Factual errors: In the show, a phone call was spoofed from a large office building to a private line in another area of the town, so as to appear that the call originated at the private home. This was done by a pair of wires and a lineman's phone in the junction box near the home. However, while phone lines in a residential area could be routed through small boxes over dedicated analogue trunks, it is more likely that the office building had all its telephony transmitted over a few digital copper trunks or a fiber-optic trunk. Although the telephony from the residences would eventually be also collected in such way, it takes more than just a pair of wires at a remote box to do such a spoof. More like contracting the phone company to assign the private number to the line in the office - this would leave a paper trail and probably take a few days to process either way - so it would not be handy for a temporary and quick setup. They could have done that spoof between two lines that physically went through that same box as analogue trunks.
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