I don't know why you're doing this.
Your father would be devastated.
Well, it's a good thing that he's not here to see it, then.
Previously on AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire"...
I got the wrong bag.
At the hospital, with Bos, what I said,
I-I-I didn't mean it.
Please, I don't even remember what you said.
Do you know what's gonna happen with it?
Oh, Comet. Joe will carry it on.
I'm getting ready to step back as managing partner.
Really?
If you still want the job, I'll back you.
Let's go outside.
No! Let them see what a mess we've been!
It's starting.
What am I looking for? Uhh...
What am I looking for?
For bootlegs...
3/4-inch socket wrench.
For the best coffee in the city.
Winona Ryder. So into her.
Landscaping supplies?
- Shoes. - Shoes.
For the meaning of life, bra.
_
I'm looking for something funny.
_
I'm looking for inspiration!
I'm looking for a cure.
- I'm looking for... - I'm looking for...
I'm looking for...
Dude, the Internet.
- The Internet? - The Internet.
What in God's name would I look for on the Internet?
Yeah, you could...
...find just about anything on the Internet.
Whoo! _
Okay... it's, uh, a commercial.
And commercials exist to sell products.
But this isn't just a product. It isn't.
It's a new way of connecting.
A new way of being.
Uhh, hit it.
Whoo hoo hoo!
So, this is the new Comet, and it launches tonight.
No longer are we just a way station
on people's journey someplace else.
We are the destination.
This is the combined effort of every single person here,
from our original surfers
to our coding team headed up by Cameron Howe.
Good job, Cam!
It's Cameron's last day
now that work on the relaunch is complete...
Aww!
Settle down. We all knew her days were numbered.
Uhh...
So, one more person I'd like to mention.
A huge part of the soul of this place is no longer here.
But this is a family business.
Comet began with Haley Clark.
Her dad and I met back in 1983.
And I told him, "Computers aren't the thing.
They're the thing that gets us to the thing."
And this is the...
Com-IT! Com-IT!
Whoo-ooo!
All right!
Back to it!
Yeah, do like...
Think we can, uh, discuss that...
- We have some mock-ups. - Yeah, five minutes.
You okay?
Yeah. Celebrate later?
Yeah. What you wanna do?
Just... get some dinner
and make out in a parked car somewhere?
A little over-the-clothes stuff and some dim sum.
So I guess I will say goodbye to the guys,
and, uh, I can call Alexa.
Of course. Yeah.
Ladies at gentlemen,
at this time, we are now boarding
our main-cabin passengers onto Pacific Flight 590,
with nonstop service to Bangkok.
Oh, oh. I almost forgot. Hang on.
Here.
- What is this? - That is a travel organizer.
I put a little map of Bangkok in there.
- Hmm. - Compartments for loose change
and, um, your passport, traveler's checks.
Mom, I'm not taking this.
Why?
Because I'm 18 and not 45.
I'm staying in hostels.
If you actually want me to get mugged,
I'll walk around with a Louis Vuitton wallet.
Mom, this is my trip.
I just wish you'd treat me like an adult.
Which I am, by the way.
You...
Fine.
Be safe.
Okay.
- Bye. - Oh, my God.
Keys to my Civic are on my desk.
Take my old driver's license, okay?
Just in case.
It's an old photo, but...
the cops will believe you 'cause you're a cute girl.
Maybe wear a hat just in case.
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is the final boarding call
for the Cathay Pacific Flight 590...
- Okay. - ...with nonstop service to Bangkok.
Don't go.
You don't have to go.
I don't know why you have to do this right now.
You should just... just stay.
This is such bullshit, Mom.
Uhh...
Let's go, Mom.
The doctor complains to his wife
that she ain't so good in bed anymore.
Well, he goes to work.
And by midday, he calls her on the phone.
And the phone rings and it rings...
And it rings and it rings.
And, uh, finally, she picks up. She's out of breath.
And he goes, "What the hell
took you so long to answer the phone?"
And she says...
Something about a second opinion, right?
Yeah. That's the one.
So... stent looks pretty good.
Yeah.
Any shortness of breath, chest pains?
No. No.
Get a little light-headed sometimes if I shit real big.
You know, I never asked you... Levecq...
what the hell kinda name is that?
Levecq? Is it, uh... Swedish?
Or... is it Norwegian, or...
Is it a Czech... Czechoslovakian?
Little French Canadian there?
Hmm.
Dutch.
You're good to go.
Well...
Okay, but... wh...
When do you want me to come back?
I don't.
Well, not even for a look-see?
I mean... don't you want to make sure
I'm not blowing a gasket?
Mm, nope.
Something goes wrong, call.
If doesn't, don't.
You're in good health, John.
If you take care of yourself,
you'll live well into the 21st century.
21st century.
Son of a...
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So then Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark
fly out to Urbana Champaign,
gather all the Mosaic coders in a pizza joint,
and offer them $65,000 salaries,
a-a week's vacation on his yacht in Tahiti,
and 100,000 shares of the company.
And Clark tells them that if they leave NCSA
and come work for him,
they'll be worth $10 million in less than five years.
So Jim Clark steals all the best coders
from a shitty company to go do something way better...
Why does that sound familiar?
Anyway, my point is that they've all followed him
out to Silicon Valley to build a browser,
and now Netscape is about to demolish Mosaic.
If we were to launch Comet inside Netscape,
it'd be slow as hell, if it even loads correctly.
And if it doesn't, then Rover won't or any of our competitors.
But if we can figure out a way
to make Comet run smoothly on Netscape,
then all of their users will flock to us.
But those guys created Mosaic.
They already know how to make a browser that runs.
But they can't replicate what they've already done.
The Mosaic code is intellectual property.
Like the BIOS.
