ReBoot: The Guardian Code (2018) s02e09 Episode Script
Identity Theft
[Judy.]
I don't have a receipt, because I did not purchase 52 laptop computers.
It must be that identity theft ring that's all over the news.
They must have used my credit card information to purchase those laptops.
Yes, I'll cancel the card but I'm not gonna have to pay $26,000, am I? What? But I never made those purchases, I swear.
Okay.
I understand.
Thank you.
What's wrong, Mom? Those identity thieves everyone's talking about.
They got me.
At least I think that's what happened.
It must be what happened.
They charged over $26,000 to my credit card.
$26,000? How? I don't know.
I must have clicked on some email link I shouldn't have.
Don't feel bad, Judy.
You're one of the over 14,157,000 victims of identity theft in North America this year.
That's 38,378 per day.
There's a new victim every two seconds.
A new sucker, you mean.
Oh, how could I be so stupid? Mom, it's not your fault.
The internet is full of creeps picking on innocent people.
Is the bank making you pay for those charges? Well, they said they would look into it, but what if they say I have to pay? I don't have $26,000.
Don't worry, Mom.
I'll take care of it.
Thanks, Austin.
But unless you've got a secret savings account I don't think there's anything you can do about it.
Where are we on the identity theft ring? Any leads? So far we've come up empty.
They must be operating on the edges of the deep web where data is hard to trace.
Okay, keep at it.
They're bound to slip up at some point.
Agent Rowin.
Are you aware that the analysis we conducted yesterday at Virusylum proves that Adam Carter's tech is the code we've been tracking? Well, first of all it wasn't a complete analysis.
Secondly, it doesn't prove anything.
It only suggests a match.
Still, you can't deny the similarities.
I have to ask why, after months on the case, your investigation into the family hasn't turned up any useful information as to who might be in possession of Adam's tech.
Judy and her son Austin have no knowledge of what Adam was working on.
He concealed it from them.
All they know is he was a high school computer science teacher, and that he died.
End of story.
No.
There's more story and you're gonna help me find it, or I'll have you transferred from the case.
Understood? I've traced Judy's unauthorized credit card purchases and found a connection to a trolling program that rakes data streams for bits of personal data, passwords, and credit card information.
We think it's part of the international ID theft ring on the news.
Coordinates have already been set but we have to move fast.
The trolling program emerged from the deep web.
If it slips back in it could be untraceable again.
Haven't you said we should keep away from the deep web? That it's where stuff goes missing? Like, forever? It doesn't matter.
We're going in.
We have to stop these ID thieves before they take advantage of anyone else like they did my mom.
This wall.
It isn't a wall.
There's something else here.
Some sort of hologram cloaking mechanism.
Austin, look! Austin? What is it? That.
The Sorcerer.
[struggling.]
Dad? Austin? Son? [growls.]
[theme music playing.]
It was my dad.
Come again? The Sorcerer is my dad.
That's highly unlikely, Austin.
Your father has been dead for over a year.
I know what I saw.
I looked right at his face.
It was him.
How is that even possible? There was an explosion.
His body was found.
Or perhaps a body just like his.
The bio-constructor law confirms that a synthetic duplicate was printed before the date of your father's death.
He made a body double? Yeah.
That's exactly what he must have done.
He faked his own death to get Special Agent Nance and the Department of Internet Security off his case.
- We all saw that memory in the sphere.
- He was protecting you and your mom.
That doesn't explain why he's the Sorcerer.
I know.
It doesn't make any sense.
So what do we do now? [message alert.]
It's Rowin.
He wants to meet me.
I wonder why.
Maybe he knows something about your father and the Sorcerer.
You guys get to the codec and stop those ID thieves.
I'm going to go meet Rowin.
- I think we should stick with you.
- No.
The trolling program could slip back into the deep web at any second.
You guys get in there and stop them before that happens.
Time to catch some identity thieves.
The trolling program signal is still pretty strong.
It hasn't gone back into the deep web yet.
