Duncan, almost tech titan, must prove he and his company are F-able. JoAnne provides therapy with benefits. Orson lands from Baltimore. The party for Dr. Green ends in a cat burglary.

JoAnne squirms in Duncan's grasp; Lili needs these diagnoses by yesterday; the press is on to a scandal; Bardolph's triggered; Xander gets the joke; Orson has his heart stolen by someone with practise; Gary's Pippin is – it's too awful to say.

Wildfires hit the Valley, poisoning everything: marriages, neuro-psych evals, cheeseburgers, fifth homes; when someone poops in a hat, one A.I. friend to teens might be just the hero we've been waiting for; there's bad news about Linus Po.

Toxic masculinity makes a comeback in Martin's spine, Orson's gut, Duncan's shins. But the feminine side is strong: Sorrel's tincture, Lili's mud, JoJo's bridge. Anushka holds Duncan's feet to the fire as an atomic reaction sweeps through Las Altas.

HyperG's salvation is close, but there's danger to Duncan. Lili has a secret; JoAnne hopes garlic can save her; Anushka finds gold at the end of the slide, but a witness to Easter Island threatens to destroy her; Beatrice cuts a deal with the Tang.

JoAnne trusts Sheldon to do her dirty work. Ruffery is shattered; Duncan can't escape Hamish's legacy of flashy machinations; Tess discovers Orson's dark secret; Chekhov's gun might go off; Lili hits upon the greatest metaphor ever.

Is Xander a hero or a villain?; Duncan is ready to disrupt with P.I.N.A.T.A.; JoAnne contends with the consequences of her counsel; Anushka takes the lead and Martin has a decision to make; Gary gets to the root of Orson's strange behaviour.

Crises hit the Winter Forum and Winter Gala, grotesquely held in adjacent ballrooms; P.I.N.A.T.A. squares off against the ethics-tinted Hypergnosis; the youth face actual human problems; Xander, like an actual human, understands his true nature.