[percussive music]
♪ ♪
- Ah.
Do you ever have those mornings
where you wake up and everything just feels right
in the world?
- You've clearly never defended a woman
who went to jail for stealing baby formula.
What is with that suit?
- It's a big day, so I figured,
you know, why not dress to impress?
Oh, and this beauty's got it all--
outside pockets, inside pockets,
pockets in pockets.
- I think you look great.
- Or like a congresswoman from Nebraska.
- They're here!
Check it out.
Not every day your parents
are centerfolds. - [gasps, laughs]
- Ah, before I look,
this is a landscaping magazine, right?
- Oh, yeah.
- When we go to the install later,
I'm taking this with me, and if Mrs. Adelson
says one more word about that magnolia,
I'm gonna wave this in her face.
- Hold on a second.
Did they make my eyebrows look bigger?
- Am I getting too detailed?
I feel like I'm getting too detailed.
- This is good.
I asked you to recount the first time
you confronted loss.
These details may give us context
for why you've been feeling this way recently,
and I'm not just talking about Max leaving,
but all the losses you've had to face.
- Okay, but...
a lot happened on that day.
- Well, it's a good thing I've got nowhere to go.
- "Mitchell Clarke describes the business he created
"with his longtime partner and wife, Maggie,
as the greatest joy of his life."
I mean, you do have two loving children, but sure.
- I swear that we talked about you guys in the interview.
- Oh, really, yeah, all right. - We did!
- Well, I guess next time.
Uh, by the way, Dad, thank you so much
for lending me the duffle bag. - Anytime.
- Off to Monterey with my lady, and not to brag,
but I did score a pretty sick Groupon that,
fingers crossed, also grants us access to the aquarium.
- Ugh, I want to make fun of you,
but I love that aquarium.
That kelp forest is my happy place.
Well, I should go, too.
Can't be late to my first day at Sprqpoint.
Do I look nervous? I feel nervous.
But I'm also excited. I think I'm gonna vomit.
- [chuckles] Please, not on the magazine.
Okay, no, leave the dishes. - Leaving the dishes.
- You go have a great first day.
- I'm gonna go have a great first day.
It's just...
this is...
the Sprqpoint.
And I know there's, like,
five women at the whole company,
but there's about to be six,
and she's gonna change the game.
- You must be excited to meet her.
- Hey, Zo, before I forget,
I made you a little something special.
This kind of reminded me...
Of your first day at school.
- Thanks, Dad.
[sighs]
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Look at me.
You got nothing to worry about.
They're not gonna know what hit 'em.
Go get 'em, kid.
[dreamy music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Yeah, before this, I was a software engineer
over at JPL, so if you want,
I can hook you up with some pretty cool NASA swag.
- Wow, you were at JPL?
Uh, did you work on the InSight mission?
- I did...
get CC'd on a few emails about that,
so, yeah, basically.
- So cool.
I'm Zoey, by the way. - Oh. Leif.
Pronounced, but not spelled like
the principal lateral appendage on the vascular plant stem.
- Oh, you know, I should find my name tag, too,
but let's chat later. - Yeah.
So, anyway...
- Could you believe that dude wore a suit
for his first day?
Someone's trying a little hard, huh?
- I don't know, or maybe somebody's
not trying hard enough. I don't know.
- Oh, I didn't mean-- Your suit is very professional.
Makes me want to buy a house from you or something.
- You know, I don't care what you think
because I'm more interested in being a great coder
and being a trailblazer for young women who--
- Ooh, Sprqpoint Frisbees!
[dreamlike music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Come with me, and you'll be ♪
♪ In a world of pure imagination ♪
♪ Take a look ♪
♪ And you'll see ♪
♪ Into your imagination ♪ [chuckles]
♪ We'll begin with a spin ♪
♪ Traveling in the world of my creation ♪
♪ What we'll see ♪
♪ Will defy ♪
♪ Explanation ♪
- Oh, this defies explanation, all right.
- Can you not ruin this for me?
Danny Michael Davis is a genius.
[elevator bell dings]
♪ ♪
[tempo increases]
- ♪ There is no ♪
[dubstep music]
♪ Life I know ♪
♪ ♪
♪ To compare with pure imagination ♪
♪ Living there, you'll be free ♪
♪ If you truly wish ♪
♪ To be ♪
Yeah! [cheers and applause]
There were supposed to be glitter cannons.
Tony! Put me down.
