S02.E14: Fit-and-Run

[thewhiteowl]

When a jogger’s body is found, the Cyber team use the fitness tracker she was wearing at the time of the murder to retrace her steps for the entire night leading up to her death.

 

 

[ottoDbusdriver]

When a jogger’s body is found, the Cyber team use the fitness tracker she was wearing at the time of the murder to retrace her steps for the entire night leading up to her death.

 

If this show was any good and sponsors were actually clamoring to advertise on it, they could have pulled of 'Fitbit-and-Run' as an episode title.  Just saying.

 

I thought the Cyber team was directed to chase down cybercrimes -- how does a dead jogger end up on their blotter ?  Unless a hijacked Reaper drone took her out with a Hellfire missile, how is this a cybercrime ?

 

And will there be another pointless celebrity cameo like that stupid Emmit Smith stunt a few episodes back ?

Edited February 21, 2016 by ottoDbusdriver

[ottoDbusdriver]

How exactly did this perp knock Allison out while she was on her run ?  Did he hit her with his car ?  Because they probably should have shown that.  Just having her go from running to unconscious on the ground just seemed odd.

 

And if the body was found in "Salt Marsh" shouldn't the fitbit/eWatch/wearable be much more salt-damaged since it was smashed ?  And it was carrying extra code -- oh noooeeees !!!

 

Krummie kind of jumped to a conclusion stating that whoever wrote this malware in her wearable was Allison's killer.  Ummm, nope, she could have just had an infected device.  Shit like that happens all the time.

 

Was it 3 days after she went missing that the body was found, or longer ?  Because her body looked like it had been there longer than that.

 

As soon as DB met Avery by the coffee stand outside the Cyber building, I was expecting Emmitt Smith to show up.  And of course both of them look at their watches and Avery makes a reference to the time, so you know that will somehow become important later.  But really, Avery thinks DB is banging someone and that's why he has been repeatedly late.  And DB goes on about some college game for some reason.

 

Who wears ridiculously expensive jewelery while jogging ? Was this Allison Resnick person just an idiot ?

 

Raven is a little too enthusiastic about the husband being the killer -- he bought her the wearable for Xmas, is a veterinarian with access to pharmaceutical grade sedatives, and Allison's mother's body language doesn't look right --  so of course he's not the killer.  Someone put spyware on the wearable -- who could have done it ?

 

And after repeatedly saying spyware and malware during the opening segment, the techno-word of the week is Near Field Communication -- I bet this is mentioned exactly once, and really makes no sense at all with regards to the actual murder since NFC only covers EXTREMELY short distances (on the scale of inches).  But throughout the episode they keep talking about Bluetooth enabled this and that -- Bluetooth and NFC are not the same thing.  Do these writers not do their homework ?  Or have access to Google ?

 

Whoever the tech dude is that makes up the graphics needs to be replaced -- when they show the data from Allison's wearable, none of it makes any sense.  Resting heart rate 55bpm, peak heart rate 55 bpm, yet her average heart rate is 121 bpm -- how is that even possible ?  How would her blood type get into her wearable unless she put it there -- which just seems odd ?  She was 32, 5'3" and weighed 118 lbs.  And her daily distance was 12.4 miles.  In one section it indicates her daily steps as 24,457 yet in another section it indicates her daily average 13,501 steps with a best day of 18,485 steps -- which makes no sense if her daily average is over 24K+ steps.  Her average acceleration is 6.52 mph -- except that is her average speed, not acceleration.  The graph even shows that her max heart rate was 168 bpm, but her average bpm was 217 bpm -- how is that possible ?  And why is that graph so non-linear ? Apparently she went jogging for 1/2 hour (approaching speeds of 9 miles an hour -- for a runner in really good shape that seems pretty slow) before she was kidnapped at approx. 9pm.  And since the altitude of Charleston, SC is about 20 ft. above sea level, how was Allison at an elevation of over 1600 ft. ?  And if she was going for a 4-mile jog, and she ran for nearly half an hour wouldn't she have finished her 4 miles BEFORE she was kidnapped after 1/2 an hour.  The math just doesn't add up.

