Zion I

When his roommate spends the rent money on Filipino hookers, Alex, a 35 year old video game tester has to find a new place to live when his landlord kicks him out. Alex then seeks help to stay at his marijuana dealer Dante's house, then later is turned down due to a lion from Africa that is already going to stay. After an "encounter" with his friend's mom, Alex is forced to move in with his grandmother. Alex has a hard time at first, but later gets to do his work by giving his grandma tickets to the Antique's Road Show. Alex then meets a "really hot woman who is swimming in the sea of virgins", Samantha. The only person in the way of Alex's relationship with Samantha, is the creator of the game they are all working on, EDS3, J.P., who talks in a robot voice all the time and wants to have metal legs. Trying to save face with his younger co-workers, Alex says that he is living "with three hot babes". After they all finish testing EDS3, Alex's boss, Mr. Cheezle, a really weird neo-hippie, tells Samantha to take the boys out to eat at a vegan restaurant and they make fun of the waiter's lifestyle. Alex comes home to find that his grandma and their two friends ate all of his pot, which they thought were tea. Alex then finds out that Samantha smokes weed too, and calls up Dante and throws a wild party. Towards the end of the film, J.P. steals the game Alex has been working on for two years, so his grandma plays J.P. to prove that it's Alex's game. In the end, we find out that Mr. Cheezle smokes and gets his weed from Dante.

Richard returns home and discovers Russ Hanneman waiting for him to celebrate Richard's victory over End Frame. Gavin Belson attends a board meeting where he tries to urge restraint on Nucleus publicity without admitting that Nucleus is in trouble. The meeting ends with Gavin realizing that he may need a scapegoat. In the next scene, he convinces Davis Bannercheck to return to Hooli to head up the Nucleus project. Richard learns that Seth Lee, the network security engineer for End Frame had been fired, presumably due to Gilfoyle's breaching of End Frame security in episode 7. Richard feels bad and reaches out to Seth. Richard tells Seth that the break-in had not been his fault. Seth becomes enraged and threatens to hack into Pied Piper and get revenge. Richard becomes very concerned about Seth's threats. Gilfoyle is unconcerned, assuring Richard that Pied Piper's security is solid. Dinesh stresses that Richard should not be admitting to anybody that Pied Piper had broken into End Frame, explaining that Richard is now a "black hat" and needs to be careful. Bannercheck interviews the Nucleus team to assess the state of the project. In the next scene, Gavin learns that Bannercheck has quit Hooli and left as fast as his car would take him. Gavin realizes that he has lost his scapegoat for the upcoming Nucleus fiasco. Richard's increasing paranoia about Seth annoys the Pied Piper team. Richard reaches out to Seth again and they mutually apologize. Richard tells Seth that Gilfoyle hadn't been worried at all and Seth feels insulted and issues fresh threats. Pied Piper begins transferring data from Intersite for the bake-off. Russ Hanneman arrives to celebrate and Richard becomes angry at the interruption and begins shouting at Hanneman. Suddenly Pied Piper receives a frantic phone call from the CTO of Intersite informing them that Pied Piper is deleting all of Intersite's data. In the ensuing panic, they conclude that Seth has made good on his threats and has hacked into their system although Gilfoyle can't figure out how. Eventually it is discovered that Hanneman had put a tequila bottle down on the "Delete" key of one of the laptops. The episode ends with Intersite angrily dismissing Pied Piper.