David, a brilliant student and hacker from Seattle High School, uses his computer to enter the school district's computer system and change his grades. Later, while searching for games, he finds a list that starts with chess, checkers, backgammon and poker, as well as titles like Chemical Warfare and Global Thermonuclear War, but cannot continue because he is locked with a password. David finds out that Stephen Falken was one of the first artificial intelligence researchers and Jennifer correctly guesses that the name of Falken's dead son (Joshua) is the password he needs to enter the system ...