The 126 go to the scene of a possible terrorist attack while Grace and Carlos investigate a swatter whose actions causes someone to die.
Tropes:
- The Cameo: Athena Grant makes an appearance as the one who arrests the swatter.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends on Owen and Catherine about to have make-up sex after their date until they encounter a second “toxic” message, this time with a dead pig on Owen’s bed and a message on the walls reading “TOXIC PIG.”
- Deadly Prank: The game swatter insists what he did was a harmless prank. Said prank ended with the victim dead.
- Downer Beginning: At the start of the episode, the APD, SWAT and 126 firefighters investigate a possible domestic abuse case where a drug dealer, Mark Poling, is attacking his girlfriend and infant child, but immediately find no one there. Carlos then finds Mark running and high, but inadvertently kills him while bringing him into custody; this leaves him and Grace devastated.
- Fictional Video Game: Dread Ops, which is a Military Science Fiction Third-Person Shooter video game, is featured in this episode.
- Hair-Trigger Temper:
- Holding in Laughter: Carlos when Grace delivers the below-mentioned Ironic Echo.
- Internet Jerk:
- Ironic Echo: After the swatter is arrested, Grace calls it "God's plan", which was the culprit's catchphrase whenever he played.
- It's All My Fault: Grace briefly feels this way for not picking up on indicators of the swatting call, then pulls herself together to defy this with help from Judd. She then visits Carlos and similarly tells him that he isn’t, and shouldn’t feel, responsible for Mark’s death.
- Mistaken for Terrorist: A young man who delivered Catherine’s flowers and the powder-filled “toxic” note is initially thought to be responsible for the “bio-attack” on the Capitol. When he ends up fainting with a nosebleed as well, this is quickly disproven.
- Most Gamers Are Male: With the exception of Grace, the two featured video-gamers involved in the swatting case are men.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Immediately as Carlos goes to Mark to handcuff him, he’s shaken to see that tasering him caused him to accidentally fall on the knife he was brandishing and stab himself.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently, Judd once threw his XBox controller through the TV screen. He passes it off as his wrist slipping.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Carlos, having never played video games or heard of live-streaming, often has to have the world of video game streaming explained to him during his and Grace’s investigation.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential:
- Wall of Text: Par for the course with livestreams, the viewer comments on the streamers’ gameplays are this. It’s a lot for Grace and Carlos to read through.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- Working Out Their Emotions: Carlos gives himself a boxing session to work through the events of the swatting call; though he insists it isn’t, TK calls it “rage-punching”.
