Call My Agent 2.2 - Deal with the Devil

Call My Agent : Deal with the Devil

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Bill Nighy, Gilles Marini and Dale Dickey

Plot: Mark (Bill Nighy) lets Bob (Rainn Wilson) in. Curious about the nature of his visit, Mark asks Bob what he’s doing at his house and if it’s to take the check back, then it’s too late, he already cashed it in. Bob says he’s not here for the check, he’s here for something else. Mark obviously heard and learned what happened at the Jones Agency and he laughs in Bob’s face, saying that at least he had part of his money back, because he feels like they will close soon. He remembers how they disrespected him that day and with his contacts, he made sure that none of them will ever find work in Hollywood again. Bob says it won’t matter because he wants to borrow money from him. Mark can dictate his terms and he will accept them, he’s that desperate. Mark says they have a deal and he whispers the terms in his ear, carefully not touching him. Bob insists they shake hands and gets Mark to agree. Right before they do, Bob says a promise ain’t one unless they spit swear and he spits on his hand and quickly catches Mark’s hand who gags in disgust. Bob, hand still slimy, pats Mark on the cheek as the opening credits roll. 

François (Gilles Marini) pulls the Rolls Royce over the driveway and murmurs something as he notices a beat-up Pontiac in the driveway. He turns around and Miranda (Lesley Manville) is still asleep in the back, a glass of champagne in hand and cucumbers covering her eyes. He enters the house and he finds a woman sitting on the floor. Francois asks her who she is and she says she’s Dale Dickey (Dale Dickey) and she rented this Airbnb for the entire day and she doesn’t intent to leave. François curses in French as he forgot he rents Miranda’s unused houses on Airbnb in order to bring a little money to support her expensive lifestyle until she gets her inheritance. Miranda enters the house and screams that a junkie is in her house, to which Dale responds that she plays junkies and she’s not one. People need to make the difference for god’s sake.

Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) arrive at the same time at the agency and they turn on their computers to read the news for the first time today. Miranda is making the headlines with an article written by Melissa Hao, describing the luxurious lifestyle of Miranda and compraring her to a child put in a adult’s position and how dumb and clueless the woman is about the daily operations of her acclaimed agency she’s currently running to the ground. She spends her days enjoying life with a foreign human sex toy and is an entitled brat, according to one of her employees, Hao claims. Andre and Wilson are furious, the article is defamatory and will damage their already plummeting reputation even more. Andrea is ready to sue Hao, but Wilson wonders where she’ll find the money to pay for the legal fees, but Andrea says she doesn’t care, they need to do something. Wilson agrees it’s enraging, but there’s nothing they can do about it, or so he thinks. They agree to go over everything once again to try to find money, even if Wilson assures Andrea that he’s already done it countless times and he can’t even find a dollar. They shrug it off and look at the books again.

Dale is still trying to prove to Miranda she’s not really a drug dealer like her character in Spark of Madness, but just an actress who’s probably good at her job, because Miranda can’t tell her and her character apart. Miranda asks Dale to smile and she shows her crooked teeth. Miranda looks at her, dead in the eyes, defiant, and says the teeth don’t lie. Dale says not many people have the same chance in life than her. Miranda is offended by her comments and leaves the room to check out the rest of the house. she has so many, she forgot what they look like. She enters in the bedroom to find out Dale slept in her bed. Enraged, Miranda yells at Dickey that she’s white trash and she shouldn’t be in her house. She makes her way to the kitchen and finds food coloring syringes and mistakes them for drugs. She confronts Dale about it and Dale snaps at Miranda. She says Miranda is so ignorant, what they’re saying about her today must be true. She says an elegant woman like her, it was hard to believe it, but once she saw her today and how she acted towards her today, she believes it now. Miranda doesn’t know what she’s talking about and Dale shows her the article dragging her through the mud. She turns back and see François, who begs her to forgive him, he was just trying to defend her. Miranda can’t believe he betrayed her trust like that and she feels violated by her actions. She shoves him aside and locks herself in the bathroom to cry. François walks away in tears. Just before he leaves, Dale asks if she can stay, because, you know, she rented the place for the whole day and François says he doesn’t care. 

Bob sits alone at the bar, contemplating the check he made to the agency. The bartender asks Bob what brings him here today in the middle of day and Bob says he made a deal with the devil and he’s drinking to try to forget it. The bartender says it sounds like a hell of a plan and Bob agrees as he raises his glass. 

A couple of hours later, Dale knocks on the bathroom door and Miranda, sobbing, answers back. Dale says the French guy left with her Rolls Royce and she needs to get back to Los Angeles to audition for this role in a drama and she was wondering if she could be Miranda’s Uber driver, otherwise she’s stuck here. Miranda reluctantly accepts. As Dale struggles to start her beat-up car, she tells Miranda to not forget to leave her a good review, but Miranda doesn’t answer, devastated by the precarious condition of the car, hoping she’ll make it back to Los Angeles alive.

Back the agency, Andrea and Wilson are desperate, after they spent the entire day searching for money and they were forced to realise they are doomed. Bob arrives at the office, drunk. He slams the check on his desk and he says he found the solution to their problem. Andrea wondered what he did and Wilson, judging by his appearance, doesn’t think it’s a good thing.