History Series / CSICyber

* ChekovsGunman: In "404: Plane Not Found", the team is going through a passenger manifest, trying to identify the hacker who cyber-hijacked the plane from the inside. They briefly pull up the profile of one man, but dismiss him as a suspect due to his distinguished military service record. Later, when they need someone on board to intervene physically and the Air Marshall has been taken out of commission, they contact the serviceman to enlist his help.

* {{Hackette}}: The infamous hacker, and Daniel's arch-nemesis, [=L0m1s=] turns out to be a teenage girl named Willa.

Premiering in 2015, ''CSI: Cyber'' is the fourth series in the Series/CSIVerse.

The show stars Creator/PatriciaArquette as Dr. Avery Ryan, a character introduced in a PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' titled "Kitty". She heads an elite group of {{FBI Agent}}s and [[HollywoodHacking Hollywood Hackers]] in the FBI Cybercrime Division. They investigate nasty "cybercrimes" committed through the dark net and deep web, along with other dangerous misuses of online technology. Her teammates include Elijah Mundo (Creator/JamesVanDerBeek), a badass ex-Marine and divorced father; Simon Sifter (Creator/PeterMacNicol), Avery's boss and an experienced agent who helps the heroes deal with the FBI bureaucracy; Daniel Krumitz (Charley Koontz), a wisecracking, laid-back PlayfulHacker; Brody Nelson (Creator/ShadMoss), a former [[TheCracker cracker]] who was caught by Krumitz and is the group's latest recruit; and Raven Ramirez (Music/HayleyKiyoko), another ex-cracker who's been on the team a while.

In the second season, Peter [=MacNicol=] left (explained InUniverse by Sifter being promoted) and Ted Danson's D.B. Russell from ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' joined the main cast after the latter series' finale.

The show stars Creator/PatriciaArquette as Dr. Avery Ryan, a character introduced in a PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' titled "Kitty". She heads an elite group of {{FBI Agent}}s and [[HollywoodHacking Hollywood Hackers]] in the FBI Cybercrime Division. They investigate nasty "cybercrimes" committed through the dark net and deep web, along with other dangerous misuses of online technology. Her teammates include Elijah Mundo (Creator/JamesVanDerBeek), a badass ex-Marine and divorced father; Simon Sifter (Creator/PeterMacNicol), Avery's boss and an experienced agent who helps the heroes deal with the FBI bureaucracy; Daniel Krumitz (Charley Koontz), a wisecracking, laid-back PlayfulHacker; Brody Nelson (Shad Moss), a former [[TheCracker cracker]] who was caught by Krumitz and is the group's latest recruit; and Raven Ramirez (Music/HayleyKiyoko), another ex-cracker who's been on the team a while.

** The villain of "404: Plane Not Found" goes through ''ridiculous'' lengths to have a passenger jet vanish from air control's eye, and jam all transmissions on board, while she's posing as a passenger, planning to kill one of the passengers. Thing is her target is unknown to her, but she knows the identity of the Marshall providing her target security. Now, her entire reason for doing the hack to keep the plane silent and missing is so she can find out who her witness is. Which she tries to do by cozying up to the Marshall... but she could just do that during the normal flight. Her attempts to temper with the plane are [[NiceJobFixingItVillain the only thing that get her identified]]. Had she not hacked the plane, she'd have done her job fine (say by following whoever the Marshall is following upon arriving at the airport).

* CreepyDoll: {{Invoked}} in "Why-Fi". The villain hacks a Hello Franchise/{{Barbie}}-like doll so he can manipulate the girl who owns it into letting his henchman in her house.

* RaceAgainstTime: The plot of "URL, Interrupted". The team has to find Zoey Tan before she kills either [[DrivenToSuicide herself]] or [[ItsPersonal her cyberbully]].

** The series begins [[AvertedTrope averting this trope]] in season 2; when DB transfers over from [[Series/{{CSI}} Las Vegas]], he is always shown giddy over testing some new gadget or tool that helps the team.

* InsistentTerminology: Criminal hackers are "Black Hats" and law-enforcement/security hackers are "White Hats". The subject of the investigation is the "target". Inverted in that the series studiously ''avoids'' using the FBI term "[=UnSub=]" for "Unknown Subject", most likely because that's the signature of ''Series/CriminalMinds''.

* LineOfSightName: At the end of "The Walking Dead," Daniel realizes that every name that [[spoiler: Stella]] used in her story of being a low-level hacker was taken from details around the office. He openly calls out [[spoiler: "she]] [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Soze-d]] us!"

