In plain byte

Casey is searching for a missing flash drive. Flaw breaks into a bank.

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with Flaw and Casey already having a phone call. Casey tells her brother that a group of thieves are planning a bank robbery soon. Information about it and the other crimes they have committed is stored on a flash drive, which one of the thieves hid in their apartment and Casey is currently looking for. Flaw asks why they can’t just find the flash drive and prevent the bank robbery from happening, and Casey says that the thieves are breaking into that bank tonight. They have information that it’s going to be one the banks in the US, so it’s Flaw’s area of expertise. Flaw protests that he doesn’t know which one out of the hundreds of the banks the US the thieves are breaking into, but Casey tells him to get on with it and hangs up.

She puts her phone away and enters the apartment. It is swarming with police officers, who are looking under couches, into wardrobes and up on the ceiling with flashlights. Lieutenant Morry eagerly slides up to her and reports that they haven’t been able to locate the flash drive yet. Casey asks if they have checked the kitchen yet, and after the lieutenant shakes his head they head into the mentioned room.

While Casey checks the cupboards, individually inspecting every mug, the lieutenant investigates the contents of the fridge. He notices a jar peanut butter, and grabs it. After he finds himself a spoon, he opens the jar and puts a huge chunk of peanut butter into his mouth, but before he can swallow it he reaches into his mouth with his fingers and takes out a flash drive. Casey is briefly stunned, but after coming to her senses she orders the flash drive to be checked on a nearby computer.

Meanwhile, Flaw is in Detective Terra’s office, Sasha Crow and Thomas there with him. Flaw explains the conundrum to them, and Sasha immediately lights up with delight. She pushes Flaw out of his chair and takes the place at Detective Terra’s desk, moving the computer closer to her. She tells the other two that she can create a database of all of the robbed banks, and then they can figure out some sort of a pattern. Thomas says that he can bring a map which they can mark with pins and runs off. Flaw is left sitting on the corner of his own table in puzzlement.

After a short coding and mapping montage, the crew now has a database of the robbed banks and a map of the US covered in pins connected by a red thread. They stare at both, trying to find a connection, and after a moment Flaw asks Sasha to sort the robbed the banks by alphabetical order. After she does that, the Flaw exclaims that his theory was right: the pins on the map, if looked at from left to right, coincide with the sorted list of banks. Thomas says that they’ve got a perfectionist thieves on their hands. Flaw laments that this new discovery still doesn’t bring them any closer to finding out what the next target is going to be. Sasha mutters “perfectionist thieves” and then organizes the alphabetical list of banks into a table. From this it’s clear that the thieves robbed the same amount of banks for each letter of the alphabet, with the exemption of the letter “X”. Thomas comments that there probably aren’t a lot of banks that start with X to begin with, while Flaw takes the map and curled the area on the east, and asks Sasha to look up the banks starting with X there. Sasha gives him a salute and gets to typing.

Casey is also sitting at a very cluttered desk, inserting a flash drive into a computer. The lieutenant stands behind her, and the two of them watch as the computer processes, and then the text “Wrong one :)” theatrically shows up on the screen. Casey slams her hands on the desk and says that this flash drive was a red herring. The lieutenant than wonders where else the flash drive can be hidden, and remembers that he saw in one movie that it was hidden in a ventilation duct. He checks one that is in the room, while Casey says warns him not to reach his hand too far as that would be considered the other resident’s property, which they do not have the search warrant for. Lieutenant than triumphantly lifts another flash drive, but, upon inserting it into the computer, the same mischievous message is displayed again. As Casey glares at the screen in frustration, another police officer comes into the room and tells them that they found the flash drive. Or flash *drives*, the officer says and dumps a handful of them on the desk. Casey screams into her hands.

Back in the US, Flaw and his team are standing outside of the bank. Sasha tells them that she checked the guard schedules and this is the ideal for the bank to get robbed. Thomas quiets her down, nervously looking around. Sasha asks Flaw how exactly they are supposed to stop the robbery. Flaw thinks for a moment, then says that they are going to break into the bank themselves. Noticing the shocked faces of his teammates, he clarifies that they aren’t going to steal anything themselves, of course.

A wordless scene in the style of classic criminal movies commences, as stereotypical spy music plays in the background. The three sneak past the guards as they change shifts, Sasha breaks into the bank’s security system and Thomas almost falls onto the laser sensors, but is saved by Flaw catching him. The three then come to the large vault door. Sasha goes to open it, but Flaw tells her to stop, as they aren’t actually here to break in, now they just have to wait for the real thieves to arrive.

Casey is pacing the room as the lieutenant continuously plugs in and plugs out the flash drives, the same message being displayed on the computer screen. He says that they’ve tried all the places where one could hide a flash drive already, and all of them had one, but every single one was fake. That makes Casey stop in her tracks, as she deduces out loud that since they’ve tried every place where it could have been hidden, it mustn’t have been hidden in the first place. She then marches over to the desk and, after casting a look through the clutter on it, fishes out a flash drive. She inserts in into the computer and the screen comes alive with quickly sliding lines of text. Lieutenant Morry cheers and Casey makes a phone call, saying that they’ve found where the next robbery is going to take place.

Flaw and the other two are still waiting outside of the vault. Thomas is playing with one of Bark’s tennis balls, Sasha is yawning, and Flaw is pacing the room. They are startled by footsteps, and then three figures dressed in black from head to toe jump into the room. The figures are also startled to see other people already here. Flaw, annoyed, accuses them of being late. The thieves gasp in offense, and one of them wails about their perfect record. The thieves then start crying and turn to leave, when police officers burst onto the scene, and tell all of them, including Detective Terra’s crew that they are under arrest. Flaw and his friends insist that they are innocent, but the police officer replies that it’s “what they all say”. The episode ends with the thieves together with Flaw and his friends riding in the back of the police van. Flaw laughs nervously and tells them that they’ve actually got a completely perfect record, nothing to worry about. The camera pans away as one of the thieves launches at him, and we hear fighting sounds as the van speeds away, shaking from side to side.