SILICON VALLEYISM

Complete Episode Guide for HBO's Silicon Valley

S1E05May 4, 2014

Signaling Risk

At Peter Gregory's funeral, an ominous warning leads Richard to a big decision about Pied Piper.

Quotes from this Episode

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"All right then. Plan B. You two and the team will move to Belarus. If we can get close enough to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, it's a buyer's market, and with the money we save from substantially downgrading from Tiblisi, plus the bigger Belarusian investment we've been offered, I'll maintain a pied-a-terre here in town."
"Gavin: Apologies are cheap, aren't they? There must be a reckoning. Which is why today, here in this public forum, I call for the attorney general of the state of California to launch an immediate investigation of my conduct as CEO of Hooli... leaving no stone unturned. The truth must finally be revealed. I apologize for putting you all through this, especially... those of you who actually lead lives of... real virtue. Richard: Hey, Gavin. I know that wasn't easy. Gavin: Sure about that? Should've taken the $10 million, Richard. Enjoy the injunction, thumbass."
"I cracked into Gavin's HooliWatch. Don't ask me how I did it. I've got real-time GPS location, blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate. I can even see where he is in his menstrual cycle.\nLooks like a good day to fuck him."
"Regrets? Uh... No. No, I'm-I'm happy. \nAnd you don't, you don't feel bad that you never got to... make the world a better place? \nUh... I think we did okay. I... actually could, um... I... I still have it. One copy of the... Pied Piper codebase. I have it on a thumb drive. I could show it to you. We won't... look into it, but, um... I just wanna show it to you. It's just got a couple things on there that I think... I, honestly, this was like when we were coding the best we ever were, so some pieces of this thing are... sheer elegance. I wish I could show it to everybody because I wanna show it to my students. Not my class, but another... I know it was in the desk. Okay, this is weird. sh1t, okay. Where is it? It's or... it's orange. It's this big. It's just a thumb drive. So, is anyone... have any of your crew seen it or anything? I mean... right here. That's insa... I had the... It's gotta be in the desk. \nIs it a problem? \nUm, no, not a problem. Um... It's just pretty fascinating. Although... if it isn't here... where is it?"
"I just fired Banksy."
"The fucking balls on this egomaniac. You know what? Fuck Banksy."
"She's really smart. But not afraid to be bawdy."
"Despite all our differences, we all have one thing in common, right? A signed agreement with me to build and launch your websites, not on the tired, bloated, old web, but on the new Internet of the future. The Pipernet. Which is why, from this day forward, I'm going to be naming the eight of you the OctoPipers. Until something better... TBD."
"Oh, I meant because it's a big head."
"But if something did happen, and we're not saying it did, the fact remains that leaves us in a very advantageous position. There's a lot of money on the table. And it would be a shame if that went away."
"Uh... Denpok? Can I have your Big Gulp?"