CSI: Cyber kicked off with some tense action as the wifi was down on four domestic Monument Air flights. The DHS was operating at a National Threat Level Yellow as a result. Five more flights on the same airline then lost their wifi signal at that moment. They speculated that one passenger on each flight was disabling the wifi on their flight. When it was discovered that all of the affected flights left from Miami National Airport the FBI alerted Homeland Security.

Agent Ryan told Daniel to identify the seat numbers of each of the nine passengers disabling the wifi. Nelson, Agent Ryan and Agent Mundo then went to the Miami National Airport. All nine passengers in question were pulled off their planes by airline security. Willa, a16 year old girl on one of the planes was arrested by Agent Mundo. The girl’s father then showed up to find out what was happening. Agent Ryan told him someone may have hacked into Willa’s cell phone in order to make it look like she disabled the plane’s wifi. Willa said she had been texting friends, listening to music and playing a game on her phone.

Nelson determined that Willa’s phone was used to gain access to the plane’s wifi network. Simon reported to Agent Ryan that the other eight people whose phones had interfered with the wifi on their plane had no idea what was happening. In Miami National Airport everyone’s phones were ringing. One passenger was trying to make a purchase and had two of her credit cards declined. Another passenger got a phone call asking if she had just purchased 10 laptop computers. Agent Mundo said that all the passengers having their credit cards declined were on the same flight Willa was. Then Agent Ryan determined someone was pulling off a credit card heist. Daniel told Simon a legendary hacker named Lomis was behind the heist and that he wasn’t going to stop anytime soon. Agent Mundo found out that more than $300,000 had been stolen from victim’s credit cards as a result of the wifi hacking. Simon got Daniel a helicopter to fly him to Agents Mundo and Ryan because he was determined to catch Lomis in action. Agent Mundo said that Daniel wanted to catch Lomis so badly because he had been trying to for three years.

Daniel found a connection between Lomis and the nine airplane passengers whose phones he hacked into. This proved that the nine passengers were innocent and couldn’t be legally detained anymore. Daniel then helped Agents Ryan and Mundo determine that the cell phone charging station in the airport terminal was infecting peoples’ phones. Agent Ryan ordered Nelson to take the cell phone of every affected passenger and remove the malware from it.

Rachel Carrington was a passenger in the airport terminal that Agent Ryan discovered dead in her seat. Agent Mundo found out she worked as a credit card rep for Monument Airlines and that it was her job to work at the charging station trying to get passengers to apply for the company’s credit card. Agent Ryan told Mundo they needed to gain access to the airport’s security footage.

Nelson then came to Agents Ryan and Mundo that a phone he was working on ending up locking him out and a message from the hacker appeared on the phone. Agent Ryan then told Nelson to go back to D.C. and watch for activity on the credit cards of Lotus’s victims. Ransomware programs were installed on the victim’s phones by Lomis and Lomis expected each of his victims to pay him to gain access to their phones again.

Back in D.C. a Senator became another victim of Lomis. He wanted a $250,000 ransom from her. The Senator told Simon that she had personal information about very public people on her phone and it had to stay private. Simon then said that the Senator must have something on her phone she didn’t want anyone else seeing.

Agent Mundo tracked down the group of hackers that airport security helped determine had participated in the cell phone hacking of passengers. He went to their house and raided it along with a full team of FBI officials. However, of all the hackers in the house, Lomis was not one of them.

One of the women spotted in the airport’s security footage was questioned by Agent Mundo who told her they found Rachel’s DNA under her fingernails. The woman then said that she hadn’t killed anyone on purpose. Agent Mundo theorized to the woman that Rachel helped her into the bathroom where the woman shot her to death. Rachel was then moved to the chair that Agent Ryan found her in dead.

The group of hackers arrested at a house said that Lomis had framed them for this crime. Daniel was very frustrated that the hackers hadn’t led them to Lomis.

Back in D.C. Agent Ryan said that even though the victims of this hacking had been told not to pay the ransoms, some of them had. She said that they only had two hours left to prevent the victims’ personal information from being published online. However, Lomis didn’t want to wait for the deadline so he had already started posting the personal information, starting with the Senator. Simon and Agent Ryan said they thought the Senator had already paid her ransom. Daniel then came into FBI Headquarters and said that he had finally caught Lomis. Daniel found Lomis in airport security footage time stamped four hour before the FBI had arrived at the airport.

Daniel and Agent Ryan went to visit Willa and her father at home. Agent Ryan told Willa’s father she had a warrant for Willa’s tablet and that if it was clean she was fine, but they believed it would prove that Willa was a hacker. Willa then came home from school and Daniel greeted her as Lomis. Willa then admitted she was acting as Lomis since she could.

