Set in a gritty, cyberpunk metropolis, Bodyshok follows Detective Renault, a time-crime analyst renowned for her ability to solve murders by extracting DNA and memory fragments from victims. Her cold, detached demeanor masks the unresolved trauma of her parents’ murder, a case that has haunted her entire career.

Renault is assigned to investigate a series of brutal murders committed by a shape-shifting killer who can transfer its consciousness into different bodies, leaving no traceable identity. As the body count rises, she discovers that many of the killer’s victims have been resurrected by a shadowy figure known only as The God, a reanimator who operates in an underground network of cybernetic mutations and memory trafficking. These reanimated victims, known as Rogue Elements, are stuck in a perpetual fight-or-flight state, reliving the moments before their deaths. They wreak havoc on the city, complicating Renault’s investigation and threatening its fragile order.

As Renault delves deeper into this bizarre and dangerous underworld, she begins to experience strange gaps in her own memory. Initially dismissing them as stress, she becomes increasingly paranoid when she uncovers inconsistencies in her personal history. Her psyche evaluations with her partner, Dr. Kael, force her to confront the possibility that her memories, and perhaps her very identity, may have been fabricated.

The investigation takes a shocking turn when Renault discovers that the killer isn’t a person at all, but a rogue program created by The God. This program uses bodies like disposable shells, hijacking the cybernetic augmentations of its victims and evolving with every host it inhabits. The program taunts Renault, exploiting her doubts and drawing parallels between them: both are creations of a world where humanity has become a commodity, traded and twisted by technology.

Renault eventually uncovers the horrifying truth: she is one of The God’s experiments, her consciousness extracted and placed into a cybernetic body as part of an attempt to preserve humanity. The memories of her parents’ murder, her career, and even her sense of self were designed to make her the perfect detective. Struggling with the revelation that she is little more than a memory trapped in a shell, Renault must decide whether she can still fight for justice—or if she is no different from the killer she’s hunting.

In a climactic showdown, Renault confronts the program and The God, using her fractured identity and newfound understanding of her cybernetic nature to outsmart them. However, the victory comes at a devastating cost: Renault is forced to embrace her transformation into a fully cybernetic being, sacrificing the last fragments of her humanity to stop the killer.

In the end, Renault gazes at her reflection, more machine than human, haunted by the question: Am I still me? Or am I just a memory pretending to be alive?