Yeah, like the BIOS.
And they won't know how it works
until it's out in the wild.
And... And... they...
They'll want to make Netscape better than Mosaic.
Joe... what are we doing here?
You could've told me all of this in bed.
Oh.
The sound card's blown.
Other than that, it runs perfectly.
Oh...
'Kay.
I need one more thing from you.
Uh-huh...
It's a quick job. When Netscape launches,
we pull apart the code so that Comet can load fast.
And you're bribing me with Centipede?
Mm-hmm.
If we can pull this off, we'll have a... a showpiece
to offer Jim Clark so he can promote his baby.
They will beg for us to be a part of their infrastructure.
Okay.
We can't wait until Netscape launches.
It's too late.
We have to optimize Comet
so that it's running fast on Day One.
Which, if you want a showcase for Jim Clark...
we need to start pulling apart the Netscape code today.
But there's no way they're going to just give us a working copy.
Oh, no, they won't.
Let me make a call.
I love you.
What is that sound?
It's Gordon's wristwatch.
Ohh.
It would go off when he needed to take his medication.
I don't know where the key to the office is.
Okay.
I'll call a locksmith today.
Mm-hmm.
Hey, do you want to play?
Sure.
All right.
Oh.
Hi.
How, uh... How was Seattle?
Soggy.
Sorry about the ambush.
I saw your car parked in the driveway,
and nobody answered when I rang the bell.
How was it? Sending Joanie off?
Oh, you know, fine.
Just hope she stays safe.
How's Jennifer settling in at Stanford?
Well, she was home the first weekend.
Ohhh.
Doing laundry, stealing food.
- Yeah. - Last year at this time,
I couldn't bear the thought of her leaving for college.
And now... I kinda wish she'd at least left the zip code.
Yeah, well...
So... we have news.
Kimberly is pregnant.
Wh... I... Congratulations!
That's amazing.
Yeah. No, but thanks.
But the whole family wants to take a big trip to Ireland
while she can still fly.
And John and I would like to do some traveling of our own...
No, I know. You're ready to move on.
Donna, I understand. It's been hard.
But it's been four months.
And I need to know what you're doing.
I'm swimming.
We have greased the rails.
Managing partner is yours.
Period.
You said you wanted the summer to be with your girls.
I heard that. But the summer is over, Donna.
The longer you wait, the harder it's gonna get.
Trip and his stooges are strutting through that office
every day thinking they can run it better than you.
They think you're getting soft.
Look, if you don't want this, it's okay.
We can have that conversation.
But you need to make a decision.
Okay, well...
give it some thought,
and let me know.
Hm.
C...
You got to be kiddin' me.
Whaaat?
Oh, hey.
Hey, you're home later than I thought.
How was the trip?
- It was good. - Ahh!
Sorry, I stopped to see Donna
on the way home from the airport.
Well, so what's the verdict?
We gonna sprout wings and see the world
or is she gonna float in that swimming pool forever?
You know, I don't know.
I'm gonna go wash the plane off me.
All right. Hey, what is all this stuff?
Some of Ben's old junk, I suppose.
What have you been doing with your bachelorhood?
Well, you know, fartin' around.
This and that. Went to the doctor.
Got a clean bill of health.
He said I should live well into the 21st century.
You imagine that? Jet packs and robot overlords.
Hey, look what I found, too.
Can you believe this? This is a Cardiff original.
I could've packed this thing in a box myself
when I was a teenager. My God.
I bet it still works.
I just need to get some batteries for it.
What?
Honey, what?
What?
I'm sorry, I...
You're gonna be okay.
Yeah, I'm okay
I'm okay.
I'm gonna be okay.
Ooh. Mercy.
You weren't kidding about that plane goo, were ya?
Come on! Get to scrubbing!
Ahh, look at ya.
But how do we optimize for Netscape
if there's no Netscape yet?
Look, I get it. And I'm trying to figure it out.
But in the meantime, we still have to go through...
Oh, okay. One second.
Hi. For you.
Oh, God. Thank you.
Sure. Um...
Here, let me show you out.
So this is Comet.
Yeah.
Oh, I... I saw the Mercury today.
- Mm. - God, the robotics thing you're doing looks so cool.
I'm flying out with those guys in a few weeks...
conference at the Sorbonne. You should come.
Oh, that's...
I mean, I find all that stuff super fascinating,
but... it's not really my thing.
Right?
No, I know.
But it's just a couple of days. All expenses paid.
Worst that happens?
You meet some fascinating people
and eat too much lobster thermidor.
Yeah.
Next time.
Is what you said last time.
Look, I know that...
I've been talking you up. People are really interested.
And that's... great.
Hey, look, I'm sure that it's been a tough time
for all of you.
And I get that you're trying to help a friend out.
And I'm young, so, you know, what do I know.
But you can get so tied up in your obligations
you forget your biggest obligation
is to your future self.
I know that.
Okay.
Well...
Hey, thank you.
And...
Seriously, this is the last thing.
I hope so.
But these are, like, huge shrimps,
like, should not be called shrimp,
and had those, like, little feeler touchy things
- still attached? - No!
- Yes! - No.
Huge plate, deep-fried,
and those... feeler things were, like, this long.
- Come on. - Oh, no.
Please tell me you didn't eat one.
It was a business dinner. I had to.
So I took a glug of saké, picked one up, and just...
Oh, good lord.
You're disgusting.
That's my story.
Okay, Joe, you're up.
Yeah. Uhh... Porpoise testicles.
- Joe... - Ughh.
...you did not eat porpoise testicles.
I 100% did.
It is not legal to even eat any porpoise anything.
I ate those fishy balls.
I did.
Do porpoises even have testicles?
I think so. I mean, what is porpoise?
