The next morning, Jack tells Lemon of his plan to hire Devin to run TWINKS. Lemon thinks it's a bad idea, but Jack insists Devin is desperate for re-entry into Jack's elite circle after his social stock with Obama plummeted. As such, he has tracked Devin down in Brooklyn. He plans to spring Devin on Hank Hooper, who is such a traditionalist that "he had his first heart attack when he saw pineapple on a pizza." He thinks Hank will most certainly shy away from Devin, leaving Jack alone to run TWINKS on the DL.
With Jack's problems seemingly solved, Lemon moves on to her own. She asks whether he thinks networks would go for a show about "a girl comedy writer trying to have it all in the city... and maybe she's a vampire." Jack says he likes the last part. He asks why she has a blank notepad with the title "Plan B" at the top. She tells him how the writers fled when she told them about the forced hiatus. He can't believe she wouldn't use more delicate language after their conversation, saying, "I thought we understood each other." She reminds him, "I thought we understood that you were never to think that I understood anything." He is shocked that she hasn't been preparing for the possible cancellation of TGS for the last two years. In her defense, "There have been a lot of Amazing Races on since then, and I had to watch them and go online and comment on them." Jack says she could go to L.A., but she's not interested ever since she had a bad experience driving around in the riot-infested streets of the Rodney King era. Jack scrapes the bottom of the bucket and offers to get her a meeting with Nick Lachey for The Sing-Off.
A bit later, Lemon is waiting for her meeting with Lachey when who is sitting next to her as a fellow candidate? Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin invites Lemon, "Walk with me," and takes her on a Sorkintastic meandering monologue through the halls of NBC. By the time he's wondered why no one pokes him on Facebook and instructed her how to beat a level on Angry Birds, they end up back where they started. He cautions her, "We make horse buggies, and the first Model-T just rolled into town." Lemon agrees that they're dinosaurs, and he pooh-poohs her use of mixed metaphors. Just then, Sorkin is called into his meeting with Lachey. He walks in simpering that he's a huge fan and has all of Lachey's albums.









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