#102 v4.1 and v4.72
PREMISE: Can two versions of the world’s best crime program work together to solve New York City’s worst crimes? V4.1 and v4.72 is a show about mismatched partners: two generations of crime-fighting software who can’t seem to get along. A bug keeps them from being compatible with each other, which means the tension and drama are sky-high! Follow these two hot-coded softwares as they crunch numbers and banter in binary in a show that critics called, “Surprisingly exciting even though it’s mostly about algorithms.” The FUTURE of crime fighting is v4.1 and v4.72! CHARACTERS: v4.72 is advanced fingerprint organization software with the ability to cross-reference national and local criminal databases. v4.1 is an older version of the same software, slower but methodical and stable, and incompatible with Flash. The old software doesn’t understand v4.72′s new-fangled updates, especially its sleeker, more streamlined user interface. But v4.1 has knowledge and experience that v4.72 can learn a thing or two from--like how to read data off of floppy discs. Officer Randy Franzo is the cop in charge of running v4.72 and v4.1 on the precinct’s only computer. He is mostly unaware of the tug of war taking place inside the processors. NOTABLE EPISODE: Franzo needs to run some fingerprints from a decades-old cold case, and, as always, a struggle ensues between v4.1 and v4.72. They fight over the computer’s RAM and processing power, while Franzo remains oblivious. v4.1 is able to get access to the national fingerprint database faster, because v4.1 was friends with the fingerprint database software when they were at the police software academy together. Not to be outfoxed, v4.72 uses his connections on the deep web to track down incriminating evidence via a website selling Canadian pharmaceuticals. Together, they are able to identify the perp’s fingerprints, moments before an impatient Franzo would have tried a hard reset of the computer (S01.E09 -- “0001101001101110011100011 Most Foul”). CATCHPHRASE: “Defrag this!” / “Bazinga!” / “You still on punch cards, old man?” TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: The programs that played v4.72 and v4.1 were actually married in real life.