I mean, yeah. I think it was a porpoise.
But whatever it was, it was... it was squishy,
- and I vomited... - Mm!
...into the gutter, and... Donna, you're up.
Oh. Uhh...
Yeah. All right... beef carpaccio.
Ugh. So weird.
Um...
Um, Cameron will do this thing
where she can, uh, like, set up, uh...
- What? - ...an assembly line of bologna, mayonnaise...
- Ohh! - ...and pickles.
No, not pickles... cornichon.
- And, yes, duh... - I'm corrected.
It's delicious. You get a pile of mayonnaise,
pile of cornichon,
dip the cornichon in the mayonnaise,
wrap it in bologna, pop it in your mouth.
That's pretty gross.
So have you guys heard from Joanie?
Yeah.
Uh, she went to the Grand Palace,
and she saw this huge elephant park
and something called the Sanctuary of Truth,
which is this massive temple carved totally out of wood.
And on her second night, there was this monsoon?
But it's not like here, the rain was super warm,
so she went running through the streets and she got all soaked
and she ended up eating noodles in this little shack
and made friends with these total strangers,
and now they're all backpacking to Phuket.
Wow. That's awesome.
Yeah, I know. It's like...
She decides she want to do something,
and she just does it, you know?
Where's she going next?
I don't know.
Uh, I don't know.
I, uh, didn't get a chance to talk to her when she called.
She just spoke to Haley, so...
Oh.
Uh...
Hey, Haley. There's something I want to show you.
Hm?
Come with me.
Yeah, go check it out.
- Okay. - We'll clean up.
It's the commercial.
I've just been dying to show it to you.
Oh... no, that's... that's okay.
No, you got to see this. Come on.
We got to grab lunch soon.
Catch up, you know?
Yeah, sure.
Ooh!
Sorry.
We're not actually gonna do the dishes.
Um, Joe likes the dishes done in a very particular way,
and I'm not good at doing them like that,
so I just don't do them anymore.
Hey, so you're the new Diane now.
Oh... Yeah, no. I mean, nothing's official yet.
I'm still trying to decide if I even want it.
What? Of course you want it.
Yeah, you know, it's just,
I'm already so far removed from the creative side of things.
And it only gets worse if you're managing partner, you know?
Oh, uh, how are things with Alexa?
Are you, uh, you working on something new?
Kinda. Yeah.
God, she just scored with this...
Oh, yeah, the robotics thing.
Robotics, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Mercury...
- Yeah. - Ugh. God, I miss that.
Doing things.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not like she actually did anything.
She just found those people, you know?
She doesn't really get her hands dirty.
Ah.
Why, do you want to do something?
No.
I don't know.
Aaaghh... I just...
I haven't had an original idea in kind of a long time.
Well, you came up with Community.
That was just an idea
that percolated down from one of your ideas.
That's not totally accurate.
And, anyway, ideas are, like, not the work.
Yeah.
I mean, what you do...
it's more than just signing a check.
I-I get that now.
So I'm not parasite?
You're not a parasite.
What the hell.
Hey, hold on. Haley, wait.
Is it because...
It's weird to see him.
Is it weird?
Yeah, it's weird to see my dead dad in a stupid commercial.
It's weird that I'm in it, and that you didn't even ask me,
and I don't even look like that anymore.
And it's weird that you've taken this thing that I made,
and... and now it's yours.
And all you want is to make money off of it!
Hey, I understa...
I'm 15! I don't want to have lunch
and catch up or whatever.
I don't want to be at dinners.
I want everyone to leave me alone.
I'll be in the car.
Uhh...
I'm pulling the ad.
Joe...
Look, you put a lot of money in that commercial.
Don't just throw it down the drain.
Maybe you can cut her out of it.
It's my company.
I'm gonna do some work. Before bed.
What work?
Uhh, I've... been putting things off with Alexa.
And, uh... I need to give that some thought.
I gave Joe permission, you know, for you to be in the ad.
So if you want to be angry, you should be angry with me.
It's not his fault.
I thought you'd like it.
I just want some Bagel Bites.
Haley, if there's anything you want to talk about, I'm...
Hey, I know we said I'd go back to work
as soon as you started back up at school,
but if you want, I can stay home...
No. I want you to go back to work.
And I want you to stop worrying about me so much.
Just, you know, worry about you.
You're here all day.
Swimming.
Well, I like swimming.
Yeah, Mom, I like swimming, too, but Jesus Christ.
Not bad.
They're incredible.
Um... I'm gonna go to my room.
So good night.
Oh, that is a beaut, huh?
Uh-huh.
Ooh. That's good cocoa.
Mama used to make it with real chocolate.
She'd put it in the double boiler and melt it down.
That instant bullshit they have.
Ugh, ugh.
It's alkalized cocoa powder, what it is.
That's the garbage that's left over
after they roast the cocoa beans,
and they run it through a chemical bath
so you can't taste how awful it is.
My God, it's a national travesty.
Yeah, well...
things used to be more real, right?
See the way they worked... this connects to this.
Now it's just all on a chip.
Yeah, it's like magic now.
Ahh, yeah, well... not my kind of magic.
What's so special you need to get this thing fixed today, huh?
You gonna miss the Glenn Miller Orchestra or something?
No, just got a bug up my butt,
wanted to see if it still worked.
I used to pack that exact model into boxes
all day at the Cardiff factory.
Yeah.
I can still smell that place.
It's weird, isn't it,
how much stuff you remember from early in life?
And how all that stuff in the middle just kinda...
just kinda runs together.
I am seven years older than my father was when he died.
He spent the whole day before
yelling about how the tree from the Malone place
was gonna bore into that sewer line
and cost him a damn fortune.
And then boom, down.
