The Net
Based on The Net (1995) starring Sandra Bullock, this 1998 television series stars Brooke Langton in the role of Angela Bennett. Angela is a computer hacker who specializes in debugging systems. On one of her routine assignments, she stumbles onto a plot by a secret society called the Praetorians to control the world through computer systems. Led by Shawn Trelawney (Joseph Bottoms), the Praetorians erase Angela's existence and replace her identity with that of Elizabeth Marx, a criminal and fugitive from the law. Aided by individuals she finds along the way and by a mystery computer e-mail contact known as "Sorcerer" (Tim Curry), Angela strives to foil the Praetorian's plans, save the world, and get her life back.
- Metascore60
- 1998-1999
- 1 season
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Suspense
- TV-14
Based on The Net (1995) starring Sandra Bullock, this 1998 television series stars Brooke Langton in the role of Angela Bennett. Angela is a computer hacker who specializes in debugging systems. On one of her routine assignments, she stumbles onto a plot by a secret society called the Praetorians to control the world through computer systems. Led by Shawn Trelawney (Joseph Bottoms), the Praetorians erase Angela's existence and replace her identity with that of Elizabeth Marx, a criminal and fugitive from the law. Aided by individuals she finds along the way and by a mystery computer e-mail contact known as "Sorcerer" (Tim Curry), Angela strives to foil the Praetorian's plans, save the world, and get her life back.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Deleted
Sun, Jul 19, 1998
Angela accidentally finds her way into a secure database run by a crime syndicate called the Praetorians. As a result, they delete here identity from electronic existence. Angela is forced to go on the run.
Episode 2
North by Northwestern
Sat, Jul 25, 1998
Angela sets off an x-ray machine at Columbus Airport in Ohio and is arrested by the police who suspect she poses a bomb threat. She confides in her court appointed lawyer, and asks for his help to recover her laptop which has been seized as evidence by the police.
Episode 3
Transplant
Sat, Aug 1, 1998
Whilst trying to evade capture by the Chicago Police Department, Angela takes a bullet in her left arm and requires medical treatment. Just before her laptop battery dies, the Sorcerer tells Angela to seek help from a doctor he knows at Lincolnwood Memorial Hospital in Evanston.
Episode 4
Bulls and Bears
Sat, Aug 8, 1998
The Praetorians are looking to buy a russian satellite for their communications network, and they engage in stock market manipulation in order to raise the necessary funds. Angela goes undercover at a stock brokerage firm in an effort to foil their plan.
Episode 5
Death of an Angel
Sat, Aug 15, 1998
In an attempt to get her life back, Angela decides to fake her own death. In Oregon, she becomes acquainted with Kyle, a law student at the university where her father used to work as a professor. When Kyle's uncle, Judge Mayall, is falsely accused of distributing child pornography, Angela steps in to help clear his name.
Episode 6
Kill the Buddha
Sat, Aug 22, 1998
While working as a barmaid, Angela befriends the owner and his wife. A witness to the bar owner's murder, Angela is torn between helping the widow bring her husband's killers to justice, and avoiding revealing her identity to the cops.
Episode 7
Fireball
Sat, Aug 29, 1998
Angela's old friend Daniel has been hacking state lotteries. She learns the Praetorians are doing the same thing and she tries to stop Daniel from hacking the Mississippi lottery. In the process, more of her painful past is revealed.
Episode 8
Jump Vector
Sat, Oct 3, 1998
River guide Angela helps programmers on holiday debug a system the Praetorians do not want fixed.
Episode 9
Go Like You Know
Sat, Oct 10, 1998
The Praetorians help a convicted hacker escape. Sorcerer sends Angela to meet a man named Mariano and tells her about the hacker and they try to find out what the Praetorians want from her. They discover they want her to hack into power plant computers so they can control them.
Episode 10
Harvest
Sat, Oct 17, 1998
A cult leader exposes Sorcerer. Angela meets the 16-year-old genius who changed her life.
Episode 11
Diamonds Aren't Forever
Sat, Nov 28, 1998
Angela counters a Praetorian plan to bring down the world diamond market.
Episode 12
Pandora's Box
Sat, Dec 5, 1998
Searching for a missing activist, Angela uncovers a scheme to dump nuclear waste in the ocean.
Episode 13
Sample
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
The Praetorians plot to gain control of cutting-edge music when Angela and Jacob uncover a murder.
Episode 14
Lucy's Life
Sun, Dec 20, 1998
The Praetorians set up a camera accessible via the Internet in a student's dorm in an attempt to trap Angela.
Episode 15
Pay the Line
Sat, Jan 9, 1999
Jacob gets involved in on-line gambling scheme and needs Angela's help to pay his debts back. They wind up in Las Vegas in some high stakes gambling. Meanwhile, Trelawney is told he has to clean up the mess he left behind with Hearney.
Episode 16
Lunatic Fringe
Sat, Jan 16, 1999
Angela is concerned about Jacob's obsession with an internet cult leader.
Episode 17
In Dreams
Sat, Jan 23, 1999
A 14-year-old girl with a photographic memory holds the key to a Praetorian code.
Episode 18
Y2K: Total System Failure
Sat, Jan 30, 1999
Angela has to try and stop the seemingly unstoppable Millennium Bug after a programmer is killed who was close to finding the solution.
Episode 19
Zero
Sat, Mar 6, 1999
A sinister new drug leads Angela and Jacob to a showdown with the Praetorians. Angela becomes an FBI CIC agent.
Episode 20
Last Man Standing
Sat, Mar 13, 1999
Agent Angela must put a stop to cyber cast wrestling matches fought to the death.
Episode 21
Chem Lab
Sat, Mar 20, 1999
Angela and Jacob go to high school to find the young creators of a chemical weapon.
Episode 22
Eye-see-you.com
Sat, Mar 27, 1999
Angela and Walter are in hot pursuit of a clever murderer who spies on his victims using the internet.