Level 9 — Season 1, Episode 3: Through The Looking Glass
Action & Adventure, Drama • 60 min • 1 season, 13 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
From a tip supplied by a snitch Jack Wiley enlists the aid of Level 9 to raid a group of hackers who ar ein the process of selling a list of top secret NATO safehouses, in Iraq, to Saddam Hussain. The hackers wipe their computers and while Level 9 try to find the information they come across some stolen plane codes, used for controlling a new super-computer controlled plane. Later, while undergoing evaluation tests, the computer piloted passenger jet is electronically hijacked and crashed. It's only passengers, two supervising pilots, are killed. The hijacker soon makes his demands known and threatens to take down an airliner fully loaded with passengers if they are not met. Level 9 must capture this cyber-jacker and locate and de-program his digital bomb before it sends a plane full of passengers plummeting to their deaths.
About Level 9
Level 9 is an American television program broadcast on UPN, first aired in 2000. The plot revolved around a secret agency within the government, staffed by government agents, tech-savvy geeks, and former criminal hackers, which is tasked with solving or preventing cyber crimes. Thirteen episodes were produced, ten of which were aired on UPN, before the program was canceled in January 2001 due to low ratings. In August 2006, the Sci-Fi Channel acquired rerun rights to the series which was added to their schedule in June 2007. Sci-Fi aired the episodes never shown by UPN in February 2008.