List of episodes of the American drama television series Stop and Burn .
Content
Seasonal review
| Season | Episodes | Original Delivery Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||
| one | ten | June 1, 2014 | August 3, 2014 | |
| 2 | ten | May 31, 2015 | August 2, 2015 | |
| 3 | ten | August 21, 2016 | October 11, 2016 | |
| four | ten | August 19, 2017 | October 14, 2017 | |
Series List
Season 1 (2014)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Producer | written by | Premiere date | US viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | one | "I / O" | Juan Jose Campanella | Christopher Cantwell , Christopher Rogers | June 1, 2014 | 1.19 [1] |
1983 year. Joe Macmillan, one of the key creators of the debut of IBM PC , interviews college students about their computer knowledge. One of the students, Cameron Howe, challenges him, and after a couple of hours they already have a drink together at the bar, discussing the future of the computer industry. There is an attraction between Joe and Cameron, and they retire to the back room to have sex, but Joe’s sarcastic remark leads to a quarrel. John Bosworth, senior vice president of Dallas- based Cardiff Electric, hires Joe MacMillan as sales manager. Joe came to Dallas to offer sales and former system engineer Gordon Clark to recreate an IBM computer together using reverse engineering. Gordon at first reluctantly accepts the offer, saying that he needs to discuss this with his family; a couple of years earlier, in 1981, at the COMDEX exhibition, Gordon experienced public humiliation when the Symphonic microcomputer, which they created with his wife Donna, did not start at the presentation. However, he is reviewing Joe’s proposal and is ready to recreate the IBM PC BIOS code. Bosworth and company owner Nathan Cardiff warn Clark and Macmillan that IBM is aware of their project and Cardiff Electric is facing legal action for copyright infringement. However, when it turns out that Joe deliberately told IBM about his plans, Bosworth and Cardiff are forced to enter the personal computer business. Needing a programmer who is not affiliated with IBM or Cardiff Electric, Joe and Gordon hired Cameron to create reverse-engineered IBM software. Employees of the FBI and IBM come to the Cardiff Electric office, as suspected violation of IBM exclusive rights. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "FUD" | Juan Jose Campanella | Christopher Cantwell , Christopher Rogers | June 8, 2014 | 0.970 [2] |
An IBM legal counsel interviews each compromised Cardiff Electric employee individually. After IBM leaves, Joe reveals his plans for the new Cardiff PC: make it twice as fast and twice as cheap as an IBM PC; however, Gordon claims this is not possible, and Cameron calls the idea terribly boring. Meanwhile, Joe is appointed senior product manager for the new Cardiff PC division. Joe organizes the work according to the “ clean room design ” principle so that Cameron can write BIOS code freely, but she moves to work in the basement. Gordon is appointed chief technical engineer for the project; however, he is worried that Cameron will write code, but Joe reassures him by saying that they will fire her immediately, as the BIOS is ready and tested. IBM aggressively attacks Cardiff's core software business, and is also trying to lure Cameron by offering her a triple pay raise. At night, at the Cardiff Electric parking lot, between Joe, Gordon and Cameron, a fierce argument arises, in which everyone stands his ground, and Joe and Gordon even enter into a physical skirmish. But, despite the disagreements and the general tension, in the end all three agree with Joe's vision. In parallel, it turns out that on Joe's chest are traces of monstrous scars, the origin of which he hides ... | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "High Plains Hardware" | Karin Kusama | Jason Cahill | June 15, 2014 | 0.765 [3] |
| After another IBM raid, Cardiff has to significantly reduce its workforce. Joe tells the remaining engineers that their new computer should be 15 pounds by the end of the year, but they complain that these plans are not feasible. Joe is trying to protect venture capital from its partners from the east coast, but Cardiff says that Bosworth will alone manage the company's finances in the future. Cardiff also arranges a meeting with one of its business partners, wealthy investor Louise “Lulu” Lutherford. During the dinner party, Lulu Lutherford offers $ 10 million for an 80% stake in the new Cardiff PC project. Joe is unhappy because he believes the offer is unprofitable and the price is underestimated, he tries to object, but Lulu ignores MacMillan and almost negotiates with Bosworth. To disrupt the deal, Joe resorted to "extreme measures" to dare Lulu - he seduces her boyfriend almost under the nose of an aging millionaire. Gordon offers ideas to achieve the design conceived by Joe, but one of the engineers constantly rejects them, not offering an alternative, and Gordon dismisses him. Bosworth notices Cameron, who is sitting in the office late in the evening, and says that she can work until late, if necessary, but she cannot live in the office, although he himself seems to be doing this temporarily. Having received the first salary, Cameron first goes to the hotel, but later she goes to Joe’s apartment. | ||||||
| four | four | "Close to the Metal" | Johan Renk | Jonathan Lisco | June 22, 2014 | 0.844 [4] |
| Cameron's work on the BIOS code has almost come to an end, but at this point a crash occurs and she loses all of her results. Complicating the situation is the fact that Joe brought a reporter from a major business magazine, who becomes an unwitting witness to the chaos that arose. Bosworth sets off for a meeting with Cardiff management, who believes that he may soon lose control of the project and Joe in particular. Gordon seeks help from his wife Donna to recover Cameron's data, but Joe is against it because Donna works at Texas Instruments. Donna offers a brilliant engineering solution that allows you to recover 90% of Cameron's lost work. After that, she comes to Joe’s office, where she accuses him of deliberately sabotaging Cameron’s work to publicize the project. Joe confirms her guess by showing backup floppy disks in a drawer of his own desk. On the way home, Joe is overtaken by the police, detained and brutally beaten, for no apparent reason; after Bosworth helps Joe out of the station, he realizes that everything was rigged by Bosworth, who decided to show his power. | ||||||
| five | five | "Adventure" | Ed bianchi | Davy waller | June 29, 2014 | 0.575 [5] |
By sending Cameron on a business trip, Joe hires a new software development team. Gordon understands that they will need a liquid crystal display to design their computer. Other engineers and Joe argue that it will cost too much, but Gordon discovers that his father-in-law, Gary Emerson, has contacts with the Japanese electronics manufacturer Kuzoku and can get the necessary components at a discount. Upon his return, Cameron expresses dissatisfaction with the latest actions of Joe. She says that adding new developers to the project will only slow down its development, and the new manager Steve, in her opinion, is ineffective. Joe tells her that she must learn to work with others. Gary reluctantly agrees to arrange a meeting with Kuzoku for Gordon, but he fails to negotiate with drunk comments on his father-in-law. The next morning, Joe sets off for Kuzoku to sort things out and apologize on behalf of Gordon, but it turns out that Gary has already intervened. Cameron uploads the Colossal Cave Adventure quest game to the Cardiff corporate network to find out which programmer is the most valuable project. Joe, impressed by Cameron's ingenuity, appoints her software manager, firing Steve and superfluous developers. It turns out that Joe has a difficult relationship with his father. Joe Macmillan Sr., without waiting for his son at the hotel where he made an appointment, secretly sneaks into Joe’s apartment, where he meets Cameron and is surprised to learn that Joe has a girlfriend. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Landfall" | Larisa Kondraki | Zach Whedon | July 6, 2014 | 0.718 [6] |
