When people in Mainframe, including Dot, start going missing, Bob sets out to find them. Along the way, the enigmatic Mouse has her own agenda...
This episode has examples of
- Adam Westing: Gillian Anderson guest stars as Data Nully.
- Big "NO!": Bob screams this when the Web creature turns the tear into a portal to the Web.
- Cliffhanger: The Web creature opens a portal that will allow countless spores to enter Mainframe. Bob tells Phong to prepare for war.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Fax Modem to a tee. In addition to his claims about Mouse, he insists there is no User and that Guardians send the Gamecube to promote the myth as a form of control.
- Double-Meaning Title: "Trust No One". Is it referring to Turbo? That Mouse shouldn't have trusted him? Or even that the rest of the High Command shouldn't have left Turbo alone (to break protocol by giving Bob more time to rid the bomb)?
- Final Solution: This is the Guardians' strategy of dealing with Web creatures. Rather than save a system the creature's in, they destroy it completely to remove the possibility of the creature invading the rest of the Net.
- It's the Only Way to Be Sure: The Guardians are more than willing to trade one system for the safety of the entire Net.Bob: Do you know what the Guardian protocol is for finding a Web creature in a system like Mainframe?
Mouse: They have no intention of savin' us?
Bob: They have every intention of destroying us! - Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The bomb's explosion creates a tear that the creature turns into a portal to the Web.
- Not What It Looks Like: When Mike is attacked, Bob and the agents find Mouse standing over him. She insists this isn't what it looks like. We later learn she isn't a Web creature; she just drove the one attacking Mike away.
- Real After All: Despite Bob's doubts, Fax Modem claims his sister was abducted by a strange creature with fangs. When the group hear the Web creature attacking Mike, Fax says that was the exact same noise made by the monster he saw in his youth.Modem: You see, Nully? The Web is out there.
Nully: No, Modem, it's here. - Relocating the Explosion: Once Bob realizes that the Guardians have left a bomb, he wastes no time in trying to get to safety, which is a big task given the bomb is designed to destroy all of Mainframe.
- Request for Privacy: After the Guardian High Command choose to destroy Mainframe to prevent the Web creature from spreading to the Super Computer, Turbo asked to be left alone with his thoughts. With everyone gone, Turbo then purposely increase the bomb's countdown to give Bob more time to find his own solution.Turbo: I'd like to be alone for this. Bob and I go back a long way. (Alone, Turbo flips the hourglass countdown) That's the best I can do. Good luck Bob. I'm so sorry.
- Shout-Out: Fax Modem and Data Nully are expies of Mulder and Scully.
- Skewed Priorities: After nearly being abducted by the Web creature, Mike's only concern is if the camera was still rolling.
- Two-Keyed Lock: All members of Guardian High Command appear to have to activate their own switches in unison in order to activate the bomb that will destroy Mainframe.
- Unwitting Pawn: Mouse worked with the Guardians to find a Web creature, but it turns out her communicator had a bomb installed if the Guardians decided to destroy Mainframe to get the creature.
- Weakened by the Light: Light causes the Web creature to go into stasis. However, even that is useless when it senses the massive tear created by the explosion.
- What You Are in the Dark: Even after the Guardian High Command choose to destroy Mainframe, Turbo purposely increases the bomb's countdown to give Bob more time to find his own solution.
