He goes to see a psychic (played by Carol Kane) and while she doesn’t give him too much to work with, it could be considered kismet because when Joe exits he is almost run over, and then runs into former IBM colleague Dale Butler. Hope is hard to find in this storm and yet there is something on the horizon. Lee Pace demonstrates how wounded Joe is, and how at a loss he is without his work partner.
Instead, the alarm acts as a signifier of things ending, including his relationship with Cam and the final project he worked on with Gordon. Unlike the Joe of Season 1, this act isn’t a clunky way to show the audience that Joe has inner demons and likes to unleash his rage by trashing or burning things down. So Joe does what he did a lot of in Season 1, and smashes shit, this time throwing a chair through the office window so he can break the seal on the Gordon work shrine and turn the alarm off. As soon as they find out Comet is effectively dead in the water-Yahoo! is on the Netscape toolbar as the chosen search engine-the alarm becomes a harbinger of doom. Joe doesn’t know where the keys are, and there is a comfort in hearing this beeping while the Comet project is progressing and Cam is on board. A beeping watch in Gordon’s locked office is another, two-fold reminder: a reminder for Gordon to take his medication, and a not-so-subtle cue that Joe and Cameron’s relationship isn’t working.
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