What Kind of Paradise

Saul interrupts Jane at the computer one day and asks about the code behind the web pages. She shows him and watches as he deftly explores. She realizes that he, too, knows how to code and asks him what exactly he did for a living before she was born. He explains that he worked for a computing research institute in Silicon Valley and that he quit when he realized that computers were taking society in the wrong direction.

Stunned by his honesty, she asks if he ever changed their names. He looks at her for a beat too long and then tells her that he didn’t. He turns back to the computer, and she realizes that she’s been dismissed.

Jane meets Lionel again in the chat room. She learns that he is 21, is a recent Stanford graduate, and was something of a prodigy. She asks him if he feels like a corporate tool for sacrificing his freedom for a paycheck, and he tells her that she is a strange girl but that he thinks she’s interesting. She asks him about possible databases that might help her find out more about her mother’s death, but he does not know of anything useful.