'Halt and Catch Fire' season 3 episode 6 spoilers, plot news: On severed ties and bold revelations

"Halt and Catch Fire" season 3 is past its halfway mark and things are starting to get serious. As the 1980s tech industry gradually progresses in AMC's highly acclaimed period drama, so do the relationships between the people behind it begin to fall apart.

"And She Was" saw the rift between business partners and erstwhile friends Donna (Kerry Bishé) and Cameron (Mackenzie Davis) widen to perhaps irreparable lengths. The tension was so thick between them after Cameron fired the SwapMeet guys. Donna was forced to play along and lie through her teeth that their chief investor Diane (Annabeth Gish) sensed it and offered them a weekend at her stately vineyard house to relax and sort through their issues.

The two of them also had a decision to make regarding a 20-million-dollar buyout offer from CompuServe that Cameron had very quickly voted against. It was no surprise that she refused to come with Donna on that weekend trip and chose instead to stay home and play "Super Mario Bros." with Donna's husband, Gordon (Scoot McNairy).

But then Gordon passed out and broke the TV on his way down, which prompted him to come clean to Cameron about the true state of his health and Joe's (Lee Pace) theft of the security software that he coded. They also went out to buy a projection TV to replace the one they broke — Gordon broke it, and Cameron later covered for him — and eventually succeeded in saving Princess Peach.

They bonded so well over the game that Gordon decided to show Cameron his ham radio set. Cameron would later move out and put together her own ham radio set to tell Gordon that she had married her ex-fiancé, Tom (Mark O'Brien), when she went home to Texas on the fourth of July weekend.

Her happiness seemed clouded by what Joe told her when she confronted him about Gordon. Seeing the wedding ring on her finger, Joe taunted her, offered her champagne and said, "You're happy for a moment and you thought the person standing next to you is the source."

Meanwhile, Donna went on the trip on her own and met Diane's daughter, Kimberly, and her college friends, who drove up to the house unannounced. She later went on a 'shroom-induced psychedelic trip out on the lawn and dreamed up an image of Cameron who followed her up to the vineyard house to hear her out.

She apologized and Cameron said she could never have built Mutiny without her. But then the view panned out and there was just Donna lying on the grass alone.

On the Macmillian Utility front, Joe got stripped of his authority in his own company after going through with an investment without the board of directors' approval. Rather than letting the board of directors take over his company, he instead made the prompt decision to confess his theft of Gordon's codes in front of a video camera.

The consequences of Joe's self-incriminating move will be seen in the next episode of "Halt and Catch Fire," according to a brief summary on TV Guide. It seems that he, Ryan, and Gordon will all be dealing with the fallout, while Donna and Cameron's differing views about their company's future will pull the two women further apart.

Titled "The Threshold," the episode will also see Cameron and Tom start living as a married couple, as shown in this official sneak peek video.

"Halt and Catch Fire" airs on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EDT on AMC.