Hamish (Eric Sheffer Stevens) from Reconnoitre (okay I spelled it the French way, ha) decides to throw a party to show the Virtual Killer that New Yorkers aren't afraid of him. Lindy (Victoria Justice) thinks it'll be a good idea for them to grant him a licence so that they can monitor who comes and goes, thinking the killer may show up. Choosing Sophia's (Kiersey Clemons) club, IRL, as the venue. Elsewhere, Tommy (Casey Jon Deidrick) gets home to find his apartment cleared out of all his furniture and belongings, including his dog. There's a man there who says there was an online ad telling people to come and take everything. Remember him for later. Tommy rushes down to the pound after tracking his dog and he would've been put down in 96 hours, but he hasn't been there that long. The man shows him the file which says, "Bubonic." Apparently, Bubonic is a hacker the NYPD has been after and it's his one year anniversary, since it's been a year since he struck. Catherine (Melanis Nicholls-King) tells Tommy he should've told her he's been in touch with him.
Connor (John Garet Stoker) goes on a date with Oliver (Parker Pogue) and they attend a dining in the dark place. Connor takes a potty break, checking himself out in the mirror before he goes in (ha) and there's a woman with a loud, freaky laugh at the restaurant, which gets Oliver a reprieve from being killed, as she's had her throat slit and her tongue placed on a plate on the table. If it wasn't for her, he'd be dead by now. That's what I said, she should've got it cos of her imperfect, irritating laugh.
Lindy spots Jake (Ryan Cooper) at the club, but she doesn't want to talk to him cos she's the reason he was arrested. Sophia thinks she should tell him about Ben before he finds out he was arrested cos of her. Oliver turns up at the party even though Connor thinks he wouldn't after what happened last night. Sophia is also adamant the undercover cops shouldn't wear polyester. As the party gets underway, the video screen's taken over and there's a virtual lockdown of the club. A voice on the screen sets up a game and for each activity that is highlighted they do, they can win up to a million dollars. Including kissing your neighbour for $250, Connor decides against it cos he doesn't want their first kiss to be about money.
Then things like licking the sole of a shoe, punching someone, cutting off a finger. Which quickly gets out of control. Tommy gets a message to meet him outside before the lockdown of the club and he gets beaten up by someone who claims he's been seeing his girlfriend behind his back, showing him a photoshopped picture, which he doesn't accept isn't really Tommy. Tommy lies beaten on the ground and is visited by a man in one of those Venetian doctor masks.
Lindy needs to get out of there and find Tommy and Sophia suggests the boiler room window. She realizes they're dealing with Bubonic, the world's greatest hacker, who went bad. In the boiler room Jake is knocked out and handcuffed to a pipe near a bomb. George (Harvey Guillen) says the bomb is most likely connected to the temperature of the boiler room and also the money being won which will trigger it off. They need to reverse the game and get all the money back.
Hamish also tries to hire Lindy to get his money back which has been stolen and is being used for the game. She says she's not for hire. She needs the phone which Bubonic (Peter Mark Kendall) has and she tracks him with George's help to the boiler room. She can have the phone or she can catch him, it's her choice. She prefers to take the phone and he also tells her she's being used by the police and they've kept information from her. She was arrested by the police and she hanged herself the next morning in her cell by a shoelace. She manages to give the details from the phone to George and he gets the money total back to one million. So much for doing stupid things like actually cutting off a finger.
Lindy tells Jake about Ben and he asks if she wants to make $250 and they kiss, but they'll just be friends. Tommy sees them together. Oliver forgets his phone inside and goes back to get it, only to find a noose around his neck and is hoisted up. Connor doesn't find him. Hamish meets with Bubonic in the alley and he was behind the game, Bubonic owes him now. So in this ep we get away from the Virtual Killer for a bit until he strikes again at the end. It had to be him didn't it when he strung up Oliver. It wasn't Bubonic copying what was happened to the woman he loved. Seems everyone's lost someone they care about in this but have different ways of getting over it. Bubonic was Charlie the man in Tommy's apartment at the beginning, but he doesn't know what he looks like, he was right under his nose and that's what I say about the Virtual Killer. To me it seems it's someone they know, or Lindy knows.
Obviously Lindy and Tommy will get together when they realize their feelings for one another, but I keep coming back to Ben as the killer for some reason, well reasons I've explained before. Just wondering why Tommy hasn't been targeted by the Virtual Killer yet, or is he biding his time. This episode was an improvement on the last one, which was a bit low key.
IRL means 'In Real Life'.
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