Airdate: The Cyberbully

Next Thursday ABC airs a one-off docu-drama The Cyberbully

One of the things that makes this notable is that it features actress Maisie Williams, better known as Game of Thrones‘ very own Arya Stark.

A fictionalised composite of real-life cases, this also takes place entirely in the bedroom of its central character and plays out in real time.

Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) is 17-year-old Casey, a teenager who learns the hard way about the consequences of cyber bullying.

As usual Casey gets home from school and logs on to Facebook, iTunes and Skype. But while skyping her best friend Megan, her ex-boyfriend Nathan bags her on Twitter. Megan suggests she use their hacker friend Alex, but he’s scared he’ll be caught.

When Megan leaves to meet her boyfriend, Casey is alone, and Alex contacts her again and agrees to hack Nathan. But she soon realises it isn’t Alex. It appears her webcam has been hacked and the hacker can see her!

The cyber stalker, who now has access to her personal files, including explicit sexting images taken for her boyfriend, warns that if she tries to switch off the computer, or get help, he will post the images to everyone to see!

But as she continues talking to the unseen perpetrator, her initial fears of sexual exploitation give way to something more bizarre: the stalker forces her to look back over her own cyber history. Together they trawl her digital footprint: every bitchy comment, every two-faced remark, revealing Casey as something of a cyber bully herself.

Eventually she realises she hasn’t been chosen at random; it’s because she once played a small but influential part in a long running cyber-bullying campaign against a girl which spiralled out of control and drove her to take her own life.

The cyber stalker is after vengeance. Can Casey outwit her tormentor and reveal their identity?

8:30pm Thursday April 2 ABC.