[cheers and applause stop]
[applause resumes]
Thank you.
And welcome to my chocolate factory, pre-hires.
- What does he mean "pre-hires"?
- Look to your left.
- Yeah, good, good, good. Look to your right.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Neither person will be here by the end of the day.
Consider this the final round of the hiring process.
Okay, let the games begin.
[cell phone beeps] - Hey, honey. How's it going?
- [sighs] Not so great, Mom.
It turns out those four rounds of interviews
only got me in the front door,
and now I'm gonna be competing in a total death match
for my dream job.
- Oh.
Well, you can do this.
You would not be there if you couldn't.
You've got this in the bag.
- Along with a killer turkey sandwich.
- Forget about the sandwich.
I'm more excited about the Fruit Roll-Up
you snuck in there.
How's the installation going?
- Um, we--we left there for a little bit.
We're, uh, we're actually headed
to the hospital.
- W-what?
- Your mom's a little short of breath
and having some chest pains.
- He's being overprotective.
I am fine.
- I called Dr. Sue, and he said
she should go to the ER and get a stress test
just to be sure.
- I'm perfectly fine, Zoey.
I really am.
- Okay.
But keep me posted.
And also, maybe when you're done,
Dad can swing by here and tell people
to stop making fun of my suit.
I think I was just so preoccupied with the idea
of losing the job I always wanted that...
[clicks tongue] I didn't realize that this would be
the day that I'd almost lose my mom.
- It must have been very difficult.
- Mm, that's one way to describe it.
[scoffs] Another way would be
scary as--
[heavy guitar music]
[elevator bell dings]
- Hello, everybody.
Welcome to the fourth floor.
Everyone, please follow me.
- Oh, wow, look at this place.
Sprqpoint has everything.
Full dental and indoor ball pits.
- Uh, so does McDonald's.
They actually paid for my college roommate's Invisalign.
- There he is.
We did it, man!
Spelling-Bee Boyz back again.
- No, Tobin, we're not back again.
Why didn't you tell me about the final round of hiring
before I quit my job and moved
to the most expensive city in America?
- Dude, Danny swore he wouldn't pull stunts like that
after last year's competition,
which I can't talk about, by the way.
I signed an NDA.
- Yeah, and I signed a 16-month lease.
- Chill, dude, you're gonna crush this thing, okay?
While also helping that smoke show get a job.
What? What, why can't both those things coexist?
Hear me out.
[percussive music]
♪ ♪
- My dad's a dentist, so I never had these growing up.
Wow, milk first, huh?
You know that's a classic psychopath move?
- And you know you're headed for an intense sugar crash
in a couple hours, right?
- Oh, this is just bowl number one.
I plan on riding this wave all day long.
- Hello?
Pre-hires? You there?
- Oh, that's us.
- Please, gather around my faces.
[slurps] Mm.
What is this, lava?
Tony, blow on this for me.
- [exhales deeply]
- Today the eight of you will compete in pairs
for two positions on the fourth floor.
Three challenges total, one team eliminated
after each round.
Choose your partners wisely.
- Oh, Leif, hey.
Do you want to be partners? - Yes.
- Um, actually, I think he's gonna team up with Amber here.
She interned at Tesla.
- Okay, if Amber's so great, no offense,
um, how come Tesla didn't offer her a permanent position?
- They did, but I didn't want to live
in Uncle Elon's shadow. - Okay.
[cell phone buzzing]
- Come on, dude, please don't make me choose sides.
- Hey, Leif, if you just give me
one minute to grab this phone call,
I can tell you all the reasons why you and I--
- Zoey, I'm so sorry--I may have to go with Amber on this.
[buzzing continues] - [sighs]
What's happening? Is everything okay?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I just talked to Mom.
Should we be concerned about this stress-test thing?
I mean, Kersten thinks I'm overreacting, but--
- I mean, I'm not, like, a doctor or anything,
but it just sounds like your mom got a little bit winded
lifting a pot.
- Yeah.
Yeah, maybe I'm overthinking it.
Um, just in case, you know what?
We'll cancel lunch, and we'll just wait to hear.
- Okay, I have to go.
But, David, if Mom and Dad said not to worry,
I wouldn't worry.
- All right, love you.
- Howdy, partner.
[slurping, crunches]
- What is all this?
- Unchecked spending by a major corporation?
- Oh, are they gonna make us play with kids?
- Well, if they do, you'll have a leg up.
- Why, because of my-- - Clown costume? Yeah.