The computer prototype is finally ready and runs to the screams and applause of the assembled Cardiff staff. Cameron suggests making changes to the OS that will provide an interactive user interface , but Joe and Gordon reject her idea, saying that such radical changes will cost too much, and it will be more difficult to sell the PC itself. To ease tensions, Gordon invites Joe to dinner at his home. After the programmers are outraged by the opposite tasks coming from Joe and Cameron, Bosworth calls Cameron into his office, warning that there will always be people who will be happy to wait for the failure associated with her vision of the future. When Joe arrives at the Clarks house, Gordon is not at home yet, as he had previously promised his wife Donna that he would find the popular “ Cabbage Doll ” for his daughters. His search is complicated by Hurricane Alicia , which hit Dallas. Joe, meanwhile, is forced to endure the company of two noisy children, as well as lobbying Donna (at the request of Gordon), who asks to do without further changes to the prototype. Playing with the children, Joe reinterprets Cameron's ideas regarding the new OS, so he hurries home to ask Cameron to show her experiences. In parallel, it turns out how Joe got scars on his chest: his mother, despite her wealthy husband, preferred to lead a hectic life and used drugs. Once, being in a state of drug intoxication, she climbed up with a young son on the roof and released the child from her arms ... | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Giant" | John Emiel | Jamie Pacino | July 13, 2014 | 0.832 [7] |
Bosworth finds out that the PC unit was left almost without money. At a QA meeting, engineers complain that Cameron’s new operating system adversely affected computer performance . Joe invited Simon Church, a well-known industrial designer who offers his own design for Cardiff PC. Joe proposes to name the new PC "Contrail" ( Russian. Trace from the turn of the plane ). Gordon expresses distrust, calling the new design impractical, and also sarcastically states that the computer should be called “Giant” ( Russian giant ), thereby forcing Simon to leave. Donna Clark accompanies her boss, Hunt Whitmarsh, on a business trip to meet with TI executives, during which she flirts with him inappropriately, resulting in an awkward situation. After an unsuccessful attempt to hire a local designer to create a PC, Joe goes to the photo exhibition to find Simon there and make him change his mind; there he discovers Cameron, who is busy with the same. John Bosworth asks Nathan Cardiff to allocate funds to keep the company afloat, but he refuses, saying that he is ready for losses. Before leaving, Simon tells Joe that he has AIDS , agreeing to do a design for Cardiff. Cameron discovers that Joe and Simon had an affair 10 years ago: young Joe was fascinated by Simon and his innovative ideas, they traveled to Europe, but when Joe realized that Simon loved him, he abandoned him because he “lost interest”. Cameron is afraid that with her Joe will do the same as with Simon. | ||||||
| eight | eight | "The 214s" | Daisy von Scherler Meyer | Davy Waller , Zach Whedon | July 20, 2014 | 0.627 [8] |
| While Cardiff is preparing for COMDEX, the FBI bursts into the office and arrests Bosworth for embezzlement. Gordon hurriedly disassembles the Gigantic prototype into pieces to prevent it from being seized as evidence. Later, at night, he enters the sealed office to take out the components of the Giant. At Texas Instruments, Donna discovers that Hunt unexpectedly quit. In Gordon’s garage between him, Joe and Cameron again flare up after Cameron admits that she was one of those who helped Bosworth break into the bank’s network to steal Cardiff’s money. After Gordon tells Donna that Cardiff Electric has been shut down, she thinks about breaking up with him. When trying to get pre-orders for Giant, Joe learns a rumor that IBM is working on its own laptop; he flies to New York to discuss this with his father, who works at IBM. The story of the gap between father and son is revealed: father for many years hid from Joe the truth about his mother. After she, in a state of drug intoxication, dropped little Joe from the roof - Joe Sr. divorced her and forbade her surviving son, who in turn told her mother had died, to communicate with the miracle. Having learned the truth a couple of years ago, Joe Jr. ruined his brilliant career at IBM, flooding the office of the company, after which he quit and spent many months traveling around the country looking for his mother's acquaintances, trying to find out what she was like. And Joe Sr. offers his son to lead the development of a laptop computer at IBM. Upon returning to Dallas, Joe finds Gordon and Cameron in his apartment, telling them that he intends to return to work at IBM. However, Gordon and Donna convince him to continue working on the Giant project, because this is his personal project, not IBM. At the same time, none of the three have the money necessary to go to COMDEX. Having sold his Porsche , Joe finds the finances required for the trip, and the four of them (with Donna joining them) go to Vegas at the Clark family wagon. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Up Helly Aa" | Terry McDonough | Jason Cahill | July 27, 2014 | 0.549 [9] |
| When the Cardiff Electric team arrives in Las Vegas, they find out that their reservation has been canceled due to the freezing of the company's assets. By deceiving other participants, they still manage to get rooms for accommodation and presentations, as well as a stand at the exhibition. Immediately before the presentation, a “Gigantic” malfunction is detected. Joe manages to distract drunken visitors with the help of strippers invited to the presentation; and Gordon and Donna - to repair the "Giant". The next day, the team notices a crowd of people at one of the stands. Going closer, they see that Donna’s former boss, Hunt Whitmarsh, made a copy of the “Giant”, calling it “Slingshot” ( Russian Slingshot ). Gordon publicly accuses Donna of handing over their plans to Hunt. However, it turns out that Hunt does not even have a Slingshot prototype, it represents only a project, however, the characteristics of this project report a lower cost and higher speed than the Giant. Joe and Gordon decide to remove Cameron from the Giant, replacing it with the IBM OS. Cameron is upset, saying that Gordon stripped the "Giant" of his uniqueness; but Joe and Gordon consider this step necessary, because only in this way can they surpass the performance of the mythical “Slingshot”. Joe successfully conducts a presentation of the “Giant”, providing a large number of pre-orders from a large network of computers. While Cardiff is celebrating success loudly, Joe accidentally lands on the preliminary presentation of the Apple Macintosh in the next room, in which he sees the same “killer” IBM PC that he dreamed of in his dreams. | ||||||
| ten | ten | "1984" | Juan Jose Campanella | Christopher Cantwell , Christopher Rogers | August 3, 2014 | 0.574 [10] |
