[1] In the episode, the Pied Piper team attempts to sabotage the company's Billion-dollar launch in order to prevent the decentralized system from potentially abolishing internet privacy.
In a documentary produced 10 years after the PiperNet launch, the fates of the characters are shown: Richard has become a professor of technology ethics at Stanford University, where Big Head (Josh Brener) serves as President; Dinesh and Gilfoyle are running a large cybersecurity firm together; Monica is working for the NSA; Jared (Zach Woods) works at a nursing home; Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos) has made his fortune back and now invests it in hair transplants; Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer) is serving time in prison for an unspecified reason, and Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) is a bestselling romance novelist.
Jian-Yang (Jimmy O. Yang) has also fully assumed the identity of the late Erlich Bachman and has faked his own death to hide with his fortune in a foreign country.
The Pied Piper team reunites at the Hacker Hostel, now occupied by another family, and sits around the old dining table where they used to work to play a game of "Always Blue" together.
The episode ends with Richard attempting to show the documentary crew the hard drive containing the last remaining copy of the Pied Piper compression algorithm but struggles to find it as the credits roll.
"[5] Writing for Slate, Josephine Wolff criticized the episode for being too cynical in "dismissing tech ethics and the related academic field as a big, useless joke.