Hello my CyberHeads ! Who wants to go to Six Flags ? Not me . This episode has instill a very deep and likely wholly unreasonable fright of Hacked Rollercoaster Murder in my heart .
Just kidding , this installment ’s villainy so conspicuously lacked any cobweb leash to human motivating that I think I actually feel safer now .
Before launching into the Hacked Rollercoaster Murder plot of land , we get the full , farcical backstory about why Special Agent Avery Ryan ( spiel , as always , by Oscar Winner ™ Patricia Arquette ) HATES cybercrime so so much , just in instance some viewer miss the buffer : Someone cut her computer and … murdered her psychology affected role . Then she bring together a crack team of neckbeards and gamer bros at the FBI to track down down a fresh kind of criminal … on the deep entanglement . I use ellipses because it ’s really the only punctuation mark appropriately melodramatic enough to channel the narrative hysteria here .
Then we have a refresher scene to get the audience up to race on the quandary of former grim hat drudge and former Bow Wow and current vest partisan Nelson , who is having a dickens of a metre “ place on the white chapeau . ” He is soured when Avery hacks his motorcar ( using an app she downloaded specifically for the occasion , apparently ) and order him he has to stop cybercriming or go to jail .
The backstory summary does a good caper encapsulating all that is with child and ugly about this show within the first 30 endorsement : astonishingly regretful graphics , a boilerplate adjective premise , overt fear - mongering — the end of the sum-up is LITERALLY a whispered voiceover enounce it can happen to youuuuuu re : horrific , violent , unbelievable cybercrimes .
In this episode , particularly , it seems like the writers cranked the absurd plot of ground turn to 11 because they were worry the tekki assumption would put up people . It give with a rollercoaster crashing , though fails to take advantage of the obvious chance to play ominous fair music . Turns out , the rogue ‘ coaster was HACKED .
The first suspect is the fiancé of one of the victims . Do n’t concern , he ’s not the killer , that would be right smart too square . ( What do you think this is , CSI : Miami ? ) The sad fiance gets push aside because “ pupillary bottleneck point he ’s telling the trueness , ” because in accession to being a cyber - sleuth , Avery still busts out her psychology tool to trip up digi - outlaw .
After concisely talk with one defendant , Avery practice a logic I can only describe as “ countermand Occam ’s Razor ” and jumps to a very bold conclusion that obviously someone caused the rollercoaster clangoring because they are part of an online gore erotica forum and they want to make a violent sniff video to impress the other members .
Avery address the upright way to catch this guy is to regain him online , but on the face of it one of the FBI ’s leading cybercrime expert does n’t know how to do that . “ I require you to get me onto a black lid forum on the deep vane , ” she says to Nelson , apparently incognizant that she in all probability just call for to download Tor and search for like five minute .
Browsing the deep WWW sounds scary in CSI : Cyber . Nelson says it ’s “ like a bad neighborhood … you demand to hump where you ’re going , and you need to get there fast . ”
This is very confusing . In the worldly concern of this show , is there a style to get , like , cyber - mugged if you keep a chit open for too long ? And then Peter MacNicol ’s boss quality — supposedly the fountainhead OF CYBERCRIME — is perfectly incredulous that Nelson was able to lumber into a deep connection assembly in a matter of hour .
But actuate on from this fictional FBI ’s complete ignorance about the recondite vane , the team con that the suspicious plan to doss subway auto for his next gore smut massacre .
This is where thing go really off the rails . Instead of , um , just immediately closing the subway system due to the the large - scale at hand public safety threat the FBI now knows about , the squad waits until the suspect has already hacked a subway car and is ready to mass murder .
Then James van der Beek ’s flamboyantly name Special Agent Elijah Mundo ends up getting on the hacked gearing car , and has to manually crawl underneath the car ( which is still full of regular people because again , for some rationality they did n’t bother evacuate the subway even though they get laid something like this would happen ) to remove the computer card that allow the hacker to control the gear .
Somehow Mundo ends up crushing a Bluetooth radio ( ? ) and that handily stops the runaway train directly at a station . The suspect is some generic creepy white dude whose truly fascinating pathology remains undiscovered .
Nelson successfully signs up for the gore porn forum as “ Naughty99 ” but only after his first alternative , “ KillerEyes81 , ” was taken .
That collage of the team fiddle around with computer parts to image out what happened , where the only words uttered are “ Bluetooth radio set ? ! ” ( Which , in retrospect , foreshadowing . )
Krumoltz , the show ’s stereotypical swot , explains his find of how the crime was committed with an lengthened doctrine of analogy about delicatessen Viscount St. Albans because this show is really quite impressively dedicated to leaning in to stereotypes .
Nelson seemingly just leaves his cadre phone at work , without a password ? No one in the earthly concern does that , permit alone a tech expert / former hacker .
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