Donna and Cameron attempt to secure venture capital to expand Mutiny for its newest feature, Mutiny Exchange. Gordon decides to take Ryan under his wing, seeing a kinship with him; however, Ryan tries to seek out Joe. After a disastrous meeting with a sexist venture capitalist, Donna and Cameron meet with Diane Gould, who Donna had previously met as their daughters attend the same school. As Mutiny makes its presentation, Diane ends the meeting abruptly, leaving Donna and Cameron confused about the quick rejection; Diane later reveals that another company, Swap Meet, had the same idea as Mutiny, and had the advantage of an 18-month head start. Ryan manages to get a meeting with Joe after the former hacked the latter's calendar; Ryan makes his pitch on why he wants to work for Joe and MacMillan Utility. As Gordon is being deposed in connection with a lawsuit against Joe, Joe interrupts the deposition to offer Gordon a 70 percent stake in MacMillan Utility in exchange for dropping the suit and partnering once again, but Gordon staunchly rejects his offer. Donna and Cameron return to Diane’s office with a new proposition: instead of competing with Swap Meet, Mutiny wants to buy them out. Joe calls Ryan at Mutiny, inviting him to work at MacMillan Utility; as Ryan walks out, Gordon is left in shock over Ryan's decision.
Cameron tells Tom that she plans to sell Mutiny. After toasting their acquisition, Joe learns that Jacob wants to cut game development from Mutiny; seeing this as a betrayal of his intentions, Joe advises Cameron to pull out of the deal, and he tells her that he will no longer interfere. After reconciling with Sara, she tells Joe that she wants to get married right away and move to California, and Joe agrees. The next morning, Cameron tells the coders that she is not selling Mutiny.
Six months after Mutiny moved to California, Gordon and Donna finally get their mainframe operational, and Cameron announces that the company has surpassed 100,000 subscribers. After reading a scathing article about Mutiny, Donna realizes that the company needs something new in order to stay relevant in Silicon Valley. Ryan Ray, a new coder at Mutiny, reveals vulnerabilities within Mutiny's private chat; he proposes a solution, but Donna and Cameron aren’t receptive to his ideas, especially after he violated Mutiny's terms of service by hacking the private chats to find faults in the code. During a long work night, Gordon attempts to connect with the coders over beer and marijuana, venting his anger over how Joe had used him and his antivirus idea to make a fortune. Reviewing the private chat transcripts, Donna and Cameron realize that users are using private chats to facilitate user-to-user transactions, and they believe that this could be the next big thing for Mutiny. At the Castro Theatre, Joe reveals at a press conference that MacMillan Utility is offering its newest antivirus program, Citadel, free of charge for consumers, with the audience reacting with applause.
Cameron goes to Ryan's house to warn him about working with Joe, and invites him to return to Mutiny; however, Ryan decides to stay with Joe. Marital tensions between Donna and Gordon flare up during a project meeting, leading to a heated argument on Mutiny's office floor. Diane accompanies Bosworth to Swap Meet to tender their buyout offer. Mutiny had initially planned to acquire Swap Meet for $600,000; however, after seeing their bare-bones operation, Bosworth realizes that Mutiny had overvalued Swap Meet, and he haggles down the offer to nearly half. At MacMillan Utility, Joe has Ryan accompany him to a senior board meeting; during said meeting, Joe and the board decide to start charging $14.95 for Citadel. Ryan sees this as a betrayal of Joe's principles, and he insists to Joe after the meeting ends that Citadel should be distributed for free as Joe announced. Joe later pulls Ryan from his office job to work on a special project from Joe's apartment. After Cameron gives a guest lecture at a local college, Joe confronts her, thanking her for destroying his career, which allowed him his new success. At Mutiny, Gordon and Donna apologize for their earlier outburst; however, they start arguing again when Cameron decides that she'll take over Ryan's duties
