A Real-Life Hacker Car Hijacking Inspired This Week’sCSI: Cyber

“ Someone out there is play Grand Theft Auto — only this is no video recording game . ”

As the Cyber gang investigate a drag raceway turned disastrous , Patricia Arquette delivers that line with a straight face . I ’m depart to think someone slipped a cursed amulet into her Oscar swag bag , trapping her in this role . The team let on that one of the railway car in the drag wash clank had no driver , and was controlled remotely by an strange sorry guy rope , who also had the ability to highjack the other car affect in the fortuity at the same time .

“ Gone in Six Seconds ” is based onthe car hackingreport this summer , where research worker showed Wired how they could remotely hijack a Jeep , and itfeatures a cameofrom the dude who did it . CSI : Cyber is getting really good at a sealed type of ripped - from - the - headlines story where the writers take a affair , consider the worst possible scenario , and then somehow make it even more panic - inducing . The car hacking write up is perfect for that : While the potential difference for mayhem has been confirm , nobody has actually hijack car in the wilderness yet , so why not do a show where somebody hijacks a whole bunch in a poor period of time ? ( But from his place of workplace , so he ’s fairly prosperous to track down within an minute electronic connection drama , obviously . )

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Maybe it ’s because we ’re well into the time of year and my ability to front for the best in this corny show has eroded in the expression of wave after wave of garbage , but I ’m not too put to work up about the problems with this episode . Except one :

Jessica Szohr ( Vanessa from Gossip Girl ) invitee stars as an cloak-and-dagger constabulary police officer infiltrate the street racer gang , giving off a meek off - brand Michelle Rodriguez vibe . Szohr ’s comportment in this episode is INFURIATING , not just because I have holdover animus towards Vanessa from Gossip Girl ( which I do , all-fired , she take up ) but because Szohr already played a recur fibre on CSI : Miami . On the most Florida of the CSI installments , Szohr played a laboratory technical school named Samantha Barrish .

CSI : Cyber just casually dropped Ted Danson ’s character in from the original CSI as though he was an constituted presence in the Cyber Crime Division ’s world , which give the impression that the various CSI show all existed in the same narrative universe . Yet Szohr pops up in two wholly separate roles in the same franchise like it ’s no big thing !

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This is either careless casting OR the writers slyly suggest that doppelgängers exist in the CSI franchise ’s alternating reality . Or they ’re hinting at the macrocosm of multiple realness . Maybe the DB Russell in CSI : Cyber is n’t meant to be the same DB Russell in the original CSI . perhaps the CSI installments are mean to live in similar but distinguishable universes with their own chronicle , rule , and characters .

Double Szohring is a life-threatening game to play with your audience is all I ’m pronounce .

Hopefully CSI : Cyber will make up for this fart of a cast alternative with its next episode , which has a very promising theme :

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