There are a couple things at work in this episode. First of all, there is a group of people who ride bicycles together, a kind of club. I have ridden quite a lot myself, but I find this kind of group, with its smug self importance, to be hard to like. It's not the bikes; it's the people. The central conflict involves a tenured professor who has made some serious inroads into some kind of quantum theory that will allow successful airline traffic control. Another man, who is presented as the villain (because he has no respect for the bike riders) has invested huge sums of money in the former man's theories. The problem is that the scientist sees a glitch in the system that could potentially cause death to thousands of people. So he withholds his research. The investor, an arrogant ass, becomes the target of a reactionary who mixes glue and red paint and pours it on the guy's cars. Also, on the driver if he happens to be around. Unfortunately, a young woman, who is blameless in any of this, gets killed, run over by a car. It is suspected that she was mistaken for the guy because she was riding his bike. The second subplot is that the university is hoping for huge financial gains from research done under its umbrella. It's an interesting episode.