| After success at COMDEX, Joe and Gordon try to convince Nathan Cardiff to give them control of the company and a small share of ownership in it. Donna breaks all ties with TI, deliberately failing her certification test. During testing the first batch of "Giants", the testing team notices a problem. Using the delay that has arisen, Joe gives the programmers the task of creating a "killer program" that can be delivered with the "Giant". Gordon suspects that Joe is leading the project to a new crisis. Donna tells him that in order to be successful in his new position, he must force Joe to leave the company; he plans to do so, threatening to hand over Cameron to the FBI, reporting her involvement in Cardiff theft. After the paths of Cardiff and Cameron diverged, she creates her own startup “Mutiny” ( Russian Revolt ) for online games, luring almost the entire development team from Cardiff. Left without programmers, Joe cancels his plans for a "killer application" , and Gordon - plans to overthrow Joe. Gordon is having a big party at the office to celebrate the launch of Gigantic production. Later, he offers Donna the position of chief engineer at Cardiff Electric, but she refuses in favor of working with Cameron in Riot. Joe, lost his team, quarreled with Gordon and Cameron, makes another “sharp turn”: he burns the first batch of “Giants”, after which he leaves Cardiff, embarking on another trip. | ||||||
Season 2 (2015)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Producer | written by | Premiere date | US viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eleven | one | "SETI" | Juan Jose Campanella | Christopher Cantwell , Christopher Rogers | May 31, 2015 | 0.659 [11] |
More than a year has passed since the release of Giant. After leaving Dallas after breaking up with Cardiff and Gordon, as well as breaking up with Cameron, Joe accidentally met Sarah Wheeler, a college friend who works as a freelance journalist, and now lives with her in Austin. Cardiff Electric is liquidated after Nathan Cardiff sold the company to a large foreign corporation. Gordon Clark, as the last vice president, receives dividends in the amount of more than 838 thousand dollars. Joe, however, does not receive anything after Nathan tears his check in retribution for fraud in the last two years and the first batch of Giants burnt by him; returning empty-handed, Joe makes an offer to Sarah, and she agrees. Donna, who works at Riot, is disappointed at Cameron’s lack of leadership skills and foresight, given the Riot’s problems with a makeshift network structure and power outages. Donna warns that Riot is stagnant, and that without a new game and subscribers, the company may soon go broke. Donna skips a gala dinner with Gordon and her daughters, helping Cameron in a deal to buy stolen network equipment. Before that, they agree that together they will be responsible for the leadership of the "Riot." The next day, Cameron picks up John Bosworth, who has just left prison. Late in the evening, Cameron relaxes, playing over the network in the game developed by the Riot, not suspecting that her opponent is Joe. | ||||||
| 12 | 2 | "New Coke" | Phil Abraham | Jonathan Lisco | June 7, 2015 | 0.494 [12] |
Joe and Sarah meet with her father Jacob Wheeler, oil tycoon and head of Westgroup Energy. Noting Joe's problematic work biography, he offers the job at Westgroup. At first, Joe refuses, but later accepts the offer; however, having arrived at Westgroup headquarters, he realizes that he has been sent to the data entry department at the lowest level. Cameron wants to appoint Bosworth as the head of the Riot, but Donna is against it, as he is a former felon, which may cause difficulties in finding investors. At home, Gordon finds a bug in the Tank Battle game that Riot is developing; he goes to the Riot office and tells the coders a solution to the problem. Donna and Cameron are trying to find an investor, but are faced with sexism from the venture capitalist. Riot coders discover that someone has illegally copied and improved their flagship game Parallax. After the conflict with the hacker Tom Randon who did this, Donna is going to take legal measures against him, but Cameron hires Tom after he told her how he managed to “hang” several users on one telephone line, significantly increasing the maximum possible number network users; and Donna threatens to leave the Riot if Cameron continues to independently make such controversial business decisions. After the encoders find Bosworth's letter of a rather personal nature addressed to Cameron, he tells her, using his real name Katherine, that “Riot” is not the place he needs at the moment, and he needs to be alone for a while. Sarah tells Joe the story of her first marriage, falling apart through the fault of her husband, who dragged his father into a financial fraud. Joe understands why Jacob sent him to work in the basement for a small position - this is a test of the future son-in-law. | ||||||
| 13 | 3 | "The Way In" | Jeff Freilich | Jason Cahill | June 14, 2015 | 0.452 [13] |
Gordon, sitting in his garage, wrote the Sonaris program, which he thought would help him calculate the size of the Riot network. Bosworth sees his wife for the first time after his release, and she asks him not to come to the wedding of his son. At the Westgroup, Joe invites Jacob to merge the data entry and data analysis departments, which he immediately agrees to, giving Joe all the authority to combine and appointing him the head of the new division. After Joe began working for Sarah's father, they moved to Dallas and invited the Clark family to dinner. During dinner, Sarah is annoyed that Joe makes excuses for her unenviable position and a small apartment in front of Gordon and Donna, Donna concludes that Sarah is not Joe's couple, as she puts too much pressure on him, Gordon finds out that Joe did not receive money from Cardiff, to crown it all, Cameron searches for Donna and calls on the phone, which Clark's daughter reports as left by her mother for communication - and Joe picks up the phone ... John Bosworth still appears at the wedding of his son James, contrary to his wife's desire, to see him and make peace. At this time, a virus erasing data appears on the Riot network; After some hesitation, Cameron orders the coders to completely cut down the network, and Tom announces to her the degree of damage that will most likely lead to the loss of subscribers. Tom later discovers that Gordon's “Sonaris” is the same malware. Cameron lashes out with claims to Gordon for his unauthorized interference in the affairs of Riot, he replies that he simply wanted to help, and without the money that Donna pays all of Riot’s bills, he would have gone down even earlier; In his hearts, Cameron forbids Donna from investing personal money in Riot. The next morning, Cameron experiences a panic attack, seeing that not a single subscriber has entered the network, but she is reassured by Tom, who was nearby. Gordon apologizes to Donna for turning on the Sonaris without her knowledge, and in response she takes part of the blame for this. When Joe comes into the Westgroup data center in the morning, he comes up with a new brilliant idea. | ||||||
| 14 | four | "Play with Friends" | Kimberly pier | Davy waller | June 21, 2015 | 0.451 [14] |
