Halt and Catch Fire

Previously on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire...

Were sitting on a gold mine, overhead is near zero, its pure profit.

We can't afford to pay your salaries right now.

But in exchange of you forgoing your salaries, were offering shares of the company.

The truth, do you remember that?

Does Sara know about this? Lets call her up.

OK, after we call up Donna and tell her that she will be leasing her new network from me.

I'm going to have to cut community.

Because you just don't like it, or because it didn't come from you?

Donna, maybe you should go see a doctor.

I finally thought of something

I like more about Dallas than Austin.

You're in Dallas.

Son of a bitch.

Sara? Everything all right?

Caroline, it's Sara.

Put my dad on the phone.

Got your little present in the mail.

The one from your lawyers.

Even if I wanted to, this is how you do it?

You don't even ask me about it?

No, this isn't up for debate.

Yeah, no kidding, Dad.

You know, I was the one who went through it.

So when are you gonna stop treating me like this?

I'm not a kid.

Just stop. Stop now.

Because I trust him and I want him to know that.

He deserves better. I'm not gonna do that to him.

I know, the network's fast,

but we don't have anything that maximizes it.

We have this... race car and it's just idling.

Well, we have a race track. What we need is a race car.

You're really annoying.

But this will be our race car.

Two player, first person game,

online, over dial-up.

We still have to figure out what it's about.

What it's about. Yeah, we will.

Between the two of us.

And our crack team.

It will be excellent game,

like steal the bread from the weak little boy.

It is good impersonation I do.

If you were impersonating

the cyborg sent to kill Sarah Connor.

Oh, damn, that came out today.

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah, I want to go pick it up.

My friend at Suncoast was gonna reserve a copy.

What time is it?

I gotta go.

If I'm late, my boss is gonna have my ass.

Oh, she sounds like such a bitch.

Oh, you have no idea.

Your clothes, give them to me now.

Stop with the impressions.

You, me, "Terminator," tonight.

Okay.

Oh!

Hey.

- Mornin', sunshine. - Ha.

You just headin' home?

Uh, just for a couple hours.

Attagirl.

Now get some shut-eye. I'll make sure the place doesn't burn down without you.

All right.

Hey, good morning.

Long night? You want some coffee?

I kind of want a beer. Is that bad?

Hell, no. A long day at work, I'd have two.

- Where are the girls? - They're brushing their teeth.

Oh, that is too good.

Everything going okay over there?

Yeah, it's amazing.

You know, Community's expanding so fast.

It's just a lot of work, but it's work I want to be doing.

- Mmm. - Oh, shoot.

You know, we need to get in touch with somebody over at what's it called.

They haven't sent us our first invoice and we need to figure out billing.

Oh, well, I'm sure they'll probably send something over, you know?

Yeah, I just want to make sure we get this deal in writing.

It seems almost too good to be true.

Right, well, I'll talk to him.

You know, you've got enough on your plate.

You know, stuff you actually want to be doing.

- Yeah... - Oh, I wanted to talk to you about this.

I've been thinking about doing something

with this made-to-order computer business.

Yeah, you should.

Something wrong?

No, no, it just went down the wrong pipe.

You know, I think maybe with everything

that's gone down with Sonaris and all,

it'd be better if I could deal with them directly.

You know Cameron. If I can keep you out of it,

maybe we can spare ourselves her wrath.

Yeah, sure. No problem.

Great, so we can set something up soon? This week?

Yeah.

You know what? Actually the person

I've been dealing with over there is Joe.

Ahem.

Joe who?

Incoming!

Oh, come on, now.

Duck!

Gracious, is that a pajama top?

Well, what is a pajama top, John?

I mean, if you fall asleep in that shirt,

does it become a pajama top?

And then can it ever not be a pajama top once it is...

I'm just askin' when you bought it, did it come with bottoms?

What constitutes bottoms?

Okay, forget I asked.

Yeah, it's cool, but you know what I'm gonna say.

Oh, come on. Look, it's good guys versus bad guys.

Yeah, but why are they bad?

Why do we care? What's the context?

Cont... a roller coaster doesn't have any context.

- Tom... - What? No one gets off Judge Roy Scream

talking about the story. They talk about the experience.

A roller coaster's 90 seconds long.

You have to create something here that's gonna consume people for hours.

- You know I'm right. - Cameron?

I'll be back.

Oh, God. What? What do you want?

As you know, I am a long-standing Mutiny user,

so I trust you'll give my input the weight it is due.

Okay, get on with it.

Yesterday evening, I was playing "Parallax."

Chapter eight, challenge four.

- On the path... - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

...I solved the riddle

and yet I wasn't able to continue on.

Either this is a glitch or an illogical piece of in-game storytelling.

Whatever the case, I would like like a refund for that hour of usage.

You're not getting shit, buddy.

We don't give refunds for people who are too thick to figure out the game,

and even if we did, you haven't paid your bill in two months,

so you're operating on borrowed time as it is.

Now, if I were you, I'd head back to chapter eight

and maybe consider my dwindling water reserves

and see where in the game I could've replenished my supply.

Oh!

Bye!

- Chet? - Yeah.

But it just makes no damn sense.

I want a cup of coffee...

look, cups are clear across the kitchen, huh?

See? Now where's the sugar?

Again, all the way across the kitchen.

Come on, man. I'm bouncing around like a damn pinball.

Now, look, create a station. One-stop, all your needs.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Coffee?

Oh, God.

Efficiency, son. Time is money.

For... get outta here.

You're amazing, Boz.

Hey, who was that bothering you?

Huh? Oh, Chet. He's a user.

He's just some pain in the ass.

Hey, what about vertical space?

We could have these vertical tubes that you climb up, you drop down...

Yeah, that's amazing. But you know what I'm gonna say...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just check it out.

- Just check it out. - Well, then, figure it out.

You lied to your wife. That's not my problem.

Oh, but it is. She's gonna tell Cameron, all right?

They want a sit-down with a representative from Westgroup.

They want a formal agreement in writing.

Look, you gotta make this thing legitimate.

- That's not possible. - Well, then, make it possible.

It's only been three weeks. The whole plan was to amass months of data.

- We don't have a choice. - We've always got a choice.

I can kick Mutiny off the network and go to another online service.

You can, but you're not going to

because we had a deal, right, Joe?

And you're gonna honor that agreement

because you're not the reptilian son of a bitch

that everybody says you are.

- You're a changed man. - This isn't what I wanted.

If I tell Wheeler too early and he doesn't go for it, the network is done,

- Mutiny is done. - Snap out of it, all right?

You're Joe MacMillan. You could talk him into

jumping off a bridge if you wanted to.

Just decide to do it and do it.

Look, I gotta go.

- Just promise me that you're gonna... - Got it.

Ahem.

What's going on?

I want to emphasize that I had no idea about this,

and as soon as I found out, I came straight here.

What?

Joe MacMillan is the person running the network.

He's Gordon's contact at the company.

I'm sorry?

Gordon helped him set up time-sharing.

He insisted that Mutiny get a good deal,

- and he didn't tell me... - Stop.