Donna and Cameron put Boz in charge of delivering the offer letter to SwapMeet. Diane decides to join John for the trip to SwapMeet. She more or less concurs with his approach, which is to lower the offer price once he sees the slipshod sort of operation SwapMeet is running. I thought Donna and Cameron would flip out when they heard what happened but there's no evidence that they did. Maybe that's because they were a little too busy dealing with problems of their own.
Donna and Gordon are still having problems finding work life balance. Their relationship on the job seems to be overflowing into their marriage. It doesn't help that Cameron is living with them. Gordon spends part of the episode playing with his old Ham radio. He tries and eventually finds one of his old friends using the radio. My read of it is that he really needs another outlet for his frustrations. The radio seems to help.
Cameron is put in charge of finding a replacement for Ryan. She gives a talk to a class at San Francisco City College. She doesn't have much luck in the recruiting department but she does run into Joe. He is there taking a class in BASIC. It is not a friendly encounter but it also doesn't get vicious. It is just very uncomfortable.
Ryan goes to work for Joe. It is very different work environment for Ryan from the one he left behind at Mutiny. Joe is a very unconventional sort of person. Ryan doesn't know how to deal with or interact with him. By the end of the episode it seems that Joe has decided to pull Ryan into his inner circle. What does that mean down the road? Will he be any nicer or less nebulous? I have my doubts. My guess is that there will be times he will be nice and times that he will not but it is hard to say either way what is the most likely course of action.
On the whole I found this to be an unsatisfying episode. It felt like there was a lot of overacting, a lot of payoff moments without any buildup to them. It felt a bit like the director might be trying to communicate information through the way the episode was shot rather than have the actors communicate it themselves. The only scene that really felt right to me was Boz and Diane's visit to SwapMeet. I don't know what to make of Joe or the way Lee Pace is playing the role. He is so mysterious that I can't tell what if anything is going through his head most of the time.
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