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Series Premiere. After a park-cruising experiment is derailed by a phone call, 29-year-old video-game designer Patrick meets up with his best friends, roommate Agustín (31) and Dom (39), to discuss the impending wedding of Patrick's ex. Next morning, Agustin agrees to move in with his boyfriend Frank in Oakland, though he wonders if domesticating is the right move. Dom, who's been a waiter at the same restaurant for years, tells his roommate Doris he's thinking of reconnecting with old flame Ethan, who he learned through Facebook has a successful real-estate career. Later, Patrick meets up with OkCupid date Benjamin; after the date goes south, Patrick is chatted up on Muni by a cute barber named Richie, who also works the door at a Latin drag club in the Mission.

While helping Agustin move his stuff to Frank's house in Oakland, Agustin and Dom (a frequent Grindr user) question whether Patrick is capable of a casual sexual relationship, despite his assertion that he's tired of searching for a boyfriend. Back in SF, Dom meets up with his LA-ified ex Ethan, and seems intrigued when Ethan tells him he'd like to 'start over'as friends. Later, Patrick and Richie go out on a date, but a tipsy Patrick becomes a little too focused with personal details.

At a video-game launch party onboard an aircraft carrier, Patrick and his coworker Owen meet Kevin, a gay Brit who turns out to be Patrick's new boss. Elated after his verbal beatdown of Ethan, Dom tells Doris about his plans to start a Portuguese-chicken restaurant. Agustin is fired by Stina after opining that her chair sculpture is lame, but his outlook on art and life gets a lift when he meets a sex worker named CJ.

Taking a break from working in the office on a Sunday, Patrick and Kevin connect while chatting about relationships, but are interrupted by a call from Kevin's boyfriend. Later, Agustin, Doris, and Dom's coworker Hugo take in the leather-filled sights of the Folsom Street Fair, and convince Patrick to come join them. Dom asks Lynn to lunch, but it's not clear whether it's a date or to talk business. Agustin finds CJ at the Fair and considers hiring him for an art project.

After calling in sick, Patrick and Richie visit Golden Gate Park and other San Francisco sites, learning more about their pasts and plans for the future.

Patrick tries to hide his nervousness about Richie meeting his friends for the first time at Dom's 40th birthday party. Lynn has a dinner to introduce Dom to some potential investors; later, Dom insists to Doris that he and Lynn are just friends. Agustin, frustrated with the progression of his project, invites CJ to the birthday picnic, where he and Frank finally cross paths.