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Altered Carbon: Season 2

8 episodes Premiered Feb 27, 2020 Updated Oct 12, 2026

When a job brings Takeshi Kovacs back to Harlan's World in a new sleeve, he finds the planet at war and his long-lost love lurking in the shadows. The series is set in a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies. Takeshi Kovacs is a former soldier turned investigator.

Previously on Altered Carbon

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Consciousness can be transferred to different bodies.
  • ⚡ Takeshi Kovacs is a former soldier turned investigator.
  • ⚡ Takeshi Kovacs spent 250 years on ice as a prisoner before returning to life in a new body.
  • ⚡ The television series is an American cyberpunk show created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the novel of the same title by Richard K. Morgan.
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Season overview

When a job brings Takeshi Kovacs back to Harlan's World in a new sleeve, he finds the planet at war and his long-lost love lurking in the shadows. The series is set in a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies. Takeshi Kovacs is a former soldier turned investigator.

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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (5): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Phantom Lady

Feb 27, 2020 · 45 min

Thirty years after the Bancroft case, a Meth tracks down Kovacs to offer him a job, a high-tech sleeve and a chance to see Quellcrist Falconer again.

S2·E2 Core

Payment Deferred

Feb 27, 2020 · 46 min

As Col. Carrera takes charge of the murder investigation, Kovacs sets out to find Axley's bounty hunter, and Poe's memory glitches worsen.

S2·E3 Core

Nightmare Alley

Feb 27, 2020 · 53 min

Kovacs contends with ghosts from his past as he's tortured by Carrera. Poe seeks help from a fellow AI. Trepp gets a lead on the man she's after.

S2·E4 Core

Shadow of a Doubt

Feb 27, 2020 · 56 min

While the planet celebrates Harlan's Day, Kovacs hatches an escape plan, Quell pieces together fragments of her life, and Poe faces a reckoning.

S2·E5 Core

I Wake Up Screaming

Feb 27, 2020 · 50 min

Carrera sends his secret weapon on a deadly mission. Kovacs and Trepp smuggle Quell out of the city. Poe takes a risky trip into virtual reality.

S2·E6 Core

Bury Me Dead

Feb 27, 2020 · 43 min

As Quell reconnects to her past at Stronghold, she leads the clone into an underground chamber teeming with secrets. Gov. Harlan shows her true colors.

S2·E7 Mytharc

Experiment Perilous

Feb 27, 2020 · 48 min

When Quell's sleeve begins to shut down, Poe and Ms. Dig send her into VR, where Kovacs finally learns the truth about her deadly rampages.

S2·E8 Mytharc

Broken Angels

Feb 27, 2020 · 52 min

With the fate of the whole planet on the line, Kovacs, Quell and team race to find Konrad Harlan and stop a catastrophic blast of Angelfire.

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