Not in Love

After Eli visits Rue in her lab, he goes home and spends time with his dog, Tiny. When Hark calls him, Eli can hear Minami and Sul in the background. Eli tells them that he has gained access to Kline’s documents, but because they are physical copies of digital files, it will take weeks to find anything useful. It is clear that Kline has handed over crates of useless paper for them to sift through in order to create a delay so that Florence can try to gain funding from another source and pay back the loan. They reason that if Florence is trying to get rid of Harkness, she must have breached key conditions of the loan and wants to avoid discovery. If they can discover the nature of her transgression, then her biofuel tech will be theirs.

Hark suggests trying to persuade Kline’s board to force Florence to turn over the specific documents they need in a digital format. They know that most of the board members are Florence’s friends and will try to protect her, but Hark knows one board member who opposes her: Eric Sommers, an older man with whom Hark plays golf. Hark tells them that Eric invited him to his retirement party; he proposes attending the party in an attempt to convince Eric to put pressure on Florence so that she will release the documents they want.