Dwight sadly moves back into his desk. He wanders over to Pam's desk and thanks her for helping him when she was the secret assistant to the regional manager: "You served the office with great dignity." Pam gravely salutes him, which gesture Dwight returns. Aw. I like it when they get along -- even if she's messing with him.
Pam interviews that she doesn't know what the future holds, but that she's optimistic, and that she had fun goofing around with Dwight today. She's trying to tell herself that she and Jim are too similar, and that maybe someday she'll find her own Karen -- but that's, you know, a man. She starts to offer some other kind of self-assuring pap, but has to break off in the middle: "I'm not gay." Well, not in the sexual sense, anyway.
Corporate. It's Jim's turn with David, who's boy's clubbing that he's not sure how he feels about hiring a Sixers fan. "I should leave," jokes Jim. David starts buttering Jim up, saying that Jim always hits his numbers and is very personable. Jim asks if David wants to know how Jim got to be so awesome. David chuckles, and asks for Jim's quarterly numbers and some questionnaire he was supposed to fill out. Jim goes to grab it as David yammers on about the HR guy Jim probably won't like, and as Jim opens his folder, he sees a message slip from Pam, with a gold medal from the Office Olympics paper-clipped to it, that reads, "Don't forget us when you're famous!" Jim has to spend five minutes pondering it until David snaps him out of it by asking how Jim thinks he'll do in New York. Jim says that he loves the buildings and the energy in New York, plus the businesses that are open past 8 PM. David asks what Jim's liked most about the Scranton branch, and Jim once again waits five minutes to answer, "The friendships." That's Scranton for Star-Crossed Love. David says that they want the person who takes this job to be in it for the long haul, so he wants to know where Jim sees himself in ten years. This kicks Jim off into yet another reverie, except this time, we get to see into his brain...













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