Just... spent his last day bitching about tree roots.
Oh, Dad.
Anyway, it just seems to me if you want something,
best to go get it done.
Now.
It's a real pitchers' duel here.
Hey!
Now, that's magic.
See?
Perfect.
Hey, would you, uh...
Would you have Diane give me a call?
Will do.
Ahh, screw it.
Just tell her I'm ready.
Okay.
? I try to knock her out ?
? I try to cram her back in my mouth, yeah ?
? Can't fight the seether ?
? Seether ?
? Can't fight the seether ?
? Seether ?
? Can't fight the seether ?
? I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth ?
Hey... um...
So, I was thinking.
I have my sister's car.
Because remember how I said she's going to Thailand?
Which she says is hella badass.
Um... and, I mean, I'm sure you have a car, too,
and I'm not even supposed to be driving it yet,
but... whatever.
So, um, I was... I was wondering, um,
have you h... have you heard of "Natural Born Killers"?
Yes.
Yeah. Juliette Lewis is awesome,
and it's playing at the Century 24,
but it's super popular so it might be sold out...
- Oh, well, that's... - But if it is, uh,
then we could go to the Winchester Mystery House
which is right next door,
and they do these midnight tours.
Which are dope, I think...
And, um, yeah.
Anyway, um
Could I take you to see "Natural Born Killers"?
Um...
Okay, hold on.
Hold... almost.
All right.
Okay.
It's truly a masterpiece.
Yeah.
This is your Sistine Chapel.
Awww, hell.
I found a box of Miracle-Gro down there from 1982.
All right.
I'm done.
Done, I say.
How about you and I do some actual living?
Hmm?
Can't we cheat it?
Make it so we that we store recurrent Comet images
in the user's Netscape cache?
It would make it load so much faster.
Yeah, I would, if Netscape supported that,
but they don't, so...
Is the query box fixed?
Or does it still get a null response
if you put a space before the carriage return?
Still on my punch list.
Joe, this is still an early beta.
So there's tons of bugs.
We don't know what they're gonna fix,
how they're gonna fix it, how those fixes are gonna affect us.
Guess I should just shut up.
No, but could you just relax?
We've got tons of time.
We've got two days.
Yeah, we have two days.
Okay, here.
That looks worse than it did before.
I know. It's part of the... process.
Maybe you shouldn't watch how the sausage is made.
Are you checking your e-mail?
What?
Nothing.
No, what?
What, am I not taking this seriously enough for you?
I didn't say that.
You didn't have to say it. You're acting like it.
We've got the cheat sheet to the exam.
We've won.
I just don't want to miss another opportunity.
Two days. That's all I'm asking for.
Can you just focus long enough
for us to get Comet optimized...
- Oh, my God. - ...so that it loads perfectly when Netscape ships.
I'm giving you my focus.
Jesus, I'm doing you a favor.
Who's the e-mail from?
Are you...
Alexa.
Go ahead.
Read it.
Oh, g...
It's the new beta.
Shall I thank her for you, or do you want to compose
something That'll make her feel
like a total shitbag for helping you out?
Give me a break.
Okay.
Looks the same as the old one.
Yeah, the skin's the same. Let's see how she runs.
- Whoa. - Uhh...
That's way faster than I thought.
- Yeah. - Wow.
Hold on.
What, you can put text in fields before the page fully loads?
Really nice touch.
Okay, so they've got support for JPEG.
The formatting is perfect.
I'm gonna set a call with Jim Clark.
You know what we could do?
We could put a badge on our homepage
saying "Optimized for Netscape."
And the gifs would render smoothly if...
Wait, wait...
What is that? That wasn't there before.
What the hell is Yahoo?
Two guys. Stanford. Used to be called
"Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."
But...
This sucks. The design's terrible,
there's no image support, they're...
On the toolbar.
What?
They're on the toolbar.
That's it.
They've won.
They're the directory to the Web.
We don't exist.
Oh, God.
Come on.
Joe.
Joe!
There's coffee.
I'm all right.
I wanted it to work.
I wanted us to work.
Yeah?
Me too.
It did.
For a while.
Yeah.
The thing that gets you to the thing.
Huh?
It was you.
It was always you.
Thank you. Thank you all.
Let's, uh, get right down to it, shall we?
Hi.
Glad you reconsidered.
Mm-hmm.
I'm just going for the lobster thermidor.
Mm.
...and to circle back to Web search,
I got word that when Netscape launches this week,
Yahoo will be the default directory.
They've got their own button and everything.
So Comet is pretty much kaput.
And...
Uh... so, where does that leave Rover?
Should off-load it for parts, sell it on the B2B market.
Lucky for us, it's algorithm-based,
so it actually has some value.
There's a... What is it, Benji? It's a...
medical indexing company
that's actually expressed some interest, so...
We should probably look into that one
and try to get 20% to 30% of value and...
Hey, go back.
What is Netscape's search directory called?
It's, uh... Yahoo?
I'm sorry, what is it?
It's "Yahoo"?
Ya-hoo?
Yeah, Yahoo. Like, "Yahoo," with a...
with an exclamation point.
Oh, Yahoo with an exclamation point, not a question mark?
'Cause you keep saying Yahoo with a question mark,
- so I was... - Okay.
Shouldn't it be more like... Yahoo!
Sure.
Come on.
Drill down with me now, Trip.
Yahoo!
Yahoo.
No, man! No!
Oh, Jesus!
Now put some mustard on it, you know?!
Yahoo!
There! Ya-hooooooooo!
Ya-hooooooooo!
That's so...
Everybody needs a friend, even an old tree.
Okay, now, take our liner brush.
Paint thinner.
Want to thin it down.
Thin some brown down, very, very thin.
Very thin. A lot of paint thinner.
