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"  As the Cardiff team prepares to demo its PC prototype, Giant, at COMDEX, the annual computer trade show in Las Vegas, Bosworth (Toby Huss) is fidgety. &amp;quot;The future&amp;#039;s coming whether we like it or not,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;But it ain&amp;#039;t written anywhere that it includes any of us, and getting there ain&amp;#039;t free. There&amp;#039;s a cost.&amp;quot; We soon learn what that cost is: a federal embezzlement charge. The PC program had gone bankrupt a few weeks prior, so Bosworth convinced Cameron (Mackenzie Davis) to hack into Cardiff Electric&amp;#039;s bank account and transfer thousands of dollars to their division. &amp;quot;It was so easy,&amp;quot; Cameron tells Joe (Lee Pace). &amp;quot;Like the bank has no security whatsoever. We were going to put all the money back into Cardiff&amp;#039;s account as soon as we made some sales! We thought they&amp;#039;d never notice.&amp;quot; But the president of Cardiff did notice, and alerted the FBI. Agents raid the building, arrest Bosworth, and announce that the company is being shut down. The FBI begins seizing Cardiff computers as evidence. Intent on saving the prototype, Gordon (Scoot McNairy) covertly disassembles the Giant and scatters the pieces around a room, hoping the agents will pass it over. His plan works. Later that night he sneaks into the shuttered building and steals the Giant&amp;#039;s components. Gordon will demo it at COMDEX himself. &amp;quot;What if we take it to COMDEX and orders start pouring in?&amp;quot; he says to Cameron. &amp;quot;Cardiff won&amp;#039;t turn down that kind of money. He&amp;#039;ll be forced to reopen the department.&amp;quot; Even if that plan did work, it seems unlikely that the president of Cardiff would let these rogue employees stick around, but Cameron is convinced and agrees to join Gordon in Las Vegas. They decide Joe will be able to bankroll the trip. Meanwhile Joe hears a rumor that IBM will soon release its own portable PC. He flies to New York to confront his dad, an IBM executive. Joe accuses him of developing the program as a way of crushing Joe&amp;#039;s Cardiff prototype. (In real life, the IBM Portable 5155 is released in 1984 as a response to the success of Compaq&amp;#039;s portable PC.) Joe Sr. denies the charges and offers Joe a job running IBM&amp;#039;s entire portable PC project if he would come back to the company. Crushed over the death of the Giant, Joe says he will. When Joe returns to Texas, Gordon reveals his plan and pleads for Joe to join them at COMDEX. &amp;quot;Think about it,&amp;quot; Gordon says. &amp;quot;How many companies had their CEO dragged off in handcuffs last week? There are over 1,000 exhibitors there. It&amp;#039;s nearly impossible to stand out in all that noise. But people will be lining up to see the train wreck that is Cardiff Electric, and when they do, we&amp;#039;ll blow them away.&amp;quot; Joe, a sucker for publicity, agrees. But\u2014surprise!\u2014he&amp;#039;s secretly broke, and has to sell his beautiful Porsche to fund their trip. Donna (Kerry Bishe), who we assume is leaving Gordon&amp;#039;s crazy ass, says she wants to come too. She believes in the Giant and weirdly, believes in Gordon. The four of them load into the couple&amp;#039;s station wagon and drive off into the sunset. Next stop: COMDEX. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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