Dwight gets a call on his cell phone, and it's Michael, calling from a suspiciously tight shot as he says that if Dwight keeps coming after him, he can't succeed. Dwight doesn't care, so Michael adds, "I'm going to have you listen while I steal your biggest client." Michael puts his phone in his pocket, turning it down so it's essentially a one-way call as he enters the office of Daniel Scofield, HarperCollins.
Next thing you know, Dwight's in the car, racing to Scofield's office. He's still listening as Michael claims that buying paper from an owner and founder like himself is like buying software from Bill Gates. "ARE YOU SAYING YOU INVENTED PAPER?!?" Dwight bellows impotently.
In the outer hallway, Andy holds Jim, who is apparently crying so hard he can't speak. And a moment later, in the bullpen, Andy calls everyone out for whatever it was someone did to Jim. "I guess I could be nicer," Kevin concedes. Phyllis is the one to tell Andy that Jim's messing with him. Andy's doubtful, until he looks over to the window to the kitchen and sees Jim grinning out at him.
In the kitchen, Jim tells Andy two things: "Pam and I are very happy together." And number two? "That stuff that happened with you and Angela is a bummer. And I know you don't think that you're ever going to find someone else, but you will. I promise you, you will." Andy does a TH in which he says that Jim got him good. "I wish this was a sofa, 'cause I feel like I could sit here and talk for hours." I'm sure. But stick it in a webisode, please.
In Scofield's office, Michael is misquoting Dwight, just as Dwight is arriving in the parking lot. He runs out of his car without closing the door, and then runs back to grab something.
Cut to Dwight charging down the hall in an old, familiar mustard-colored shirt. "Hello, Dwight," Scofield's assistant says. "Spin move!" Dwight does and says, and bursts into Scofield's office. "I barge, because I care!" he pants. Dwight reminds Scofield of the time he came to his rescue, but Michael, in his element, calmly gives his own pitch, and Scofield decides to put this off by having them e-mail him offers. As they're taking their leave, Dwight pauses to look at Michael's Rolodex card on Scofield and ask, "How's your gay son?" Suddenly the temperature in the room drops ten degrees.













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