Intelligence Review: Size Matters

Last night’s episode of Intelligence, “Size Matters,” was the best one yet from this freshman series! If the remaining episodes of this season (13 episodes were ordered for the first season; a decision has not yet been made on renewal) continue in this vein, AND if the ratings improve, I hope this show will go on to a second season. (Just a quick note: Zap2It.com’s predictor says that this show is sure to be cancelled, but that was three weeks ago.)

Dr. Cassidy & Dr. Bryce Tyler

Someone is killing the “great minds” in artificial intelligence. Gabriel and the CyberCommand team are trying to hunt down the killer, while trying to protect Dr. Cassidy, who certainly, they feel, fits in that category. Cassidy, seemingly forgiven for his Episode 1 forced betrayal (a reminder: forced into retirement, he created a second generation chip and was forced to implant it into a Chinese agent), has become the team’s
beloved “dad.” The killer has found a way to create nanites- molecular-sized controllable robots, and use them to selectively target and kill the scientists. (On the left is a screen shot of Intelligence’s nanites; on the right is a picture of real nanites – the small gold rods. For more information on nanotechnology, click here – we aim to educate!)

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Gabriel, using his chip, is able to read the digital code that comes with the nanite deliveries, but also finds that there is a further message embedded in the 1s and 0s of the message. Producer Michael Seitzman tweeted out a picture of the “manifesto” that was used on the show:

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The team finds that one young scientist, Dr. Bryce Tyler, was the intended target of one of the packages; instead, his assistant, who opened the package,  died instead, and they bring Dr. Tyler back to CyberCommand for protection. They quickly zero in on a suspect, Gordon Greyson, who has threatened scientists in the past. Again, Michael Seitzman tweeted out “documents” related to the episode – this is Greyson’s “arrest record.”

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They capture him and bring him to CyberCom for questioning; he denies any involvement, and then himself dies from a nanite “infection.” The team figures out that Dr. Tyler, who they thought was an intended victim, was actually the perpetrator after Dr. Cassidy is “infected” (as they said in the episode, since these are man-made and not an actual virus, it’s not a real infection, but there’s not really another word for it) and is dying before their eyes. Gabriel figures out a way to save Dr. Cassidy; Cassidy confronts Dr. Tyler, accusing him of killing his rivals in the artificial intelligence field since he doesn’t have the vision needed to become better than them.

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Despite their attempts to keep Tyler from learning anything about Gabriel, he figures out that Gabriel is “enhanced” in some way, and refers to him as a Frankenstein – which hits a chord with the team, and leads Riley to defend Gabriel to Tyler. How long will it be until there’s something more between them? Yesterday, Josh Holloway, Meghan Ory and Michael Seitzman answered questions, including questions about a possible relationship, on Reddit.com – you can see a recap of that conversation by clicking the link below!

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