Silicon Valley (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 6 - Homicide - full transcript

(APPLAUSE)

Pardon me, is that seat taken?

(LAUGHS) Gavin.

MAN: Classic Gavin.

DINESH: Let's hope this sucks.

JARED: Oh, good. Monica made it just in time.

Carla, looks like you won't be
the only woman in the house for a change.

Christ.

One thing worse than being
the only woman in a company

-is being one of only two.
- Why's that?

Everybody puts this super-weird
pressure on you to be friends.



- It's creepy.
- Hey, did I miss it?

- No.
- Good.

Monica, I'd like to introduce you to Carla.

Carla, Monica.

Monica, Carla.

- What's up?
- Nice to meet you.

I knew you two would hit it off.

- Hey. Monica?
-(MONITOR BEEPS)

It's starting.

ANNOUNCER Tonight, for the first time ever,

streaming live in 4K resolution
over the internet,

UFO Fight Night, powered by Nucleus!

No networks. No more middleman.
No bullshit.

We're bringing the fight straight to the fans.



We're cutting the cord forever
with UFC Fight Pass, powered by Nucleus.

Tonight, you'll get Ultimate Fighting
at the ultimate resolution.

Nucleus puts 4K UHD video

in a lossless compression chokehold

and forces the competition to tap out.

-(GRUNTS)
-(GLASS SHATTERING)

Oh! (LAUGHS)

Who's douchebag?

He sure likes to break stuff.

ANNOUNCER: We are live in Las Vegas.

The picture looks amazing.

ANNOUNCER: Man, Joe, this is a fight
we have been looking forward to

for a tong, long time.

Are we getting a contact high off Erlich,

or is the edge starting to warble?

No, I see it. Are they
converting down to 24 frames?

ANNOUNCER: The defense so far. Wow!

The jerkiness is not a Nucleus issue, right?

I mean, it's not going out
to the world like that, is it'?

I think it looks great.

You see that frame judder
as the camera pans?

The picture's so blocky.
It looks like Minecraft.

It doesn't make sense.
It's supposed to be totally lossless.

Let me dump their bit stream
to disk and take a look.

She's really smart.

But not afraid to be bawdy.

RICHARD: Oh, my God.
DINESH: They are so fucked.

Yeah, this is bad.

-(CROWD CHEERING)
- ANNOUNCER; Attack with the left!

He's hurt! With the right! He's down!

He's hit! Oh!

It's frozen.

- It's frozen.
- ANNOUNCER: Oh, my goodness!

It is all over!

Unbelievable!

I have never, in all my years
of watching fighting,

seen a finishing combination more ferocious!

What a spectacular finish by Molina!

We're being told
that the Nucleus live stream...

- Fuck!
-...may have cut out during that exchange.

H that is true, what a travesty!

- GAVIN: Fuck!
-(DOOR SLAMS)

ANNOUNCER: Joe, you're absolutely right.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

Gavin Belson just shit everyone's pants.

CARLA: He sure did.

The encoding is totally underpowered
to cover up their defects.

Nucleus just can't keep up
with 4K live stream yet.

Hey. Could Pied Piper handle live 4K video?

I could deploy a live video stream that
would be way better than theirs right now.

Jump on it. Now.
Like, do our own live stream.

Partner with someone like Gavin did.

Look at you two.

Hold on. Live streamings not really
our primary business here.

Yeah, but beating Nucleus is.
The blogs would go nuts.

We're built for it on my end.

I mean, if it's just me
hosting seeds and manifests,

I'm good on my end.

I'm prepared to brag about it
and release some publicity.

Well, peer-to-peer delivery
is good to go here. Just let me know.

Oh, Carla, do you want to
show Monica your work station?

- No thanks.
-(CHUCKLES)

Okay, but Hooli had a deal
with UFC that would stream a fight.

I mean, what do we even do?

Don't really have a lot of time here.

That's real.

We could find an event
that's already in motion.

Can I make a suggestion?

There is a nesting pair of California condors

on the closed-circuit feed
at the Natural History Museum.

