Richard causes trouble when he sympathizes with a competitor.

Richard is faced with a tough decision, regarding the future of Pied Piper. Dinesh flirts with a woman online.

Monica wants Pied Piper to participate in a livestream event. Erlich reconnects with Double-A, someone he used to mentor. Jared encourages Monica and Carla to be friends.

Gavin continues to cause trouble for Pied Piper. Gilfoyle works on building servers. Jared becomes Richard’s roommate.

Richard and Erlich disagree over a potential employee. Dinesh and Gilfoyle worry that someone they recommended for the company will be receiving more money than they make.

While considering Gavin’s proposal, Richard is approached by Russ Hanneman, an image-conscious billionaire who wants to back Pied Piper, but may not be as “hands-off” as he claims. Gilfoyle and Dinesh play hardball to get what they want; Gavin finds a new strategy in dealing with the enemy.

In the wake of Hooli’s bombshell, Richard and the guys struggle to find a backer as they face legal and financial woes. Monica attempts to balance her interest in Pied Piper with her job. A cash-strapped Dinesh tries to put an end to the Kickstarter campaign for his cousin’s new app, Bro. Richard gets a surprising offer.

The Pied Piper guys are wined and dined by every venture capitalist under the sun, while Monica adjusts to a new managing partner at Raviga as the company faces major changes.

Poised to compete at TechCrunch Disrupt, the guys of Pied Piper become worried after an impressive presentation by Gavin Belson. As Jared tries to pivot the company, Richard is inspired to make big changes at the last minute.

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Richard feels the pressure to finish his demo, but finds himself distracted by a girl he dated briefly, who’s now spreading rumors about him. Jared worries that Monica is taking his place in the company. Dinesh develops a crush on a girl at a neighboring booth. Erlich’s scandalous past connection to one of the judges threatens Pied Piper’s chances.

Richard feels threatened when the team hires “The Carver” a hacker with a notorious reputation, to help with Pied Piper’s cloud. Jared finds himself taken for a ride when he seeks out Peter Gregory’s signature. Erlich and Dinesh compete for the attention of Tara, Gilfoyle’s visiting girlfriend. Later, Dinesh faces a sexual dilemma.

Erlich convinces a graffiti artist to create Pied Piper’s logo; Jared works to make the company more efficient; Richard learns that he has eight weeks to prepare for a live demonstration.

At Peter’s toga party, Richard drunkenly promises to make Erlich a board member, which he regrets the next morning. After being unassigned at Hooli, Big Head finds others like him who have made careers out of doing nothing. Richard struggles to put Pied Piper’s vision into words for a presentation without Erlich; later, he discovers an interesting connection between Peter and Gavin Belson.

While Gavin Belson begins to hype Nucleus, a competing compression platform, Richard learns that the name Pied Piper is already registered to a sprinkler company, forcing him to negotiate. Meanwhile, Erlich goes on a vision quest for a new company name, and Peter Gregory proves elusive when one of his companies asks for money.

After a celebratory party at the Hacker Hostel, Richard and Erlich learn that Peter Gregory won’t pay up until they deliver a viable business plan that includes a slimmed-downed staff. A desperate Richard hires former Belson underling Jared, and they set about trying to trim the fat. While Gilfoyle and Dinesh prove essential, Big Head’s place in the company is less certain.

Attending an elaborate launch party, Richard and his computer programmer friends – Big Head, Dinesh and Gilfoyle – dream of making it big. Instead, they’re living in the communal Hacker Hostel owned by former programmer Erlich, who gets to claim ten percent of anything they invent there. When it becomes clear that Richard has developed a powerful compression algorithm for his website, Pied Piper, he finds himself courted by Gavin Belson, his egomaniacal corporate boss, who offers a $10 million buyout by his firm, Hooli. But Richard holds back when well-known investor Peter Gregory makes a counteroffer.

Jane and Weller’s romantic getaway is cut short when the team must stop Madeline Burke’s plans to blow up a building and crash a plane that turns out to be more than the average commercial airliner.

Roman’s clues lead to a billionaire hypochondriac with stem cells that could cure Jane, who is now on her deathbed. Patterson and Rich offer to trade the Book of Secrets for the stem cells — but first they’ll have to get it.

The murder of a best-selling true crime novelist sends Jane and the team on a hunt for a serial killer detailed in the author’s final manuscript, which also features lightly fictionalized versions of the FBI team.

Reade confronts Zapata, while the team follows a lead to a potential cure for Jane.

The team’s desperate gambit to get Jane back puts her head-to-head with Remi.

Remi races against the ever-worsening ZIP poisoning to enact her ultimate plan.

Remi’s schemes put her and Weller in danger, while Patterson and Rich solve a mysterious puzzle at the FBI.

The team is drawn into dangerous political intrigue when a tattoo points to someone from Weitz’s past.

A blast from Rich DotCom’s past sends the FBI team after a deadly terrorist plot.

A decoded tattoo leads the team to a mysterious cache of dolls which turn out to be vehicles for biological weapons being sent around the world and now to the FBI. Jane exploits the fear of the weapons to advance her own plan to recover Shepherd.

Patterson and Rich DotCom take the reigns as the FBI team faces an explosive threat.

The entire intelligence community is put in jeopardy when Remi co-opts an FBI case.

The FBI team hunts a dangerous enemy operative, and a deadly new foe emerges.

Jane and Weller hunt Roman back to where it all started and attempt to stop him.

Jane is forced to recruit someone from her past to help take down a dangerous alliance.

After receiving shocking news about Avery’s father, Jane and Weller must hunt down an elusive criminal. Meanwhile, Patterson’s father helps the team in the lab.