'Upload' season four. Prime Video Logo text [This story contains major spoilers from the final season and series finale of Upload.] "I remember texting Greg that I thought the scene between Nathan and Nora on the bench was one of the most beautiful things I had ever read," Upload star Robbie Amell recalls of his initial reaction to discovering half of his character's fate. "I thought it was so beautiful and real. I just loved those words, and that ended up being one of the final scenes that Andy [Allo] and I shot together." The scene Amell is describing is one of the final moments in the series shared by Nathan - a murdered coder who is digitally uploaded into a virtual beyond known as Lakeview - and Nora, the very alive customer service technician, otherwise known as an "angel," who is paid to support him in his subscription-based afterlife. Related Stories TV 'Upload' Promises One Final Fight to Shutdown Evil in Trailer for Finale Event TV Peacock's 'Office' Spinoff 'The Paper' Points Its Mockumentary Cameras at a New Subject in Trailer In a shocking twist, the fourth and final season of Greg Daniels' Prime Video sci-fi comedy kills one of those two Nathans permanently. " The reality is that [Nathan and Nora] were fighting against the clock," says Andy Allo while discussing the couple's endgame. "That realization, though, was devastating." The decision to kill original upload Nathan following the events of the season three finale (where he and his reboot were captured by the corrupt digital afterlife company Horizon) was always in the narrative cards, says Daniels. "The specifics of it developed, but there was the question of whether [Nathan and Nora] would have a plain happy ending, or whether it would be more intense and appropriate," the show's creator tells The Hollywood Reporter now that the finale has released. How Upload Determined the Fate of Original Digital Nathan The four-episode finale event kicked off with a revelation that only reboot Nathan survived the encounter with Horizon. The remembered details of that event initially led everyone to think Nathan sacrificed himself to save his digital copy, throwing Nora into a downward spiral in which she confines herself to her bedroom, living out a series of VR goggle scenarios (including a wedding) with her remembered version of Nathan. Attempts to pull her back to the real world by friends, including Zainab Johnson's Aleesha (now a well-trained spy infiltrating Horizon) and Allegra Edwards' Ingrid (preparing to marry reboot Nathan), are unsuccessful. That is, until a surprising encounter with what appears to be a digital ghost of the original Nathan. The experience revives Nora, who, believing Nathan is still alive, sets out to find and save him. "We had this cliffhanger, and when we discussed it in the writers room, we were like, 'Nobody expects the real Nathan to be the one, so we have to do that because that's the biggest surprise,'" Daniels says of the choice about which Nathan to disappear. From there, Nora and Nathan fight against the clock to save him and his deteriorating mind and body, a byproduct of Horizin repeatedly scanning his consciousness from his cloned body while he was captured. Their effort ultimately returns no solutions to keeping him alive, leading Nathan to make a heartwrenching choice that ends his third chance at life. "What I was going for with them is something that would be the most intensely romantic version of the story," says Daniels. "When you think about which stories are more romantic, Titanic is the big romantic story. It doesn't necessarily end happily, but it ends with a lot of meaning and a lot of tears and an exchange of emotions. Giving that to Nathan and Nora was the prize in terms of letting them have the big, most emotional thing." The choice to have original upload Nathan move on while encouraging Nora to live calls back to some of the earliest conversations between the duo as he struggles to settle into his "digital afterlife" in Lakeview. "Life isn't perfect," Nora tells Nathan towards the end of the pilot. "But life is the most magical gift there is." "There's the theme of how love transcends death. The show is very technological. We've got a tech company that has the answer. You're going to get uploaded. But at the end of the day, is there something more meaningful than a kind of digital zombification thing?" Daniels says. "I always wanted to have an emotional story that was satisfying for people, but people don't always win in real life. It's phony to always have the characters win. But I think they can still win emotionally by taking away something important that they needed to learn." How Upload's Finale Brings Nathan and Nora Full Circle On-screen, Nathan's death answers one of the series' recurring questions of whether you'd upload if you had the chance, says Amell. "When original Nathan dies, it's almost a relief for some of the people around him because of what he's been through," Ame