History Recap / BlackMirrorWhiteBear

* AntiVillain: Victoria helped kill a little girl, but she's scared, helpless, and hates herself once she finds out what she's done...probably.

Awaking [[LaserGuidedAmnesia without memory of who she is]], a woman soon finds [[ImplacableMan an armed, masked man is pursuing her]] with the intent of killing her. Of course, things wouldn't be as bad [[BystanderSyndrome if everyone would stop filming it on their phones and help.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2spS4Lc3CM Trailer here.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Victoria videotaped Jemima's torture and murder on her mobile phone. The evidence was used to convict her and her boyfriend since they didn't delete it from the device or any clouds. It didn't help that Jemima disappeared near their house.
** An oddly sobering one amid the science-fiction. At her trial, Victoria tried to claim that her boyfriend manipulated her into taping his murder of Jemima and he was very charismatic. She also apparently didn't have a defense lawyer. The judge didn't buy it, and neither did the jury. Victoria herself looks horrified that she tried that defense.
** TheStinger has Baxter warning everyone to keep their distance from Victoria while videotaping her. She may be mindwiped, but she's still a killer. Sure enough, Victoria tosses some bricks at visitors who got too close while filming on their phones.

* HateSink: Victoria is a vile assistant to child murder, but she ultimately turns out to be a subversion due to her punishment being far too excessive, more so that she ''doesn't remember''. The White Bear park members don’t count either, since from their perspective [[WellIntentionedExtremist they’re simply punishing a child murderer, albeit in a cruel and excessive way.]] Victoria’s boyfriend, however, is one, as he not only murdered the child himself but completely escaped punishment via suicide, which is why Victoria is trapped in the place to start.

** Vast amounts through her slowly returning memory. Most notable is when the protagonist picks up the dropped phone and the other survivor points a taser at her claiming she'll go mad if she looks at it; it's later revealed that the protagonist would have seen it was all a setup, and the tasers are used for days when things don't go according to plan. Baxter is particularly harsh with Victoria when talking to her, despite not having met her before, indicating that he holds some deep-seated contempt for her for a reason that isn't initially apparent.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Victoria is horrified by the person she used to be. She claims she'd rather be dead than live with her crimes. Baxter doesn't buy it, because he says he's seen her make the some statement night after night.

* TruthInTelevision: Many child murderers faced the public eye and scorn for their victims being innocent and helpless. Even in prison, other inmates may gang up on them.

* EveryoneHasStandards: It's revealed that Baxter's hated for Victoria is real because she murdered a child with two loving parents. He takes care to straighten Jemima's photograph. When Baxter talks to the new audience of the day, he reassures everyone that the cast members will protect them from Victoria, children included.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not. On the one hand, she was complicit in murdering a child and her only defense was that her fiance's charisma convinced her it was a good idea. While it's unclear if she had a defense lawyer, the judge is all set to FacePalm at the lame excuse. She would probably get beaten up in prison for the said crime and killed. On the other hand, because Victoria doesn't remember what she did, she comes off as a nicer person and more compassionate. Thus, she's not the same person who was holding the mobile phone.

* MemoryWipeExploitation: This is taken to a policy level as part of the twist in the episode. Every day, Victoria Skillane wakes up with no memories and is chased through the streets by maniacal mask-wearers who will only commit horrific acts of violence and seemingly "ordinary" civilians filming on their cell phones who will never attempt to stop them, no matter what happens. [[spoiler: It's revealed that this is Victoria's punishment for assisting in the abduction, torture, and murder of a little girl and that every night her memory is wiped after she is forced to remember. This is specifically so that the "amusement park" visitors can engage in the exact same torture, knowing that Victoria has no idea why any of this is happening and is experiencing the same terror as her victim.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Vast amounts through her slowly returning memory. Most notable is when the protagonist picks up the dropped phone and the other survivor points a taser at her claiming she'll go mad if she looks at it; it's later revealed that the protagonist would have seen it was all a setup, and the tasers are used for days when things don't go according to plan. Baxter is particularly harsh with Victoria when talking to her, despite not having met her before, indicating that he holds some deep-seated contempt for her for a reason that isn't initially apparent.

* HateSink: Victoria is a vile assistant to child murder, but she ultimately turns out to be a subversion due to her punishment being far too excessive. The White Bear park members don’t count either, since from their perspective [[WellIntentionedExtremist they’re simply punishing a child murderer, albeit in a cruel and excessive way.]] Victoria’s boyfriend, however, is one, as he not only murdered the child himself but completely escaped punishment via suicide, which is why Victoria is trapped in the place to start.

** TheStinger has Baxter warning everyone to keep their distance from Victoria while videotaping her. She may be mindwiped, but she's still a killer. Sure enough, Victoria tosses some bricks at camerapeople.

* RealityEnsues: also

* EveryoneHasStandards: It's revealed that Baxter's hated for Victoria is real because she murdered a child with two loving parents. He takes care to straighten Jemima's photograph.

* RealityEnsues:

** An oddly sobering one amid the science-fiction. At her trial, Victoria tried to claim that her boyfriend manipulated her into taping his murder of Jemima and he was very charismatic. The judge didn't buy it, and neither did the jury. Victoria herself looks horrified that she tried that defense.

* AmbiguousEnding: Does Victoria ever get out of the amnesia-induced torture loop? Is she stuck there till she dies? Or is she eventually executed and put out of her misery? Or do human rights activists have her freed and instead put in a maximum security prison? The possibilities are endless.

* AndIMustScream: What happens to Victoria. She's forced to relive the traumatic events of the episode, over and over, possibly for ''the rest of her life''. Jury's out on whether she deserves it.
* AntiVillain: Victoria helped kill a little girl, but she's scared, helpless and hates herself once she finds out what she's done...probably.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: There's lots of evidence that can be used to support whether Victoria should be kept in this {{ironic hell}} or not.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: A while into the plot it's revealed that the entirety of the episode was a setup; Victoria's fiancé abducted and burned alive a six-year-old girl, while she stood and filmed it. After they were caught, the boyfriend hanged himself in his cell, leading to her sentence to be centred around not letting Victoria escape being punished.

* HateSink: Victoria is a vile assistant to child murder, but she ultimately turns out to be a subversion due to her punishment being far too excessive. The White Bear park members don’t count either, since from their perspective [[WellIntentionedExtremist they’re simply punishing a child murderer, albeit in a cruel and excessive way.]] Victoria’s boyfriend, however, is one, as he not only murdered the child himself, but completely escaped punishment via suicide, which is why Victoria is trapped in the place to start.

* HereWeGoAgain: It is revealed that post-apocalypse was a complete ruse so that Victoria can be horribly frightened and emotionally tortured, before she is told the truth and forced to do it again after having her memory wiped.

* AmnesiacHero: Victoria doesn't remember anything about her life prior to waking up.

* AntiVillain: Victoria helped kill a little girl, but she's scared, helpless and hates herself once she finds out what she's done.

* AmnesiacDissonance: She's quite clearly upset when she sees that she enthusiastically assisted in the murder of a little girl.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The people running the park and subjecting Victoria to her "punishment" as well as the people enjoying the show are completely oblivious to the fact that they are guilty of being capable of dehumanisation and moral degeneracy that they are disgusted at Victoria for. Or they know and don't care or think it's justified.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: A while into the plot it's revealed that the entirety of the episode was a setup; Victoria's fiancé abducted and burned alive a six-year-old girl, while she stood and filmed it. After they were caught, the boyfriend hanged himself in his cell, leading to her sentence to be centred around not letting Victoria.