The Office
The Office

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Sail Away Without Me

The fake Biz Wiz is starting to get pretty War of the Worlds, as Nellie is "narrating" a police standoff in real time at David Wallace's house. Jim steps in as the Greenwich police chief, offending Darryl with his "black guy" voice. Dwight offers to conference in Wallace right now, despite the radio crew's suddenly panicked objections.

Erin wonders if Andy knows what he's doing, and he insists he does. "I also know where the booze stash is," he says, opening the door to reveal his little brother crashed out on a bunk. Hey, there's Josh Groban after all. Andy is not entirely wrong about the location of the booze, stash, though; as long as Walt, Jr. stays inside that room, that's where the liquor is. "I figured I'd get that first relapse out of the way," Walt Jr. says. Andy tells his brother that he decided to sail to Bermuda (Erin quickly corrects that it's the Bahamas), and Walt, Jr. should be his crew. He could use the time to dry out anyway. Awesome, DTs on the high seas.

Dwight gets the real David Wallace on the line and is extravagantly relieved to hear that he's okay, and tells Wallace that he believes in him to make the right choice. The people in the conference room listen nervously as Dwight tells Wallace in a negotiator-voice to let the mailman go. "Walk out of the house with your hands on top of your head...Dunder Mifflin will be in good hands while you're away in prison." Wallace just tells Dwight not to call him on his cell any more, which is probably the only reasonable response.

When Dwight emerges from the break room, not having bothered to get dressed first, he's met with a round of applause from the bullpen. They cheer his fake triumph through the fake crisis, and Dwight cheerfully THs that his first radio interview went pretty much as expected. That part, I agree with.

Kevin returns to Accounting and says Toby just wanted to update his personal information. Angela asks acidly why Kevin would ever think he'd be getting a promotion, and Kevin starts to answer heatedly, only to stop shocked in midsentence as the senator himself walks in. He tells Angela that he sensed someone he loved needed his attention, and adds that Oscar's looking good. "Getting lots of vigorous exercise?" he asks, as Oscar recoils from the hand on his shoulder as though burned. Angela asks what's up, and Oscar says he overreacted because he's stressed out, but flounders helplessly at why that might be. Kevin jumps in and firmly says we all know what's going on: "Senator Lipton has a big election next week. We all need to give him our support." And he leads the bullpen's second round of applause of the day, as well as a chant of "USA!" Oscar THs that he's impressed with Kevin's self-control. But then Kevin THs, "I totally forgot about the affair for a minute!" and then dissolves in laughter, saying, "Oscar is having sex with the senator and Angela doesn't even know! Her life is a complete sham!"

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