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3. Boots on the Ground

After a man is thrown to his death off a building, Goren and Eames discover an ongoing war between two private security companies. As the detectives investigate the lucrative business of intelligence gathering, the true agenda of the victim and the mystery behind his death is revealed.

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Goren and Eames investigate the death of a brilliant hacker ( Aaron Mathias ) who is thrown to his death off a building. They uncover that he was a black hat hacker using two aliases, Matt Clark and Ian Masefield and had been working for two competing private security companies: Sun Tech run by Naomi Halloran ( Jeri Ryan ), and Ascalon Security run by Terrence Brooks ( Michael Kelly ). They also find that Matt's mother, Elise Clark ( Michele Pawk ) had been a member of the radical anti-capitalist "People's Liberation Brigade" and her son Matt and his friend Rebecca Landon ( Tala Ashe ), ex-Israeli army and a practitioner and teacher of krav maga, had similar goals - to leak confidential information to the press.

Eventually, Elise Clark reveals that Matt and Naomi were having an affair and that Terrence knew Matt was stealing information. This enables Goren and Eames to prove that Terrence convinced Naomi to entice Matt to the roof where Rebecca threw him to his death on the threat that Terrence would kill her family in Israel if she refused. Inspired in part by the 2010 WikiLeaks scandal.

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