The hunt for Python, one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal, is on as Agent Ryan and her team, along with Interpol agent Miguel Vega, do everything in their power to bring the notorious hacker to justice in this week’s episode of CSI: Cyber. Agent Ryan is desperate to take Python down after she hears him murder another Interpol agent, Rupert Flemming, over the phone as she comes into the office. There’s nothing worse than having to see or hear someone you care about die in front of you.
It was revealed that Python tapped into Interpol’s fibre optic cables and found out about the meet that Agent Flemming had scheduled with an informant named Darko, which then led Python straight to Agent Flemming. He killed him before Darko could give Agent Flemming Python’s real identity. I was intrigued that Python was able to see through the sting that Agent Ryan set up for him so quickly, but then again, he is, according to the former Black Hats that now work at the FBI, namely Agent Krumitz, Nelson, and Raven, the most skilled hacker ever known.
A lead then presented itself when Raven found something on Darko, a website that sells what hackers call “fullz,” complete packages of personal information stolen from big corporate hacks like Target, Sony, and Home Depot, just to name a few. This lead then led to one of Agent Mundo’s informants, Bernie Renard, a hacker who’s known by his handle Fresh. Agent Mundo then questioned the hacker/informant, trying to get more information out of him about Darko, but Bernie didn’t want to get himself killed so he kept his mouth shut. It wasn’t until Agent Vega threatened to kill him (sorry, I don’t speak French) that if he doesn’t cooperate. Needless to say, it worked.
During the scene where D.B and Agent Krumitz were working on figuring out each of the serial numbers of the guns used in the murders committed by Python, I rolled my eyes a little when Agent Krumitz started to guess what Python’s real name would be. Way to drag Ichabod and Iron Man’s artificial intelligence butler Jarvis into this, CSI: Cyber writers! It also amused me when Agent Krumitz threw in D.B’s full name, Diebenkorn, into the mix. I half expected the new Director of the Cyber Division to say “No one calls me Diebenkorn around here, it’s D.B!” to Agent Krumitz the same way he said it to his best friend and colleague Julie Finlay back at the Las Vegas Crime Lab, but I digress.
Bringing things back to the snake hunt, after the interception with Darko went south, Team Cyber was back at Square One. I totally called the whole remote controlled sniper rifle thing when Darko was suddenly shot. I get that it brings an element of surprise and that it fits with the theme of cyber, but it’s getting a little old. What I didn’t expect, or predict is that Python has a large group of shelf babies, fake identities made legal and real to cover his tracks as he does his dirty work. I also didn’t know that Python was a fan of the novel Catcher in the Rye as he took his various shelf baby names from the popular novella and from Neuromancer, the Black Hat’s Bible. As an aspiring fiction writer, I am a tad impressed.
When the team tracked down a woman named Renetta Wilkerson, Python’s real name was revealed: Dante Wilkerson. It turns out that Renetta Wilkerson is his mother. Agent Ryan was right when she said that when most criminals take on a new identity, they never truly walk away from their past. They stay connected to someone that they know, a friend or a family member, and that would inevitably lead to their downfall.
In the end, Python’s drug empire has begun to fall apart, but Python himself is still very much in the wind. The shocking part was that he left his handprint on Agent Ryan’s laptop and left as quick as he arrived, silent and unnoticed. By the time that Agent Ryan figured out what happened, it was too late as Python had already gone. Agent Ryan then stormed into CTOC and ordered everyone to sweep all of the devices to see if Python infected anything with a virus or worse. The battle may be won, but the war is far from over.
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