This time, the murder is the suicide of a man named Larry. Two hookers saw Larry and they find another suspect: a jealous Ex-girlfriend. They find blood on the girl’s boot and she confesses. She and Larry killed the hooker along with a third guy (who I think they mentioned earlier), Garret. The cops discover that by walking into his apartment, they just deleted the guy’s hard drive, and any evidence they have against him. He’s brought into questioning, where you find out just how messed up the guy is. Even though he’s being charged with murder, he’s talking about wanting to kill someone and how great it would be. Then it’s revealed that Garret was the one who talked on the phone. His lawyer claims that Garret was drunk and drugged by Larry while playing the game with the others, and then taken on a joyride. He didn’t realize what he was doing, and did not know whether it was reality or fiction. If the defense can put enough blame on the game industry, he’ll be seen as mentally ill and able to walk free.
The only hope for evidence is surveillance videos of the area (or… something like that, sorry), but the spooty FBI won’t let them see it, as the camera secret cannot get out, so now the murderer has a good chance of being pronounced not guilty. Psychiatrist-man asks to question the people, hoping to counter psyche defense with psyche offense, and you learn that these guys are shaq-fuin HARDCORE (6 hours a day) There’s some crazy love triangle between Larry, his girlfriend, and video games. Garret is a narcissist and the girlfriend would follow Larry anywhere. Psychiatrist-man does not believe games are a reason for murder (w00t!), and the defense attorney wants to get a brain scan to see whether or not playing the game changes his brain. His brain did change a slight bit, but that was pretty common with doing anything fun. At the trial, defense attorney changes, and now says that the game “gave him the idea” to do these things, then Garret is on the witness stand, he show’s seemingly fake remorse, and says that everything was just like the game. Larry told Garret what to do, and Garret, being completely out of it, obeyed.
They find a connection between Garret and the modder. Garret told the modder to make a movie where Larry killed the hooker in the game world and it said “you killed her LARRY YOU KILLED HER LMAO” Two hours later, Larry killed himself. This proved that Garret knew he was doing, and tried to get Larry to believe he did it. The jury finds both suspects guilty (the system works!) Garret says some creepy game references as he’s taken away. And then the detective finally learns his lesson, he monitors what his kid is playing, and decides they should do more stuff together, like talk!
I'd like to apologize if I missed anything, and if anyone wants to make any corrections, feel free to. I found it pretty hard to type what I see.
Overall, the episode ended pretty well as it told parents to watch and be alert of what their kids are watching (who knows, maybe it did just stop a future murder) but how violent games are was a huge exageration to real games.