Call My Agent 3.6 - The Interview

Call My Agent : The Interview

Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire

Showrunner: Jason Reitman

Writer : Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Chris Colfer and Katherine Heigl

Plot: When Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) arrives at work that day, he first sees the workers replacing the glass window because of his plan gone wrong, but that’s not the reason why he’s sweating profusely. He looks at his desk and gulps. Despite Bob’s return to work, Desmond (Chris Colfer) is still sitting at his desk and well, doing his job. Miranda (Lesley Manville) is already there, putting lipstick on in her office. He walks next to Desmond and puts his lunchbox on his desk. Desmond looks at him with a funny look on his face, asking him why he is sweating so much. Wilson lets an awkward grunt go and heads for the bathroom. He asks himself if he’s fired and he says it can’t happen, he was so good at his job. But then, he was no really good as an agent. This is driving him crazy. He slaps himself in the face and washes his face with ice cold water to regain his composure. He walks with confidence and enters Miranda’s office, who’s somehow still putting on lipstick. She says it’s a good thing he’s here, she wanted to ask him a question, since Desmond keeps saying yes to everything she asks because he doesn’t want to lose his job? Does her lipstick suit her well? Wilson says it does and Miranda thanks him for his input. She says it’s alright for him to leave now, but Wilson stays. He breathes heavily and is finally able to ask her if he can be an agent from now on. Miranda turns around in her chair and spins back to face him once more in dramatic fashion. She says he’ll have to pass a test first. Wilson says he always hated tests, they make him a nervous mess and Miranda says it’s just to see if he’s up to the task. 

Wilson sits anxiously at his new desk, eating the cap of his pencil when he Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and Bob (Rainn Wilson) arrive. They ask him what’s going on and he keeps on chewing his pen. Desmond says Miranda gave him a test that he needs to pass if he wants to become a full-time agent and not go back to do his boring desk job. Andrea asks Desmond if he likes his job and he says he has a complicated relationship with it. Wilson broke his pen and he has ink all over his mouth. He heads to the bathroom to clean himself up. Andrea and Bob head straight to Miranda’s office, where they surprise her looking at pictures of a shirtless Daniel Craig. She quickly closes the tab and hides her discomfort by pushing her purse of her desk. Both Bob and Andrea are surprised and amused to see the content of Miranda’s enormous purse. Once they got everything off the floor, they ask themselves if it really was a good idea. Miranda says he’ll get over it soon. They ask themselves if they should give him another client and Miranda says the rules were set, but it’s all fun and games, he’ll have the job anyway. 

Wilson doesn’t think it’s all fun and games, as he has no idea it’s all a set up to get back at him for his prank gone too far. He gets out of the bathroom, all ink is gone and sits back at his desk. He listens to relaxation music on his phone to try to calm himself down. He walks in Miranda’s office an he tells everyone he’s ready for his test.

Andrea drops a file on his desk. He needs to pitch a role to someone known as Madame X. Wilson says he has been able to get a woman to sign a contract before and it went really well, so he doesn’t see how it’s going to be any different and it calms him a little. Andrea looks at Bob, worried. Wilson looks at the role details, Madame X is supposed to play a doctor in a sports movie. She’s American and the movie is about soccer. That’s going to be hard to sell, he says, but he’s confident in his ability to make her sign the deal. The calls the number and Katherine Heigl (Katherine Heigl) answers. Wilson pitches her the idea, saying the film is about football and she lashes out at him, saying she doesn’t want to play a doctor again, just because she played a doctor television for six years. She says she accepts to come and see him as a professional courtesy, because she liked the old Tom Jones a lot, but only because of that. Wilson hangs up and is happy to say he got her to come to a meeting ad he gives Andrea and Bob two thumbs up. 

Katherine Heigl arrives the Jones Agency and she’s pissed off to learn that the old boss, Tom Jones passed away. She claims she had no idea. They sit her in the conference room and they give a pitch of water. She complains because Tom used to greet her with champagne. They didn’t even give her a seltzer, just plain water, like they live in the third world. Andrea leaves the conference room and starts to wonder if they gave him an impossible task and it’s going to ruin him forever. Bob gives him a pep talk, he wants to make sure he does his best in there. Wilson is all pumped up. He enters the conference room with a newfound confidence. He asks Katherine if she considered the offer and she says she always wanted to do a movie about football and Wilson is worried to tell her it’s in a movie about soccer, so he doesn’t. Wilson says she makes a good doctor, she was great in Grey’s Anatomy and she rudely thanks him, saying it’s what everyone tells her, but nobody offers her a job anymore. Wilson says it’s the point, she’s good at playing doctors and well, he offers her a job. She says it could be a good idea to sign, she needs money anyway. She points at her hair and nails and she says it isn’t cheap. Wilson says he believes her and he gives her a pen to sign the contract. She signs on the dotted line and says she’s leaving and thanks him for the role. She says if the movie fails, or if it gets bad press, he’s fired. Wilson has a hard time containing his joy and he’s really happy when she leaves.

Moments later, Wilson is still celebrating at his desk when Andrea says he made a classic mistake, but Bob disagrees, he says it’s one of the oldest trick in the book. Wilson asks what he did wrong, or right, and they say he kept saying the movie was about football, so she will think it’s about American Football, but Standing Back is a movie about football yes, but most people call this sport soccer. She’s probably going to be pissed about it. Desmond interrupts them and transfers a call to Wilson. She screams at him on the other side of the line, asking him why she just got cast in a film about soccer? She says he’s fired and she hangs up. Wilson says he still passed the test, right?