- [gasps]
- Hello, my children.
For your first challenge,
you have two hours to assemble as many of the items
that you see before you as possible.
Bonus points to whoever puts the playset together.
My nephew's birthday is this weekend.
Okay.
Go.
- Okay, uh...
- Okay, we got puzzles, Legos, IKEA furniture.
I say we start with the highest point values first.
- Can you just hold on?
Let's just take a minute to do the math, okay?
Find the optimal set of large and small tasks.
It's a classic dynamic programming problem.
- Cool, well, while you write a position paper on it,
I'm gonna get started on this sweet 250-point T. rex.
- Okay, that could take hours. - Not for me.
I've been stacking bricks since I was five.
Once I made a life-size replica of my dog that was so good,
my mom tried to walk it.
- I get it. I was an indoor kid, too.
Okay, you know what? You do your thing, and I'll do mine.
- Fine.
- As odd as it was to be playing with children's toys,
there was a method to Danny's madness.
He was testing our ability to prioritize,
which Max was exceptionally terrible at.
- [humming "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"]
♪ ♪
- You're going to lose this for both of us.
Why don't you just bail on that lost cause
and come help me?
- Well, if you want help so bad,
why don't you call Mommy and Daddy?
They packed your lunch-- maybe they can hang
your horse puzzle on the fridge when you get home.
- Five, four, three, two, one.
Time.
- Well, would you look at that?
Guess life found a way.
- Hmm.
- Here we go.
Our winners. [clears throat]
With 893 points...
Leif and Amber.
In second place
with a score of 721...
Josh and Curtis.
And in a third-place position
with a distant 519...
Zoey and Max.
- [sighs] - Yes!
- Well, we made the cut. - Barely.
I understand-- this is all a big joke for you,
but it's really important to me.
So can you just...
pretend to care, for my sake?
- Hey, I want to win this, too. - [scoffs]
Could have fooled me.
[sighs] Look, let's just try to work together next round,
and if somehow we pull it off,
we can request desks on opposite sides of the bullpen.
- Deal. - Great.
- I call window.
- Yo.
Baller win back there.
So catch the new "Furious 7" trailer?
- ♪ I can almost see it ♪
♪ That dream I'm dreaming ♪
♪ But there's a voice inside my head ♪
♪ Saying you'll never reach it ♪
♪ Every step I'm taking ♪
♪ Every move I'm mak-- ♪
- Do you realize you're singing out loud?
Pull yourself together, man.
- [exhaling sharply]
- Oh, finally.
Thanks, Tony.
Mm, mm-mm.
No, it's like kissing a corpse.
I mean, how hard is it to make a good cup of coffee?
You know I like to keep my heart rate
slightly higher than normal at all times.
All right.
I know how stressful today is,
which is why we're all going to take a lunch break.
- Oh, that's nice.
- If you can break into your lunch.
Welcome to round two.
Feel free to use all the resources in the room.
Good luck. - Okay. Uh...
Okay, so this is disassembled Python
which means in order to crack the code,
we have to recursively generate the Fibonacci Sequence,
which, as you know, is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21--
- Remember when I said no detail is too much?
This is too much.
- So, anyway, obviously my plan worked,
and we were the first team to open the box,
only to discover...
A second box?
- What? What are we gonna do? I'm starving.
- Okay, well...
my sandwich doesn't seem so stupid now, huh?
Okay, um... Ugh!
Let's think. Danny said that we could use
any of the resources in the room, right?
- Right. - Resources.
Resources, resources.
Human resources.
Max, Max, Max, Max.
Look, some of these letters are underlined.
It's a cipher. - Okay.
- T-H-I-N-K... Go, okay.
both: Spells "thinking out loud."
- We've been thinking out loud.
How is that helpful? Why are you smiling?
- Because when I was researching this job--
- You researched this job? - Of course I did.
Anyway, I read that Danny Michael Davis
is a huge Ed Sheeran fan.
"Thinking Out Loud" is a song, Zoey.
- It is?
- For real? It's his biggest hit.
- ♪ When your legs don't work like they used to before ♪
♪ And I can't sweep you off of your feet ♪
- Sorry, I don't know it.
- No, the clue might be in the lyrics.
Here, write this down.
Uh...
♪ Will your mouth still remember ♪
♪ The taste of my love ♪
♪ And will your eyes still smile from your cheeks ♪
Write it down. - Sorry, uh, um...
will your mouth still smile from your cheeks...
