Pool shark Will Fairwick gets impaled inside his apartment. Billiards club owner Fats Shepherd says Will made a deal with the devil and believed his end was near. Video footage shows Will's apartment door opening and closing by itself moments after his murder, causing the detectives to wonder if he was correct. Donna, Will's girlfriend, says he was an MIT student but dropped out due to stress. Will also had a job at an insurance company, which, along with his college enrollment, was a front for a government agency researching cloaking technology. Will wanted to prevent the technology from falling into the wrong hands, namely Donna's, and was killed for it.
Tropes that appear in this episode:
- Deal with the Devil: Will believed this when he took a job for the government. His political beliefs were anarchist, and he was a government employee.
- Death by Woman Scorned: Donna kills Will for using her research to develop the stealth suit and dumping her once her usefulness ended.
- Doing In the Wizard: The "unseen force" responsible for the murder was a woman in an experimental stealth suit, rather than the Devil or the Invisible Man.
- Mundane Utility: Will's friend used his invisibility to guide Will's cue balls so they could swindle Will's opponents out of their money.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: One of the victims is the CEO of Hytch, an expy of Talmadge.
- No Plans No Prototype No Back Up: Played with. The government hasn't yet created a working suit, but they do have all of Will's research and a minimally functional prototype, so John works his hacking mojo to destroy all their work, and without Will it will take them decades to develop it on their own. However, they recover his working suit at the end of the episode.
- Shout-Out: "We both realized that I had become Frodo and the suit was the One Ring to rule them all! Will knew it was too much power for anyone to have, especially the government! ... It needed to be destroyed, cast into the fires of Mordor."
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Will's friend went into this to get revenge on Talmadge, the man who stole his idea for Hytch.