Explaining the true origins of the Cassandra robot in the chilling Netflix show

Cassandra is one of the wildest Netflix thrillers on the streaming platform right now and is up there with the freakiest Black Mirror episodes. The German series is stacked with plot twists and random turns that you’d never expect. It’s all about AI, and what could freak you out more than a technology gone wrong show? Not much, let’s be honest. The story starts to get really complicated by the end, so here’s an explainer of the true origins of the Cassandra robot and how she came to be.

Cassandra was, of course, a human first

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Cassandra was originally just a normal woman living in a normal house – with no AI-looking robots inside at all. While she was pregnant with her second child, her husband Horst convinced her to use this new medical invention which involved radiation in order to see if their baby was a boy or girl. However, radiation is of course SUPER damaging to humans, and it resulted in the baby’s premature death and Cassandra being diagnosed with incurable cancer.

And as if things couldn’t get any worse, her husband had another bright idea to put her consciousness into a computer, so she could be in the house forever despite her body slowly dying. The machinery was tied to the house – meaning that the “AI assistant” the show originally makes you think was a computer, was actually a REAL PERSON. It’s giving Black Mirror to the maximum.

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When Horst tries to switch her off, it soon becomes clear that she cannot be turned off by anything but her own request. Horst originally told the doctors to make sure she has an off button (awful man), but she made a secret deal with them to ensure the off button was fake, and she couldn’t be turned off.

In the present day, Cassandra was accused of murdering her family but we soon find out that her son was trying to get out of a moving car which resulted in the crash that killed them all. Watching her son die caused a power outage in her computer system and she ended up losing power. Is it for good? Who knows…

If you need an ending explainer, we’ve got you covered on that base too.

Cassandra is available on Netflix now. For all the latest Netflix news, drops, quizzes and memes like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook.