Vague memory of a Law & Order episode

December 1, 2021 5:27 AM

It was a Law & Order episode (I think) where a teen hacker hid his hacking materials behind a secret door of a video game.

I was discussing NFTs with a friend today and got to making fun of Hollywood's interpretation of computers and video games. I mentioned an episode of Law & Order where they were investigating a hacker who stored his tools and stolen data in a video game. Specifically level 4 of a video game behind a hidden door. It was so strange and made such little sense that it stuck with me for being so dumb.

In all reality it may not be Law & Order, but I'm pretty sure it was a police procedural. It also may just be a weird dream I had. Any help would be appreciated.

posted by Flotsam Rosewater to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

OK, this probably isn't what you're thinking of, and SPOILERS for a very goofy 30-year-old TV episode but the famous (infamous?) VR episode of Murder She Wrote does involve a teen hacker and a secret being concealed behind a locked door in a video game, although the teen is not the one who concealed the info behind the locked door (he and Jessica Fletcher figure out how to open it).
posted by mskyle at 6:53 AM on December 1, 2021 [5 favorites]

I'm pretty sure you're talking about the scene from "A Civil War" (season 1, episode 7) of the series Life, where there's a hidden door in a hacked copy of Prince of Persia that somehow gets the console to run windows xp.

you can see the scene in question on metatube
posted by VeritableSaintOfBrevity at 8:41 AM on December 1, 2021 [1 favorite]

Your description reminds me of the "hacking" scene from Masterminds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterminds_(1997_film) ).

See a clip starting at about 1:50 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqshTREcpA
posted by Zudz at 9:41 AM on December 1, 2021

You could ask I_Love_Bananas, who posted a question today about how to access the entire franchise for bingeing purposes, to let you know if they find the episode. Collaboration!
posted by Comet Bug at 12:23 PM on December 1, 2021 [3 favorites]