Paranoia Page #4

Design, engineering. Let's see

if we can get some DOD funding.

Issues? No? Good.

Good.

- Nice work.

- OK.

I thought that went pretty well.

Beginner's luck.

- You are hard to please.

- Not that you'd remember.

Let me take you

to dinner this weekend.

I have to be

in the Hamptons this weekend.

Oh, good. I'll come with you.

It wasn't an invitation.

OK.

Hi, Adam. I'm calling

from Jock Goddard's office.

Jock is having a few people over

to his house in the Hamptons

on Saturday

and he'd like you to join him.

So now we go

for military funding.

Dude, that's great.

Congratulations, man.

Hey, so, I got a favor to ask.

I got an interview at Eikon next week.

And I know I'm gonna be

another resume in a stack

if I don't build some traction.

Right.

So, I feel awkward

even asking you this, but...

Hey, of course.

All right,

I'll speak to HR on Monday.

All right.

Thanks.

Nicest guy.

Right through the red light

and hit the back of the car.

- Very apologetic.

- Somebody looks lost.

Oh, hey!

- Hi.

- Hey.

- There he is.

- I'm glad you could make it.

- Thanks for having me, Mr. Goddard.

- Jock.

- You know Tom, of course.

- Hey.

Jock tells me my stock's gone up

in value since your Type X pitch.

First time up at bat and you bang it

off the scoreboard? Way to go.

And this is Emma.

She's spearheading the marketing

on our new smartphone, Occura.

Nice suit.

Watch our for her. She's one

of those Ivy Leaguers. Princeton.

Yale, actually.

Where her brothers went.

How did you know

I went to Yale?

It was on Facebook

or something.

Ah.

So much for privacy.

Privacy.

Absolute myth, no such thing.

- Tom, you want a drink?

- Yeah, absolutely.

A glass of wine, sir?

- White wine.

- Mineral water, cold.

See you later.

Kind of like a Bordeaux,

more dry.

if you're looking

for the bathroom, you missed it.

Yeah, sorry, I, uh...

I saw the radio. Does it work?

Yeah, they work.

They all work. I built them.

That's how I spent

my teens. Ham radio.

Where'd you grow up?

Town of Hamilton, 3500 people.

Where is that?

It doesn't matter.

You remind me of Wyatt.

I'm surprised he let you go.

He wasn't too happy about it.

I knew he'd be

my competition someday.

I knew it before he did.

Why'd you take him

under your wing?

It's not about him.

It's about putting products out there

to make people's lives better.

Competition fuels innovation.

Without it, Eikon wouldn't

be where it is today.

And where is that?

On the eve of a revolution.

Is that your son?

Yeah, that's Dylan.

You have a bit of success,

you begin to think

that you've got some control

over things, but...

...sh*t happens to everybody.

Yeah.

I lost my mother when I was seven.

Do you remember her?

Not much.

I feel like I lose her

a little more every day.

Yeah.

Couple nights after Dilly died,

I woke up in the middle of the night

in a panic.

Rummaged through the whole house,

his whole room...

...looking for anything.

Kid's drawings, schoolwork...

...old pair of tennis shoes.

Anything that would keep him alive.

The front hall, under the stairs.

Sir?

The bathroom.

Thanks.

You know,

the suit's not all that bad.

You don't have to hide way out here.

I was, uh, playing hard to get.

But you're already gotten.

So tell me,

how is it that you know

so much about me

and I know nothing about you?

It's this, uh, little row home

my grandmother owned.

Five of us sharing one bathroom.

My dad was a security guard.

Now he has emphysema,

but still smokes.

And I'm pretty sure he's putting it

to the nurse I'm paying for.

When I think of losing him...

Aah...

What about you?

I come from a family where...

...the expectation is so high

that I can't really ever succeed.

It's fine,

it's just that I keep trying.

So...

I'm trying to sleep

my way to the top.

Are we covered?

Come on. Take me home?

Yeah.

Dad?

You got a visitor.

Who are you?

You might want to remove the battery

from your cellular device.

What?

You think 'cause you're not on a call,

they can't hear you?

Agent Gamble.

I'm with the FBI's

Criminal Investigation Division.

We've been looking at the Wyatt Corp

for about five years now.

- I don't work for Wyatt.

- John Moore did.

He was in Wyatt's training program

in '09.

Stella Ross, migrated

from Wyatt to Eikon like you.

Two months later,

her steering column exploded.

And Richard McAllister...

...whose Ethion work

you drafted off of.

I didn't draft off his work.

A month ago,

you were circling the drain at Wyatt.

Now you're some hotshot exec

over at Eikon? Don't bullshit me.

OK, I think it's time for you to go.

You think Wyatt's gonna fill

your pockets and let you walk?

I don't know what

you're talking about, OK?

Come on, Adam.

How long do you think

you can keep this up?

All it takes is one mistake,

one slip up.

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

Just don't wait till it's too late.

You wanna tell me

what's going on?

You wouldn't understand.

Yeah, I was probably too busy

putting three meals

in front of you every day

and giving you all the love

that parents had.

Come on, Adam.

We had a perfect life.

You know, if your insurance covered

even half of what morn needed...

Don't try to revise death.

What did you want me to do?

I wanted you to fight.

I wanted us to have enough

to at least give her a chance.

You gotta give that up.

These companies steal so much,

there's nothing left to earn.

Yeah, what you're doing

doesn't make it right.

No.

No one can make it right.

So, why shouldn't

I get my share? Huh?

The FBI just walked out of our house.

I don't want to end up like you.

So that's what he's up to.

That's what you wanted.

I'm done now. This isn't who I am.

This is exactly who you are.

Did you frisk him?

You hiding something?

Knock it Off!

You've been a little temperamental

lately, haven't you?

Are you falling for that girl?

- He's falling for Jock.

- All right, all right!

What'd he talk about?

He talked about progress,

enriching people's lives.

Yeah, he talk about his son?

Yeah. A little.

It seem rehearsed?

No.

It did the first time he told it.

That was when the world fell in love

with Jock Goddard,

the grieving father.

That story of his little dead boy

saved Eikon.

I got what you asked for, OK?

We had a deal.

I just want my money.

Oh, he wants his money.

We'll keep your money for you.

You'll be doing five to ten upstate.

I got the specs. That was the deal.

Pictures are no good to me.

I need to know what it does, I need

to hold it in my hand and see it run!

Do you understand me?

Put it in my f***ing hand!

Or what? I end up like Richard?

Jock builds one prototype.

It's assembled in the vault,

piece by piece, until beta trials.

It stays in the vault

on the 38th floor.

Without files, without source code,

you can't do...

No, I don't need his files.

I just need to see his vision.

No, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm out.

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