| Joe offers his idea of using network resources as part of the concept of time sharing during non-business hours. However, the Westgroup CEO rejects her. In Riot, Donna and Cameron tell coders that the company operates in a budget deficit environment, so they cannot pay salaries; but many coders agree to stay in exchange for Riot shares. Bosworth voluntarily helps deal with Riot’s expenses, and then personally goes to especially active subscribers who left the network after the failure to persuade them to return. Joe comes to Gordon to draw him into his idea of using resources in a time sharing concept; Gordon agrees, but on the condition that Riot becomes Joe's first client. The tension between Donna and Cameron increases even more when Cameron announces that he wants to remove the chat rooms invented by Donna from the Riot network; after that, Donna discovers Cameron's dismissive comments about Gordon and her children. When playing coders with toy guns, Tom and Cameron understand what their new game should be like - a multiplayer first-person shooter . Joe tells Gordon that he is going to set up Westgroup equipment to share time without Jacob's knowledge and approval, hoping to provide him with tangible evidence of the benefits of his own idea before legalizing it. The next morning, Gordon informs Donna that he found a network partner for Riot at a big discount, and at this time she is sitting in the bathroom with a positive pregnancy test. | ||||||
| 15 | five | "Extract and Defend" | Michael Morris | Zach Whedon | June 28, 2015 | 0.543 [15] |
| When Donna asks Gordon about Riot’s new network partner, he confesses that Riot got her new improved network thanks to Joe; Donna broadcasts this news to Cameron, who is not enthusiastic about her. During a visit to Dr. Gordon, he learns that he has toxic encephalopathy caused by long work with lead solder ; the diagnosis will shock him, so Gordon desperately needs human communication, however, he does not tell Donna about his illness. Due to the fact that Donna requires a written contract regarding the use of the new network, Gordon tells Joe that he should tell Jacob about his project; despite the fact that Joe acted without the approval of Jacob, he shows interest and asks for a meeting with someone from the "Riot". Joe asks Donna to help him and go with him to Westgroup, but she says that “Riot” is Cameron's company. Despite the hostility towards Joe, Cameron comes to the Westgroup and shows Jacob how the “Riot” works. After this meeting, Cameron accuses Joe of using Westgroup to achieve his selfish goals, but he says that this is a legitimate business behavior. Clarifying relationships Joe and Cameron finds Sarah. She is not sure that Joe is free of feelings for Cameron. Despite the fact that Joe signs a prenuptial agreement drafted by Jacob, Sarah says that they move too fast, and she needs time to think again and be alone. Cameron suffers an emotional breakdown when she feels she is losing control of Riot. | ||||||
| sixteen | 6 | "10Broad36" | Larisa Kondraki | Jamie Pacino | July 5, 2015 | 0.558 [16] |
| Jacob demands to amend the agreement with Riot, raising the rent from $ 3 to $ 5 dollars. Gordon and his daughters go to California to see his brother Henry, and tells Henry about his condition; Gordon also meets former girlfriend Henry Jules Duffy, a meeting with which develops into a small love affair. When Joe personally comes to Riot to discuss new conditions, Donna pounces on him, which leads to Joe disconnecting Riot from the network. Donna comes to the Westgroup to apologize to Joe for her frustration; Joe is ready to lower the fee if Riot meets some technological conditions, including the transfer of their programs to the AT&T UNIX PC base. Assuming that Joe does not notice the difference, Tom suggests faking the unix system for demonstration in order to obtain favorable terms of the transaction, and then complete the transition to a new platform at his leisure; however, Joe during the demonstration realizes that he was deceived. Having previously lied to her mother about a miscarriage, Donna asks Cameron to take her to the clinic to have an abortion. Gordon's ride ends badly when he and Henry curse over Gordon's relationship with Jules. Despite trying to cheat, Joe sees potential in Riot and tells Jacob that Westgroup needs to buy Riot. | ||||||
| 17 | 7 | "Working for the Clampdown" | Karin Kusama | Christopher Cantwell , Christopher Rogers | July 12, 2015 | 0.499 [17] |
| Gordon finally tells Donna about his illness, but does not agree on his seriousness. Joe comes to Riot with an official offer to buy the company, but Cameron sets up programmers against the sale and breaks the contract into small pieces. Gordon hires Ed and Larry, his former Cardiff colleagues, to open a direct-selling business for personal computers. Joe talks with Bosworth and Tom separately, in an attempt to convince them to persuade Cameron to sell the company. Out of curiosity, coders collect a torn contract in pieces and learn about the proposed amount, and how much each of them will receive; they force Cameron to vote on the deal. At this moment, a call comes from the hospital where Leo, one of the riot coders, got beaten by members of a homophobic gang who lured him to a meeting under the guise of a riot subscriber. In the waiting room in the intensive care unit, Cameron meets Joe and says that she decided to sell the company. Joe also learned from Jacob that he was going to abandon game development and develop “Riot” only as a community of users, but for Joe this is a betrayal of his promises. Therefore, he asks Cameron to refuse the deal, saying that he himself leaves the game and will never bother her again. Sarah returns to Joe and says that she immediately wants to marry him and leave for California. In the morning, Cameron asserts his authority by saying that Riot is her company and it is not for sale. | ||||||
| 18 | eight | "Limbo" | Daisy von Scherler Meyer | Zach Whedon | July 19, 2015 | 0.497 [18] |
| Donna reproaches Cameron for refusing to sell the Westgroup Riot. While in Riot, everyone is preparing for a party for subscribers, Cameron and Tom are finishing the new game, Extract and Defend. Joe returns from his honeymoon, and Jacob introduces him to his successor - Jesse Evans. Ed and Larry leave Gordon's venture when they begin to doubt his mental health. Packing things up, Joe and Sarah find an ecstasy bag and decide to have a farewell party before leaving Dallas. Gordon found an ad for another PC maker from Dallas and decided that Stan's former colleague had arranged it to annoy; Gordon bursts into Stan's garage at night, and he is being arrested by the cops Stan called. After attending a bisexual disco at a nightclub, Joe and Sarah infiltrate the Westgroup data center to make love; there, Joe discovers that Jesse and his team have completely copied the Riot interface, calling it WestNet. After the party, Donna and Cameron brainstorm about the innovations that can be applied to chat rooms; at this time, the coders discover that they cannot enter the "Riot": it was replaced by "WestNet", and all subscribers are automatically connected to "WestNet", not seeing the difference. Joe immediately arrives at Riot, hoping to convince him that he has nothing to do with WestNet, but no one believes him. | ||||||
| nineteen | 9 | "Kali" | Craig Zisk | Jason Cahill | July 26, 2015 | 0.588 [19] |
