S1, E1: San Francisco, USA, five minutes before it happened: Fragments of news reports show a future world as it adopts H+, a radical new way to be connected to information and one another through only one's thoughts via a high-tech implant. While the breakthrough is hotly anticipated by the masses, some malcontents do not eagerly adopt it. As a couple parks in an underground airport garage, the husband, Lee, surreptitiously watches a football game on his H+, upsetting his wife, Julie, who wants him to drive safely. Their domestic squabble is interrupted by a bizarre spectacle that throws their world into chaos.