Hospitals are there to heal you from diseases and major physical injuries. They’re there for people to get better, not for people to die. Yet this wasn’t the case in this week’s episode of CSI: Cyber, where a group of hackers known as Grey Ruin took over City Mercy Hospital’s entire computer system, which included all the networked medical devices in Dallas, Texas, and killed a woman named Lindsay, who suffered from a broken leg from a rafting accident. Enter Team Cyber as they try to locate the responsible party and get the hospital system back online, but like all drama series, there’s always a catch in a suspenseful situation: the team has only four hours to find the killers before they start killing another innocent patient.
As the episode went on, it seemed that the odds were not in Team Cyber’s favor as they were no closer to finding the hackers when another patient died in the ambulance that arrived at the hospital. Meanwhile, back in D.C., Agent Mundo compiled a list of possible suspects, and one seemed to fit the criteria for the hospital hack: Artie Sneed (guest star Marcus Giamatti). The benched agent then decided to go to Baltimore to track down Artie despite Agent Ryan’s orders to stay behind at the office.
I liked the scene where Agent Mundo released Artie after verifying that the latter wasn’t the one behind the City Mercy Hospital hack. When Agent Mundo asked Artie to come with him to the FBI and help find the real hackers, the government fearing computer aficionado decided to make a run for it. The guy didn’t get very far because four wheels are faster than two legs.
When Artie saw the Cyber Crimes division when he got off the elevator, his attitude about disliking the government went a complete 180 as he gushed about how awesome the place looked and how he wanted to rub it in his friend Andrew’s face. I face-palmed when Artie asked Agent Mundo if he could take a selfie for his Instagram and laughed hysterically when he almost confessed out loud to not paying his taxes. Everyone at Cyber Crimes, along with Agent Mundo, looked at Artie with an expression that said, “You didn’t pay your taxes?”
After Artie helped Agent Krumitz with getting the hospital ventilators running, the guy tried to get Agent Krumitz to high five him, but the latter just left him hanging and went back to his work. Kind of made me feel sorry for Artie for a moment there. Agent Krumitz should’ve humored the guy and give him the high five. I know I would’ve.
Back to the case, the entire team tries to find the hackers, and it looks like they are close to apprehending the cyber criminal when they find Dr. Gina Luca lying on the ground with a stab wound to her abdomen. A broken, bleached laptop lay beside the doctor, putting Team Cyber back at Square One, but not for long. Thanks to D.B.’s microbial analysis on the television that was bought five months ago, presumably by the hackers, the person responsible is finally revealed: Dr. Gina Luca.
Turns out, Dr. Luca was the one that put City Mercy Hospital back on the map after saving patients that were on the brink of death for 23 years, and the hospital board gave the job of Chief of Staff to Dr. Colleen Marks, whom, in her mind, was undeserving of the job that should’ve been hers in the first place. If Dr. Luca was that unhappy with the board’s decision, then she should’ve asked them for an explanation as to why they gave Dr. Marks the job and not her instead of using the hospital’s computer system to kill innocent patients in her deranged quest for vengeance. I’d have to give the “good” doctor credit for bravery because, in order to make herself look like a victim, she had to stab herself six times with a pair of scissors. To do something like that takes a lot of courage so I give her props for that.
This was a decent episode of CSI: Cyber. The ending scene with Artie asking Agent Mundo if he could have something to remember his brief time at the FBI, like a badge, gun or a sticker was funny and brought a smile to my face. The hug selfie that Artie took of him and Agent Mundo was a little excessive, but still humorous in its own way. I’m also shocked to see Grace Clarke, a former close childhood friend of Agent Ryan’s daughter Hannah, all grown up and trying to reach out to Agent Ryan despite what happened to Hannah. I guess the saying is true: time does heal all wounds. I’m equally shocked to hear that Julie Finlay (played by Elizabeth Shue) died from being attacked by someone. I never watched a single episode of the final season of CSI with the exception of the series finale, so it’s surprising to hear that Shue’s character hac been killed off, but it is what it is, I suppose.
[Photo credit: Richard Cartwright/CBS]
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