Dune
written by Frank Herbert
part of Dune

The Sands of Space by Jeremiah Hargrove is a ficticious (fake) book that Krusty the Clown wanted to turn into a movie after his previous success with Good Cop Dog Cop in S30E14, The Clown Stays in the Picture . The Sands of Space is a reference to several books and films including Dune , The Sands of Mars , Zardoz, and Krull .

In April 1988, Kinsey Millhone is hired by a young man named Michael Sutton to investigate a memory that he claims to have recovered of two people burying a body in the woods in the exclusive Horton Ravine neighborhood in 1967, when he turned six years old. He claims that the burial took place on his birthday, two days after a famous unsolved kidnapping of a four-year-old named Mary Claire in the neighborhood, in which the kidnappers requested $25,000 but never picked up the ransom after police were called. She was never found. Although Michael's memory is hazy, he and Kinsey manage to locate the spot of the burial, but a police dig uncovers only the body of a wolfdog named Ulf. One of the bystanders watching the dig, a banker named Walker McNally, who was a high school classmate of Kinsey, spends the entire weekend drinking and kills a young woman in a DUI on Sunday night.

Ryan (Elijah Wood) attempts suicide by overdosing on pills and drinking a bottle of NyQuil on the night before he begins a new job his sister Kristen (Dorian Brown), a gynecological nurse, got for him. He fails to even fall asleep though, in part due to his neighbor Spencer's (Ethan Suplee) noisy motorcycle. His other neighbor, Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann), drops by the next morning, asking him to watch her dog Wilfred (Jason Gann). Although everyone else sees just a dog, Ryan sees an Australian man in a fursuit who nags the former lawyer all day about his acquiescence to others. Ryan oversleeps after his first encounter with Wilfred, causing Kristen to call and confront him about missing his first day of work. But Ryan ends up hanging out with Wilfred again, who convinces Ryan to confront Spencer after Wilfred causes a confrontation with him. Kristen comes over to confront Ryan about not showing up, and reveals that the pills, which she gave him, were just sugar pills. Ryan steps out to confer with Wilfred, who tricks Ryan into breaking into Spencer's house while Wilfred steals the man's marijuana plants, and defecates in his boots. Upon fleeing home, Kristen puts Ryan on the phone with her boss to beg for his job, but Ryan, inspired by his experience with Wilfred, tells him he would "rather eat possum ass than be [his] desk monkey". At the end of the episode, Wilfred places Ryan's wallet under Spencer's broken window. Opening quote: "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." - Mark Twain

Before the judge reveals his verdict, Gavin Belson reveals that he would've paid $250 million for Pied Piper before it became clear that Hooli would win the arbitration hearing. Meanwhile, the feed of the injured technician goes viral, forcing Gilfoyle, Dinesh, and Jared to scramble to keep their servers online. Despite numerous setbacks, including a server catching on fire, they are able to keep the feed online until the technician is rescued. Erlich starts to question the value of the incubator and considers selling the house, but changes his mind when he finds out that it would be torn down. Erlich codes for the first time in the series, helping the team with emergency improvements while Richard is away. At the binding arbitration, the judge rules that per Richard's employment contract Hooli would own Pied Piper's intellectual property, and Richard sends a text to the team to delete all of the Pied Piper code before Hooli can seize it. However, the judge continues that Hooli's claim is actually nullified by an illegal non-compete clause and Richard, whose phone runs out of battery, has to sprint back to the incubator to stop Pied Piper from being deleted. Richard arrives just after the deletion program is run but the program crashes before any damage is done. Word spreads at Hooli of the verdict, which renders over half of their employees' contracts invalid. Word also spreads of Big Head's series of promotions, leading Dempak to begin mentoring him. Belson is called to meet with Hooli's Board of Directors; his fate is left uncertain. Meanwhile, Raviga decides to buy out Russ Hanneman's stake in Pied Piper, securing 3 of Pied Piper's 5 board seats and making Hanneman a billionaire again. As Pied Piper celebrates their arbitration victory, Hendricks is notified that the now Raviga-run board has removed him from the CEO position.