There's an egg in the nest right now.
It's very compelling.

Why don't we just live stream me killing you?

I wouldn't be so dismissive.

There was a live stream of an eagle's nest
last year that went viral,

and was getting millions of hits.

And I don't wanna be inflammatory,

but next to a condor, an eagle looks like a...

Common cackling.

Fuck that, Jared. I've got it.

I'm very good friends with Aaron Anderson.

Double-A? The guy who
owns Homicide Energy Drink?

Uh, is Homicide
the extra douchey energy drink?

- DINESH: It sure is.
-(MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)

There's a bunch of stunts
and crazy shit on here.

That video player quality is terrible.
It's a perfect candidate.

And Double-A loves me.
He'd definitely hook us up.

How do you know him?

From college.
He was a sophomore when I was a senior.

He and his roommates
used to live down the hall.

I used to party in their room all the time.

Uh, kind of a mentor-mentee son of thing.

Coming from a manatee sort of thing.

You look like a ferret that gave up on himself
six months ago, Gilfoyle.

-I'm going to ping Double-A.
Wait. (SIGHS)

What if he says yes?

You know? Are we really gonna
drop everything to do this?

What if we don't get it right?

I mean, it could hurl us just like it hurt them.

(SIGHS) Shit. I don't know.

Now, this is critical, Richard.

Maybe we should SWOT this decision.

I don't know what that is, but no.

- SWOT analysis.
- DINESH: No.

S-W-O-T? No?

(CHUCKLES) Holy cow.

Did he really just say "holy cow'?

I've had a board ready
for just such an occasion.

I've booby-trapped the house
with corporate resources.

SWOT is a way of evaluating a decision.

And you just break it down into "strengths,"

"weaknesses," "opportunities," and "threats."

You're fucking joking.

Not at all.

You can SWOT a concept,
a department, or a new initiative.

You can even SWOT a person.

Although you have to be careful,
they might SWOT you back.

- I wanna SWOT you.
- Well, you can.

Because now you have the tools.

Okay. Um, shout them out
and I'll tack them up.

Jared, I'm... I'm really sorry, but I have to go.

You know' would it make more sense
if I worked something up

and then I got back to you guys, and...

Okay, great. I'm on it.

People love condors.

Strengths.

AARON: On top of the roof,
Blaine is gonna launch off this ramp.

It's pretty gnarly.

If everything goes right,
he'll fly over the street

and land on this 15-story building here.

We've got 27 cameras, a couple in the car.

Feed a live edit back here to the data center.

We put everything through
your incredible compression, Richard,

and up onto the web.

So, what do you think, Richard?

I think this is awesome, Double-A.

I mean, it is incredible.

You really have built
a giant monument to awesomeness.

I think my aid in helping you achieve this

is what inspired me
to start my own incubator.

Uh, so, Richard, you ready for this?

Oh, yeah. I think so. Yeah...

Double-A, we are psyched.

And we can do whatever you need.

Okay, thanks, Kool-Aid.

Kool-Aid? What's that? Are you Kool-Aid?

Yeah, it's just a term of endearment.

You know, nickname.
That's how we used to rock it back in the day

'cause I was cool and supportive.

Yeah. Oh hey, guys, this is Gina,
she's one of our event managers.

Hey, Gina, can you take Dinesh
and Gilfoyle to the data center' please?

Sure. You wanna follow me?

Only if we get hats, Gina.

You can just take mine.

Did you see that? She gave me her hat.

Pretend you've seen a woman before.

Are those Homicide drinks for free?

Uh, yeah. Knock yourself out.

Homicide!

Is there any way that it could be maybe
more like just you and me talking,

and not Erlich?

What do you mean'? Aren't you guys friends?
I thought you go way back.

We do. But...

(WHISPERING)
To be honest, I could never stand the guy.

I mean, just hearing his voice
again is giving me PTSD.

Right. But you just called him cool.

- No, I called him Kool-Aid. We all did.
- Right.

