Crash Zone

- Season 1

(1999)

After decoding a secret message on the Internet, five teens are offered the job of a lifetime: beta testers for the game company Catalyst network.

Testing Alex's new game, Trillin, the kids encounter Virgil, who is having an identity crisis. The surprised Alex is worried that Virgil might be a spy for rival company, Sunijim.

Alex's valuable necklace goes missing at Catalyst and everyone is a suspect.

Marcello tries to make money selling Ram's new invention. Ram, realising Marcello is ripping him off, dissolves the partnership and then sells one of his amazing new video game converter to a strange girl, Louise.

A computer virus invades Catalyst, and it's a fight against the clock to save Alex's game, Trillin, and indeed, the whole of Catalyst.

Bec is intrigued and delighted by a 'Net romance' she's pursuing. The boys are skeptical, and their worst fears are realized when they find out it's really Virgil who is writing the love letters to Bec.

Pi and Bec are asked by Alex to design a game to appeal to girls. The game, 'Boyfriends' is about the tribulations of teenage romance.

The kids are alone at Catalyst and having a great time when Kimberley arrives. She is a news reporter, there to do a story on the testers.

The kids, confused by Pi's depression, Bec's game and Marcello's weirdness, are unsure exactly who is really cracking up.

Leo Moore arrives at Catalyst with a game he has invented and Alex is very keen to put money into it.

Marcello feels rejected when Alex dismisses his idea for a video game based on Virgil.

Marcello throws Catalyst into uproar, when he hacks into Alex's system. Alex brings in legendary hacker-tracker, J.D. Moon, to find the security breach.

When Virgil goes missing after confiding in Ram, it's obvious to the kids that Sunijim have somehow captured him.