Mike Ross offers Jonathan Sidwell a way to present his earlier spin-off idea to Gianopolous, which would involve Gianopolous creating and owning the subsidiary while Sidwell would run it, due to the fact that Gianopolous cares about losing Sidwell due to the precious algorithm Sidwell develops every day.

When it succeeds, Sidwell then offers Mike a position at his company in return, leaving Mike to contemplate the decision.