Sorry, even though you're, like, a good singer,
like, a surprisingly good singer
maybe you should keep your voice down
so that everybody else--
- ♪ And, darling, I will be loving you ♪
♪ Till we're 70 ♪
- It's the song. The clue is in the song.
- ♪ And, baby, my heart could still fall as-- ♪
- ♪ Hard at 23 ♪
♪ I'm thinking about how-- ♪
- ♪ People fall in love in mysterious ways ♪
both: ♪ Maybe just the touch of a hand ♪
♪ Oh, me, I fall in love with you every single day ♪
- Max.
both: ♪ And I just want to tell you I am ♪
♪ So, honey, now ♪
- Ah, very good. - Thank you.
Both: ♪ Take me into your loving arms ♪
- Max, if you'll stop with that weird duet battle,
I opened the box.
- ♪ Kiss me under the night-- ♪
What happened? - I opened the box.
- What? How did you do that?
- It was the numbers in the song, 70 and 23.
- Oh, my God. We did it.
- We're first! - We're first!
- We were first! - We're first!
[laughs]
Well, that was anticlimactic.
- Congratulations.
Four of you are going on to the final round.
Josh, Curtis,
you're excused.
- Can we still have our lunch?
- No.
- So how is the hot dog?
- Honestly, I'm not even sure it's cooked.
- Hey, that was impressive...
I mean, what you did back there.
- Me? - Yeah.
- You cracked the code.
I just listen to too much top 40 radio,
which reminds me, we got to get you, like,
a Spotify account or something, 'cause you're clearly
not getting enough music in your life.
- I'm sorry if I was hard on you before.
I've wanted to work at a place like this
for as long as I can remember.
Truly, I...
I made a cardboard cell phone when I was in kindergarten,
and I tried to call Steve Jobs during circle time.
I just--I really,
really, really, really want this job.
- I'm sorry, too.
I shouldn't have ragged on your family like that.
Truth is...
I wish I had that kind of support.
No, my dad's probably just waiting at home
right now for me to call him
and tell him how badly I screwed this one up.
- That's awful.
- Yeah, I just...
I don't want him to think I'm a failure, you know?
- Well, for what it's worth,
I don't think you're a failure.
Snarky? Yes.
Little bit of a chip on your shoulder? Sure.
But not a failure.
- Well, that's probably just 'cause the nerves.
I'm normally very charming.
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
- I'm not seeing it.
So I'm guessing your dad never let you have
a Fruit Roll-Up growing up?
- Sticky candy that clings to your teeth?
All the time.
Uh, okay.
Oh, my God.
- Right? [cell phone buzzing]
- It's perfect. [both laugh]
- Oh, um, I should take this. Hold on.
Hey, Dad.
- Hey, kiddo.
I know you got a lot going on, but I thought you should know,
your mom failed her stress test.
- Wait.
Uh, uh, but she's okay? She's gonna be okay?
- Well, they also did some blood tests, and...
she may have had a small heart attack.
They're gonna need to open the blocked arteries,
so they're prepping her for surgery.
- Uh, okay, uh, wh...
Which hospital? I'll be right there.
- San Francisco Memorial, but, honey, please, don't come.
I can handle it.
There's not gonna be anything to do but...sit here.
And your mother and I know
how much this opportunity means to you.
- But is she going to be okay?
[serious music]
- I'll check in with you soon.
♪ ♪
- Up until this point in my life, the idea of loss...
Like, real...
Life-changing loss,
always seemed so removed from me,
like it was something that happened
to other people, not us.
[somber music]
- Hey, you okay?
- Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.
Let's just focus. [device whirring]
- Well, these things will never get old, will they?
Okay, last people standing,
time for your final round of fun.
Each team has two hours to create
a new product using the smart tech on these carts.
Teams will present to the entire fourth floor,
and then I'll hire the top two performers.
Godspeed...
which you will literally need,
because I've given you entirely too little time
to accomplish this task. [whirring]
- Okay, we are going to nail this,
which actually sparks an idea.
What if we build a robot that just hammers stuff.
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
- See, now I know you're not okay,
because that's a terrible idea.
What's happening? - It's my mom.
Uh, she's at the hospital.
They think she might have had a heart attack?
- Oh, my God. I'm so sorry.
- Yeah, but my dad says he has it under control,
which he usually does, so, um...
- Go. Go be with your mom.
- Really? Should I? - Yes.
