Call My Agent 3.7 - Here We Go Again

Call My Agent : Here We Go Again

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 and John Hawkes

Plot: Desmond (Chris Colfer) is forced to do overtime tonight. The phone is constantly ringing, and it doesn’t look like he will out of here anytime soon. Everyone calls for the same thing. They all want to speak with Bob, saying he’s a former murderer and he shouldn’t be allowed to be working in the industry anymore. Desmond reminds them that Bob didn’t murder anybody, and he was wrongfully accused, to no avail. Desmond lets the phone go straight to voicemail and he calls Miranda (Lesley Manville) to ask her if he can leave. Miranda, who still lives with Desmond, says it’s alright, but they should do something about that, or else Bob might never recover. When Desmond gets back home, he asks if he can sleep in his bed tonight and she says he can’t. Desmond argues that he’s been working all day and Miranda says he only answered the phone. He asks her what she has done today that would justify her sleeping in the bed. We see a flashback sequence of Miranda not doing anything productive today. She budges and lets him sleep on his bed. This event forces Miranda to start looking for a house, but she realises that because of her generosity towards the agency and Bob, she’s broke and doesn’t have money for a house. She tells herself she must do something about it. 

Bob (Rainn Wilson) is the first one to arrive that day at the office, as he has an early meeting with a long time client. He gets annoyed when the phone doesn’t stop ringing and sends it straight to voicemail, but it’s full. He welcomes his client, John Hawkes (John Hawkes) and they go in the conference room for the meeting. The place is still quiet, other than the constant phone ring in the background. Bob tries to abstract it, but he keeps hearing it. It doesn’t seem to bother John, who keeps a serious look and tone. John says he doesn’t know how to tell him this kindly, but he doesn’t think he can work with him again. Bob asks him what’s the issue and John says he heard all the rumors about him and it doesn’t goes along his values. Bob reminds him that didn’t kill anyone and John says it has never been proved and he hasn’t been cleared. Bob says that’s nonsense, his hands aren’t dirty, he’s not a violent man. He excuses himself for an instant and he goes to Desmond’s desk and violently unplugs the phone and throws it across the room and the phone breaks a window and lands in the parking lot. He goes to John, who points out that he just destroyed a phone out of rage and he doesn’t want to work with violent people, it’s against his values. He tries to leave office, but he bumps into Miranda, Desmond, Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) and Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and at Bob’s request, they keep him inside. Bob asks Andrea and Wilson to keep him company while he talks to Miranda, but Wilson says he won’t be able to, he just got hit in the head by a phone and he’s feeling dizzy.

Bob tells Miranda that he will take a few days off and follow up on her advice and sue the government for his wrongful arrest and attempt to clear his name. Miranda is happy that he came to her for her legal services and Bob says that’s not the case, he’s only here to ask for a few days off. She says the agency stayed afloat without him during his absence, they should manage for a few days. She asks him if it still counts for a good action and Bob says it sure does and puts the sticker in Miranda’s notebook himself. 

While Bob leaves, Andrea asks John if he likes his new role in 7 Days and he says he absolutely hates it and he’s thinking about dropping out of the movie. Andrea laughs awkwardly and reminds him that he’s contractually obligated to honor the contract. He says the movie glamorizes violence and is filled with hardcore scene, nudity and horrible violence. Andrea reminds him that the violence in the film is almost a character by itself and it helps further the character’s descent to madness, plus, it helps sell tickets. John disagrees with everything that he says, saying anyone who is in favor of violence like that shouldn’t be allowed to make movies. He then becomes all fed up about Hollywood’s glamorization of violence and how everything has to violent these days to be successful and he storms off. Andrea realises he makes some good points. 

Wilson and Desmond are listening to the messages left in their voicemail and they realise that it’s always the same thing, like someone hired bots to flood their answering machine of the same thing. They ask Miranda, who is applying nail polish to her toenails if they can all delete them and do something else instead, but she refuses to, in case they have an important message. They ask if she can help them and she says she’s doing important work. They point out she’s literally painting her toenails in her office and she says she can’t have a meeting without having nail polish on her toes, or else, what will people think? That she’s poor? She can’t allowed that and Wilson says that no one will ever think she’s poor. She agrees and throws them out of her office. 

Bob enters a dirty bar adjacent to a cheap motel and he sits at the bar, ordering two glasses of whiskey. He takes a look at his right and fakes being surprised to see his old lawyer (John Glover) there. He asks him how he was able to find him and he says his former colleagues told him where to find him. The lawyer asks Bob how is he going to ruin his life today and Bob says he’s here to do the opposite. He has a golden opportunity for him to finally have a big win. Bob whispers and says he wants to sue the government and the lawyer says he’s interested. Bob asks him his name, he never quite got it and he says his name is Sirius.