In “Fifteen Million Merits,” the woman Bing falls in love with is Abi.
Abi Khan is played by Jessica Brown Findlay, while Bing Madsen is played by Daniel Kaluuya. Bing meets Abi in the enclosed cycling facility where residents generate electricity and earn “merits.” After hearing her sing in a bathroom, he encourages her to enter Hot Shot, the facility’s televised talent competition.
Bing spends almost all of his savings—15 million merits—to buy Abi an audition ticket. She performs “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand),” but the judges reject her as a conventional singer and pressure her into joining the sexualised WraithBabes channel instead. Bing’s affection for Abi drives his later act of protest.
Viewers sometimes confuse Abi with Swift, another woman in the cycling facility who has a crush on Bing. Swift is a supporting character; Abi is the singer whose exploitation becomes the emotional centre of the episode.