The best - bad show about technology came back for its 2nd - season premiere with 100 % more Ted Danson and 1000 % more dei ex machina driving its plotlines than before . The cast is slenderly different , but the relentless corniness is simply amplified .
For the naive , CSI : Cyber focuses on a varicolored bunch of police detective from the FBI ’s Cyber Crime Unit , lead by Special Agent Avery Ryan ( played , as always , by Oscar winner Patricia Arquette . ) toughened - talkin ’ Elijah Mundo ( James van der Beek ) spar with reform “ dark lid ” hacker Brody Nelson ( Shad Moss ) while cuddly neckbeard caricature Daniel Krumitz ( Charley Koontz ) and second reform “ black chapeau ” cyber-terrorist Raven Ramirez ( Hayley Kiyoko ) solve techno - criminal offence .
The plot of “ Why - Fi ” is a execution mystery . After a fault in the tech in a home certificate connection allow houses vulnerable to burglaries , a man is killed by his trespasser . The gang solves the case with the helper of the following convenience :
A Roomba that can retrace its last vacuuming session to show the outline of a dead body — the divorced dad vote down in the home encroachment .
A biz console that memorialise the body movements of the murderer and dupe with a 3D mapping organisation as they fight . The movements become visible when our bunch put on nightvision glassful to see the recording of infrared light bouncing off the elbow room .
A Global Positioning System - enabled golf golf club as the murder weapon that permit our investigators to chase after it to the body . They find the ball club and the eubstance in an abandoned warehouse in a fire - up car , yet the body and weapon are integral .
A hacked “ impertinent wench ” advert Marla used to manipulate a short girl into unlocking a windowpane , accessed by “ spoofing the router ” from a vanguard outside the house .
A burner telephone that , despite being blended up in a blender , contain a motion spying sensor so sensible it picks up “ even tiny quivering . ” Nelson is able to pull a sequence of data points and separate that the burner telephone was near someone typing . “ Are you really gon na recite us you know what he was typecast ? ” Avery asks . Yep . Nelson is able to nail the hacker ’s electronic mail address in seconds . They catch him . No one seems that sad about the dead human beings .
Why does the hacker start up this idiotic murder gearing in apparent movement ? He wants to collect payment from companies for learn zero - days for the Marla doll and the rest home security system system , so he hires a guy to heist house . The dead human was just corroboratory wrong . We never find out if the companies fix the product or what send the cyberpunk on his road to bold sociopathy .
In between its logic - hopscotching case of the week , CSI : Cyber attempts to hook TV audience with snippets of its characters ’ personal trouble . Last season , Krumitz ’s baby murder the man who mangle their parent when they were tike ( as one does ) and in this episode , she survive to jail after her self - defense defense falls through . Nelson is now nobble up with his fellow hacker Raven Ramirez , and Mundo is depressed because his pappa has Crab .
And yep , Ted Danson is here now .
Danson is reprising his part as “ DB Russell ” from the original CSI : Crime Scene Investigation , which was cancelled after last time of year . RIP OG CSI .
I venture the writer figured CSI : Cyber fans are intimate enough with the other installments to cognize who Danson ’s character is , because DB ’s introduction is handled very abruptly , almost as if they want us to think he ’s been lurking in the background all along , demonstrate the gang impulsive law-breaking - stopping tools just offscreen .
“ As Nelson would say , you on fleek , ” DB recount Avery in their first fit together , as they race “ cyber - cockroach ” as though DB had always been jazz around around with our squad of cyber - sleuths .
“ You on fleek . ”
In plus to filling to the aged - dad - guy wire fix in the cast left by Peter “ Janosz Poha ” MacNicol , Danson is really starting to occupy me about the playact opportunities for silvery - haired Hollywood veterans . Sam Malone should not be awkwardly using superannuated slang to the ma’am from Medium .
Dansonbeat outJohn Lithgow and Robin Williams for the “ DB Russell ” role . And now he ’s adhere to it . I know we mostly talk about how Hollywood has a dearth of roles for old woman , but if LITHGOW scrounged for enfranchisement procedural work and could n’t get it , what form of humankind are we living in ? I expected better thing for Danson . I expected good thing for all of us .
Shad Moss Vest Watch : I am shocked and disturbed to report that the artist formerly known as Bow Wow , the artist formerly known as Lil Bow Wow , did NOT sway his signature vest - and - tie combo in a single frame this episode .
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