On this week’s episode of CSI: Cyber Agent Ryan got an urgent phone call from the mother of a missing 17-year-old woman named Zoe. A team of officers along with a police dog scoured a park in Washington D.C. where the young woman was photographed shortly before she disappeared.  Rescue workers found her cell phone lying on the ground in the park. Her father, Jordan Tan, then received a phone call from Zoe even though the FBI now had possession of her phone. Agent Ryan asked Mr. Tan to call back the number that Zoe had seemingly called from. When the call showed up on her phone as a call from Mr. Tan, Agent Ryan told him that Zoe’s phone must have been hacked into.

While Agent Ryan was talking about the case with Agent Mundo she told him that Jordan Tan was now a friend of hers and had been a patient of hers when she was working as a therapist. Agent Ryan balked at the idea that Jordan Tan could have had anything to do with his daughter’s appearance.

Raven and Agent Mundo searched Zoe’s bedroom for clues and found a tablet with a badly damaged screen. They then noticed that the cursor on her laptop screen moved even though no one had touched the computer mouse, leading Agent Mundo to deduce that not only was her cell phone hacked into, her laptop computer was too.

Daniel discovered a spoofing website was used to make it look like Zoe has gotten a call from her father when she hadn’t. He proved it when he called Agent Ryan’s phone from his phone and the incoming call on Ryan’s phone appeared to come from Nelson. Nelson also discovered that a text Mr. Tan received earlier that day looked like it was sent from Zoe even though it wasn’t.

Agent Mundo told Agent Ryan that Zoe’s laptop was connected to a malware program that lets hackers control the computer without its owner’s knowledge. Through a social media search Raven found hundreds of posts online from people commenting on Zoe’s disappearance. Some of the social media messages were directed towards Zoe telling her that if she was dead no one would miss her.

At FBI Headquarters Agent Ryan showed Mr. Tan the messages people online had written to Zoe. As they talked about whether or not Zoe was mad at anyone in her life Mr. Tan said that earlier in the year he had begun dating someone and that Zoe was not happy about it. As a result, Mr. Tan ended that relationship.

Nelson discovered that Zoe had an Internet boyfriend, Owen, for several months and that the last message he had sent to her on social media was sent the day before she disappeared. Nelson found the North Carolina address of the online boyfriend and Agents Mundo and Ryan went to pay him a visit. When Ryan confronted him about the last message he sent Zoe, which told her to come to North Carolina, he showed her proof that he hadn’t sent the message.

Agents Ryan and Mundo then determined that the person who had sent Zoe a message only pretended to be Owen. He then confessed that Zoe had unexpectedly shown up at his house that morning while he was hanging out with his real girlfriend and that the woman was upset with Zoe’s arrival.

At FBI Headquarters Raven was monitoring messages posted online concerning Zoe when she discovered a new post from Zoe. Raven also pulled up a video of Zoe in which she stated she was being bullied by hackers humiliating her on the internet. She said she believed the strangers who told her the world would be a better place without her. Zoe went on to say she knew who had created a website encouraging her to kill herself and that person had 24 hours to confess or they would be sorry.

Simon, the Deputy Director of the FBI, was given a list of usernames of people who were bullying Zoe through a social media network similar to Twitter. He was shocked to see his son Aaron’s screen name as one of the bullies and went to Aaron’s school to confront him about it. He told Aaron that if Zoe committed suicide he could be held partly responsible as one of her bullies. Simon then found out that Zoe’s classmates knew she knows how to shoot a gun and were afraid she would come to school and shoot them.

Agent Ryan received a phone call from Simon stating that Mr. Tan’s credit card had just been used to purchase a gun and that Zoe was the one who purchased it.

The team determined that Zoe had stolen a tablet to get online to record the video the agents had seen earlier. Agents Ryan and Mundo tracked down the tablet’s owner and questioned her about Zoe. The owner said that Zoe had returned her lost tablet to her, not realizing that Zoe was the one who swiped it in the first place. It was also determined that Zoe had hacked into Aaron’s computer to get revenge on him for bullying her.

As Agent Ryan and Mr. Tan went to look for Zoe, Ryan realized that Mr. Tan himself was the hacker’s target, as opposed to Zoe. This sent Agent Mundo and Daniel to Zoe’s high school, where they realized Ariana Peterson, her guidance counselor, was the hacker. Zoe’s guidance counselor was the woman Mr. Tan was dating that he broke up with because Zoe didn’t like her. The woman blamed Mr. Tan for choosing Zoe over her. Since she confessed to Agent Mundo she was arrested for cyber fraud. Agent Ryan and Mr. Tan found Zoe alive at a cabin the family-owned. Zoe had accidentally shot herself in the gut trying to retrieve the gun she was keeping in her trunk. At the hospital, she announced she was leaving social media.

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