DefCon (3 Nov. 2000)

At a hacker's convention in Las Vegas, the team tries to stop a hacker from crashing a military satellite communications system.

Director:

John Sacret Young

Writers:

Michael Connelly, Josh Meyer

Stars:

Fab Filippo, Kate Hodge, Michael Kelly

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Fab Filippo	...	Roland Travis (as Fabrizio Filippo)
Kate Hodge	...	Annie Price
Michael Kelly	...	Wilbert 'Tibbs' Thibodeaux
Romany Malco	...	Jerry Hooten
Max Martini	...	Jack Wiley
Kim Murphy	...	Margaret 'Sosh' Perkins
Susie Park	...	Joss Nakano
Esteban Powell	...	Jargon
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James Chutter	...	Paramedic #2
Vince Crestejo	...	Man in Black #1
Keith Dallas	...	Archduke
Paul Dzenkiw	...	Paramedic #3
Bill Edwards	...	Security Guard
Michael Eklund	...	Chief Druid
Willie Garson	...	Bones

Storyline

The threat by a notorious hacker named Thrillseeker to crash the Starbird military satellite communications system brings the team to Las Vegas for DefCon, a hackers' convention. An initial effort to send Roland undercover to retrieve the codes being used is interrupted by another team of FBI agents, who, not realizing that he is working for Level 9, beat him up as they take him in. Frustrated by the attack and the failure to retrieve usable codes, Roland wanders onto the convention floor where he meets Tonya, an ex-girlfriend who expresses regret at having left him. Tonya soon attracts the team's attention, however, when she produces the glasses Roland was wearing when he was attacked - glasses which had also subsequently shown images of hackers working to bring down Starbird. Working with Jack Wiley, a DIA agent also assigned to protect Starbird, the team tracks down and captures a group of hackers in the desert as they attempt to upload a virus into the system, only to find that ...

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Genres:

Sci-Fi | Drama | Action | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

3 November 2000 (USA)

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Quotes

Jerry Hooten: Whoa! Travis. I put like 500 hours into those glasses. If anything happens to 'em, I'm gonna kill you.
Roland Travis: You know what? Smoke, dude, smoke. You'll feel better, okay? Right. Buh-bye.

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