Because he's like
the Kool-Aid pitcher from the ads.

As in, every fucking time
we were hanging out without him,

he would come smashing through a wall.

But you still hung out with him.

Yeah, 'cause we were 19,
and he had weed and beer.

But even drunk and high I couldn't take it.

L mean, it's like he's fucking allergic
to letting other people talk.

It's like he's always gotta
say something. You know?

ERLICH: Hey, Richard.

Homicide!

(CHUCKLES)

So, Dinesh, I have a question.

You're obviously Pakistani,
but the name Dinesh is Indian, isn't it'?

Yeah. Wow. That's exactly right.

You know, most people, ignorant people,

don't even know
those are two separate countries.

GILFOYLE: And they don't care either.

- How do you know about my name?
-l'm an Army brat.

My dad was stationed in Karachi
when I was a kid.

It was a beautiful place,
full of beautiful people.

Kind of like this room, right?

(CHUCKLES) Oh... Oh!

Hold on a sec. I'll be right back.

- Don't take too long.
- Ew.

This is awesome.
I don't know if it's what's in this,

but I, like... I've, like,
all these killer lines coming to me.

I'm on fucking fire right now. Oh!

She likes me, right?

Yeah, she's totally into you.

Just not as into you
as she is into that guy's mouth.

He's definitely gonna fuck her later,
and shes not gonna think of you

while it's happening.

God damn it. Fuck.

Now I'm just shaking.
What do they put in this shit?

- Milk thistle?
-(CAN CLATTERS)

HEY, guys! Come out here!

Juliet calls.

Guys, this is Blaine.

He's the guy doing the stunt.

Blaine, these are the genius coders
who are helping us with the live stream.

- They're rock stars.
- Okay.

- So this is the car you're jumping?
- Yes, it is.

And that's what your ramp's gonna look like?

- Yeah.
- Cool. Well, have you...

Yeah, and because
I know that you're gonna ask,

yes, I've done this before.

And yes, it's fucking dangerous.

Listen, I got a lot of work
to do to get this right.

Okay?

Okay-

Hey, you see what I saw?

Yeah, I saw.
He's got the velocity calculated wrong.

It's for a flat plane.
He doesn't account for the curve in the ramp.

Exactly. He's probably
used to doing straight ramps.

I mean, the chad says he's gonna
launch at 81 miles per hour,

-but it's going to be more like...
- Under 70.

The downforce is ridiculous.

He's gonna lose speed
and hit the side of that wall.

- And die.
- So we should probably...

Okay. All right.

Hey, uh, Blaine?

- One small thing.
- BLAINE: No.

I'm gonna stop you right there, Glasses.

'Cause I told you once already,
and I was very clear.

I am too fucking busy to deal with you.

Okay? I'm just being cool here.

All right?

What do we do here?

This is a tough one.

So, Richard, in terms of a player window,
what do you see?

- Well, um, I think it's pretty straightforward.
- ERLICH: I'll handle this, Richard.

- You don't have to.
- The whole reason we're doing this, friend,

is for branding value.

So we're gonna need a banner that says

"Powered by Pied Piper"
underneath the video window.

It doesn't have to be too big,
but you don't want it to be too small either.

Although, there's nothing
small about Homicide, Double-A.

At least as far as I can tell.

Also, if it's, if it's possible, what we'd like to...

Let me stop you right there, Richard.

We're gonna need to have our logos
on the car, Blaine's suit, his helmet.

If he wants to get a Flash tattoo
or something on his neck,

that's on him.

RICHARD: Actually, um, in all honesty,

Erlich just pretty much said
exactly what I was gonna say. Um...

Uh-huh. Um...

So, Richard...

- Yes?
- Yeah?

Do you think you can
make the preview window full resolution?

- Richard can give you whatever you need.
- Yes...

But as far as the video player goes...

Guys, I'm sorry. I just remembered
that I've got somewhere else to be.

All right. Well, Double-A, I'll see you soon.

L'm just gonna grab a shirt
and we'll check you later.

