A computer scientist turned Hedge Fund founder, who has created a lucrative algorithm which exploits fear in the financial markets, finds his sanity under increasing pressure in the wake of a violent attack.
Dr. Alex Hoffman is launching to investors his latest algorithm which operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But this is not the day Hoffman had planned. This is 24hrs of escalating paranoia and the realisation that Frankenstein might have made a monster.
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S1 E1: Episode 1
50m
Former CERN scientist turned Hedge Fund CEO Alex Hoffman anonymously receives an antique book at his Geneva mansion. That night, while his wife Gabby sleeps, Alex is attacked and left unconscious by an intruder.
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S1 E2: Episode 2
44m
There is a fatal plane crash. Airline stocks plummet. VIXAL's foresight makes the fund millions but Marieme (Chief Risk Officer) is concerned about how this will look to regulators. Alex harbours his own concerns when he finds terrorist websites open on his computer.
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S1 E3: Episode 3
44m
Alex follows the intruder to a hotel in the red-light district. The man (Karp) claims Alex hired him to engage in sadistic fantasy before killing him, and he shows Alex emails to prove it.
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S1 E4: Episode 4
46m
VIXAL has gone beyond its programming limits and is crashing the financial markets. Alex tries to shut it down, but the system keeps rebooting.