[1] In the aftermath of the previous episode, TechCrunch informs the Pied Piper team that Dan Melcher has been banned from judging at Disrupt, fired from his job at Oracle, and that his wife has left him.
Desperate to avoid litigation as a result of Melcher's assault of Erlich (T.J. Miller), the head of Disrupt offers Pied Piper a ticket straight to the final round, where they will compete for the grand prize.
However, the team soon witnesses Gavin Belson's (Matt Ross) presentation of Nucleus, which reveals additional optimal features as well as a Weissman score of 2.89, the same as Pied Piper's.
Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) contemplate leaving Pied Piper while Jared (Zach Woods) attempts to pitch the company to people outside of the conference, only to be arrested by the police in an incident involving Adderall.
[2] Clifford Wheatley, in a review for IGN, calls the episode "a phenomenal and hilarious finale to a very strong first seasons of Silicon Valley, leaving the characters in a more interesting place than it found them with lots of potential ahead".