(WHISPERING) What the fuck, dude'?
Hey, I love your tech.

But come back tomorrow without Kool-Aid,
or don't come back at all.

Honestly.

- Richard, what's going on?
- What do you mean?

I'm catching kind of a vibe.

A weird vibe with you and Double-A.

Right That. Well...

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, Richard.
I don't think he likes you.

L mean, he literally rolled his eyes at you.

Why don't you just trust me on this one?

Let Kool-Aid do the talking tomorrow.

Take this stuff.
I'm gonna grab a couple more drinks

and another hat.

I'm gonna get a box.

GAVIN: This is a total fucking disaster.

If my engineers had just
told me they weren't ready,

I never would have
pushed for this live stream.

Even worse, now I hear
those little Pied Piper fuckers

are doing their own live stream
with Homicide.

- The energy drink?
- Yes.

Meanwhile, I've demanded
to see internal testing

from every facet of the Nucleus platform.

So I can see for myself where I stand.

Because all I hear
from everybody is good news.

Have l just surrounded myself
with sycophants,

who are just telling me
whatever I want to hear,

regardless of the truth?

No.

Thank you, Denpok.
I really needed to hear that.

This might be morbid,
but the cold, hard fact is

that if Blaine dies on our live stream,
this could be good for us.

I mean, we'd get a lot more traffic.

Well, and it would probably lead to
calls for regulations in the stunt industry.

So, in the long term, we're saving lives.

Although, there is the moral problem
with letting him die.

Though he did tell us to shut up.

And his name is Blaine.

And Gina is super hot.

And this would make her single.

She'd probably need consoling,
so there's an opportunity.

Opportunity.

DINESH: Should we SWOT this?

Bereaved women do tend to act out sexually.

Yeah, so that's a strength.

- Hey, Kool-Aid!
- Yeah!

And? So'?

And? It...

It wasn't meant to be a flattering nickname.

It was an insult.

I'm not sure I agree with that.

I mean, the dancing pitcher
breaks through walls

to give tasty beverages to kids in need.

Why would you infer from this
that Double-A doesn't like me?

Well, um, l wasn’t inferring anything.

He told me to my face that he doesn't like you.

But why wouldn't he like me?

Well, uh...

You have a tendency sometimes to...

Why on earth wouldn't he like me?

Because, Erlich, you tend to not let...

I was his mentor. You know?

You know, there's no remote possibility...

Because you don't let people talk!

It just happened.

Um...

And he told me that if you came tomorrow

that he would pull the plug
on the whole live stream, so...

(SIGHS)

I see.

Sorry.

Are you done talking now'?

Yes.

Do Dinesh and Gilfoyle know about this'?

- No, I came straight to you.
- What about Jared?

Nope.

Okay, here's what you need to do.

You need to go in tomorrow,
and you need to do that live stream.

And put my feelings aside,
you know, don't quit on account of me.

I wasn't gonna... I wasn't gonna quit.

There is something you should know, though.

Aaron Anderson wasn't
very well liked in college.

In fact, people used to
call him Double-Asshole.

So watch out for that guy.

Are you sure you're okay with this?

Yes, Richard.
It's time for me to be the bigger man.

The cooler man.

I am Kool-Aid, after all.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the last 90 minutes
you have had an opportunity

to explore a standard Hooliphone
upgraded with a brand new operating system

called Nucleus.

Thank you ail for being here,

Allen, Lisa, Josh, Yana, Katie, Ramon.

I'd like to get everyone's first impressions.

Who'd like to jump in? Anyone?

How about you, Ramon?

It's just stupid.

Okay, so Ramon feels the phone is stupid.

Could you elaborate, Ramon?

Stupid how'?
Please be as specific as possible, Ramon.

Well, it's slow.

The apps keep quitting on me.

I tried to watch a movie,
and it kept freezing up.

And when I'm typing, like, there's a delay.

Then all the letters pop up at once.

You took a good phone
and you made it all, like, shitty.

Keep in mind' I didn't design the phone.