| Donna and Cameron discuss what they can counter Westgroup, and Cameron decides to sell their new game, Extract and Defend. Tom is upset that Cameron made this decision without him, and as a result of a quarrel, the couple ends the relationship. Donna threatens Westgroup with a lawsuit, but Jesse unceremoniously shrugs off her claims. After Joe takes Gordon out of prison, he goes in search of a company that, in his opinion, copied his idea, but then he has a memory gap, and he forgets where to park. Riot makes an appointment with Funtime Games and sells Extract and Defend for $ 50,000. Joe should speak at the Westgroup annual meeting of shareholders as the author of the idea of using the company's servers to develop a new direction. Before the presentation, Cameron comes to him, confesses to her that she has feelings for Joe, and gives him a diskette with the latest version of his game, which is uploaded to the Westgroup server. Joe delivers a speech in which, unexpectedly for all, pays tribute to Cameron Howe, as the creator of the concept of the network. After Joe speaks to Jesse, however, right during this presentation, the WestNet system is attacked by Cameron - on the diskette that she downloaded from the server with the knowledge of Joe, there was the Sonaris virus program. After Gordon falls down the stairs and injures his ankle, the doctor tells Donna that Gordon suffers from a psychological disorder not related to brain damage, and Gordon admits to Donna that he needs help. Returning home from the meeting, Sarah accuses Joe of not being free from feelings for Cameron and that he helped her sabotage. Bosworth tells Cameron that he is leaving the Riot, changing him to a more stable job in a serious company with his son; Cameron also finds out that Tom arranged a meeting with Funtime Games, she immediately tries to make peace with him, but to no avail. | ||||||
| 20 | ten | "Heaven is a Place" | Phil Abraham | Christopher Cantwell , Christopher Rogers | August 2, 2015 | 0.485 [20] |
| After the WestNet collapse incident, during the annual shareholders meeting, Jacob Wheeler was removed from his position as CEO of Westgroup. His advisers conduct an investigation and conclude that Joe McMillan could not have been unaware of the attack, but they did not recommend bringing charges - this could further harm the company. Sara sends Joe a divorce papers. Wanting independence, Cameron finds the old IBM 3033 mainframe, which could be used to deploy the Riot network, but it is in poor condition in California and costs too much. Donna learns about Gordon's betrayal, their quarrel leads to the fact that the eldest daughter Joanie runs away from home. The next morning, Donna arrives at work very early, and Cameron tells her that Riot must move to California and start all over again. Feeling his responsibility for Joe’s misfortunes, Gordon gives him a program written specifically to remove Sonaris from damaged and infected systems. During a dinner party at his company, Bosworth realizes that he left the Riot in vain. After Joanie was found, Donna tells Gordon that in order to save the marriage, they must move to California, and Gordon should buy the IBM 3033 mainframe needed for the Riot network with his money, repair it and work for Riot. Joe, with the help of Gordon’s program, provides himself with $ 10 million investment in anti-virus software ; he calls Gordon to work with him, but he replies that he is moving to California and will work in Riot with Donna. A month later, the Riot team in full force flies to San Francisco ; at the same time, Joe is eyeing an office in the Bay Area for his new MacMillan Utility. | ||||||
Season 3 (2016)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Producer | written by | Premiere date | US viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | one | "Valley of the Heart's Delight" | Daisy von Scherler Meyer | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher S. Rogers | August 21, 2016 | 0.367 [21] |
1986 year. Six months after Riot moved to California, Gordon and Donna finally launched the mainframe, and during the celebration of Riot Independence Day, Cameron announces that more than 100,000 subscribers are registered on the network. After reading an article about Riot, Donna realizes that the company needs something new in order to remain relevant in Silicon Valley . Ryan Ray, the new riot encoder, detects vulnerabilities in private chat rooms; he offers a solution, but Donna and Cameron are not receptive to his ideas, especially after he violated the terms of the “Riot” user agreement by cracking private chats to find errors in the code. After a long working evening, Gordon spends time with coders for beer and marijuana, releasing his anger because Joe used him and his idea to make a fortune in antivirus production. Looking at transcripts of private chats, Donna and Cameron realize that users use them to negotiate purchases and exchanges; and they decide this may be a new idea for Riot. Joe is giving a presentation where he claims that MacMillan Utility is releasing its latest Citadel antivirus program, free for users. Listeners, including Ryan, react to this with thunderous applause. Cameron enters the Riot network as an admin and sees that Tom Randon is online. | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | "One Way or Another" | Kimberly pier | Michael Salzman | August 23, 2016 | 0.339 [22] |
| Donna and Cameron are trying to secure investments to expand Riot with their new exchange platform, Mutiny Exchange. Gordon decides to take Ryan under his wing, seeing in him a resemblance to himself; and Ryan is looking for a meeting with Joe. After a catastrophically failed meeting with a venture capitalist, in which Donna and Cameron face sexism , they meet with Diane Gould, whom Donna had previously seen at the school where their daughters are studying. During the presentation of Riot, Diana abruptly ends the meeting, leaving Donna and Cameron confused due to a quick rejection; Diana later explains that another company, Swap Meet, has the same idea as Riot, but has the advantage of an 18-month start. Ryan manages to meet with Joe after he hacked into the work calendar of the latter; Ryan is trying to explain why he wants to work for Joe and MacMillan Utility. While Gordon testifies for the lawsuit against Joe, he interrupts the meeting with lawyers to offer Gordon a 70 percent stake in MacMillan Utility in exchange for rejecting the lawsuit and renewing the partnership, but Gordon stubbornly rejects his offer. Donna and Cameron return to Diana’s office with a new offer: Instead of competing with Swap Meet, Riot wants to buy them. Joe calls Ryan for Riot, inviting him to work at MacMillan Utility. When Ryan leaves, Gordon is shocked at his decision. | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | "Flipping the Switch" | Jeff Freilich | Lisa Albert | August 30, 2016 | 0.397 [23] |
| Cameron goes to Ryan's home to warn him of the dangers of working with Joe, and invites him to return to Riot; but Ryan decides to stay with Joe. Family tensions between Donna and Gordon break out during the meeting, leading to heated debate in the Riot office. Diana accompanies Bosworth to the Swap Meet. The riot originally planned to acquire Swap Meet for $ 600,000; however, after seeing their work, Bosworth realizes that the Riot has overestimated the Swap Meet, and it reduces the offer by almost half. At MacMillan Utility, Joe invited Ryan to accompany him to a board meeting; during the meeting, Joe and the council decide to start charging users $ 14.95 for Citadel. Ryan sees this as a betrayal of Joe’s principles, and after the meeting ends, he insists that Joe leave Citadel redistributable for free, as previously announced. Joe later gets Ryan out of his office work to work on a special project in Joe’s apartment. After Cameron gives a guest lecture at a local college, Joe meets her, thanks to her for ruining his career, which allowed him to achieve new successes. In The Riot, Gordon and Donna apologize for their morning skirmish, but the debate flares up again when Cameron decides that she will take over Ryan's responsibilities. | ||||||
| 24 | four | "Rules of Honorable Play" | Jake Paltrow | Alison Tatlock | September 6, 2016 | 0.312 [24] |