Let's put a little arm or two.
Maybe this old tree don't have any leaves.
Maybe he's already retired for the... for the year.
Hello?
Hey, it's me.
Hey. What's going on?
I-Is everything okay?
Can I just tell you something?
Uh, yeah, o-of course you can.
Okay, so there's this German guy in the hostel
named Otto.
Oh, yeah? Is he cute?
Anyway...
he was telling me about this ancient temple ruin.
Actually, he was going on and on about it
at 3:30 in the morning while I was trying to sleep
and I wanted to bash his head in
with my "Lonely Planet" guide.
But it sounded kind of awesome.
This, uh... the temple ruin?
Yeah, it was burned to the ground by raiders
like 100 years ago.
I asked Otto if I could go with him,
and he said yes.
This place was wild, empty.
It was a major shrine city.
Okay, anyway, Aat, our guide,
he brought us to this tree, and it had this...
this sandstone head of the Buddha in it.
And the roots of the tree had completely grown around it
and covered everything except its face.
And...
Aat had us get on our... our hands and our knees
as we got closer to it
because you can't look down at the Buddha.
You have to be respectful,
so we crawled up to it,
and, um, I reached out and I-I touched the roots,
and Aat put his forehead to the ground...
so we did, too.
And it's not like we were worshipping the Buddha
or the statue, you know?
It was, like...
more of the tree...
for what it was doing,
and... burned stones and grass.
Anyway, it, um, started to rain.
And when I put my forehead to the mud,
I thought about Dad...
...like he was still with me,
Just in, like, a different way.
Oh, honey, that's beautiful.
It's pretty cool.
I think maybe you and I, we're actually pretty similar,
and maybe that's why we fight all the time,
you know?
Yeah, yeah.
I do.
Oh, shit, my calling card is running out.
I love you, Mom! Bye!
There.
Shoot, I think with that,
we about have a finished painting.
Good luck.
- Good luck, Mikey. - Thanks, Joe.
- Yeah. - Thanks, Joe.
Thank you.
No, really.
Comet was... a miracle.
Wish we could've done it longer.
You made the right call.
Like you said,
it would've been a bummer to sit around here
and watch the world swallow us up.
Thanks.
I like this place.
I know it doesn't feel like it now,
but this is the start of something.
Mmm.
- But now... - Yeah! Now!
Oh, my goodness. I have get ready fast.
- Mm. - Oh.
I'm sorry, are you... Are you open?
Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.
Wait.
Osiris!
Turn down the tube, babe.
Well, sit down.
Please, have a seat.
Okay, so it's gonna be, uh, $20 for a palm reading
and $30 for palm and cards.
Um...
Thank you.
May I see your palm, please?
Oh, yikes, I'm sorry.
Mm, but your salsa line looks pretty good, huh?
Mm. Sorry.
Long life line.
Oh, um...
broken here and there.
Lot of challenges.
Changes.
Challenges and changes, huh?
Shocking.
What's that?
Mm.
Test for stubbornness.
Hmm. Sharp head line.
Smart.
Successful.
Little... selfish maybe?
Heart line seems to say...
some love.
Some loss.
Come on, Denise, enough softballs.
Why'd you come in here today?
Destiny.
Dessert now?
Dessert?
You just scarfed down those nachos!
- How many? - Two.
Just two?
Okay. Have fun.
That... That's my grandson, Osiris.
Thanks for your time.
Wait, don't you want your card reading?
You paid for it.
Would you please put your right hand on the deck?
Hmm.
Okay. Thank you.
Past.
Present.
Future.
What does that mean?
Well, you know, they really mean
whatever you want them to mean.
Well, you know...
destruction.
- Destruction? - Yeah.
Commonly.
Agony, indecision, misery.
Christ.
So I lose again?
Okay, great.
No. Not necessarily.
Because, you see, this golden horizon
behind the storm clouds,
that could be something.
- Can I keep this? - Sure.
I sell packs for another $20.
Jesus! You okay?
Joe MacMillan?
And like that,
we're getting killed in the PC business.
- Who'd have guessed, right? - Me.
Of course.
Besides you.
Can I just say, Joe,
it's been a kick watching you carve a path
all these years.
Always on the bleeding edge.
I mean, way out there.
More than a few of us
really grew to trust your finger in the air.
Have the leaves changed yet?
- What? - Back east.
Oh, uh, yeah.
Just started.
It's gorgeous.
All right, better get to SFO.
They got us flying business class now.
Believe it?
No, please, I got it.
Can't wait to see what you do next, Joe.
- Right now. - Donna is on speed dial.
I think we're gonna have you guys set up here.
Don't thank me.
- No, I'm gonna... - No, I'm telling you, you got to...
- I'm trying to do that. - Uh, that was John.
- Let me try. - No, no, I want to...
- Let me just try it. - Let me at least try.
Look, look, look.
Come and get 'em.
Of one little gene, but this...
Are you all right?
Oh, yeah.
That nasal gel you gave me on the plane,
it feels like a slug crawled into my nose and took a dump.
Well, you'll thank me when you don't get sick.
How will I thank you
for something that doesn't happen?
It would be neat to hear you
thank somebody for something.
Two months abroad with top investors,
and we've got nothing to show for it.
Yeah, well, it's tough for the work to translate
once we got north of Oslo.
Well, the point was to get you in good
- with some real European players. - Players?
My God, I couldn't tell you what any of those people did
save for go out to dinner at fancy restaurants
and name drop.
How much did this trip even cost?
Well, it's my money, and I'm spending it
to help you bring your ideas to fruition.
- Okay. - But if you're just gonna sit there
- and cut everyone down like some sardonic asshole... - I'm sorry.
I didn't perform well enough for you.
