Logan and Wheeler investigate the cyber-kidnapping of a popular female video blogger--something that many people suspect to be a hoax.Logan and Wheeler investigate the cyber-kidnapping of a popular female video blogger--something that many people suspect to be a hoax.Logan and Wheeler investigate the cyber-kidnapping of a popular female video blogger--something that many people suspect to be a hoax.
Michael Godere
- D. Holden Foster
- (as a different name)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis episode is based on the Lonelygirl15 (2006) hoax. Beginning in the spring of 2006, video blogs were posted on the internet from a user known as lonelygirl15 (weepingwillow17 in the episode). She claimed to be a lonely, home-schooled teenager. The video blogs were posted on YouTube (YouLenz in the episode), the popular on-line website that hosts videos. The face of the video blog eventually was revealed to be a 19-year-old actress named Jessica Rose, who was using the video blogs to get her acting career started. The video blog was created by Mesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, California; Miles Beckett, a surgical residency dropout turned filmmaker; and Greg Goodfried, a former attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, LLP.
- GoofsWillow's kidnapping is seen through her webcam. However, the view changes positions and even zooms in for close ups, something that her static webcam wouldn't be able to do.
- Quotes
Captain Danny Ross: Cyber-Rashomon. Reggie says Holden shot Todd, Holden says Reggie did it and Willow doesn't even believe anyone's dead.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Saturday Night Live: Pedro Pascal/Coldplay (2023)
Featured review
Every good kidnapping story has a ransom and a romantic couple
Lisa Willow (Michelle Trachtenberg) is the daughter of old fashioned farmers (old enough to be her grandparents) grown up in countryside; being home schooled, she's got very few contacts to the outside world, but in the internet era there are other ways to make acquaintance and become famous. Shortly after dropping out college (art school, where she quickly learned to act and stole scripts), she started a vlog with her fiancée and her popularity rose up very quickly. That was the right time to set up a hoax, raising easy money from it. But committing a felony could be dangerous and people could get hurt. There's a twist ending, mostly for the detectives.
Wheeler tried to deal with the kidnappers using their own game; instead of a press conference as suggested by her boss, a live online video; cool!
Wheeler tried to deal with the kidnappers using their own game; instead of a press conference as suggested by her boss, a live online video; cool!
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- Mrpalli77
- Sep 24, 2017
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