“The Demon of Algorithms” (season 3, episode 6)
This episode is mostly about the team investigating a TikTok-like app after it popularizes videos where kids pretend to be possessed. But we also get the supreme satisfaction of seeing Kristen’s daughters scheme to out Leland as 60-year-old who pretends to be a kid to talk to kids online, which gets him booted from his prized gig behind enemy lines as a church assessor.
Most importantly, we learn why all the video calls Andy’s been making from “the Himalayas” are so glitchy: they’re fake. He’s not thousands of miles away on a high-altitude mountain, he’s awake but medically paralyzed—and being held prisoner by Sheryl and Leland in Leland’s apartment. And, as Sheryl tells him with diabolical glee, he’ll be that way forever: Edward will be calling Kristen soon to deliver the sad news that Andy “died in an avalanche.”
