Directed by Bethany Rooney
Written by Steven D Binder
Abby is trapped with little to no communication to the outside world while visiting a pharmaceutical lab during a murder investigation after armed men take over the building and hold everyone hostage.
Tropes:
- Air-Vent Passageway: Abby takes a field trip to investigate the team's current case when there is an event at the pharmaceutical company she is visiting. She uses an air vent to move from the server room she is trapped in back to the lab / office she needs to get back to.
- Asshole Victim: Discussed; When Janice wonders if they really have to kill the gunmen to save the hostages, Abby recalls one moment when she was in fifth grade, her class watched a movie and they cheered when the good guy killed the bad guy. That was when the teacher scolded them for doing so because a human being killed shouldn't be applauded no matter who they were.Abby: "If you take a life today, then you fail yesterday". I don't remember much from fifth grade, but I do remember that.
- Cowardly Lion: Dr. Janice Brown is a bit of a scaredy-cat and might have been in on the whole "Die Hard" situation, but she tackles one of the gunmen near the end to prevent the hostages from being killed. Furthermore, she was willing to risk the destruction of her career and jail time to whistle-blow the wrongdoings of the company she worked for.
- Crazy-Prepared: Abby keeps a magnesium fire-starter kit in one of her boot heels.
- "Die Hard" on an X: Abby faces this situation while at the pharmaceutical lab.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Janice, who has been helping Abby the whole time, turns out to have hired the mercenaries to infiltrate the pharmaceutical company. Abby picks up on this quickly, but believes her when Janice swears that no one was supposed to get hurt, much less killed.
- Easily Forgiven: Abby ultimately harbors no ill will to Janice for her involvement in the lab takeover. This is because not only did she not know that those she hired to do the data theft were planning to kill the hostages and risked her life to protect them, but she started the whole scheme in the first place to expose the lab selling non-working medical drugs. Abby ends up writing a letter to the District Attorney explaining everything to them in the hopes Janice will get a lenient punishment:Abby: She did the wrong thing, but she did it for the right reasons. And she risked her life to try and save those hostages.
- Everyone Has Standards: While Janice is a bit of a scaredy-cat, she was willing to risk her career to expose the fact that the company she works for was selling non-working drugs to their clients. She also genuinely didn't know that the people she hired to do the data theft to gather the evidence she needed for the whistleblowing were planning on killing the hostages (in fact, the original plan was to do the break-in and the data theft that night so nobody would have even known about it until she exposed the company’s corruption) and ends up risking her life to save everybody. This ends up being one of the reasons why Abby writes a letter to the District Attorney asking for them to be lenient on Janice.
- Tempting Fate: When two of the gunmen follow Abby's trail down a hallway, and see her parasol sitting on the floor:Mook #1: That wasn't here before.
Mook #2: Good, so we know we're going the right way. You coming?
Mook #1: No!
Mook #2: Oh, please, man, it's an umbrella, it's not an IED...- And lo and behold...