- Okay. [sighs]
Ah, yeah.
Okay, um, you're right.
I'm gonna...
I'm gonna go tell Danny that I'm dropping out
of the competition.
But don't worry, 'cause you got this.
Okay?
You deserve to be here.
- Hold on.
- Danny never said pre-hires couldn't work remotely.
I could do all the boots-on-the-ground stuff
from here while you crunch code on the way to the hospital.
- You don't have to just figure out a way
to keep me in the competition. - This isn't charity, Zoey.
I need you.
We work better together as a team, okay?
We could do this.
And if we can't, it confirms all my father's fears about me,
and you never get to live out your lifelong dream.
- Right. [laughs] So...
so what you're saying is, no pressure.
- No pressure.
[tires screech]
[car door opens, closes]
- Got any song requests?
I have tons of backing tracks that I can sing over.
I call it "Mo's Exquisite Playlist."
- Whatever's fine. Just please hurry.
- All right. "Shut Up and Drive" it is.
[energetic rock music plays]
♪ I've been looking for a driver who is qualified ♪
♪ So, if you think that you're the one ♪
♪ Step into my ride ♪
♪ I'm a fine-tuned, supersonic speeding machine ♪
♪ With a sunroof top and a gangster lean ♪
- Hey.
Are you in a music video right now?
- Possibly. Hey, I had an idea.
Maybe my mom can help us with this challenge.
- Zoey, I know you really depend on your family,
but asking a woman to leave the hospital--
- Not what I'm talking about. Nope.
It had me thinking about how Danny likes to keep
his heart rate higher than normal.
So what if we get the heart rate monitor
on a fitness watch to communicate
with that automated coffeemaker?
- We could always have a hot cup of coffee waiting for him.
It'd be like the ultimate intern.
I mean, even Danny Michael Davis
couldn't make it cry.
I'll start configuring the watch right now--
- I barely heard that last part, but, uh...
start working on a prototype,
and I can try to write the code.
- You got it.
- ♪ Now shut up and drive, drive, drive, drive ♪
♪ Shut up and drive, drive, drive, drive ♪
- Could you just turn it down a bit?
- No, I cannot turn it down,
Redd Foxx.
I just got a new job as a building manager,
which means I am through driving around rude nerds.
- Oh, I don't mean to be rude,
I just am on my way--
- And now I have so much time to focus on
all of my passion projects, which I will list
in order of importance.
Number one--my BFF Zora and I are starting a jeans company.
Number two--
- Honey...
what are we doing here?
Weren't we just installing
a garden this morning?
- We were.
And we'll be installing many more very soon.
- But not for Ms. Adelson.
- Definitely not.
- Mitchell...
Listen...
if anything should happen to me in there,
it's okay,
because if one of us had to go it alone from here,
you are the one that's strong enough
to pull that off.
- [chuckles] Let's not even talk that way, okay?
- I know, but I mean it.
You know I'll always be your girl.
I would want you to go on living life,
and I would want you to find love,
and...
I know you would look after Zoey and David,
but I would want you to look after you, too.
- Well...
I just...
can't lose you.
I can't, okay?
So...
- I always thought my parents were sort of...
indestructible
super humans...
but...
in that moment, seeing...
the look on their faces, the love,
and the fear in both their eyes...
I realized they were just people...
two people I could lose at any moment.
[line trilling]
- [whispering] Hey, perfect timing.
Elon's niece and Legolas are just finishing up,
and I guess they swapped hairstyles?
- So we developed a visual way
of tracking real-time Sprqpoint stock performance
relative to other tech companies.
- So you'll always know
how well you're keeping up with the competition.
It's called "The Sprq-ler."
[device beeps, whirs]
- Well...
this product definitely Sprq-ed my interest.
Tony, write that down.
Ooh, all right, what's that? What's it saying?
It's saying Sprqpoint just gained
a percentage point on GoDaddy.
- Oh, uh, Samsung just lapped us.
The new Galaxy 7 must be blowing up.
- Okay, okay, shut it off. It's stressing me out.
- Mm-hmm.
- Ready? We're next. - Okay.
- And, Max, I'd like to say it's your turn,
but it looks like you're missing a teammate.
- No, no, actually, she's right here.
- Hi, I had an urgent matter to attend to,
but I am so pumped to be here.
- Uh, what's that? I can't hear you.
- Again.
- [muffled] I'm so pumped to be here.
- Still can't hear you.
