Emily Patterson is born in 1952. In late 1977, she becomes one of the absolute best computer modelers and programmers in the business. In "Date With Danger", Patterson purchases a dating service company Datamate from George Cloche who cannot make a good go of it. She will soon re-program a computer in the company with the clients that have already resigned. A partial phone number subsequently leads Steve to Datamate. Steve narrowly escapes a hit man hired by the computer, only to be confined as a dangerous psychotic due to a hospital computer's error. Steve is rescued by Patterson.