The Oxford Five has become the Oxford Four.
While Episode 3 of 3 Body Problem explored the realms of virtual reality, the close-knit college friends face real-world tragedy in Episode 4. The shocking death of Jack Rooney (John Bradley) unmoors the central characters in 3 Body Problem, the cerebral sci-fi thriller from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and True Blood writer Alexander Woo. Brilliant physicist Jin (Jess Hong) and savvy snack-lord Jack discovered the truth behind the VR headsets: A condemned civilization sent the tech as a recruitment tool to vet top thinkers for an Earth-based organization who would welcome their eventual invasion.
“It seems like the craziest possible explanation,” says Woo. “But as our characters come to figure out, the only one that makes any sense at all is that aliens do exist.”