Cody (Candice) and Richard are old friends, constantly meeting up in their respective travels for similar tech companies. Richard has recently sold out, taken a job in academia at Chapel Hill, leaving Cody without a friend at the next conference in Atlanta. Before Cody leaves the bar, Richard asks her to sit, continues the conversation with a strange question about her medical records. In Atlanta, Cody is dreading this required trip to the strip club with the businessmen. The meeting with Boone—the man with the company she is trying to obtain a contract with—had gone well, but she knows she must do this to really seal the deal. At the club, she tries her best to play it cool, asking for a drink without alcohol to keep her head on straight while the other men shout. Her plans are lost when one dancer takes the stage, however—Cookie. The two lock on each other—Cookie is dressed to fit one of Cody's fantasies, while Cookie sees Cody's expensive looking clothes and targets her to try to make more money. They go to a private room. The next morning, Cody is sure she's blown it—and all for a night of great sex—but Boone calls her to set up a meeting for the contract. They meet, and Cody signs, obtaining the deal for her company and ensuring her own promotion to VP. On her way to the airport, she gets a voicemail from Cookie asking her to meet at a park. Cody waffles about the decision, but ultimately decides to go, and the two tell each other that they've never felt this way, that they were never supposed to feel this way. Cody promises to fly back to Atlanta that weekend to see her. Back home, Cody gets a surprise visit from Richard. He reveals that he knows all about Cookie, and then tells her that he's set the two of them up for an experiment he was running about how to engineer connection—love, really. He'd been getting Cody to reveal her sexual proclivities and running MRIs on her only to erase her memories of those encounters with a drug—and he'd been doing the same with Cookie. Now, he gives Cody a large sheaf of papers detailing everything she'd told him, as well as how the experiment worked. He urges her not to go meet Cookie again, but she isn't so sure—maybe the connection had been engineered, but the oxytocin had been created by her own brain, real. She feels betrayed, and asks him to leave, and leave her the papers with all her private fantasies on them. He gives her an inhaler with a chemical to stop the uptake of oxytocin, essentially taking her feelings out of the equation. Cody gets a call from Cookie, and they decide to meet up anyways. Cody leaves the inhaler in her fridge and goes.