Call My Agent 1.4 - Bizarre

Call My Agent - Needy

Genre : Drama / Comedy / Satire
Director: Jason Reitman
Writer : Dominic Wilkins
Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Bill Night and Tilda Swinton

Plot:

Miranda Jones (Lesley Manville) is putting lipstick in the woman’s bathroom first thing in the morning. She has to get herself ready for her big meeting with the Jones Agency financial backer to try to keep the agency afloat. She hates to be the bearer of bad news and she wants her inheritance money, so she is willing to pull all the stops to impress him. When she gets out of the bathroom, Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James), her secretary and acting manager, asks her what she’s doing, specifically pointing at the lipstick and the scooped neckline of her dress. He says today is deeply serious and they don’t have the time to do it her way, no matter what they are, they have to use the professional way and that’s what he intends to do. He pushes her into the bathroom and closes the door. Miranda is too offended to react and something else catches her attention. She looks up to the ceiling, confused.

Wilson welcomes Mark (Bill Nighy) to the Jones Agency and he comments on the new furniture, before refusing Wilson’s handshake. He comments on the sweat on his forehead and his moist hands and he says he’s germaphobe, so he must decline. He asks for some disinfectant, but Wilson can’t find any. Mark is annoyed by it, which makes him even more nervous. He leads Mark to Miranda’s office and Mark asks where Miranda is and Wilson has to make up a lie he didn’t prepare to make and says she was violently sick last night. He sees her wandering around the office and looking at the ceiling confused. Hopefully, Mark is facing the other way, so he doesn’t see her. Wilson decides to look away to make sure Mark doesn’t catch him looking at her. Wilson says they should get down to business and Mark agrees.

Miranda keeps hearing noises coming from the ceiling and she gets up a Bob desk, knocking down his framed pictures of him and his kids (even though we learned last episode that he doesn’t have kids). The focus shifts back to Wilson who agrees with Mark that the new furniture doesn’t make any sense, but in their defense, the agency has a big contract coming, they actually booked… The focus shifts back to Miranda standing in the desk, but she isn’t there anymore and the ceiling tile is missing. Miranda is now under the desk, held by a something black. The camera zooms back and it is revealed that Tilda Swinton (Tilda Swinton), in her Blackbird costume, is holding Miranda down. Miranda tries to scream, but Tilda covers her mouth. Tilda drinks water from a bottle and she tries to feed Miranda water, just like she does in the film.  She tells Miranda to shut up. She always plays weird character and she needs to practice beforehand and that’s why she’s so good.

Wilson notices that Miranda is nowhere to be seen and that there’s a hole in the ceiling. He sees a black creature running behind the desk and he excuses himself for a moment. He leaves the office and comes face to face with Tilda Swinton. He lets out a quick, surprised, scream and he asks her what the hell she’s doing here. She says she’s been living the ceiling for the past two days and nobody noticed her, as if it was normal. He says she has always been weird and she freaks her out. He asks her where Miranda is and she says she’s hidden behind that desk over there. Wilson finds Miranda, traumatized. He asks her to get up, but Miranda refuses. Wilson asks her why and she doesn’t want to speak. Wilson gets his head up and he sees Mark out of the office, looking around for him. He didn’t realise that he spent so much time out the office. Mark walks around, checking out the offices installations, when he is quickly tackled down by Tilda Swinton. She opens his mouth and she force feeds him macaroni salad. Wilson and Miranda watch in horror.

Mark fights to get up and tackles the frail Tilda to the ground. He asks her what the hell is going on and she says she’s just Tilda Swinton practicing for a role and since she’s always playing bizarre roles, here she is. She’s been living in their ceiling as practice and that’s how she gets so good at them. Mark is impressed and he says that he’s a huge fan of hers. He says that everything here as been deeply disturbing, but not as much as seeing Miranda here, when she was supposedly violently sick and at home. She says that she can explain everything. It takes a lot of humility for her to admit that and she has always been a proud woman, too proud perhaps, but here it goes. She doesn’t have the skills to run this agency and poor old Wilson here as been forced to run things in the meantime. The new furniture was an impulse decision and she never thought about money in her life, her father was rich and she never had to check a bank account before. Mark says that it’s humble of her to admit that and he hates to burst her bubble, for Tom Jones wasn’t rich and he is a loan shark. Tom owed a lot of money and they aren’t out of their hole yet. He says he will leave now, he needs to shower for at least a day to get the germs of him. Before he leaves, Wilson asks him how he can describe his day and only says one word, bizarre. 

Wilson and Miranda head back to the Miranda’s office and are surprised to see Tilda in her Blackbird suit eating the rest of the macaroni saladl Wilson says it may be weird, but he’d like to be force-fed by Tilda Swinton and she says all practice is helpful. When Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and Bob (Rainn Wilson) get to work, they are grossed out to see Wilson getting forced-fed by Tilda Swinton, but Wilson gives them a thumbs up. Miranda innocently adds that it’s really traumatizing at first, but she can understand the appeal.