One skillful matter about CSI : Cyber is that you never have to wonder what an episode will be about because someone will very patently state precisely what the sequence is about within the first 10 instant .
In this case , our Obvious Episode Topic Explainer award conk out to Special Agent Avery Ryan ( play , as always , by Oscar Winner ™ Patricia Arquette ) who whisper - hisses :
“ Someone calculate out how to set a ardor through the internet . ”
Her stank - human face while delivering this line is top notch :
It can not get much stankier . I ’m guessing she thought about Ethan Hawke ’s next career move while making this . Or the dissolution of her brother David Arquette ’s marriage ceremony . Who hump wha lie behind those stank eye . ( Also is David Arquette OK ? Someone should check on him . )
Yes , we have come at the Evil Internet of Things episode , “ Fire Code . ” It get down with a woman discovering all of her internet - connect equipment have become ~possessed~ but we , the TV audience , can assume it is actually the work of a black chapeau hacker rather than a Zuul - eccentric site , because we are see CSI : Cyber and not Oscar Winner ™ Patricia Arquette ’s other late meshwork television drama , Medium , which contend with the supernatural .
Anyways , instead of fleeing the house like a rational human being , the adult female grabs a kitchen knife and slowly walks towards a menacingly glowing door . At this stage I was like “ GURL get out of there you could not stab an net murder ghost ! ” But alas , she start the door and discovers a giant fire . It turns out , someone hacked her Wi - Fi password to stick in a malicious firmware update on her devices .
The fact that someone image out how to make printers trip up on firing with code is baffling to our squad . The BOSS of the cybercrime social unit is dumbfounded . “ A part of code did all this ? ” he need , like pieces of codification are n’t responsible for the majority of the crimes his squad investigates . Like , dude . If a piece of code did n’t do it , why are you even investigating ?
The only person not judgment - bowl over is Nelson , the reformed black chapeau hacker played by Shad Moss aka Bow Wow aka the creative person formerly known as Lil Bow Wow aka King of My Heart . Nelson ’s brain remains unboggled because it was he who publish the codification originally , back before he incorporated vest into his closet and start mold for the man .
The computer code was a zero - day effort , leading to this grand graphical and direful explanation :
Nelson then spends the episode hunt down his old drudge friendz , who eat pizza pie whenever they want , skateboard , and play video games , because they are imitation . One of them neuter the original computer code to make printing machine start fires , butthey did n’t actually set out the fire . Also there was a tragiclack of Billy Joel in this episode .
THERE WILL BE NO alike TRAGIC LACK OF BILLY JOEL IN THIS RECAP :
North Korea South Korea Marilyn Monroe ! ! ! ! !
So anyways , it ’s a pyromaniac who gets sexually aroused by watching people be frightened of blast who used the code to start the nervous sexy flat printer fire , something Avery reckon out in a hilariously short amount of time .
Then there ’s another spooky printer ardour , this time not so aphrodisiacal . Someone give-up the ghost after four information processing system overhear fire at a local college . The squad has absolutely no problem figuring out who did it ( a acerbic ex-wife - employee ) because CSI : Cyber laughs in the face of formal narrative tenseness . And because they are n’t interested in who is starting each specific fire as much as catching the person spread the codification .
The code - spreader releases a video recording demanding a ransom money from the print caller , and ostensibly he ’s in off - brand Anonymous :
The company pays up , believably because that mask is creepy-crawly as damn , and Nelson go MIA : Avery and Krumitz use an apparently incredibly approachable key - lumberjack to line up out that one of his previous hacker sidekick is the ransom money baddie , and Nelson went to run across him .
Nelson ends up tussling with his old friend , who punch him and slip a flash drive from around his neck opening ( just a normal spot to wear a wink drive full of mystery , obviously ) . The hacker recall it ’s Nelson ’s collection of bad boy codes from his black hat Day , but the flash cause actually check a tracker , so the FBI can catch him .
This episode is laboured on the Nelson , and Shad Moss turn in a solid performance , but I ’m not really fetch why the former black chapeau is SO eager to catch his quondam friends . It ’s an abrupt and fairly unearned about - face . ( I do n’t know why I ’m have a bun in the oven realistic character development from freaking CSI : Cyber but living is full of surprise and I am authentically disappointed . )
Also I did not mention this yet but Mundo is sad this installment because his ex might move and take his daughter , but then he kind of gain ground her over by contract her to a romantic dinner and ordering a vanilla extract chai caffe latte , which is definitely a drink adults order at fancy eating house .
“ Fire Code ” is not even a good episode of CSI : Cyber , permit alone a good episode of , like , boob tube in general , but I see it with my friend Mary , who is call me from Texas , and she cried and expressed real fellow feeling for the marital plight of Special Agent Elijah Mundo and I am wonder if I am just a misanthropic fiend who is miss the deep emotional undertone of CSI : Cyber .
Shad Moss Vest Watch : Possibly Nelson ’s strongest vest game yet . I counted at least three separate vests .
Where is Nelson get the $ $ for all these vests though ?
“ It ’s a spicy young piece of computer code . Just be careful where you stick it . ” The bar is set pretty high for sincerely terrible dialogue on this show , but that tune leapt over it . This is not how humans speak .
I care that Nelson remember and on a regular basis inhabit on how he had 60,000 mp3s on his computer .
hahaha Cool news story , great fake journalism :
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