Homicide.Com
Directed By: Jay Tobias
Story By: Sara B. Charno and Aylet Sela
Written By: Sara B. Charno
Sheppard gets a red ball when two women are killed by a masked man who broadcasts the killings on the Internet.
This episode contains examples of:
- Foreshadowing: Ryland, the killer, uses Bayliss' website to broadcast his latest murder, and the website becomes important in a future episode.
- Magical Computer: The livestream of the murders has way better image quality than you'd have expected in real life in the late 1990s.
- murder.com: The theme of the episode, with the first murder to be broadcast live online.
- Shout-Out: Ryland uses the alias Lemmy Caution.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sheppard calls out Bayliss for taking over the briefing of the other officers, as she thinks he's patronizing her. Bayliss in turn calls out Sheppard for wallowing in self-pity over being beaten.
- While You Were in Diapers: When Sheppard gets angry at Giardello because he thinks she's not up to handling the case because of her sex, Giardello angrily tells her he was running against discrimination on the Baltimore police force when she was in diapers.
