‘Criminal Record’s Misinformation Leaves No One “Safe”
'Criminal Record' sees Billy unmedicated and June unmoored.
Last week, Criminal Record dropped the major reveal that Cosmo Thompson’s grant plan isn’t about detonating physical bombs (at least not yet). He’s more interested in playing with one of the most deadly parts of the current internet: misinformation. After using Rohaan’s wake to publicly declare the boy never existed, and the furor around his death is all one big conspiracy, the story is running rampant, with people spray painting “NOBODY DIED” in huge letters around the city.
Meanwhile, Hegarty and JP are working to get Billy back in the fold after Cosmo systematically took everything that made him feel safe away, including his brain meds and the necklace that doubled as a listening device. Billy is clearly already in withdrawal, freaking out when a burner phone is delivered by drone to his balcony, and freaking out at JP over the leak that he’d escaped prison.
Poor JP doesn’t know he’s lying when he promises Billy that none of them had anything to do with the leak, but the kid isn’t listening anyway. With Kieran on his way up to the penthouse, Hegarty grabs the phone and bullies Billy into submission just in time.
