's body, and is also co-inhabited by the Callister crew who can experience the real world through her senses and communicate with her via cell phone.
Meanwhile, Walton finds that the whole of Infinity and all backups have been wiped from the server when he calls the real Kabir about what Fatal Content Error 606 is. Then he looks at the cover of the Space Fleet comic titled "All Is Lost".
Three months later, Walton is arrested by the FBI on numerous charges, including fraud and "digital human rights abuse". After Nanette and the crew inside her watch the news, the crew complain about their predicament and Nanette assures them she is working on a solution. Reluctantly, she plays the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, allowing them to watch through her eyes.
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