 

Krummie and Lil' Bow Wow rag about some newbie in the lab named Barry.  And they decide to make things interesting by wagering on whether the new guy is successful -- which makes Lil' Bow Wow a bit of a dick since it is in his best interest to make sure this newbie fails.  Not cool man.

 

Don't these wearables record GPS as well -- so shouldn't it show them where she was kidnapped ?  And shouldn't they kind of investigate that ?

 

And DB makes some analogy about Alan Turing breaking the Enigma code as some far fetched explanation of why the wearable was recording crazy data after Allison was kidnapped -- because it was encoded somehow.  WTF ?  This makes absolutely no sense at all.

 

The Resnick's have networked clothes washer and refrigerator -- and apparently after Allison went missing someone kicked back and watched Netflix from just before 11:30pm until nearly 2am.  Oh these uncaring husbands who just had fights with the wife.

 

Somehow Avery knows that Dylan Resnick's shoes have built-in activity chips -- that synced to his phone -- and instead of searching for his wife he went to visit an old girlfriend. Someone has to tell DB that Bluetooth and NFC -- two completely different things.

So, the perp hits another jogger with his car.  But they never showed him hitting Allison with his car, they just showed her suddenly unconscious on the road.

 

After decrypting the wearable data, Lil' Bow Wow points to the screen and indicates that is wear Allison's body was found after 5 days, but the display shows she was there for only 3 days.  So which is it ?

 

So Mundo, DB and the cops close in on this old factory which looks like it was setup as a quarantine area from the movie Outbreak and discover the jogger that was hit by the car in some sort of operating room.  I'm curious, did they even bother to do an autopsy on Allison Resnick ?  To see if she had any other damage other than a couple of surface bruises.  Did they ever determine Allison's cause of death ?

 

Vehicular blitzing -- really Mundo ?

 

Organ harvesting -- this is what this is really all about ?  And some crusty old dude is backing it all.

 

And after Krummie does some programming to track all wearables in the nation (the entire nation), a new victim with the same blood type pops up -- only the latitude and longitude indicate that Karen Carter is on Long Island, not South Carolina.  I'm just surprised that Mundo didn't pump that pickup truck driver full of bullets and ask questions later.

 

And the perp blabs to Karen Carter something about saving his wife -- blah, blah, blah, no one cares.  Seriously, are we supposed to be feel empathy for this asshole because his wife is dying and she thinks he's "calling a few favors" to move her up the transplant list.  He's abducted 3 people and murdered one, and the dying woman's father is complicit in this orgy of crime. FFS !!  But they act like this is all some profound act of kindness -- maybe if the people were donating their organs VOLUNTARILY.

 

So they track the perps via some whiztastic app sent by an auto-initiating text message (sure, whatever, but didn't they make a pretty big assumption that Karen Carter's shoes would be within range of the emergency transplant phone) and they catch them only after the transplant is completed.  Avery and Mundo are just disgusted by the husband and father.  Heck, I'm just surprised that Mundo didn't rip the stolen kidney out of the dying wife with his levels of disgust set to maximum.

 

Do they really sell tickets to intercollegiate ping pong matches ?  Because the way DB was talking it up earlier in the episode it sounded like college hoops, since he was talking about being courtside and all.

[shapeshifter]

Did the second jogging victim (the cute Asian guy) lose a kidney too? If not, why not? I think I missed his plot point.

[ottoDbusdriver]

Did the second jogging victim (the cute Asian guy) lose a kidney too? If not, why not? I think I missed his plot point.

 

I think he was still intact, but they did kind of gloss over why the 2nd jogger was just left at that location -- the perp said the Feds busted in, so how did he get out ? 

 

I'm still kind of curious of how Allison's wearable was somehow connected to Wifi while she was jogging -- because there is a popup that clearly shows she is connected to a Wifi point out in the middle of the street far from home.

 

Do the writers really know how latitude and longitude work ?  When Krummie "breaks the code" of Allison's damaged wearable the last location when she was alive is approx. 34.9, -150.0 -- which puts it somewhere north of the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the ocean.

Edited February 23, 2016 by ottoDbusdriver