Ultimately, the casual abuse extended to death threats, forcing her to leave Granular on the grounds of nervous exhaustion - and then drive her to a suicide attempt. One day, Garrett's co-worker, flatmate and crush, Tess Wallander, happened to take a photo of a man who had apparently harassed her on a train and then went on to post it to social unfortunately for her, it turned out the man was intellectually disabled, resulting in Tess experiencing serious social backlash. Though many Granular employees were unhappy with having their invention co-opted by government surveillance, the conditional offer of funding meant that they were ultimately forced to comply - presumably including Garret.

With the opportunity to avoid a major ecological and economic crisis on the line, Granular had the financial support of the British government however, unknown to all but a select few, this support would only be guaranteed if the company had the ADIs fitted with facial recognition software and allowed government security services to access their visual feed in times of 'increased national security' - essentially, whenever they wished.

At the time, Granular had become famous for the creation of ADIs (Autonomous Drone Insects) as a synthetic replacement for the now-critically-endangered honeybees, guaranteeing the continued pollination of crops, and Garret was one of the best and brightest assigned to the project. Three years before the events of the episode, Garrett Scholes worked as a programmer at the Granular corporation, considered a wunderkind for his intellect and abilities.

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