Call My Agent 3.5 - Celebration

Call My Agent : Celebration

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Chris Colfer, John Glover, Michelle Yeoh, William Forsythe, Jennifer Carpenter and Paul Dano

Plot: Bob Hollis (Rainn Wilson) is at home, looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. He smiles and leaves his bathroom and sighs when he sees the letter pile that accumulated on his doorstep while he was incarcerated and then pardoned. The news are on in the background and when can see that mobster Boris Shelkovina (William Forsythe) has been arrested for murder and will have a trial soon. He knots his tie and leaves his apartment, happy to be free.

Back at the office, Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) run around, making sure everything is ready. Desmond is hanging a poster congratulating Bob on his pardon. Miranda (Lesley Manville) is sitting at her desk, staring at her old nemesis, Melissa Hao (Michelle Yeoh) who is the center of attention after she was able to bring forward evidence exonerating Bob. She brags about it to Bob’s lawyer (John Glover) who couldn’t more bored. When they see Bob’s car pulling in the parking lot, everyone hides as Andrea and Wilson hold party poppers. When Bob enters, he turns the lights on and everyone emerges from their hiding place. The party poppers go off and a distinct scream is heard coming from the bathroom. Bob is surprised by this show of affection and everyone quickly forgets about the scream coming from the bathroom. 

As everybody welcomes back Bob, Melissa wants everyone’s attention so she can show the video that allowed all of this to happen. Miranda doesn’t want to let Melissa get all the spotlight and she insists she’s the one who has to introduce the employee because she’s the most important person here. She starts arguing with Melissa, while Bob talks with Andrea and Wilson about how much money he owes now. Miranda overhears the conversation and she decides to one-up Melissa by saying that she’ll pay for Bob’s debts and legal fees. Everyone thanks her for her kindness and as she goes back in her office to note her good action of the day and giving herself a gold star sticker, Melissa reminds everyone, once again, that she allowed this to happen. She argues with Miranda once again and upon hearing the argument, Paul Dano (Paul Dano), all dressed up as Pee-wee Herman comes out of the bathroom, laughing in the distinctive Pee-wee laugh. Everyone stops what they’re doing and just look at Paul, not knowing what to do. Enjoying the discomfort, he starts laughing again.

Standing in the corner, Bob’s lawyer is drinking his sorrows that he still won’t have the legal victory he wanted, so he’ll just have to retire known as the guy who got beat by a diva who had no law knowledge. Miranda brags that she learned for the best, Puddn’head Wilson himself. He looks at her confused, before claiming he hates surprise parties and he leaves. Things went back to normal after the encounter with Pee-wee and now nobody knows where he went. Bob looks around for him, because he loves Pee-wee Herman, but he can’t find him anywhere, but he can hear him giggling. Bob suddenly hears Miranda screaming from her office, because Paul hid in her office and surprised her. She starts to hit him with her handbag and is about to pepper spray him when Bob intervenes. He asks Paul who invited him over and he says he doesn’t know and struts away while Bob tries to calm down Miranda. 

Melissa uses the confusion to finally show the video she’s been talking about all day and everyone gathers around to watch. The footage shows Melissa loudly eating a hamburger while she doesn’t know the camera is on. Embarrassed, she moves it forward until we can see Boris Shelkovina entering the Mark’s house moments before he was killed, all the while Melissa is loudly singing along to Take Me Home, Country Road, by John Denver. People are disappointed to see how little excitement there was to the footage compared to how she hyped it up, well, everyone except Pee-wee Herman who laughs his ass off in the corner. Melissa gets mad at Pee-wee for laughing at her and she starts chasing him around the office, as he skips and struts around and soon everyone joins in the chase, either chasing Melissa or Pee-Wee. When Melissa gets near the front door, Miranda uses the opportunity to push Melissa out of the office and lock the door. She laughs at her from inside, saying it’s a good thing the bitch is finally out. When Melissa tries to enter the office by the windows, Andrea, Bob and Wilson stop chasing Paul Dano and help Miranda lock the windows. 

They all sit down around the conference room table, out of breath and containing themselves, trying not to laugh, but they can’t help but giggle. Bob thanks them for the day, it was nice to just laugh and forget about the dark days for once. He thinks his life can go back to normal now and he thanks them for what they did for him and they say it was perfectly normal to help a friend in need. Miranda says he can’t go back to his normal life just yet. All her legal victories got her thinking that he could sue the government for wrongful imprisonment and he would probably win if he hires her. Bob laughs it off and he says he’ll have to think about it. Andrea excuses herself for a moment, saying she has to use the bathroom.

When she gets in the bathroom, she starts screaming, asking the perv to get out of the women’s bathroom. Wilson takes his cellphone and dials an unknown number. He tells the other person to enter and she says it’s locked and Wilson pleads her to enter. The glass door that serves as the front door breaks and Detective Debra Dexter (Jennifer Carpenter), Bob’s arresting officer, comes in and arrests Paul Dano, dressed as Pee-Wee Herman, for public indecency. Wilson laughs at his elaborate, set-up prank, but no one else does. Wilson notices no one is laughing, except Pee-wee and asks everyone if that was too far and Andrea screams to him that yes, that was too far.