After being discarded in a dump full of android bodies, Markus wakes up and needs to find replacements for his damaged body parts: an optical unit, a pump regulator and an audio processor. The player sees Markus in a third-person perspective, and the visuals look normal, except when using the android's special abilities, when analysing the surroundings or a body to check it for compatible parts. In these cases, the usually smooth graphics are jagged and distorted, with red lines running through them. The visuals are distorted as though we are seeing through Markus's faulty optical unit. When Markus finds a decapitated android head with a compatible optical unit and picks it up, the head begins to speak: "Hello. I am an AK700 android. I was designed to serve you. What can I do for you?" At this point, the player can remove the optical unit from the eye socket and place it into Markus's eye socket, after which the visual glitches are shown to resolve.
The whole scene takes place in the dark, and everything is wet with rain. Several badly damaged androids move around, or ask limply for help. The head of the android Markus takes the optical unit from resembles a skull, the white but black-spotted skin tightly drawn across the bones, but with one gleaming eye staring straight at us. There is very much a sensation of being in a graveyard or perhaps some version of hell. Visually it is reminiscent of a baroque painting.