Okay, let's do this.
Get ready to blast those trawlers into code flakes.
Wait! Wait! Hold your fire! It's a sphere.
One of the trawlers must have picked it up.
Maybe it'll have another one of Adam's memories in it.
That would help fill in some blanks.
Especially after what happened earlier.
Okay, let's go get that sphere.
Quadra disc! Stealth glider! Turbo jets! Okay, since the deck's crawling with pirate bots, this is how we're gonna get on board.
You sure about this, Googz? Pretty sure.
Whoa.
[groaning.]
Ow.
[grunting.]
There must have been an easier way to get on board.
Yeah, tell me about it.
There's the sphere.
It's kinda hard to get to.
Not for me.
Ghost mode.
One bot's trash is a guardian's treasure.
Man, I wish I had ghost mode.
Whoa.
Uh-oh.
[grunts.]
Time to bash and dash! Bash tagger! [clanging.]
Uh-oh, another trawler.
That's not good.
[Rowin.]
That's impossible.
You're sure it was him? Yes.
I saw him.
He's alive.
I don't understand.
What could have happened to have turned him? I don't know.
It's messed up.
I'm gonna help you figure out what's going on.
I promise.
Thanks.
I didn't know who else I could talk to.
When you texted me I Austin, I need to apologize.
What do you mean? Apologize for what? For what's about to happen.
Wait, wait, wait! That's my phone! Listen to me! Don't answer them, all right? Whatever they ask you, you don't know anything.
Do you understand me? You don't know anything.
["High brow low times" playing.]
Austin Carter.
You're coming with us.
Well, Austin.
You can make this a lot easier on yourself if you start talking.
I don't know what you want from me.
I'm just a kid in high school.
[Nance.]
Come on, Austin.
Open your eyes.
You've been played.
Agent Rowin doesn't care about you or your mother.
He was using you to get information and he found it.
Your father's technology was an extremely important cybernetic breakthrough.
And he passed it on to you.
But that tech's not a toy for kids to play with.
It should be controlled by the Department of Internet Security so its full potential can be maximized.
Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
This isn't going to go well for you, Austin.
I'm gonna give you some more time to think about it.
[grunting.]
Deflector ring! [grunts.]
Okay, enough bashing.
Let's start dashing.
Sounds like a plan.
Stealth glider! Turbo Jets! [grunts.]
Quadra disc! [blasting.]
Oh, man! Crash landing! Ow! Ugh! Googz! [grunts.]
You okay? I've been better.
Guardians, what's going on in there? Lots.
Things just got way too real.
What do you mean? The identity theft ring is even bigger than we thought.
We're not dealing with five trawlers here, we're dealing with 50.
We could use some help.
I will alert Austin immediately.
[message alert.]
So, do you believe me now? He doesn't know anything.
I'm not convinced.
You have his phone.
Yeah, I confiscated it and examined it for evidence - and found nothing.
- I'm sure you did.
Hand it over.
[Ted.]
Special Agent Nance? It's the code we think is Adam Carter's tech.
It seems to have flushed out the trawling program.
So there's your proof.
Proof? Of what? That Austin's not involved.
How can the code be showing up when he's in there? We gotta handle this.
Here.
I think you're needed.
Like I can just go? Just move it before Nance changes her mind.
She said that you don't care about me or my mom.
Austin, you know that's not true.
Go.
Go! Okay, here's what we're gonna do.
I'll hyperlink out of here to get to the codec.
Then I'll come in and rescue you.
Hyperlink! Uh-oh.
I don't have enough power to hyperlink.
Anyone got a plan B? Plan B coming right up! Good to see you, dude.
I heard you guys might need a hand.
Okay, get ready.
Ready for what? This! Blink! All right, let's get to the codec.
Turbo jets! Stealth glider! Quadra disc! Okay, bots, break time's over.
Zip board! This is for stealing my mom's credit card info! [explosion.]
All right, everybody ready for the big finish? Locked and loaded.
Let's do this.
[blasting.]