I'm not your monkey.
Look, I know that you're still dealing
with some personal issues.
Or... maybe...
you're just losing interest
because now's the part of the process
you actually have to do some work
and not just bullshit about the possibilities.
Can you pull over here?
Cameron.
Cameron!
How did you even get home?
Oh, just walked a mile to the McDonald's,
used their phone to call a cab, cab cost $200.
You should've called me at home.
I love me some McDonald's... them little apple pies.
Mmm-Mmm-Mmm.
Delis-cous.
So, have you talked since?
- Two weeks. Just radio silence. - Oh, no.
- So I think that's done. - Yeah.
You know, there's this thing in CompSci I remember...
recursion.
Where a specific function
calls upon itself repeatedly within a program.
So in order to solve the big problem,
it uses the same small problem over and over
as the solution to increasingly complex issues.
And that, my friend, is how my software runs.
Sorry about Joe, by the way.
Thanks.
I actually still have
some stuff of his to give back,
but I just can't bear the thought
of seeing him right now, you know?
Can I tell you something?
Yeah?
You got a lot of love in you.
More than anybody I ever met.
It's bursting out of you.
You're taking the world in these... in these big gulps,
and you can't help but to let yourself get drowned in it.
Overwhelms you, makes you live like
you're ready to explode at any minute.
They don't see it.
I do.
It's a burden you carry.
You don't think I'm just running away again?
Oh, I... you might be.
I'm thinking about Florida.
Florida? What the hell's in Florida?
They got alligators and that dadgum Epcot Center?
What?
My mom.
Ah.
Man, I'm just tired of saying goodbye, you know?
Recursion.
Exactly.
Maybe you ought to have yourself a heart attack.
- Yeah? - Yeah, yeah.
Sure.
You know, when I went down,
I did everything I could to stay in the ring.
Fought like hell.
Had this mantra in my head.
"Just stay in it, stay in it, stay in it."
But I was losing.
I knew at that moment if I didn't give up,
that guy's gonna kill me.
I...
I got nothing left to give up.
Oh...
I know it's... If you stay, it's hard.
If you leave, it's hard. It's all hard.
It's...
Sometimes it's not even about what you want.
It's about what it wants for you.
All you can do is...
listen and see if you can hear what it's saying.
It's saying goodbye.
But, yeah, hit the road, then.
I don't want to say goodbye to you.
Well, hell, sweetheart, it better not be forever.
I fully expect you to come back
and shake me all up again.
Don't let me get old.
You my 11:30?
No.
Have a look around.
Vaulted ceilings,
crown molding, great neighborhood.
What happened to the previous tenant?
Not sure, but this has been on the market
something like 15 days now.
Are you sure it's okay out there?
Oh, uh, yeah.
- I mean, they'll go around. - Okay.
So, I'm, uh, your last stop, huh?
You are.
I went by Joe's this morning.
He's totally gone.
Yeah, I didn't, uh...
the real estate agent told me it'd been empty for weeks.
He didn't...
I'm sorry, I guess I just thought he would call.
Oh, God, Joe.
Yeah, he, uh, came by here and said he was leaving
and that he'd be in touch.
Uh, Haley got a letter from him a couple days ago.
A letter?
Wow, well, I guess we're both fond of rash departures.
Oh, hey, um, could you just bring me one more of those,
- and I think we'll be fine. - Donna, sorry,
- I'm gonna finish this. - I didn't...
...mean to just burst in on you and the thing you're doing.
- No. No, no, no. - Please, it's not...
Hey, why don't you stay for this thing tonight?
- I think you might really dig it. - Yeah?
- Think I'm a little below dress code. - Oh, come on.
You can just borrow something of mine.
No, thank you. I really appreciate it.
I just... I wanted to be in Carson City
come nightfall, so...
- Yeah, no, that makes sense, I guess. - Sorry.
Hey.
Aah! God. Oh. Sorry.
I am sorry. No, no, it's fine.
It's hardwood.
Hey, look, I...
I wish we could've hung out more
these last couple months.
Yeah, I know. Me too.
It's just work has been crazy, and...
Well, you know,
probably we'll end up seeing each other more
now that I'm gone, 'cause I'll come into town,
and we'll really make a point of it.
Yeah, and you'll be back seeing Alexa, I'm sure,
- and... - No.
That's, uh... That's dead.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You know, some things just aren't the right fit.
Hey, Mom.
- Hi. - Hey.
Uh, this is my boyfriend, Kevin.
'Sup?
Oh.
Haley, uh, Cameron is moving, I guess.
What?
Yeah, I, uh... I'm going on a road trip,
and we'll see, uh, where I... I end up.
Cool.
So everyone's leaving now.
Bye, I guess.
Uh... Sorry, uh...
- Boyfriend? - Yeah.
- You okay with the door closed? - Oh, yeah, completely.
She just works on her computer,
and he does the hackey sack.
That sounds right.
You know, I get the sense
that she doesn't even really like him.
Yeah.
Oh, she's doing these college-level C++ classes.
It's one night a week at Foothill,
and she's been just killing herself
over this project,
but she loves it.
Can you believe it?
I can believe it.
Okay, I'm gonna go, uh, and throw this tomato out.
Oh, God, I'm sorry I didn't take that.
No, here, the trash is...
Where? Hey, I'm...
Drive safe, okay?
I'm, uh... I'm gonna miss you.
Donna, this is...
Haley?
What happened?
I can't open the work file.
I keep trying to open it,
and it says "Drive not ready."
Ugh, did you hit it with your sack?
- What? - Hackey, Kev.
Uh, no, I've just been chilling here.
That's my semester project!
- Okay. - Hang on.
All right, try it again.
It's the same error message.
Yeah, the platter's not spinning.