- I-I'm pumped, I'm pumped!
What a thrill and a joy it is to be here!
Whoo!
- Can you get started, please?
And, Tony, standby, because my heart rate
is all over the place.
- Well, funny you should mention that,
because you no longer have to worry
about your heart rate dropping.
- We customized a watch
to read even the slightest dips.
- Then we developed a custom IOT framework
to create an intern that will deliver your coffee
at the exact moment you need it.
- And not only will it be fresh,
it will provide the optimal dose of caffeine
every single time.
[watch beeps]
[coffeemaker whirring, coffee dripping]
[coffeemaker beeps]
[steady music]
♪ ♪
[horn honks]
- The honk was my idea. - Yeah, I hate it.
- Yeah, no, it's a quick fix.
- Ooh, but I love this.
Tony, Tony, this might have rendered you obsolete.
[sighs]
You four have left me with a very hard choice to make.
Okay, I'll be on my decision couch until further notice.
- Okay, great job.
Why don't you go back with your family?
And I'll let you know when Danny decides.
- Sounds good, partner. [clicks tongue]
[phone chimes]
[sighs]
- How'd it go?
- Not clear.
- Hey...
uh, since we had to bail on lunch,
I am legit starving.
- Oh, sorry, yeah.
- Do you think that they have nachos here?
- Nachos? Um, I can definitely find out.
- [chuckles] Thanks, babe. You're the best.
Just make sure the cheese doesn't cool
and get that weird rubbery skin on top.
- No rubbery skin on top. - Mm.
And can you ask them to drain the jalapeños
before putting them on so they don't make the chips soggy?
- Mm-hmm. - Thanks, babe.
- Emily Kang?
- David.
- Hi. - Hi.
I haven't seen you since--
- We decided it was inappropriate for you
to be dating your TA?
- I mean, you were helping teach a class
on legal ethics, so...
- So, uh, what brings you to San Francisco Memorial?
Did you just have a baby? - Ugh, God, no.
I'm just visiting a friend
and pretending like the concept of motherhood
doesn't terrify me.
- Have you taken Corporate America by storm yet?
- I joined a firm of monsters, if that's what you're asking.
You?
- Oh, me, I actually
stayed the course with public defense.
- Really? - Yeah.
- That's-- - Not lucrative, exhausting.
- I was gonna say wonderful.
- Hmm.
- So did you just have a baby or...?
- No, no, no, I just got lost.
Um... - Oh.
- My mom is, uh, she...
she's in surgery right now.
Her heart.
- Oh, I'm sorry. That's terrible.
Is there anything I can do?
- That's real--um...
That's so kind of you.
Thank you. Um...
It was so good running into you.
Um...
[soft music]
- Hey, we should grab coffee sometime.
- Yeah?
[cell phone chimes] Okay, that would be, um--
I got to go.
But, uh, it was really nice--
nice seeing you.
♪ ♪
- Are you okay?
- Hmm? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm just letting my mind wander...
to some not such--
such good places. - Hmm.
Let's not do that, okay?
I'm...
speaking to myself, too.
- Let's focus on something else.
- Max? - Hey, Zo.
I don't know if you go by Zo. That sort of just came out.
- I'll allow it.
Uh, uh...
Max, this is my dad.
Dad, meet Max,
who seems to be covered in glitter.
- I think that's just his natural sparkle, honey.
- Yes, that, and Danny got his glitter cannons working.
You got the job.
♪ ♪
- What are we celebrating? - Your sister got the job.
- Oh, didn't she already have the job?
- It's a long story.
- Oh, well, congrats.
- Just wanted to give you the good news in person
and check on you.
- You said I got the job.
Didn't you mean we got the job?
- No, Danny went with you and Leif,
and it was the right call.
- But we were a team.
- Yeah, I thought we worked pretty well together, too,
but still feels like a win to me.
- Mr. Clarke?
Your wife's out of surgery.
As you know, she suffered a minor myocardial infarction,
so we inserted two stents to open up the blockages.
She'll have to go on statins and anti-clotting medication,
but aside from that, she should be just fine.
- Mm. - You can go see her,
but she's still heavily medicated.
- Thank you, Doctor.
[chuckles]
- Hey, uh, I'm gonna slip out, but I'm glad everything's okay.
- Oh, my God.
Max, um...
thank you for...
everything?
- No problem.
So I guess...nice meeting you?
- Yeah.
Oh.
- I like him.
