Tired of working, Cameron dances through the offices, and barges into John Bosworth's office not realizing he's still there. She has an idea that will help them have the space they need to make the machine work. Gordon's wife sees him working on the machine design at home. He also offers to "come down there" but whether for romance, support or supervision, Cameron is not interested. Meanwhile Joe calls Cameron and gently tells her to work faster. "It wont work so why try?" He also convinces Gordon they have to tell Joe they can't engineer the machine, offering to be wing man, but Gordon decides to tell Joe himself. Joe does his best to be a "Team Player"Īnother late night meeting with Brian leads to one complaint after another. Joe agrees to this and also to go to a dinner with a local, wealthy businesswoman who will provide the capital they need. Nathan tells Joe that neither him nor John was wrong in what they did and that he likes him trying to do things to succeed but that John is in charge, especially when it comes to money. Joe and John have dinner with Nathan Cardiff, founder of Cardiff Electric. Donna looks skyward, her eyes glaze over and its obvious she HAS thought about what her life with Hunt in it would be like. Her mother starts mentioning exotic places, and says "can you just imagine". Donna mentions that Hunt is liked and probably will get transferred overseas. Her mother mentions they haven't seen Hunt (Donna's boss) at the club since he "came back" and hopes he will show off his "foreign wife". Gordon's neighbor encourages him to let the engineers go home in a show of good will, and then proceeds to tell Gordon why everything will fail.ĭonna's parents arrive for a visit, and the criticism of Gordon begins while he works late again. but John queers the deal and the investor leaves suddenly without seeing everything Joe wants to show. Joe is hesitant to let the investor bring his people in because they will restrict his ability to move away from the old-school business practices even more. Joe tries to get John Bosworth to play along and make a deal that will result in financing that Cardiff Electric badly needs. Joe meets with an investor from out of town. Cameron calls Joe, but Debbie is now answering his phone so she hangs up, embarrassed. Hunt appears to be very sweet on Donna and requests, rather than demand, the report be delivered in time. Brian (Gordon's next door neighbor) is quick to tell Gordon each thing that will go wrong if they do this or what will go wrong if they do that.ĭonna meets with her boss Hunt Whitmarsh, whom she apparently has known a long time. Every idea that appears to be a step forward causes steps back (hypothetically) because they realize counter-problems that will be caused by each idea if they try it all the way through. They discuss the various challenges they are facing. Gordon meets with a group of engineers who still work for Cardiff Electric.
#Halt and catch fire season 1 code#
She types computer code but keeps getting stuck. yes this is my team!"Ĭameron, music BLASTING, is having nothing but trouble. Gordon replies "After firing 46 men who have no experience at all doing what we do. The engineers make fun of Joe, he gets mad and unloads on Gordon about "his team". Joe addresses the Engineering team, shows them a briefcase and proclaims that within six months Cardiff will produce a 15 pound portable. The new ex-employee says he cant wait until ".this once great company has a for lease sign out from after you PC-Visonquest evaporates!" The scene shifts to Gordon letting an employee go so gently that he doesn't know he is being fired until another employee barges in and demands that Gordon sign the reference letter that he wrote himself, instead of making him wait his turn. Cameron awakes In the basement lab at Cardiff, while Joe awakes to a display of Compaq, Osborne luggables and an unidentified LCD screen computer. His neighbor, Brian Braswell, offers a ride to Cardiff together. Opens with Gordon looking over a barely living bird, while Donna stresses over schedule. Meanwhile, Joe and Bosworth try to attain the necessary funds in order to keep their project going.
#Halt and catch fire season 1 portable#
Gordon and Cameron continue to work on their new portable PC, but the problems it brings begin to pile up for them.
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