I hate these stupid things!
Breathe. Kevin, do you have any money?
I've got 20 bucks from delivering
Thanksgiving turkeys to old people.
Okay, great, could you do me a favor
and just take her to a movie or something?
No, I have to do this. I know.
"Star Trek: Generations" is out.
Okay, fine.
Okay.
Stop.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the head's stuck to the platter.
If I can get it off and parked,
we'll have to check the data.
Well, as long as it boots,
I can go through the contents.
Sorry about this. I know you wanted to get driving.
No. No,
It's not like I'm desperate to see Carson City.
Oy, that didn't sound pretty.
But, hey, there we go.
Oh, God, I got to go get ready.
Can you keep going with this?
Yeah, yeah.
How's it going in here?
- Jesus. - What?
No, you just... you...
you just do that so well.
Oh. Hey, yeah.
One of the benefits
of throwing a fancy cocktail thing.
So?
Well, the file's damaged.
I'm trying to figure out
if I can get a side way in to recover the data.
Well, I hope we can save some of it.
So, what, do you just kick it?
Hmm?
Yeah, you just... just kick it to yourself.
How do you win?
You just... just use your knees and stuff.
I don't get it.
You know it really pisses me off,
that Joe would just leave like that.
Things fell apart, yeah,
but for him to just up and...
Whatever.
It didn't work.
Nothing here did, so...
And I'm sorry that I didn't tell you
I was leaving sooner.
I just...
I just wanted to make a decision
and not have somebody talk me out of it.
Hey, if it's what you want to do,
it's what you want to do.
Yeah, man.
If you do what you always did,
you're gonna get what you always got.
If the elevator's broken, take the stairs.
It works if you work it.
Unless it's more and more of what doesn't work.
Meetings?
Oh...
A few.
You?
My mom.
I might see her on this trip.
That's good.
Man, this might be toast.
You did copy the file
before you converted it to rich text, right?
Yeah, but I skipped RTF
and went straight to the hex editor.
Rebuild the header, too, and check the permissions.
Even if there's version control?
You want to recover data
or you want to make a 15-year-old cry again?
Okay.
Hey.
What if we worked together again?
Um...
What do you, um... Do you have an idea?
No, the idea can come later.
That's not what's important.
I'm sorry.
That, um... Oh, God, yeah.
- That... I... - No. No, no, no, no, no.
- No, no, no. Please, forget I said it. - I'm sorry.
I... I don't know what I was thinking.
Cameron.
Sorry.
Uh...
I'm gonna go check on the caterers.
I'll be back.
Okay, yeah, I'll keep working on this.
So, imagine there are five of us
crammed into this rented Land Rover,
- and Kimberly already has morning sickness. - Oh.
And the Irish roads are built for,
I don't know, horse-drawn carriages.
John...
John stops and takes a picture
of every shamrock we see.
Every shamrock.
And more importantly,
what you have done with the firm
over the past three months...
- Mm. - ...wow.
Thank you.
That really means a lot.
I thought she'd be halfway across the country by now.
Yeah, me too. That was the plan.
But she, um...
She just floated the idea of working with me again
just out of nowhere.
With one foot out the door
and the rest of her life packed in a silver tube?
Yeah, well, that is her gift.
Thinking of impossible things.
Any luck?
Okay.
How was the movie?
It was weird.
Kirk was stuck in this, like,
frozen time ribbon thing
and he was repeatedly living
the happiest part of his life for decades.
And then Picard comes and he's like,
"Dude, get out of the ribbon. You got to help me."
And so Kirk is like, "Sure," and he does,
and he, like, immediately dies.
Picard's a jerk.
Where's the Kevinator?
Mm...
He's probably wolfing down all the tuna tartare
like a dumb barracuda.
Did Joe write you a letter?
Yeah. Why?
Um, it was just to me.
Yeah, you're right. Sorry.
Did you love him?
Yeah.
I did.
Um, I'll just, like... I'll just summarize.
Uh...
He said he, like, needs to start over,
and that he didn't air the Comet commercial
because, you know, um...
He talked about UNC
putting their radio station on the Internet.
What?
Oh, it's an inside joke. You wouldn't get it.
Yeah.
Um, he said that my dad was proud of me
and that if he was ever in town,
he'd come and see us.
Um...
And he said not to forget him,
even when I'm running all of Silicon Valley.
He's joking again.
Yeah, Armonk, where is that?
Um, it's where he's from.
It's where, uh, IBM is.
Mm.
Hey, I'm sorry that we couldn't recover your data.
It's fine.
Like what Joe said.
What's that?
Fresh start.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Well...
Come find me in the time ribbon.
I will.
Yes, good.
If you'll excuse me one second.
I'm just gonna...
Uh, thank you.
Um, I just, uh...
I wanted to thank you guys for coming out tonight.
"You guys."
See what we're up against?
When I graduated from Berkeley in '75
with a degree in computer science,
nobody batted an eye.
That's probably because back then,
coders were like secretaries and engineers,
meaning little solder soldiers on the assembly lines,
were kind of invisible.
And we're used to that.
But somewhere along the line, these jobs became important.
And don't get me wrong,
I'm happy to hang out with "you guys" any time
and eat good food,
but I hope that by the time my daughters are my age
that they don't have to have gatherings like this anymore
to remind themselves that they're actually here.
I've been in tech for 18 years.
I've won.
And I've lost.
I am a woman
who voted her female partner out of her own company,
the company she founded.
I am a woman who lost a marriage
to, among other things,
this line of work.
I can't sleep at night sometimes
worrying if I'm seeing my kids enough
or if I've been there enough for them
or if it's already too late.
But...
...I've done things.
That always comes with a price, but I did them.