| In Riot, Cameron demonstrates stubbornness against Doug and Craig, the former owners of Swap Meet, regarding the adaptation of the Riot code to be compatible with Swap Meet; Diana, in a conversation with Donna, insists that Cameron and Doug have to settle their relationship so that the partnership does not collapse. At Joe’s apartment, he and Ryan discuss ideas for a new MacMillan Utility project. In the hope of easing tensions between the Riot coders and Swap Meet coders, Gordon sends everyone to play the laser tag. Ultimately, Cameron decides to implement the Swap Meet changes, however, she tells Donna that she wants to fire Doug and Craig. When Donna tells Diana about Cameron’s intentions, Diana states that she will willingly make a decision to Cameron if this will benefit the company, but Donna lies to Cam, saying that Diana will not let her fire Doug and Craig. MacMillan Utility loses a major contract with General Atomics , which accounted for 37 percent of their revenue, after Joe insulted a senior executive during a meeting. Despite this, Joe gives Ryan credentials to access ARPANET and asks for a network map before their security permission is revoked. | ||||||
| 25 | five | "Rules of Honorable Play" | Andrew McCarthy | Mark Lafferty | September 13, 2016 | 0.324 [25] |
| In Riot, coders discover that users want to conduct banking operations through Swap Meet. Doug and Craig worked to solve the problem of accepting credit card payments even before acquiring Swap Meet, and Donna begs Cameron to introduce it, but she reluctantly does it. Joe, looking at an ARPANET network card in his apartment, sees the potential on NSFNet , but Ryan considers this a waste of time, as commercial use of the network is illegal. During the weekend, Bosworth and Cameron return to Dallas , where Bosworth sees his newborn grandson, and Cameron is about to pick up his father’s motorcycle, as her mother and stepfather move to Florida; she also meets with her ex-boyfriend Tom to make peace. When her father's motorcycle was sold to someone else, Bosworth and Cameron quarrel, and he returns to San Francisco without her. Donna gives Doug and Craig a green light on introducing their interface to interacting with credit cards, but when Cameron finally returns to Riot, she and Donna argue about this decision. Joe stands by his decision to focus on NSFNET, telling Ryan that they are going to create a regional network from him. From a telephone conversation with Diana, Cameron learns about Donna's lies. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "And She Was" | Michael Morris | Angelina Burnett | September 20, 2016 | 0.280 [26] |
| At MacMillan Utility, Joe and Ryan begin setting up their regional network. In Riot, Cameron announces that she simply fired Doug and Craig; then Diana comes to the conference room, telling Cameron and Donna that Riot should consider the public acquisition offer received from . Feeling the tension between them, Diana invites Cameron and Donna to think about this decision on the weekend, inviting them to their country house in Sonoma so that they can relax. Joe tells the council his plans for NSFNET. Despite disapproval of the board of directors, the head of NSFNET accepts Joe’s proposal. Donna accepts Diana’s offer, but Cameron stays at home, where she and Gordon play Super Mario Bros. »And works with his amateur radio; Gordon reveals his state of health and talks about his claims to Joe. Cameron goes to Joe’s apartment to convince him to give Gordon the proper reward for creating the MacMillan Utility. Cameron later tells Gordon that he and Tom got married. MacMillan Utility's senior executive tells Joe that the council has voted to shut down the NSFNET project and abolish Joe's executive. During a meeting with a lawyer, Joe, ignoring his advice, admits that he stole the idea of Gordon. | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | "The Threshold" | Karin Kusama | Michael Salzman | September 27, 2016 | 0,307 [27] |
| In light of his confession, Joe is removed from the post of CEO of MacMillan Utility. Joe tells Ryan that the NSFNET project has been suspended and that he will also be fired. Gordon’s lawyer informs him of Joe’s recognition and possible settlement of the lawsuit; Gordon later finds out more about the NSFNET project when he ran into Joe in his apartment. Donna and Cameron eventually agree to an IPO ; the next day, Cameron shows Donna his business plan, which she drafted to improve the "Riot" before going public. Donna is worried about Cameron's plans, as their implementation may take up to two years, while the IPO lasts for three months, and discusses this with Diana and Gordon separately. At a party celebrating their wedding with Tom, Cameron convenes an impromptu meeting on the IPO, but the discussion comes to a standstill as Cameron wants to postpone the IPO and improve Riot, while Donna wants to move forward while they have pulse. Diana, Gordon and Bosworth are reluctant to take Donna's side, causing Cameron to be in a state of shock. Feeling that he can no longer trust Joe, Ryan reports that he has posted the source code of Citadel in the public domain, noting that in this way he made her truly free. Shocked by this act, Joe tells Ryan that his actions were illegal, but Ryan is excessively self-confident about the lack of “traces”. | ||||||
| 28 | eight | "You Are Not Safe" | Reed morano | Lisa Albert and Alison Tatlock | October 4, 2016 | 0.366 [28] |
| Ryan is prosecuted by the FBI for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Donna, Diana and Bosworth decide how to promote the Riot IPO without Cameron. Due to Ryan’s actions, the future of the NSFNET regional network is being challenged. Joe calls on Cameron for help tracking Ryan as he hides on the run, and Joe is concerned about his safety; she eventually finds Ryan in the college library. At home, Tom tells Cameron that his company wants him to move to Tokyo for a career advancement, and Cameron gladly agrees to go with him. Ryan later goes to Joe's apartment; Joe gives Ryan two options: he can either remain a fugitive and lose access to the network, or give up and get into the witness protection program. In any case, they will never work together again. When the Riot IPO is launched, their shares are trading well below expectations, leaving Donna in a state of shock, while everyone else in Riot silently watches it. In the morning, when the FBI comes to the door of Joe’s apartment, it turns out that Ryan committed suicide. After that, Joe asks Gordon to continue working on a regional network without him, because he feels that he can no longer benefit from it. | ||||||
| 29th | 9 | "NIM" | Christopher Cantwell | Mark Lafferty | October 11, 2016 | 0.407 [29] |
| Four years have passed since the failed IPO Riot and the suicide of Ryan. The Riot project was curtailed, Donna and Gordon divorced, Gordon completed work on the regional NSFNET network, which was launched by Joe and Ryan, and Donna is now a senior partner of Diana's venture capital firm. Donna contacts Joe, who has become an independent consultant, saying that she has a proposal for Cameron; however, he refuses to be her intermediary. Cameron, now with Atari Corporation , is heading to Las Vegas for COMDEX to promote her new game, Space Bike IV ; Joe appears at her stand and they reunite again. At home, Gordon is experiencing problems with the rebellious behavior of his daughter Joanie when trying to entertain his new girlfriend. Joe and Cameron attend the Atari party, and Cameron meets Donna there. Donna is trying to talk about her project and wants to discuss options, but Cameron, who is still negative about Donna, refuses to listen to her. Joe sets off to check on Cameron and they have sex in her room. Before Cameron leaves Las Vegas, she reconsiders Donna's offer, and when Joe returns to San Francisco, he finds a note sent by Donna fax about her new project, the World Wide Web . | ||||||