The show stars Patricia Arquette as Dr. Avery Ryan, a character introduced in a PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' titled "Kitty". She heads an elite group of {{FBI Agent}}s and [[HollywoodHacking Hollywood Hackers]] in the FBI Cybercrime Division. They investigate nasty "cybercrimes" committed through the dark net and deep web, along with other dangerous misuses of online technology. Her teammates include Elijah Mundo (Creator/JamesVanDerBeek), a badass ex-Marine and divorced father; Simon Sifter (Creator/PeterMacNicol), Avery's boss and an experienced agent who helps the heroes deal with the FBI bureaucracy; Daniel Krumitz (Charley Koontz), a wisecracking, laid-back PlayfulHacker; Brody Nelson (Shad Moss), a former [[TheCracker cracker]] who was caught by Krumitz and is the group's latest recruit; and Raven Ramirez (Music/HayleyKiyoko), another ex-cracker who's been on the team a while.

** They even do this non-branded products - "Red Crone" is clearly intended to be this to Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos.

* TheBlank: In "Click Your Poison", the bad guy is laundering money by playing against himself in an on-line poker site. This is represented on-screen by the identical faceless figures sitting around a poker table.

* ComplexityAddiction: The show tends to suffer from this, like most shows of the ''CSI'' franchise. In particular for this show however, the necessity of a "Cyber" element for the crimes can lead to this - often the criminals could just as well do their business using conventional means, and their insistence on performing some sort of cyber crime as part of their schemes leads to this trope and their downfall.

* DeusExMachina: The ending of "Python's Revenge." [[spoiler:Python manages to escape again... but Grace is saved, and Avery is nevertheless ready to go to sleep with a sense of closure. However, in the last few seconds of the episode, he suddenly breaks into her house for a MexicanStandoff -- which coveniently lets her give him a KarmicDeath just before the end credits.]]

* WritingAroundTrademarks: For a show focused on tech crimes, an inability to use terms like "Facebook", "Website/{{Google}}" etc. is really noticeable and leads to clunky dialogue that noone would ever actually say like "Hey, let's play that new first person shooter!". (Though that particular one may actually have been an attempt to avoid TimeMarchesOn).
** See also the widespread BlandNameProduct.

* FunTShirt: Krumitz regularly wears them, including one that reads "[[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla Tesla]] Rules, [[UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison Edison]] Drools"".

* InsaneTrollLogic[=/=]NeverMyFault:

* BrandX:
** In a more generic way than the multiple BlandNameProduct examples, they will always say "X is trending on social media". As opposed to actually naming the social media, as someone would in real life.

-->--'''Simon Sifter'''

* DeusExMachina: The ending of "Python's Revenge" carries shades of this. [[spoiler:Python manages to escape once again, but Grace is saved and Avery is nonetheless prepared to go to sleep with a sense of closure. However, the last few seconds suddenly entail him breaking into her house for a MexicanStandoff and getting shot literally just before the end credits.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic[=/=]NeverMyFault: In "Crowd Sourced", the anti-technology bomber blames all his crimes on [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming his victims]]: "''You'' are responsible for this bombing. You could've prevented it if you'd just left your cell phones at home."

Premiering in 2015, ''CSI: Cyber'' is the fourth series in the Franchise/CSIVerse.

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: "Ghost in the Machine" has the team tracking down some hackers who are pulling off crimes inspired by the FirstPersonShooter video games they play. One tries to escape by [[LeParkour leaping across a roof]] and falls hard, breaking his legs. The team realize the guy was so used to pulling the move in the game that he honestly thought it would work in real life as well and that the rest of the gang had come to see shooting people are just "gaining points."

The show stars Patricia Arquette as Dr. Avery Ryan, a character introduced in a PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' titled "Kitty". She heads an elite group of {{FBI Agent}}s and [[HollywoodHacking Hollywood Hackers]] in the FBI Cybercrime Division. They investigate nasty "cybercrimes" committed through the dark net and deep web, along with other dangerous misuses of online technology. Her teammates include Elijah Mundo (Creator/JamesVanDerBeek), a badass ex-Marine and divorced father; Simon Sifter (Peter [=MacNicol=]), Avery's boss and an experienced agent who helps the heroes deal with the FBI bureaucracy; Daniel Krumitz (Charley Koontz), a wisecracking, laid-back PlayfulHacker; Brody Nelson (Shad Moss), a former [[TheCracker cracker]] who was caught by Krumitz and is the group's latest recruit; and Raven Ramirez (Music/HayleyKiyoko), another ex-cracker who's been on the team a while.

* AdultsAreUseless: In "iWitness," the team discovers that their suspect is a young college girl who was ganged raped by the campus football team. Avery is disgusted when she finds out that the dean knew all about it, but didn't do anything to stop it because he was afraid that if the news ever got out, it would give the school a bad name.

* AdultsAreUseless: In "iWitness," the team discovers that their suspect is a young college girl who was ganged raped by the campus football team. Avery is disgusted when she finds out that the dean knew all about it, but didn't do anything to stop it because he was afraid that news like this would give the school a bad name.

* AdultsAreUseless: In "iWitness," the team discovers that their suspect is a young college girl who was ganged raped by the campus football team. Avery is disgusted when she finds out that the dean knew all about it, but didn't do anything to stop it because he was afraid that news like this would ruin the good name of the school.