One of the many things I've learned
is that no matter what you do,
somebody is around the next corner
with a better version of it,
and if that person is a man,
it might not even be better.
It just might get more attention.
And sometimes, that person is you.
The you that's never satisfied with what you just did
because you're obsessed with whatever is next.
The one constant is this.
It's you, it's us.
The project gets us to the people.
Because it's people that got me where I am,
people like Diane Gould.
People like my husband
and my first partner, Gordon Clark.
People like my last and best partner, Cameron Howe.
And for all the rest of you,
I hope that tonight can be the beginning of something,
something so that even if we see each other
across the corporate battle lines one day,
that you will know that I am rooting for you.
I can't help but not.
Because I am a partner by trade
and a mother and a sister by design.
And I am...
I am so proud to be on this journey with you.
Aah!
Oh, my God!
Oh!
No, this is good.
Now everyone knows you were the crazy one.
Oh, good.
Well, I'm glad I could be of some service.
So...
About working together.
I'm sorry.
It was a terrible idea.
I shouldn't have brought it up.
I can't tell you what it means to me
that you asked.
I think in some ways, I...
probably have been waiting for years to hear that.
I meant it.
I know.
Of course, it is also the surest way
to screw up what we do have now.
What do we have now?
We're friends.
Maybe we should try that for a while.
You falling in that pool
was probably the funniest thing
I've ever seen in my entire life.
Hey, where's Kevin?
I dumped him.
Oh, that's... I'm sor... Are you okay?
Yeah.
You know, sometimes I think maybe...
Haley's gay?
- Yep. - Yeah.
Oh, these girls, they're just... amazing.
Hey, what's happening with the old Mutiny building?
I mean, I can't believe
they spent all this money redecorating
and didn't even change the stupid lock.
Whoa, carpet. Yeah.
And look at all this glass.
Yeah, this was Comet.
Uh, okay, so Gordon was in your office.
Oh, of course.
And Joe was in mine.
Um, oh.
Gordon rewired the Ethernet
so it patched down through the ceiling,
which was really genius.
What?
You remember when, uh, Lev and Yo-Yo
took the fish tank full of sea monkeys
- and they moved it over by the fridge? - Oh, yeah,
and Carl reached over it
trying to get to the Better Cheddars
and he spilled it all over himself.
Yeah, and he ruined his pants.
He ruined his pants. So he had to strip them off,
and he was wearing... what was that?
He was wearing that thing. It was like a jock strap.
No, no, no, it was bikini briefs.
Oh, my God. It was like a French cut.
Didn't he sit, like, right here?
No, Carl, he was over here by Wonderboy.
Oh.
Hey, whatever happened to Annabelle?
The mannequin?
Yeah.
Um,
Well...
Bodie took mushrooms
and immolated her on the roof
during a lunar eclipse.
Those guys.
You know Bodie has four kids now, right?
Get out.
Yes.
And, uh, oh, Wonderboy teaches at NYU,
but he teaches, like, video art.
Oh, cool.
What about Carl?
Porn.
Oh, of course, 'cause the mustache.
No, he...
he hosts it on a website and he charges.
He has a huge house out in Arcadia or somewhere.
Yeah.
What would it be?
If we were to do it all over again?
I'm out of ideas.
Okay, then, how would we run it?
Well...
we'd call it, um...
I don't know.
Phoenix.
Oh, I like it.
Equal equity.
Co-founders.
- Equal say in everything. - Mm-hmm.
And we'd just grow at our own pace this time.
Like, really enjoy the ride.
What if we did 24 months of pure R&D?
Just focus on ideas way outside the box.
Yeah.
You remember our first week at Phoenix?
Just you, me, and that one guy we hired
out of Cal Poly.
I remember our Series A.
And then we went public.
Right.
We had to start making some hard decisions,
maybe a partnership with a bigger company,
and we had to sacrifice some of the culture.
Yeah, but it worked for a while.
But eventually we had to let some people go,
streamline some things.
And still we kept losing ground.
We started arguing about the direction of the company.
I strategized a safe play to keep things afloat.
And I dug my heels in.
We fought about it.
But it didn't destroy us this time.
No.
But still, we were at an impasse.
And then soon enough,
the decision got made for us.
And we walked away friends.
Hey.
It was a pleasure working with you at Phoenix.
I loved every minute of it.
8, 7, 6, 5,
4, 3, 2, 1.
Now, how we doing?
Close your eyes.
Does anything feel weird?
'Cause that's what this is.
Feeling weird is...
is how you know you're still here.
All right, now, when was the last time you ate
Because all a human needs is food, water, and rest.
You got to remind yourself
that you're just 160 pounds of goo
in the middle of a very big universe.
So whatever's burning you up right now,
just know that it'll fade.
Every problem feels big in the moment,
but, Gordon, you know better.
So... focus on just being being.
And then try to look up from your computer
every once in a while.
I want to try and see you as much as I can,
but I should be through Tallahassee
in the next couple weeks, so...
you know, I thought I could, uh, come by.
Yeah.
Okay, well, then I'll see you then.
Yeah, I will, Mom.
Okay.
- Did you get her? - Yeah.
- Good. - Yeah.
So, it's a busy week for you?
Oh, yeah, sort of.
We got a 3-D imaging company presenting at COMDEX,
so, you know, it's just COMDEX.
Yeah.
Oh, COMDEX.
Okay, well, let's do it.
What you tried to do 24 hours ago.
I'm glad I got waylaid.
Yeah, me, too.
Hey, I'll get breakfast.
Oh, no, no. Give me that.
No, no, no. Let's split it.
You're unemployed. Save your money.
Fair enough.
Meet you outside.
Thank you.
Cameron.
What is it?
I have an idea.
Let me start by asking a question.
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