Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Devs episode 1 & 2.

Devs, the first series from the new FX on Hulu imprint, may have already revealed the true nature of the projection project at the show's tech company, Amaya. Devs is the brainchild of science-fiction filmmaker Alex Garland, who wrote the screenplay for the cult classic 28 Days Later, and also wrote and directed the sci-fi films Ex Machina and Annihilation. Garland wrote and directed all eight episodes of Devs, and while only the first two are available right now, they both feature Garland's distinctive style.

Devs follows a young computer engineer who becomes suspicious of her workplace, a quantum computing company named Amaya, when her boyfriend commits suicide shortly after being invited to join a secretive research department within the company. The show packs an all-star cast including Sonoya Mizuno as Lilly Chan, our central protagonist, alongside Karl Glusman as Lilly's boyfriend Sergei, and Nick Offerman as Amaya's intense and eccentric CEO, Forest.

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Though the first two episodes present the Devs team's newest project as a slow-burning mystery, the show may have already given us some crucial hints as to what that project is. And if that's the case, Amaya is tapping into forces that could have disturbing implications for the show's main characters.

The Devs Team's Secret Project

Nick Offerman and Sonoya Mizuno in Devs TV show

In the pilot episode, Sergei (who is an artificial intelligence coder at Amaya), does a presentation with his team in front of Forest and his right-hand employee Katie (played by Alison Pill). Sergei's presentation is an algorithm that allows him to predict the movements of single-celled organisms. The algorithm can only run for 30 seconds at a time, but it impresses Forest enough to invite Sergei to join the Devs team, who are currently working on a project of incredibly secrecy.

Forest brings Sergei to the Devs division lab and sits him down at a computer with a wall of code, telling him that "everything will become clear." Sergei studies the computer, and after a while he has a total emotional breakdown, crying in the bathroom before making the decision to record the code using a camera wristwatch. Unfortunately for him, Forest finds out about Sergei's treachery and corners him in the forest outside the building, delivering a haunting monologue on how the philosophy of determinism led both he and Sergei to that exact moment. He then has Amaya's Head of Security, Kenton, strangle Sergei with a plastic bag.

The show's second episode delivers another glimpse at just how powerful their quantum code really is. We get a scene of Katie leading a project test along with two members of the Devs team, Stewart and Lyndon. There's a screen projecting what looks like bits of binary code distilled down into a physical image. While it appears blurry and hard to follow at first, the code shifts and transforms into an image of Jesus Christ on the cross the day of his crucifixion.

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What Is The Project?

Nicke Offerman looks on in Devs

Forest's speech to Sergei revolves around Determinism, a philosophical theory that implies the nature of the universe is based solely on cause and effect. This means that the concept of free will is an illusion, because once quantum physics started the ball rolling, every action that's ever taken place since then has been simply reactive. Based on this, as well as Sergei's project in the first episode, it seems as if Amaya's secret research project is a quantum computer running an algorithm that can render the past and predict the future. This is something that series creator Alex Garland hinted at before the show's release, telling a crowd at New York Comic-Con that "if you were at a computer powerful enough, you could use determinism to predict the future and understand the past."

Only time will tell what Amaya's project really is, but if it is based in the concept of determinism, then their research raises serious ethical and metaphysical concerns. While Lilly is just beginning to uncover the truth behind Sergei's untimely demise, there are much bigger mysteries hidden just beyond the doors of the Devs division laboratory.

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