03E09 - NIM

It's the fall of 1990, four years after Mutiny's failed IPO, Ryan's suicide, and Cameron and Tom's move to Tokyo. Gordon and Donna have split, and have joint custody of the girls. Donna, who is now using her maiden name Emerson, has just made senior partner in Diane's venture capital company, Donna's name which is first among the partners. Bos and Diane are now an established couple. Gordon has been working on the NSFNET project, which is funded by Donna and Diane's company, they all waiting for the government deregulation which they expect to happen in the next year or two. While Donna has focused on her career, Gordon, whose health problems have accelerated, has spent some time looking for love, he currently dating Michelle, one of his employees. They have not talked to Cameron at all, she who is still in Tokyo and who probably still has bad feelings about everything that happened with Mutiny. Donna has long wanted to mend fences with Cameron for personal reasons, but now has a project which she knows Cameron would fit like a glove if only she could find a friendlier messenger pass along the information to her. Cameron has just developed a successful game for Atari, and Donna knows she will be at COMDEX in Las Vegas to promote it. Also at COMDEX is Joe, whose presence there is not by accident as Cameron may believe. With Donna holding down the fort at work, Gordon has Joanie for the weekend, she now a rebellious fourteen year old. That rebellion demonstrates itself as Gordon and Michelle have a date in.