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I did n’t get to watch Silicon Valley ’s “ Binding Arbitration ” until this good afternoon because of WWDC , so apologies for the late post . In the next-to-last installment , we ’re treated to some whole courtroom dramatic play , Jared quote Hitler , and a plotline should call up a thousand bell for anyone who read Gizmodo five age ago .

The episode ’s action commence when Big Head runs into guys from Hooli at a Silicon Valley bar . Poor Bighetti regain a phone they leave behind after bemock him for “ break down his way to the top . ” The phone is running the Nucleus beta , which is sopping hot food waste .

“ Can you imagine if a technical school web log gets their hired hand on this piece of turd ? ” Big Head call for Richard , whose failure to comprehend the opportunity in the state of affairs before note dolt Big Head does not augur well .

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Does this sound familiar ? Back when I was just a spark in Gizmodo ’s eye , our modest blog larn an iPhone under similar circumstance . rend from the ( digital ) ( very old ) ( like really , not very timely at all anymore ) newspaper headline , baby !

This plotline open up up a rum hypothesis : Does Gizmodo live in the Silicon Valley universe ? It ’s already prove that TechCrunch and Re / Code are functioning purveyor of inauguration publicity , but nary a snipping of dialogue is given to the fact that Big Head ’s find parallels the time a guy sold an iPhone 4 epitome to Gizmodo after an Apple employeeleft it at a bar . With how closely this show unremarkably hews to Platonism , the blazing deficiency of reference lead me to think that Mike Judge is subtly signal that his TV show takes place in a slightly darker alternate population , one where I am unemployed .

But anyway . WHATEVER MAN . Richard adjudicate to use the steal phone to get Gavin Belson to crawfish his lawsuit against Pied Piper , since Nucleus is enough of a turd to ruin Hooli ’s repute . Belson is predictably irate . “ Keep in mind these are n’t actual diary keeper , Richard , ” Belson says . “ They ’re technical school journalist . ” Damn . The first cut is the deepest . Still , Belson consort to go into an accelerated two - day trial to decide the lot of the lilliputian startup that really could n’t .

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Since Pied Piper ’s money ran out , its Modern effectual squad is a guy name Pete Monaghan who was disbar for a barrage of bum pursuit , including a Mann Act intrusion . He ’s played by Matt McCoy , who you may remember as Seinfeld ’s second Lloyd Braun if you , like me , are gifted with a specific and negligibly useful natural endowment for identifying guest actors in critically acclaimed 1990s web sitcoms .

Despite being a glorious scumbag , Pete ’s a middling upright non - lawyer , and he discover that Richard did use a Hooli computer at one point to run a trial on Pied Piper by digging through Richard ’s electronic mail . He agnize that Richard is get it on because he sent Big Head an e-mail about his “ lady friend ” being in the shop during the time point he was developing Pied Piper ’s compressing algorithm .

Richard and Big Head had a running joke that Richard ’s laptop is his girlfriend , so he inadvertently hinted that he used Hooli property to work on Pied Piper . “ Are you telling us this entire display case hinges on mass believing that Richard had a girlfriend ? ” Gilfoyle asks . No one is affirmative .

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Erlich and Pete have a howling court showdown where Erlich ’s support of Big Head ’s horrible “ Nip Alert ” app is draw . “ You like Nip Alert , and it was terrible ! ” Pete screams . Then Erlich incidentally reveals that Richard ’s laptop was broken because of Nip Alert , give Hooli ’s lawyers what they need to tease out the ( very , very pitiful ) truth about the “ girlfriend . ”

Richard adjudicate not to lie on the stand , take on that he did practice Hooli attribute to test Pied Piper at one point .

Because this is the instalment before the season conclusion , we do n’t know what the truth will be him , but there ’s another weird development brewing . Jared is still haunt with the resilient provender of a condor egg , and he ’s worried when the mother condor does n’t return to the nest . Gilfoyle and Dinesh warn him that he ’s in a Schrödinger ’s Cat state of affairs , cite everybody ’s favorite quantum mechanics reckon experiment . As long as he does n’t know for sure , the condors could still be live , they argue .

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Jared calls the museum , and it decides to take down the condor feed tv camera since so few people are watch . At the installment ’s finis , Dinesh , Gilfoyle , and Jared watch as the man tasked with taking down the photographic camera ends up falling and potentially dying . The horror that unfolds after Jared decides to encounter out the condor ’s fate root on Dinesh not to seem at his text from Richard about the outcome of the arbitrement .

I ca n’t evidence whether this condor affair was a small B - story or if it ’s conduct up to something else . Maybe the ill - fatten camera guy is still alive , and Pied Piper can gain celebrity by consort the live provender of some kind of 127 hour situation ?

We ’ll have to await and see . Until we do , anything is potential .

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