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As Cardiff Electric makes preparations for COMDEX, the FBI shuts the company down and arrests Bosworth for embezzlement. Gordon hastily disassembles the Giant prototype to prevent it from being seized as evidence; he later breaks into the office at night to retrieve its components. At Texas Instruments, Donna learns that Hunt had resigned. At Gordon's garage, tensions among him, Joe and Cameron flare up; after Gordon accuses Joe of framing Bosworth, Cameron reveals that she was the one, at Bosworth's behest, who hacked the bank's mainframe. When Gordon tells Donna that Cardiff Electric was shut down, she contemplates leaving him. While attempting to get orders for the Giant ahead of COMDEX, Joe learns of a rumor that IBM is building their own portable PC, and he flies to New York City to confront his father over professional and personal matters. When Joe returns to Dallas, he finds Cameron and Gordon in his apartment, and he tells them that he intends to return to IBM. Gordon persuades Joe into seeing the Giant project through; however, Joe reveals that he doesn't have the money to go to COMDEX. After Cameron convinces Joe to sell his Porsche to fund their trip, the three and Donna drive to Las Vegas in the Clark family station wagon.

When the Cardiff Electric team arrives in Las Vegas, they learn that their reservations have been cancelled due to the company's corporate assets being frozen. After the team manages to secure a suite and a booth by other means, Donna and Gordon discover that the Giant is malfunctioning; however, they get it repaired after Joe distracts the attendees with booth babes during the would-be demo. The next day, the team notices a large gathering at a particular booth; they then realize that Donna's former boss Hunt was marketing a knockoff of the Giant called the Slingshot. At their suite, Gordon accuses Donna of having an affair with Hunt, which led to the creation of the Slingshot. Joe realizes that the Slingshot is faster and cheaper than the Giant, and Gordon removes Cameron's OS in response. Cameron is upset over Gordon's actions; however, Joe has to side with Gordon for the sake of survival. Joe successfully pitches the Giant during the on-floor presentation, securing a large order from a computer retailer. As Cardiff celebrates their hollow victory, Joe stumbles upon a gathering in another room where the Apple Macintosh is being demonstrated, and Joe immediately sees it as the IBM PC-killer he envisioned.
After COMDEX, Joe and Gordon manage to convince Nathan into giving them operational control of the company as well as minority ownership. Donna severs her ties with TI after she deliberately tanks her performance review. While testing the first batch of Giants, the engineers discover a defective test unit. Now fixated on the Macintosh, Joe tasks the programmers with creating a killer application to bundle with the Giant. After Gordon suspects that Joe had engineered another crisis, Donna tells Gordon that he must force Joe out of the company; Gordon plans to do so by threatening to turn Cameron over to the FBI for her role in embezzling Cardiff's money. After parting ways with Joe and Cardiff Electric, Cameron creates her own startup company called Mutiny to host online games, recruiting most of Cardiff's programming team. With no programmers left, Joe drops his plans for a killer app, and Gordon too drops his plan to oust Joe. Gordon holds an office party to celebrate the launch of the Giant. Later, Gordon invites Donna to work as head engineer at Cardiff Electric; however, she declines, deciding to work with Cameron at Mutiny. Gordon is left unsure of how to move forward after Joe abruptly, and dramatically, leaves Cardiff Electric.
More than a year has passed since the launch of the Giant. After leaving Dallas, Joe had reconnected with an old college classmate, a freelance journalist named Sara Wheeler, and he is now living with her in Austin. Cardiff Electric is liquidatedafter Nathan sells the company off to an overseas corporation. Gordon, as the outgoing company president, receives a dividend payment of over $838,000. Joe, however, receives nothing after Nathan shreds Joe's check as retribution for his actions over the past two years; despite returning empty-handed, Joe proposes to Sara, and she accepts. At Mutiny, Donna expresses her frustration over Cameron's lack of leadership and foresight to keep Mutiny successful in the long term, especially as their makeshift network infrastructure experiences latency issues and power outages. Donna also warns Cameron that Mutiny has plateaued, and without additional subscribers and a new game, the company could go under. Donna misses a celebratory dinner with Gordon and the kids when she helps Cameron deal with a fence selling stolen computer components; before dealing with the fence, Donna and Cameron agree that they would share responsibility for the leadership role in Mutiny. The next day, Cameron picks up Bosworth after he is released from prison.
oe and Sara meet with her father Jacob Wheeler, a wealthy oil magnate and head of Westgroup Energy. Noting Joe's troubled work history, Jacob offers him a job with Westgroup. Joe initially declines, but he later accepts the offer; however, after going to Westgroup's headquarters, Joe discovers that he was given a low-level data entry job. When Cameron tries to bring on Bosworth to manage Mutiny, Donna protests since he is an ex-convict. At home, Gordon loads Mutiny's Tank Battleand obsesses over a glitch in the game. Donna and Cameron attempt to seek capital to expand Mutiny, but they are turned away by a sexist venture capitalist. The coders discover that a user had cloned Mutiny's flagship game Parallax and is distributing copies for free. After confronting the hacker, Tom Rendon, Donna attempts to take legal action against him; however, Cameron had hired Tom after he demonstrated how he got multiple users on a single phone line. Donna threatens to walk out on Mutiny if Cameron continues to make brash, unilateral business decisions. After the coders find a rather personal letter between him and Cameron, Bosworth tells her that Mutiny isn't the right place for him at the moment and needs time alone.