| thirty | ten | NeXT | Phil Abraham | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher S. Rogers | October 11, 2016 | 0.287 [29] |
| Donna makes an appointment at the former Riot office. She, Gordon, Joe, Cameron and Tom discuss the potential and future of the World Wide Web, but each of them has conflicting ideas and contradictions; during the discussion, Joe says that he met with Tim Berners-Lee at a conference in Paris that created a set of hypertext tools for the World Wide Web, including a hypertext transfer protocol, a hypertext markup language, and a web server . He also hints to Tom that something happened between him and Cameron during COMDEX. The discussion is at an impasse. Cameron meets with Bosworth, sharing with him his own doubts about the new project, but he tells her that the project should be worth it to bring everyone together again. The next day, Joe writes on the board the source code for a web browser created by CERN , suggesting that they can build something more. All but Tom accept Joe's ideas; a heated debate erupts between Tom and Joe, leading to a physical skirmish between them. Gordon warns Joe that their past personal conflicts may destroy the project before he can even get on his feet. When Donna offers Cameron an option to remove Joe from the project, Cameron tells Donna that she can no longer work with her. Donna, regretfully, replies that Cameron can take responsibility for the project, and leaves. Joe, Gordon and Cameron gather at the NeXTcube workstation and take their first step in a new project. | ||||||
Season 4 (2017)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Producer | written by | Premiere date | US viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | one | "So it Goes" | Juan Jose Campanella | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher S. Rogers | August 19, 2017 | 0.340 [30] |
| In the three years since their meeting on the World Wide Web, Joe and Gordon created a new Internet service provider called CalNect, located in the former office of Riot. Joe is still obsessed with the idea of creating a browser, but work is slow because Cameron told Tom everything and now has to work remotely. Joe is disappointed that Cameron cannot finish developing their Loadstar web browser; Gordon shows him Mosaic , a new popular browser, and begs Joe to abandon the web browser project to help him manage the company. During testing by the focus group of their new Pilgrim game, Cameron is disappointed as testers are disinterested in the game. Cameron unexpectedly comes to a party in honor of Gordon's 40th birthday, where she meets Bose, Diana and Joe, and in the morning she accidentally sees Donna, who came to pick up her daughters. Diana tells Bosworth that CalNect will face stiff competition from America Online if they expand to the West. After Cameron gives Joe the final version of Loadstar, he has a new idea, a way to index each website on the Internet . Gordon is immune to this idea, but he mentions it when he meets Donna. Later, in her venture company AGGE, Donna meets with Rover startup representatives and gives them funding when they suggest using their own algorithm, originally developed to catalog medical databases, to index websites and search them . Cameron tells Joe that Tom left her and that she will not return to Japan. | ||||||
| 32 | 2 | "Signal to Noise" | Mark Lafferty | August 19, 2017 | 0.340 [30] | |
| Joe and Cameron discuss the events, both professional and personal, that have occurred over the past three years, and spend the whole day chatting on the phone. Donna sends Rover to the incubator, and appoints her assistant, Tanya Reese, to oversee their activities. Gordon learns that his youngest daughter, Haley, missed school ; when he brings her to the office, CalNect faces network bandwidth problems due to their new fixed monthly rate, which they introduced in response to the threat of expansion from AOL. Gordon then instructs Haley to create a table of sites based on Joe’s research, and she creates her own Comet Haley website. At AGGE, Donna complains to Diana about the new senior partner of Trip Kisker, who appeared at their company. Atari tells Cameron that they decided to postpone the development of her Pilgrim game indefinitely. As calls to CalNect customer support continue to increase, Gordon requires his employees to contact their MCI backbone provider to request increased bandwidth; however, he understands that MCIs create their own Internet service providers when they refuse a request. Bosworth comes to Gordon to ask for a loan, and admits that unsuccessful real estate investments have destroyed all his savings. At AGGE, after the emergence of a new partner renamed AGGEK, one of the partners suggests that they should suspend their investment in web business; however, Donna convinces them to save the Rover project. After other partners insist on bringing in a third-party consultant to oversee Rover, Donna entrusts this to Bosworth, much to Tanya’s dismay. | ||||||
| 33 | 3 | "Miscellaneous" | Jeff Freilich | Zach Whedon | August 26, 2017 | 0.270 [31] |
| Faced with increasing pressure from both AOL and MCI, Gordon decides to sell CalNect. Joe sees Haley's work and wants to buy Comet Haley to develop it further; however, she refuses to sell her site, insisting that she wants to work on it herself. Joe and Gordon argue about allowing Hayley to work on a project that Joe simply renamed Comet, and Gordon notes that Joe often has a bad effect on people, forcing them to work to the limit. After talking with Cameron, Gordon still allows his daughter Haley to continue to work on the Comet project, with the condition that she quit when work ceases to please her. Atari discovers that the game Pilgrim fell into the hands of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine , which left a sharp comment on the game, and Cameron takes responsibility for the leak. At AGGEK, Donna is unhappy with the progress of Rover. Diana reports to Donna for her hostility to their new partner Trip, as well as for being too harsh towards the Rover team; Donna invites the Rover team to her house for dinner, hoping to ease the tension. Later, during one of the meetings, Trip informs the other partners, led by Donna, about Comet, a competitor to the project Rover is working on. At dinner with Gordon, Donna discovers that her competitor is her own daughter. | ||||||
| 34 | four | "Tonya and Nancy" | Alison Tatlock | September 9, 2017 | 0.344 [32] | |
| At Comet, Joe and Gordon study the Rover website, and both agree that it does not meet the standards, but Cameron sees potential in it, although he admits that the project is raw. Cameron says Comet needs a more sophisticated algorithm for indexing websites, as the World Wide Web continues to grow and may grow to millions of websites in the near future. At AGGEK, Tanya and Boz argue with Donna, saying that launching the Rover in response to the appearance of Comet was too hasty. To help the Comet team index sites, Joe and Gordon hire Dr. Katie Herman as their main ontologist . The Rover team requires Series A funding to be able to compete with Comet, but Donna hesitates. After rejecting AOL’s low buyback offer, Joe and Gordon meet with a venture company to discuss the Comet expansion; however, in the end, they decide not to fund with venture capital. Bosworth offers Tanya and Donna to sell Rover for $ 3 million, as the project has not had any progress for a long time, but they are both against. Cameron buys a piece of land and a used Airstream trailer; after Cameron has problems with the plumbing in the trailer, Bosworth comes to her aid. He tells Cameron about his debt problems and the situation at Rover, and Cameron in return helps him with a new search algorithm for Rover. A month later, Donna announces that the Rover project is receiving Series A funding; however, it is suspicious of the origin of the new indexing algorithm. Meanwhile, unsuspecting Joe tells Cameron that the future of Comet is in jeopardy due to Rover's progress. | ||||||
