Whoa! No time to chat! We're in a smoke-filled airplane, and people are panicking! I already feel like I've used too many exclamation points, and I'll tell you right now that there are a lot of scenes in this episode that seem to require them. We're going to be taking the place normally occupied by narrative logic and causality and replacing them with exclamation points. So I apologize if it seems like this recap seems like it consists of me shouting at you. In my defense, I feel like the show is shouting at me.

Okay. I guess there was time to chat, after all! Getting back to the show, Chance and a female flight attendant bust into the cockpit while she demands to know who he is. He ignores her as he sits down in the pilot's chair, because he has vital exposition to deliver: the plane is on fire. She exposits right back at him that the captain and first officer (which I take to be the pilot and co-pilot, and when exactly did commercial air travel decide that it was a military organization? I blame the epaulets) are down with smoke inhalation. Also, Chance's cover this time out is "insurance salesman". She reluctantly takes the co-pilot position, calling herself a "stewardess" instead of a "flight attendant" for some reason.

And now we jump backwards six hours, which is a dramatic device I hate. It's not bad in itself, but it's been used a lot lately. You know what show used it a couple of times? Battlestar Galactica. And speaking of Battlestar Galactica, let's have a big hand for Special Guest Star Alessandro Juliani, who played Gaeta. Here, he's videoconferencing with Winston to explain his problems as the head of cybersecurity for some company in Seattle. We know he's in Seattle, because the desk behind him has a model of the Space Needle. It's true, everyone here in Seattle has a model of the Space Needle. They're everywhere. At any rate, here's the deal: there is a hacker named "Casper" who has figured out a way to break all security on the Internet forever. They're going to be calling this the "skeleton key to the Internet," but it sounds like Casper's method also breaks any password protection or firewalls. It is, shall we say, somewhat implausible. And it's not even the point of the episode! The plot is actually about Casper flying from San Francisco (where Winston and Chance are based) to Seattle, where he will help Gaeta fix the hole. In the Internet. But last night, someone broke into Gaeta's office and downloaded the correspondence with Casper. Including the flight information.