Director: Jude Weng — Writer: Sono Patel Aired: 1/26/17 — Season: 3 — Episode: 10 — Nielsen ratings: 0.65 Description: Rebecca navigates major changes in her professional life and Heather gets a new opportunity.
The Gurl Group are eating at Sugar Face as Heather laments not being a student anymore. Rebecca disgusts Valencia when she injects a hormone shot which she needs to donate her egg to Darryl. Rebecca lies about Dr. Shin being okay with this and announces she’s returning to work. Heather and Paula question this since her boss is her ex-boyfriend Nathaniel whom she just broke up with. Later, Heather is a guest on Hector’s podcast with his mother. They are interrupted by Josh Chan who is temporarily living there at Hector’s home. At Whitefeather & Associates, Rebecca returns only to be summarily fired by Nathaniel. As they argue, Rebecca is affected by her hormone shot and quickly leaves.
She goes to the break room where she finds Paula, Darryl, Maya, Jim and Tim. She learns from them Nathaniel is seeing someone named Mona and checks his social media. Rebecca is furious to discover he took his new girlfriend to Raging Waters. She incites a revolt amongst the staff to take back the firm (♫ He's The New Guy ♫). Meanwhile at Home Base, Kevin awkwardly tells Heather about a corporate manager training program. Sometime later at Rebecca and Heather's house, Heather dons a conservative outfit for her seminar while Rebecca discovers a legal loophole. She gathers the staff at Home Base and explains Nathaniel purchased Stacy Whitefeather’s shares of the firm in the wrong jurisdiction.
By voiding the sale and buying those shares they will have controlling interest in the firm. Rebecca goes to Stacy’s home that night and convinces her to go along with her plan in exchange for helping her litigate a noisy baby. The following day Nathaniel confronts Rebecca at her house after learning she’s suing him (♫ You Do/You Don’t Want To Be Crazy ♫). The sexual tension is palpable but Nathaniel leaves before anything could happen. At Home Base HQ, Frank tells Heather corporate loved her idea and she’s encouraged to make more suggestions. In the courtroom, Rebecca presents her case to the judge. As she and Nathaniel argue back and forth they can’t stop flirting with each other (♫ Horny Angry Tango ♫).
The judge rules in Rebecca’s favor but a problem arises. Rebecca was going to sell the Garfinkel ring to buy the shares but a jeweler tells her it’s worthless. Rebecca contacts Audra Levine’s husband Dave, actor B.J. Novak and even Dr. Phil, but no one will lend her money. Heather arrives home and tells Rebecca her conflicted feelings about her corporate experience. Rebecca responds with her own problems including her jealousy of Mona. She goes to her room for more hormone injections and recieves a taunting message from Nathaniel. In a hormone induced haze Rebecca researches Nathaniel’s new girlfriend online and goes on the dark net where she possibly orders a hit on Mona.
The next day Rebecca admits to her therapy group she instigated a take over of the firm mostly out of jealousy. However, she also wanted to stick up for her co-workers and is upset she can’t buy the shares. After the therapy session, Bert tells Rebecca he’s a Bitcoin thousandaire and offers to give her the money she needs. Over at Home Base, Heather tells Chris she hates the corporate job even though she’s excelling at it. Meanwhile at the firm, Rebecca has her things moved into Nathaniel’s office. She’s a senior partner now having been given authority by the other shareholders. At Home Base corporate, Heather’s idea to the board about becoming an on-site manager gets approved.
Later, Heather tells Hector now that she’s figured out her professional life she wants him to move in with her. Hector agrees realizing its time for a change as he got a glimpse of his life after seeing his mom and Josh become best friends. Two weeks later Hector moves his things into Heather’s place while Darryl and Rebecca receive bad news from the fertility clinic. They need a new surrogate as the one he hired couldn’t have the egg implanted since she was already pregnant. Heather overhears this and to Rebecca and Darryl’s shock volunteers to carry the baby. Afterwards at the law firm, Rebecca and Nathaniel apologize to each other for their behavior the last few weeks and end up having sex.
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Episode songs
"He's The New Guy" Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and her colleagues Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen
Rebecca tries to convince the staff of Whitefeather & Associates to rise up against Nathaniel.
"You Do/You Don’t Want To Be Crazy" Performed by: Rebecca Bunch Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger
A brief snippet of the song appears in the middle of the episode.
"Horny Angry Tango" Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and Nathaniel Plimpton Writers: Adam Schlesinger, Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen
They sing about their unresolved feelings for each other.
Kevin proclaims that it’s too hot and takes off his shirt. This is a callback to what used to be Josh Wilson’s habit of taking off his shirt when he was hot. WhiJo started doing this in the Season One episode “I Hope Josh Comes to My Party!”
References to people, media or other things in popular culture .
Rebecca mentions the ups and downs of actor Robert Downey Jr.s career from his public scandals to a guest role on “Ally McBeal” and then starring in “Iron Man.”
Rebecca mentions Nathaniel’s favorite TV show is “Wings.”
Rebecca describes Heather’s outfit as “Good Wife” referring to the CBS legal drama of the same name.
Rebecca, unsatisfied with Paula's ideas to build a case against Josh, turns to Nathaniel for help crafting a truly evil plan. Meanwhile, Josh finds becoming a priest is harder than he thought.
Directed by: Stuart McDonald - Written by: Dan Gregor and Doug Mand
Just as Rebecca tries to be more realistic and practical, Trent throws a wrench into her plans. At the same time Josh and Valencia reckon with their shared history.
Directed by: Audrey Wauchope - Written by: Erin Ehrlich
Rebecca, Paula, Heather and Valencia participate in a séance after a spooky discovery. Darryl takes his parenting duties to an extreme, while Nathaniel is determined to prove to his father he's the best person to run the law firm.
As Rebecca contemplates her feelings about her career, Paula is forced to deal with a big client. Josh tries to get back in the dating game, while Heather and Hector deal with insurance.
Directed by: Stuart McDonald - Written by: Elisabeth Kiernan Averick
As Rebecca contemplates her feelings about her career, Paula is forced to deal with a big client. Josh tries to get back in the dating game, while Heather and Hector deal with insurance.
Directed by: Erin Ehrlich - Written by: Ilana Pena
Heather and Valencia both have changes in their lives which leaves Rebecca reeling. Meanwhile, Paula has to adjust to some good news/bad news from her eldest son.
Rebecca gets more than she bargained for during a day out with Darryl. Josh lends a helping hand to Paula, while Heather encourages Nathaniel to be a nice person.
Directed by: Stuart McDonald - Written by: Rene Gube
Greg returns to West Covina, which forces Rebecca to question things she thought she knew about people she has loved in her life. Meanwhile, Valencia and Josh make some shocking discoveries while at their high school reunion.
Directed by: Stuart McDonald - Written by: Rene Gube
Rebecca supports Paula in her time of need despite, her own personal challenges. Emotions run high when Greg, Josh and Nathaniel have an unfortunate encounter.
Directed by: Stuart McDonald - Written by: Alden Derck & Aline Brosh McKenna
Rebecca gets a call to help her old nemesis out of a complicated situation. Meanwhile, Nathaniel, Josh and Greg attempt to deal with their competing feelings for Rebecca.
Directed by: Marty Pasetta, Jr. - Written by: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen
Rachel Bloom and the cast of the critically acclaimed series perform live versions of fan-favorite songs with incredible staging, multimedia visuals and a live band and orchestra.
