After weeks of buildup and maneuvering, Mr. Mercedes finally exploded this week with tragic results for several characters. As usual, Bill Hodges starts this episode by trying to make up for whatever he messed up last week. This time, it’s his relationship with Jerome. Bill approaches his young friend in the middle of lawn-mowing duties in order to have him explain his behavior. Why doesn't Jerome want to go back to college? Bill knows the Mercedes killer is dangerous so he wants to keep Jerome away as much as possible!! But he also really needs help with all the computer stuff. Once again, it’s hard for Jerome to turn down the excitement of working on this high-stakes investigation. He agrees to help Bill hack into Olivia Trelawney’s laptop.
When Bill gets to the diner, he meets the newest member of the team: Holly Gibney. It turns out that Holly has a knack for computers and she saves Jerome’s skin when he first tries to hack the laptop. She points out that his method would lead to the hard drive erasing itself (stupid Apple) and suggests a different and more effective method. Bill, of course is totally lost, so he goes off to help Janey prepare for her mother’s funeral while the whiz kids get to work. Eventually they are able to hack into her laptop but all they see on her desktop is an encrypted text file labeled “Sessions.” Holly points out that Olivia didn’t know how to encrypt files (she wasn’t any better at computers than her old nemesis Bill, apparently), so someone else must have put it there. Could it be something Brady sent her? 5* (I really like this series)
Note: Imdb 7.8 out of 10 with 889 ratings, tvfanatic editor 4.5 out of 5, user rating 5 out of 5, Rotten Tomatoes 83% with 29 critic ratings 90% with 637 user ratings, Amazon 4 1/2* out of 353 reviews.
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