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Humans. You know we give ourselves a bad rep, but we're genuinely empathetic as a species. I mean, we don't actually want to kill each other. Which is a good thing, until your future depends on wiping out the enemy.
~ Arquette.

Arquette is the main antagonist of the Black Mirror episode "Men Against Fire".

He is a military psychologist who supports the MASS system which at first seems to be a technology that increases soldiers military skills to protect the people from monstrous mutants called "Roaches", but there is a hidden and much darker purpose behind the entire operation.

He was portrayed by Michael Kelly, who also played Richard Detmer in Chronicle and Doug Stamper in House of Cards.

Personality[]

Arquette presents himself as a calm, friendly and astute individual, who is a psychologist focused on helping the soldiers deal with their problems, such as the morality of murdering Roaches. He appears to be amiable to Stripe and assure him that he’s simply doing his part. This side of him slowly gets darker, however, as Arquette slowly reveals himself to be a manipulative, xenophobic, psychotic and sociopathic supporter of the MASS system.

It’s revealed that Arquette has people sign up to MASS and erase their minds, before he has MASS implant into their heads, in order to turn the humans they see as “inferior” into looking and resembling monstrous creatures, so that they can wipe out the “Roaches.” He is shown to be vehemently racist towards the “Roaches” who are simply refugees during the war, as he even claims that there is “shit” in their DNA and need to be eliminated for good.

Arquette recognizes the goodness in humanity, and how they are unwilling to kill other humans beings and will even break down doing it. However, he ultimately sees this as a weakness for eliminating the inferior genetics and he praises the abilities of MASS as being able to have soldiers Murder innocent people with no gripes, stating many wars could have been ended quicker if MASS existed. By the end of the episode, Arqutte ends up becoming incredibly sadistic with forcing Stipe to either have his memory erased or force him to keep viewing him killing the innocent refugees forever.

Biography[]

When the protagonist Stripe feels ill after killing a few monsters known as "Roaches", he is sent to a meeting with Arquette to make sure that his Mass (a chip in the brain that can make soldiers visualize things such as maps, calls, aiming view, data, etc.) is working.

When Stripe returns to his mission with a damaged Mass and notices that the Roaches they are sent to kill are just normal human beings that are just being visualized by the Masses as monstrous mutants, thus making the soldiers see monsters instead of humans.

When Stripe is arrested for helping the Roaches (whom he now knows are human beings), he is sent to Arquette again who reveals to Stripe that the true purpose of the MASS system is to exterminate people that are considered inferior and that they are only visualized as monsters by the Masses so that the soldiers won't hesitate in killing them.

When Stripe gets violent, Arquette controls his view with a remote and repeats the memory of when Stripe killed the Roaches, but this time he sees them in their true forms as humans. 

Realizing that all this time he killed innocent people, Stripe falls on the floor feeling sick and guilty, and Arquette offers him to the chance to either have his Mass reset with the last few days erased from his memory and to continue to massacre Roaches, or being sent to isolation with his memory of brutally killing the innocents being repeated in his head. Stripe had no choice and eventually agreed to go with option one.

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