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Shutup and Dance plot weak point *spoilers*


Okay so the kid was filmed wacking off on his hacked webcam, but how were the hackers able to prove to anyone that he was wacking it to kids? Seems like a bit of a weak point to me.

I suppose you could imagine that the hackers had to tell people what he was actually fapping to. Otherwise, how would they know? Why would they also take that as gospel? We could also guess that his mom checked his faptop computer.

For me this is a little too much conjecture for a show that is really quite good at being clever with its details. The teen's role had the most shocking twist in the episode and I think they could have provided the details how the hackers could have nailed him so easily for child porn.

In contrast, I see how people are very skeptical that the skinny teen was able to win his fight to the death against the much larger adult. I let that one slide with the criteria that the writers simply wanted to add another surprise, dumb luck, or even a deeper hint at how dangerous and despicable this sicko would be as a child predator.

Again, the hackers proving to his friends and family that he was a pedo was a more important plot point for me as that drives the whole story in the first place.

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The hackers had control over his entire computer. They would be able to see all his internet history and anything he did on his computer. I assume they forwarded all the evidence to the police and not just the webcam footage.

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Ahhhhhhhh... of course. I'm a dumbass to forget about the police getting forwarded all the info. Thanks.

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D'oh

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One of the few shows where asking such questions actually makes sense, because one might have missed something. So great to have a show where a message board can provide more insight than just fanboys and haters discussing how much the show really sucked.

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It is not important they jerking off ..point is they jerking of when watching something embarrasing like the boy doing on kids.they had control whole computer so it is not a weak point i think...

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Yes, the first reply already corrected me. There was enough detail there and I overlooked it.

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'wacking it to kids?'

Ohhh, now the episode makes sense. I just finished watching it and I kept thinking "you were jerking off, so what? Who cares? Why are you doing all this?!"

Now I think about that scene at the beginning with him at work and interacting with the kid, makes so much more sense now.

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And his reaction when the fighter guy asked him how old they were, and when he couldn't respond when his mom called him at the end. They spelled it out.

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Yep. Sure was creepy how he stared at the kid's drawing. That shot seemed awkward and I didn't understand why at the time.

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I thought he was overreacting a lot to having a video of what would have probably just been him making faces since most webcams don't point at your crotch.
It would have been mildly embarrassing at most and he was freaking out.
I'd go about as far as delivering the cake and maybe taking the ride with that guy to avoid my contacts seeing a video of me like that but once the bank robbery came into play, sorry grandma but you're getting a video you won't like.

But then when they revealed what it really was it made a lot more sense.

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I can't remember if he still had the gun in his hand, in which case he could have used it to beat the other pedos head in with.

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He did but it didn't have any bullets. He actually tried to use it to kill himself before the fight started.

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Yeah but he could have used it as a blunt weapon, guns are heavy and solid, you could bash someone's head in with one if desperate enough

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