When a kid is shot in an apartment building, the detectives find the blame shifting between the superintendent who shot him, the social media influencer who encouraged the kid to break into the super's apartment, or the influencer's business manager who encourages his charges to film themselves doing dangerous and illegal stunts.
- Bittersweet Ending: Wheeler pleads guilty and is sentenced to spend at least five years in prison and Nolan intends to prosecute Max Brewer for his role in Ellis' murder. Virgil will unfortunately will have to live with the fact that he shot and murdered a kid by accident because he was accidentally tricked into doing so.
- Deadly Prank: The stunts Wheeler made the kids in the content house do amount to this. Results include Eli Barone's death; a girl becoming permanently paralyzed; and a boy who's now in a coma after a "blackout challenge" went wrong.
- The Fagin: Wheeler is a variant, who exploits children from poor or abusive backgrounds to make money for him by doing stunts that are at best very dangerous, at worst criminal.
- Killing in Self-Defense: Gilbert says that he only shot Barone because Barone had kicked his door in and he thought his home was being invaded. However, Barone was only doing it to generate social media content.
- Miranda Rights: As Wheeler is being escorted out of the content creator house, Cosgrove tells Wheeler, "You have the right to remain silent. You might want to take advantage of that."
- Shout-Out:
- One of Wheeler's victims, who is permanently paralyzed, said that Wheeler wanted her to climb serially higher buildings, as if she were Spider-Man.
- Many real life social media challenges are name-dropped throughout the episode.
- Social Media Before Reason: Wheeler convinces the kids in his content house to do things like scale skyscrapers, asphyxiate themselves, and stick pennies into electrical outlets in order to raise their profiles online. Later, Brewer decides to risk going to jail on a manslaughter charge (instead of testifying against Wheeler and having all charges against him dropped) just because he thinks that, if he testifies, he'll lose his social media following.