-It pissed me off.
- I appreciate your honesty, Ramon.

That's just one guy's opinion.

Who else feels this product is stupid?

Allen, Lisa, Josh, Yana, Katie.

And did it piss off anyone else?

- Allen, Lisa, Josh, Yana, Katie.
- Okay.

Christina, how bad is this? Be honest.

Is this Windows Vista bad?

It's not iPhone 4 bad, is it?

Fuck. Don't tell me this is Zune bad.

L'm sorry, Gavin.

It's Apple Maps bad.

And who else felt this product is messed up?

Allen, Lisa, Josh, Yana...

GAVIN: (YELLING) Fuck!

I'm sorry for the disturbance,
Allen, Lisa, Josh, Yana...

So I can definitely get you
full res on the preview window.

- Oh, sweet.
- Cool. I'll get right on that.

You see how much smoother this all runs
without Erlich hanging around?

Right, yeah.

Hey, did you ever send me the mockup
for the logo placement of the player window?

Seriously, you should think
about dropping that guy.

But what do I know'?
I just built a billion-dollar company.

Yeah. Yeah, okay.

But about the mockup
for the logo placement...

Hey, I gotta go Skype
with my European distributor.

Keep cranking it, okay?

Sure, uh, will do.

Excuse me.

That's not the final graphic
for the live stream, is it?

Yep. Double-A signed off on it.

- Just that? There's nothing else?
- MAN: Nope.

Hmm.

Blaine doesn't die,
but he is horribly incapacitated.

And then while he's in the hospital
he gets a flesh-eating virus,

and then he dies.

Well, obviously...

His incessant suffering will be a strength.

But our ability to enjoy it is an opportunity.

What if before he dies

Gina catches the virus?

And then she spreads it
from her vagina to your penis.

Wait, so in this scenario,

I get to have sex with Gina?

That's an opportunity.

- Okay, how about this?
-l'm listening.

We let Blaine die,

but then he's not around
to stop someone else

from committing
some huge fucked-up act of evil?

- The "Kill Hitler" scenario.
- Right.

-(KNOCKING)
-(DOOR OPENS)

HEY, guys? You guys busy?

Uh...

BLAINE: Cool. Um...

I got something I gotta say.

Listen. I know that I was really rude
to both of you yesterday.

It's just, urn...

When I got a stunt coming up,
I'm a bundle of nerves,

and sometimes I can
take that out on other people.

You know, even with all the support
that I get from Gina and our kids.

- Kids.
- I don't know why.

But... And then again,

I'm a guy who needs to
risk his life jumping over stuff.

So, what's that all about, right? (CHUCKLES)

You know, actually just an hour ago
I spotted an error in my math.

Would have had me smeared
across the side of that building.

Anyway, now I'm just totally rambling.

Typical Blaine.

What I wanted to say was that I'm sorry.

Are we cool?

Yeah, we're cool. Thanks for stopping by.

Yeah, you should go quickly,
'cause we have work to do.

Okay.

What's this?

What is that?

"Let Blaine die"?

Oh!

Shit. We... We write in code. We write in code.

- This is compression...
-"Strengths.

"Elaine's last moment
is realizing face is gone"?

"Weaknesses. Blaine dies super fast."

Yeah, you really shouldn't be looking at that.
That's all proprietary.

"Opportunities, fuck Gina"?

Would you believe
that was here when we came in?

Double-A? Can I talk to you for a second?

Yeah. Leave me alone for a sec.

What's up?
- Well, okay.

I just saw a version of the player window

that apparently you approved of
that says Powered by Homicide on it?

Oh, yeah, it does.

Right. Well, there's no Pied Piper logo.

Like, anywhere. So what's up with that?

Oh, well...

Homicide is an energy drink,

and "power" means energy.

So that's kind of confusing to the consumer,

so I think we're gonna keep it the way it is.

Uh, the whole point of doing this

was so that we could
get our name out there. Remember'?

I tell you what. Let's see how it goes this time,

the next time we'll work something out.

No. No. We...
We can't see how it goes this time.