| 35 | five | "Nowhere Man" | Angelina Burnett | September 16, 2017 | 0.313 [33] | |
| Donna asks questions to Cecil, Rover's lead programmer, regarding the new search algorithm. Gordon and Katie begin a relationship. At Comet, Joe is worried about changes in Rover funding. Donna freezes the possibility of hiring new engineers for the Rover project until Cecil provides all the specifications for the new algorithm to protect it legally. Tom suddenly comes to Cam's trailer to sign the divorce documents, and they finally end their unsuccessful relationship. Bosworth is trying to get specifications from Cameron, but she refuses to help him with this, as this will provoke a conflict with Joe. Having lunch with Diana and Bosworth, Donna in a rather harsh form asks Bose questions about the algorithm, and he has a heart attack . When Cameron comes to the hospital to see Bose, Donna realizes that she wrote the algorithm, and tells Cam to stay away from her life. Cameron later confesses to Joe that she really helped Bosworth by writing an algorithm for Rover. Gordon reveals to Donna that Bosworth owes the bank $ 300,000, which made him turn to Cameron for help. | ||||||
| 36 | 6 | "A Connection is Made" | September 23, 2017 | 0.354 [34] | ||
| Donna dismisses Cecil, the main coder and one of the creators of Rover, and she needs a third-party programmer who, using the principles of reverse engineering , will rewrite Cameron's algorithm. When Gordon, Joe, Cam, and Katie celebrate Hailey's birthday, Cameron tells Gordon that she wants to leave the industry. Haley later sends Cameron a link to a fan site dedicated to her and her work, which restores Cameron's faith in her own strength. She later meets with Alexa Vonn, who offers financial assistance for Cameron's new project. Donna tells Gordon that Haley has problems at school with two subjects. He tells his daughter that she should temporarily leave her job at Comet in order to focus on school; however, she refuses, and this only leads to a quarrel. After Joe visited a local fast food with Haley and noticed the relationship between her and a female employee, he believes that Haley is not like other teenagers and insists that she needs a Comet, but Gordon does not agree with him. Bosworth finally admits to Diane that he invested unsuccessfully in real estate and that Cameron helped him with the search algorithm for Rover. Diana then orders Donna to buy back the rights to Cameron's source code and transfer Rover's business to Trip. Cameron agrees to sign a Rover transfer agreement, but declines to pay. Cameron feels that Donna is disappointed with something, but she leaves before Cam can figure out what's the matter. Cameron invites a specialist from MCI to establish Internet access from his trailer. | ||||||
| 37 | 7 | "Who Needs a Guy" | Tricia Brock | September 30, 2017 | 0.322 [35] | |
| Cameron begins work on a new game for Alexa, which deprives her of time to communicate with Joe. Boz and Diana get married at Palo Alto City Hall. Discussing recent issues with Gordon, Donna tells him that Rover is superior to Comet in terms of web traffic ; however, she believes that keeping users around the site is the key to victory in this “ browser war .” Gordon decides to use Donna's comments as the basis for improving Comet, turning the site into a web portal ; however, Joe refuses to accept advice from his main rival. Diana tells Donna that she plans to retire and recommend her to the position of managing partner at AGGEK. Gordon admits that Joe was right about Haley and allows her to return to work at Comet. Despite agreeing to help Gordon restart Comet, Joe meets with Donna, accusing her of trying to sabotage their work, but he later apologizes when she pounced on him for unjustly demonizing her actions. While Gordon is preparing for a date with Katie, he has hallucinations associated with the past. When Donna calls Gordon, Katie picks up the phone and reports that Gordon is dead. After the death of Gordon, Joe and Cameron face uncertainty about the future of the Comet. | ||||||
| 38 | eight | "Goodwill" | Christopher Cantwell | Zach Whedon | October 7, 2017 | 0.327 [36] |
| Donna, Joanie and Haley come to Gordon’s house to pack, Joe and Cam appear later to help. When she tidies up Joanie’s room, Donna discovers a pile of unsent college applications and needs an explanation, but Joanie refuses to talk about it. Cameron tries to talk to Joanie, but she rejects her. Haley asks Donna about her father's green sweater, and Joe tells her that he took all of Gordon's clothes to the Goodwill Fund; he offers to help her get him back, but their attempt does not bring success. Katie arrives, reporting that she is leaving the Comet and is leaving San Francisco, heading for Seattle . Donna and Cameron are trying to come to terms with the events of the last decade, which ultimately led them to separation. Joany finally admits to Haley why she does not want to go to college, and Haley confesses that she may be a lesbian . Boz arrives later to prepare his signature chili for the whole company, and they all remember Gordon sitting in the dining room. | ||||||
| 39 | 9 | "Search" | Mark Lafferty | October 14, 2017 | 0.394 [37] | |
| In Comet, Joe completes preparations for restarting the site; he plans to integrate Comet into the Netscape browser, hoping to become his default search engine. Joanie goes on a trip to Bangkok , despite the protest of Donna. Diana comes to Donna's home, saying that she needs to decide whether she wants to take the position of managing partner. Haley pounced on Joe, accusing him of only caring for the profit from Comet. Donna is reluctant to become the new managing partner at AGGEK; however, both Cam and Haley convince her to take on this job. After a good medical examination, Bosworth tells Diana that he wants to travel the world together. While Joe and Cameron are considering the beta version of Netscape that Alexa sent them, they see a link to Yahoo! , the new web portal, and Joe realizes that Netscape has made a deal with Yahoo !, making it the default search engine. When Donna is announced as the new managing partner at AGGEK, Trip tells her that Comet is almost dead. | ||||||
| 40 | ten | "Ten of Swords" | Karin Kusama | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher S. Rogers | October 14, 2017 | 0.394 [37] |
| Realizing that Comet will not be able to compete with Yahoo !, Joe closes the company. Donna updates AGGEK and renames the venture firm Symphonic Ventures. After an unsuccessful foreign trip, Cameron ends her professional relationship with Alexa. Cam starts collecting his Airstream, telling Bose that she is leaving California. Cameron comes to Joe's apartment to return some things to him; however, he finds out that he has moved out; later she goes to Donna, and she mentions that Joe recently wrote a letter to Haley. When a malfunction occurs in Haley's computer, Cam and Donna try to fix it, and Cameron, to Donna's surprise, offers to work together again. Donna and Cameron finally finally reconcile after Donna thanks Cameron during a speech in which she praises the place of women in the industry. Joe eventually returns to New York , becoming a liberal arts teacher at preparatory school. | ||||||
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