♪ ♪
- Oh, hey, you know what? Why don't you just
hang back here and enjoy your nachos.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- [chuckles] - [laughs]
- Hey, guys.
- Hey, Mags.
- David, where's, uh...
- Kersten? - Kersten.
- Yeah, I left her in the waiting room.
- Good.
- Good?
- I heard her on the phone with her mother one time,
and she was so mean.
Who's mean to their mother?
- I think I love Codeine Mom even more than Normal Mom.
- And what about Spark Plug? - [laughs]
Well,
it's Point, but...
I got the job.
- [laughing] Oh, yes, I knew it.
I knew it. I knew you'd get that.
- Okay, champ.
- Okay.
- Let's take it easy for today.
Let's get some rest.
- Well, it's really hard to go to sleep
with all these...
bleeps and bloops and...
- We can make it easy.
[monitor beeping]
♪ Stars shine bright above you ♪
- I love that song.
- ♪ Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" ♪
♪ Birds singing in the sycamore tree ♪
♪ Dream a little dream of me ♪
both: ♪ Say "nighty night" and kiss me ♪
♪ Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me ♪
♪ While I'm alone and blue as can be ♪
- [chuckles]
both: ♪ Dream a little ♪
♪ Dream ♪
♪ Of me ♪
- When I heard my parents
sing the song
that I had heard them sing to each other
a thousand times before...
that's the moment
I realized how fragile
it all is.
Like...
all that love could be taken away
in the blink of an eye.
- Do you think that experience may have caused you
to become more emotionally guarded
with people that you care about?
- Yeah.
Maybe it is why I put Max in the friend zone
so quickly after we met,
or maybe I just couldn't get over him
making fun of my wardrobe...
[scoffs] That first day.
- How did you two stay connected
if he didn't end up getting the job?
- Oh, um...
Danny hired him a month later after he fired his own cousin
for telling people that he was his cousin.
- You know...
what's interesting, Zoey, is that the memory
of your mother's health scare
also turns out to be a story
about your deep connection with Max.
You might not want to hear this, but to me,
it's as much a love story as it is a loss story.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[line trilling]
[cell phone buzzes]
- Hey, sweetie.
You caught me on mile five.
- I just thought I'd check in on you
and see if you're taking your statins.
It's been forever since I asked.
- Oh, don't worry.
After years of your dad hounding me,
it's second nature now.
It's kind of ironic how hard he fought me
on taking his pills.
- Well, I'm glad to hear you are on it, Mama.
- Oh, hey, Zo.
- Oh, Mom, uh, I got to go. - Bye.
- Hi.
- Mo and I were just discussing the pop-up restaurant.
A lot of stuff to do before I leave next week.
- Wow.
Next week. - Yeah.
- That's, um...
so soon.
- Yeah, well, Rose's investor is pushing me to get started,
which is exciting but also nerve-racking.
I mean, this is a restaurant my dad could come to
and judge me in person.
- Well, look at how far you've come.
Um...
I was actually just thinking
about our first day at Sprqpoint
and that stupid prototype we made.
I wonder what happened to that thing.
- Yeah, I have no idea,
but I definitely remember that day.
♪ ♪
- Hello, pre-hires.
Two of you are about to join the exclusive ranks
of those we call "hires."
And since there were standouts in both groups...
I'm going with...
Leif and Max!
[cheers and applause]
- Bro!
This is bigger than "Spell-iversay!"
Bottle service on me!
I know you're hurting right now, Ambs,
but I think the best way to get over the pain of rejection
is to rebound as fast as possible.
- I'm never going out with you. - Copy that.
- Uh, Danny Michael Davis, wait a second.
Hey, if you're only taking one person from my team,
it should be Zoey.
- Why? She didn't even bother showing up
for the last round.
- Yeah, well, that's only because she's at the hospital
with her mom,
but she's a better coder than me,
she wants it more than me,
and I think she'll do great things here.
- You're willing to give up your spot
for this person that you just met?
- Yeah, I am.
- You're a very strange man,
but I guess this floor could stand to have
one female coder.
All right, Tony, put the glitter back in the cannon.
I got to redo the speech.
♪ ♪
- What ya got there?
- Oh, it's, uh,
it's nothing.
- So, Max,
you have a serious decision to make.
- Oh?
- Should we upgrade to Economy Comfort
because we get 3 extra inches of legroom?
And if you're very nice to me,
I will try to steal you a cookie from first class.
- Let's go for it. - Okay.