[explosion.]
Uh-oh.
We've got DIS ships! - Let's get outta here.
- You sure? Yeah.
We've already got a big DIS target on our back.
We did our part.
They can wrap it up.
[blasting.]
[explosions.]
Hey, look what we found.
No way! Yes way.
I wonder what this sphere will show us.
[news anchor.]
They're calling it the biggest cyber crime bust in history.
An elaborate identity theft ring has been taken down.
With over 300 arrests in a dozen cities, this is another huge success in the Department of Internet Security's fight against cyber crime.
Glad we could help.
[phone rings.]
Hey, Mom.
What's up? Have you seen the news? They caught the identity thieves.
Yeah, I heard something about that.
[Judy.]
And the credit agency called, I don't have to pay any fraudulent charges.
Mom, that's great.
See? I told you it'd all work out.
Yes, you did.
[Tamra.]
Hey, looks like showtime.
Uh, I gotta go.
Okay, bye.
Love you, Mom.
The sphere is decrypted.
Let's see if it has a memory.
[Adam on video.]
No sign of the strange dark code I detected earlier.
Maybe it was just an anomaly.
Your dad was in cyberspace, too.
I thought it was just us.
And Armstrong.
And he was investigating dark code.
[alarm sounding.]
[screams.]
Dark code's attacking him.
[Adam.]
The dark code has breached my cyber suit.
My helmet is cracked.
This may be my last record [groaning.]
I don't understand.
I think I do.
The dark code got into your dad's brain and pushed out his memories.
The spheres.
But what happened after? According to the timeline I've been able to create using the bio-constructor log and the time stamps on the memories we've seen, Adam printed a body and faked his death weeks before this happened.
What? He disappears for a year? That is the scenario with the highest probability.
Why wouldn't he tell me about any of this? [Trey.]
The dark code got to him first.
That's how he became the Sorcerer.
So the dark code took over his brain? Like completely? No.
He looked into my eyes.
He recognized me.
He's still in there.
I know it.
We have to find him.
And save him.
["High Brow Low Times" playing.]
I don't have a receipt, because I did not purchase 52 laptop computers.
It must be that identity theft ring that's all over the news.
They must have used my credit card information to purchase those laptops.
Yes, I'll cancel the card but I'm not gonna have to pay $26,000, am I? What? But I never made those purchases, I swear.
Okay.
I understand.
Thank you.
What's wrong, Mom? Those identity thieves everyone's talking about.
They got me.
At least I think that's what happened.
It must be what happened.
They charged over $26,000 to my credit card.
$26,000? How? I don't know.
I must have clicked on some email link I shouldn't have.
Don't feel bad, Judy.
You're one of the over 14,157,000 victims of identity theft in North America this year.
That's 38,378 per day.
There's a new victim every two seconds.
A new sucker, you mean.
Oh, how could I be so stupid? Mom, it's not your fault.
The internet is full of creeps picking on innocent people.
Is the bank making you pay for those charges? Well, they said they would look into it, but what if they say I have to pay? I don't have $26,000.
Don't worry, Mom.
I'll take care of it.
Thanks, Austin.
But unless you've got a secret savings account I don't think there's anything you can do about it.
Where are we on the identity theft ring? Any leads? So far we've come up empty.
They must be operating on the edges of the deep web where data is hard to trace.
Okay, keep at it.
They're bound to slip up at some point.
Agent Rowin.
Are you aware that the analysis we conducted yesterday at Virusylum proves that Adam Carter's tech is the code we've been tracking? Well, first of all it wasn't a complete analysis.
Secondly, it doesn't prove anything.
It only suggests a match.
Still, you can't deny the similarities.
I have to ask why, after months on the case, your investigation into the family hasn't turned up any useful information as to who might be in possession of Adam's tech.
Judy and her son Austin have no knowledge of what Adam was working on.
He concealed it from them.
All they know is he was a high school computer science teacher, and that he died.
End of story.
No.
There's more story and you're gonna help me find it, or I'll have you transferred from the case.
