This excerpt from UKI, Shu Lea Cheang’s forthcoming feature length sci-fi viral cinema, recounts the adventures of Reiko, a de-commissioned replicant. UKI is the sequel to Cheang’s iconic cyberpunk porn film I.K.U. (2000), which tells the story of biotech company Genom Corporation and its plan to harvest orgasm data to engineer and sell addictive orgasms. Discarded on the toxic waste dump E-trashville, Reiko encounters Les Mutants, creatures who have evolved over generations of e-trash remixing, toxic pollution, and viral infection. Les Mutants help Reiko reboot themself back to existence and transform into the virus UKI, capable of infiltrating and sabotaging Genom Corp’s BioNet. In “LES MUTANTS, #2,” we see Reiko meeting SKETCH, who constantly draws a mutating self in black charcoal.