Joe pitches an idea to a Westgroup executive, configuring the company's mainframe for time-sharing during off-hours; however, Joe's proposal is dismissed. At Mutiny, Cameron and Donna tell the coders the company is operating at a deficit and cannot afford to pay their salaries; however, many of them choose to stay in exchange for shares in Mutiny. Bosworth reviews Mutiny's expenses, and he volunteers to go door-to-door to persuade Mutiny's biggest customers to rejoin the service. Joe comes to Gordon's house to recruit him for his time-sharing project; Gordon agrees to help with the stipulation that Mutiny is Joe's first client. Already mounting tensions between Cameron and Donna intensify when Cameron wants to cut Community, Mutiny's chat rooms, from the network, and Donna later discovers that Cameron had made disparaging comments about Gordon and her children. While playing dart tag with the coders, Tom and Cameron get an idea for Mutiny's next game, a multiplayer first person shooter. Joe reveals to Gordon that he intends to configure Westgroup's mainframe for time-sharing without Jacob's knowledge or approval, hoping to show Jacob physical evidence of his idea before legitimatizing it. The next morning at home, Gordon tells Donna that he arranged a new network partner for Mutiny at a substantial discount, and she sits in the bathroom with a positive pregnancy test.
At Comet, Joe prepares for the site’s relaunch, planning to integrate Comet into Netscape and hoping to become its default search engine. Diane stops by Donna’s house, telling Donna she must make the decision of whether or not she wants the managing partner position. Haley lashes out at Joe for profiting from Comet. Donna is reluctant to become the new managing partner at AGGEK; however, both Cameron and Haley convince her to take the job. After receiving a clean bill of health, Bosworth tells Diane that he wants to travel the world together. While Joe and Cameron review the beta version of Netscape Alexa had sent Cameron, they see a link for Yahoo, an upstart web portal, and Joe realizes that Netscape had struck a deal with Yahoo to become their default search provider. When Donna is announced as the new managing partner at AGGEK, Trip informs her that Comet is all but dead.
Realizing Comet cannot compete with Yahoo, Joe shuts down the company. Donna revamps AGGEK and renames the VC firm Symphonic Ventures. After an unsuccessful overseas business trip, Cameron ends her professional relationship with Alexa. She begins to pack up her Airstream, telling Bosworth she’s leaving California. She stops at Joe’s apartment to drop off his belongings and finds that he has moved out. Later, she goes to Donna’s house, where Donna mentions that Joe has written to Haley. When Haley’s hard drive crashes, Cameron and Donna try to fix it. Cameron proposes that she and Donna work together again, which surprises Donna. During a gala promoting women in tech, Donna refers to Cameron as "my last and best partner". On the morning Cameron is ready to set out on a cross-country road trip, Donna meets her at the diner for breakfast. As she pays the check, Donna seems to have an epiphany. Joe has returned to New York and became a humanities teacher at a prep school.
When Donna asks Gordon about Mutiny's new network partner, he reveals that Mutiny has been leasing their improved network from Joe; Donna relays this news to Cameron, who does not take it well. During a doctor's visit, Gordon learns that he has toxic encephalopathy due to his long term exposure to lead solder, and the diagnosis leaves him in shock and desperate for a human connection; however, he does not share his diagnosis with Donna. Due to Donna wanting Mutiny's network rental agreement formalized in writing, Gordon tells Joe that he needs to tell Jacob about his time-sharing project; despite Joe doing the project without approval, Jacob takes an interest and requests a meeting with a representative from Mutiny. Joe wants Donna to go to Westgroup to help pitch his idea; however, she tells him that Mutiny is Cameron's company. Despite her animosity towards Joe, Cameron meets with Jacob and demonstrates how Mutiny works. After the meeting, Sara sees Cameron confront Joe, with Cameron accusing him of using Westgroup to advance his own agenda; however, Joe insists that it's a legitimate business endeavor. After Joe signs a prenuptial agreement from her father, Sara tells Joe that they're moving too fast and need time apart.
In his garage, Gordon writes a program, Sonaris, to map the size of Mutiny's network. Bosworth sees his ex-wife Ginny for the first time since his release from prison, and she tells him not to come to their son James' rehearsal dinner. At Westgroup, Joe suggests to Jacob that data analytics and data collections should be merged into one department, and Jacob agrees, allowing Joe to oversee the consolidation. After moving back to Dallas, Joe and Sara invite the Clarks over to their apartment for a dinner party, and they reluctantly accept. Against Ginny's wishes, Bosworth shows up to the rehearsal dinner in an attempt to reconcile with James. After Mutiny is infected by unknown malware, Cameron orders the coders to shut down the network, and Tom explains to her the extent of the damage, which would likely cause them to lose subscribers. Tom later discovers that Gordon's Sonaris program is the malware. Cameron lashes out at Gordon for his interference, and he reveals that without Donna secretly paying Mutiny's bills, the company would have collapsed much sooner. The next morning, Cameron experiences a panic attack after seeing no subscribers logged on, and Tom calms her down. Gordon apologizes to Donna for launching Sonaris without telling her, and Donna shoulders some of the blame. In Westgroup's data center, Joe sees potential for a new venture.