Paranoia Page #3

than sell to Goddard.

Anything's better than Eikon.

I know.

Hello?

When are you going to find

my friends jobs?

As soon as you get me what I need.

You only have one shot at this.

Mate.

Tom Lungren is executive

hiring coordinator for Eikon.

Your objective here

is to connect.

Adam?

- Tom.

- Tom Lungren.

Nice to meet you.

Let me introduce Emma Jennings,

head of our marketing department.

Nice to meet you, Emma.

Please, sit down.

Well, let me start off

by saying that we're

huge fans of the work you did

on Ethion 3.0.

Well, you know,

it hasn't been released yet, so.

Is that because power management

doesn't deliver?

No, the power management is fine.

That's not what we've heard.

We're tweaking

the networking module to make

download speed

the fastest on the market.

Oh, God. I hope that's not why

we agreed to meet with him.

Can you talk specs?

The Orion was an LTE Advanced

with max speeds of 44.2 mbps.

Our new platform is

a WAVE OS 7.5...

Which probably won't solve

the biggest issues you had with 7.0.

- It outsold your model two to one.

- Yeah, the marketing was genius.

I spearheaded that campaign.

Then you know

you're good at hiding flaws.

Have you two met?

No.

No.

I think we got off on the wrong foot.

Always do your homework.

That's what you said, isn't it?

Next time

follow your own advice.

- It wasn't Tom Lungren?

- It wasn't just Tom Lungren.

I told you he might bring

someone else.

Someone that I knew?

What happened?

I saved the day. Connected.

Pulled an offer, a big-ass offer.

Let's take

you to your new apartment.

- What apartment?

- You'll see.

Whoa.

Thought you'd like it.

This is mine?

Of course.

Eikon's newest executive

needs to look the part.

It's nice to see you again, Adam.

Per our agreement, we've deposited

$500,000 into an escrow account.

We're hearing Goddard could

debut Aurora in the next two months,

so I've downloaded background files

on all your co-workers.

First, Emma Jennings.

Father, George Jennings, was

Chief of Surgery

at New York Presbyterian.

She grew up with four brothers,

was always on the outside

of the boys club, looking in.

Desperately wants to succeed

in a man's world,

so she's always the most prepared

person in the room.

Would have been useful

a couple of hours ago.

Don't waste your time.

She has certain standards.

Judith, maybe you're not as smart

as you think you are.

Now don't always say

what you think, darling.

Because from here on out,

you are all the way under.

We'll be communicating

through this phone only.

You will respond to my calls,

no matter the time, day or night.

You got it.

Good morning, sir.

I want a copy of his

body scan sent to my office.

Yes, sir.

- Adam.

- Mr. Lungren.

I told you. You gotta stop calling me

that, you're gonna make me feel old.

- Welcome to Eikon.

- Thank you. It's great to be here.

- We're damn glad to have you.

- OK, good.

The lower floors are Legal, HR,

middle floors are all the other

departments, including marketing.

The 38th floor is R&D,

top security projects.

And we're here on the 40th.

There's just a few tricks to being

in this building and getting around.

Your thumbprint on a keycard app

generates a bar code

that gets you anywhere

your clearance is allowed.

All right.

So any words of wisdom

on Goddard?

Be brilliant and be genuine.

He can spot a fraud a mile away.

Here's your office.

So, Type X was meant

for social networking,

but it turns out that people don't

always want their friends

to know where they are so precisely.

Right. What's the system tech?

It's 3DPS, which is like GPS

plus precise triangulation.

I'm familiar with it.

Problem is, it's twice as heavy

with three times the battery drain.

So, you're handing me a dead fish.

You've got 72 hours

before you present to Goddard.

Thank you.

It's a real-time tracking device

that needs a new purpose.

It's all about the presentation.

You have to impress him.

Yes, I understand what I have to do.

I'll schedule a brainstorming session

with our best R&D guys.

Why do you do this work, Judith?

I mean, is it out of loyalty,

or is it just money?

Don't you have enough

to think about?

Rowena,

I need you to put together

an R&D focus group.

I don't care, wake them up.

Call me when everything's

in place. Bye.

Soldiers.

Soldiers need to know

where each other are at all times.

- They have GPS.

- Yeah.

GPS is great for navigation,

but it doesn't work indoors.

Can't tell if you're

on the first floor or the ninth,

so it's useless in urban warfare.

But with 3DPS,

if I can Trojan-horse tracking data

in an e-mail to each of them...

...I could make this thing work.

- Who are you calling?

- My own R&D focus group.

Yo, Kev, it's me.

I need your help.

I got recruited by one of those...

...headhunters.

Long story short,

I work for Eikon now.

I heard they weren't hiring.

I got lucky, I guess.

I guess.

Well, hey, I've been working

on what we talked about,

and the military thing is

definitely possible.

I just tweaked

the Eikon software a little.

I'm calling it the Boomerang.

Just check this out.

I sent your 3DPS data e-mail to you,

me and Allison.

So now our phones track each other

working in unison.

And you were right, the SDPS,

that's what makes the difference.

That was a good call, by the way.

Dude, that's awesome.

You crushed this. Good job.

Yeah, but that ain't all.

Pick up Allison.

- What can I get you?

- Another OJ.

One more OJ.

How the hell did you do that?

Who orders orange juice in a bar?

Someone who wants to keep

his edge.

- What's your name?

- Allison.

Do you know that guy?

Hey, OJ!

We're sleeping together, me and her.

Nice to meet you, Allison.

All I do is sit around here,

watching her get hit on all the time.

It's exhausting!

I need a job.

Good morning, Caroline.

Excuse me.

- Jock Goddard.

- Adam Cassidy.

Of course you are. Everything all right?

Settling in OK?

- Yeah. Thank you.

- How's your office?

- Oh, yeah, it's beautiful. Thank you.

- Good. Let's get started.

OK.

Well, sir, I'm afraid

you've wasted a lot of money

developing Type X

as a social networking device.

But the military applications

of this device are undeniable.

I sent you all an e-mail this morning

in which I encoded 3DPS-like data

to identify you.

Everyone I sent an e-mail to is

in this room. Except for one.

Death by friendly fire remains

a sad reality of war.

3DPS is more precise than GPS

and works on a Z-axis.

While the product was deemed

too heavy for civilians,

an added 12 ounces is

nothing to a soldier.

So this is all so you can see

what floor our phones are on?

Yes. 'Cause in the heat of battle

that can be the difference

between killing the enemy or...

...killing your own.

Type X just saved her life.

Good morning.

Good morning, sorry.

Morning.

How long have you had with this?

Seventy-two hours, sir.

Let's put together a team for Adam.

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