Understood? I've traced Judy's unauthorized credit card purchases and found a connection to a trolling program that rakes data streams for bits of personal data, passwords, and credit card information.
We think it's part of the international ID theft ring on the news.
Coordinates have already been set but we have to move fast.
The trolling program emerged from the deep web.
If it slips back in it could be untraceable again.
Haven't you said we should keep away from the deep web? That it's where stuff goes missing? Like, forever? It doesn't matter.
We're going in.
We have to stop these ID thieves before they take advantage of anyone else like they did my mom.
This wall.
It isn't a wall.
There's something else here.
Some sort of hologram cloaking mechanism.
Austin, look! Austin? What is it? That.
The Sorcerer.
[struggling.]
Dad? Austin? Son? [growls.]
[theme music playing.]
It was my dad.
Come again? The Sorcerer is my dad.
That's highly unlikely, Austin.
Your father has been dead for over a year.
I know what I saw.
I looked right at his face.
It was him.
How is that even possible? There was an explosion.
His body was found.
Or perhaps a body just like his.
The bio-constructor law confirms that a synthetic duplicate was printed before the date of your father's death.
He made a body double? Yeah.
That's exactly what he must have done.
He faked his own death to get Special Agent Nance and the Department of Internet Security off his case.
- We all saw that memory in the sphere.
- He was protecting you and your mom.
That doesn't explain why he's the Sorcerer.
I know.
It doesn't make any sense.
So what do we do now? [message alert.]
It's Rowin.
He wants to meet me.
I wonder why.
Maybe he knows something about your father and the Sorcerer.
You guys get to the codec and stop those ID thieves.
I'm going to go meet Rowin.
- I think we should stick with you.
- No.
The trolling program could slip back into the deep web at any second.
You guys get in there and stop them before that happens.
Time to catch some identity thieves.
The trolling program signal is still pretty strong.
It hasn't gone back into the deep web yet.
Okay, let's do this.
Get ready to blast those trawlers into code flakes.
Wait! Wait! Hold your fire! It's a sphere.
One of the trawlers must have picked it up.
Maybe it'll have another one of Adam's memories in it.
That would help fill in some blanks.
Especially after what happened earlier.
Okay, let's go get that sphere.
Quadra disc! Stealth glider! Turbo jets! Okay, since the deck's crawling with pirate bots, this is how we're gonna get on board.
You sure about this, Googz? Pretty sure.
Whoa.
[groaning.]
Ow.
[grunting.]
There must have been an easier way to get on board.
Yeah, tell me about it.
There's the sphere.
It's kinda hard to get to.
Not for me.
Ghost mode.
One bot's trash is a guardian's treasure.
Man, I wish I had ghost mode.
Whoa.
Uh-oh.
[grunts.]
Time to bash and dash! Bash tagger! [clanging.]
Uh-oh, another trawler.
That's not good.
[Rowin.]
That's impossible.
You're sure it was him? Yes.
I saw him.
He's alive.
I don't understand.
What could have happened to have turned him? I don't know.
It's messed up.
I'm gonna help you figure out what's going on.
I promise.
Thanks.
I didn't know who else I could talk to.
When you texted me I Austin, I need to apologize.
What do you mean? Apologize for what? For what's about to happen.
Wait, wait, wait! That's my phone! Listen to me! Don't answer them, all right? Whatever they ask you, you don't know anything.
Do you understand me? You don't know anything.
["High brow low times" playing.]
Austin Carter.
You're coming with us.
Well, Austin.
You can make this a lot easier on yourself if you start talking.
I don't know what you want from me.
I'm just a kid in high school.
[Nance.]
Come on, Austin.
Open your eyes.
You've been played.
Agent Rowin doesn't care about you or your mother.
He was using you to get information and he found it.
Your father's technology was an extremely important cybernetic breakthrough.
And he passed it on to you.
But that tech's not a toy for kids to play with.
It should be controlled by the Department of Internet Security so its full potential can be maximized.
Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
This isn't going to go well for you, Austin.
I'm gonna give you some more time to think about it.
[grunting.]
Deflector ring! [grunts.]
Okay, enough bashing.
Let's start dashing.
Sounds like a plan.
Stealth glider! Turbo Jets! [grunts.]
Quadra disc! [blasting.]
Oh, man! Crash landing! Ow! Ugh! Googz! [grunts.]
You okay? I've been better.
Guardians, what's going on in there? Lots.
Things just got way too real.
What do you mean? The identity theft ring is even bigger than we thought.
We're not dealing with five trawlers here, we're dealing with 50.
We could use some help.
I will alert Austin immediately.
[message alert.]
So, do you believe me now? He doesn't know anything.
I'm not convinced.
You have his phone.
Yeah, I confiscated it and examined it for evidence - and found nothing.
- I'm sure you did.
Hand it over.
[Ted.]
Special Agent Nance? It's the code we think is Adam Carter's tech.
It seems to have flushed out the trawling program.
So there's your proof.
Proof? Of what? That Austin's not involved.
How can the code be showing up when he's in there? We gotta handle this.
Here.
I think you're needed.
Like I can just go? Just move it before Nance changes her mind.
She said that you don't care about me or my mom.
Austin, you know that's not true.
Go.
Go! Okay, here's what we're gonna do.
I'll hyperlink out of here to get to the codec.
Then I'll come in and rescue you.
Hyperlink! Uh-oh.
I don't have enough power to hyperlink.
Anyone got a plan B? Plan B coming right up! Good to see you, dude.
I heard you guys might need a hand.
Okay, get ready.
Ready for what? This! Blink! All right, let's get to the codec.
Turbo jets! Stealth glider! Quadra disc! Okay, bots, break time's over.
Zip board! This is for stealing my mom's credit card info! [explosion.]
All right, everybody ready for the big finish? Locked and loaded.
Let's do this.
[blasting.]
[explosion.]
Uh-oh.
We've got DIS ships! - Let's get outta here.
- You sure? Yeah.
We've already got a big DIS target on our back.
We did our part.
They can wrap it up.
[blasting.]
[explosions.]
Hey, look what we found.
No way! Yes way.
I wonder what this sphere will show us.
[news anchor.]
They're calling it the biggest cyber crime bust in history.
An elaborate identity theft ring has been taken down.
With over 300 arrests in a dozen cities, this is another huge success in the Department of Internet Security's fight against cyber crime.
Glad we could help.
[phone rings.]
Hey, Mom.
What's up? Have you seen the news? They caught the identity thieves.
Yeah, I heard something about that.
[Judy.]
And the credit agency called, I don't have to pay any fraudulent charges.
Mom, that's great.
See? I told you it'd all work out.
Yes, you did.
[Tamra.]
Hey, looks like showtime.
Uh, I gotta go.
Okay, bye.
Love you, Mom.
The sphere is decrypted.
Let's see if it has a memory.
[Adam on video.]
No sign of the strange dark code I detected earlier.
Maybe it was just an anomaly.
Your dad was in cyberspace, too.
I thought it was just us.
And Armstrong.
And he was investigating dark code.
[alarm sounding.]
[screams.]
Dark code's attacking him.
[Adam.]
The dark code has breached my cyber suit.
My helmet is cracked.
This may be my last record [groaning.]
I don't understand.
I think I do.
The dark code got into your dad's brain and pushed out his memories.
The spheres.
But what happened after? According to the timeline I've been able to create using the bio-constructor log and the time stamps on the memories we've seen, Adam printed a body and faked his death weeks before this happened.
What? He disappears for a year? That is the scenario with the highest probability.
Why wouldn't he tell me about any of this? [Trey.]
The dark code got to him first.
That's how he became the Sorcerer.
So the dark code took over his brain? Like completely? No.
He looked into my eyes.
He recognized me.
He's still in there.
I know it.
We have to find him.
And save him.
["High Brow Low Times" playing.]