There is no next time. Okay?

We are racing to get
our platform ready for CES.

And we took time away from doing that
to do this so we could get PR value.

If no one sees the logo,
then there's no PR value at all.

Oh, man. I'm sorry. But you get it.

No, I don't get it.

Okay, look, you have to put
our logo in the viewer.

That's it, period.

Mmm... Actually,
I don't have to do a damn thing.

- Yeah, you do.
- No, I don't.

Okay, then neither do I.

Richard, don't be an asshole
like your buddy Kool-Aid. Okay?

Just finish the build, okay?

You know what, Double-A?

Erlich was right.

You are an asshole.

In fact, you're a double-asshole!

What did you call me?

I... I called you a double-asshole.

'Cause, you know, you're being an asshole.

Double-A, Double-Asshole. You know?

You're twice the asshole.
Twice-Hole. Double-Asshole.

Oh. Ew. ls that a colostomy bag?

Do you have any idea
what it's like to be 10 years old

and carry your own shit around in a bag?

To have two assholes?

All right. I... I didn't know...

- DINESH: Hey, Richard'?
- We should go.

BLAINE: "Opportunities:
urinate on Elaine's grave"?

"Grief threesome with Gina and Blaine's
hot mom, question mark"?

- What the fuck?
- I didn't...

- DINESH: Richard, quickly!
- But, I mean, you were being an asshole.

Okay, good luck.

(ERLICH LAUGHING)

To his face?

You called him that to his face?

How could you not mention
the colostomy bag?

Because it's a very private
and personal matter.

- It's not a laughing matter!
- But you called him Double-Asshole first.

Remember'? In college?
- Yeah, but not to his face.

Never to his face!
Not even I'm that fucking cruel!

But you are!

I'm actually not.

You tore Double-Asshole a third asshole!

(LAUGHING)

Triple-A!

- Yeah' that was all my fault somehow'?
- ERLICH: God!

(ERLICH CONTINUES LAUGHING)

DINESH: Yeah, that was a big wank.

Since we're already set up for a live stream,
might I make a suggestion?

Wow.

It looks even better than I thought it would.

DINESH: ls that a still image?

It's not frozen, is it?

No, it's live. It's just not moving very much

because it's a fucking egg.

But think of the wonderful things
going on inside that egg.

The resolution in your imagination is infinite.

Oh, hey, we're up to 17 views.

Okay, well, this isn't the PR coup
that we'd envisioned,

but Nucleus fucked up way worse.

At least we can go back to work knowing
that we're the only middle-out compression

that actually functions.

New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc?

Steel-aged, drinks great during the day.

I can move, so you guys
can stand next to each other.

- Jared, no.
- God, dude, no.

-(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)
- MONICA: Come on.

- Russ, hey.
- Good job, my man!

Fucking live stream looks amazing!

-It does?
- Yeah, Homicide must be stoked!

Homicide? What?
- I love the new name. It's kick-ass.

I' always thought Pied Piper
was kind of a limp-dick name.

End Frame is way cooler.

EndFrame? What?

ANNOUNCER: Three, two, one! Yeah!

- He made it. Farewell, sweet Gina.
-(CROWD CHEERING)

"Powered by EndFrame."

Who the fuck is End Frame?

Why is their fucking logo on this live stream?

End Frame isn't you guys?

Oh, fuck! EndFrame is those guys
that brain-raped us at Branscomb Ventures.

"EndFrame is a compression company

"specializing in
middle-out compression technology."

Those pricks! They stole my algorithm!

I know guys at the FBI we could call.
Were you fucking hacked?

Uh...

Actually, no.

Well, how did they get it then?

-L'm sorry?
- How did they get it then, Richard?

RICHARD: How did they get it?

Well, we... We kind of found ourselves
in their conference room,

and accidentally sketched out
our key components

to our algorithms data model
on their whiteboards.

(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)

- RUSS: You fucking...
-(LINE DISCONNECTS)

Russ?

He hung up.

I'd file this one under "weakness," Jared.