[Realizing she just sent a mass e-mail to the staff, with details of her infidelity during a relationship with Will] No... No, no... No, no, no, no, no, no I need everyone's attention, right now [Gary Cooper receives the e-mail on his Blackberry, which Mackenzie snatches from his hand, throws to the floor, crushes beneath her heel, and upon which she pours another employee's tea.]
Gary[staring at the ruins of his phone] That was unusual.
[frantically] I need everyone to delete the staff e-mail, right now, without reading it. Then I need someone to sneak into Will's office and delete the e-mail from his inbox. If it's password protected, I need someone to, um mm, TAKE A BASEBALL BAT AND SMASH-- [Will enters with a stunned expression on his face] I thought you said he was at a thing uptown.
We stood in my office this morning...
...and I said under no circumstances did I want anyone to know what happened, and you said yes, and yes again. I mean it really, it really seemed like you understood. Then, you sent an e-mail, explaining in some detail, what happened and then you copied 47 reporters on it.
You know how sometimes something happens in an instant that's so astonishing you just... shut down?
Of course, that's understand–
THAT DOESN'T! FUCKING! HAPPEN! TO ME!
We're going to go into Will's office, I want everyone to delete the e-mail-
MMartin
Mack, I think I just accidentally forwarded it to corporate.
[Will angrily charges at Martin and is blocked by Mackenzie and Maggie] WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!
[Frantically] I was trying to send an e-mail to you, but instead I sent it to Sloan and then 'Sloan' became 'Staff' and I either did or didn't type the asterisk.
Why were you sending it at all?
Because-... and here's where I'm on firmer ground. Sloan thought that you cheated on me and that you were an ass! [To the staff] Which is not true! I'm changing minds, Will!
[Points angrily to his office] GET IN THERE!
Oh, wow. I didn't realize it was Valentine's Day. And that people in the office gave-
No, Valentine's Day is Monday, not today, and these aren't for you, they're from you.
I am more confused than I was before.
Don planned a beautiful night for us on Monday.
Yes. Don planned a romantic evening for you and me. Me and HIM.
And I don't want it to be ruined by Lisa, who will ruin it if she doesn't have a romantic Valentine's day. Last year her boyfriend forgot it was Valentine's Day and went to a Rangers game with his friends. She got drunk, made us watch "Overboard," and reviewed every bad Valentine's Day she's ever had, which was all of them. Not this year. You're gonna be like St. Valentine himself.
Focus, nerd. Don got us a room at the Four Seasons.
Nope, still him and me. The Four Seasons. The bath fills up in less than 60 seconds. And I don't want Lisa showing up with a copy of "The Notebook" saying, "Where's the minibar?"
Yeah, I can't hang out with Lisa on Valentine's Day. That's making a pretty strong statement.
Don't screw with me on this, James Tiberius Harper.
That's not my middle name. You're thinking of Captain James Tiberius Kirk–
Do not screw me on this, Jim.
We're not in a relationship. She calls me at night after work. We talk for a minute and then she says, "Should I come over?" And what am I supposed to say?
Gary
You say yes.
If you're dating someone on February 14th, you take them out on February 14th.
What's February 14th? [Maggie is annoyed] Valentine's Day...
A miracle. A miracle happens. We become a team again. We all hate this, right?
Gary
We're gonna hate it more after 10 minutes of no air conditioning.
No, not the power outage. We hate what we're doing. We hate that we're covering Casey Anthony and Anthony Weiner. We hate that we have to do it to save the ratings. We hate that we have to bump important stories. And we're starting to be not very pleasant people to be around. Guys, this is real. I'm not making this up. Just a minute ago when I was prepping for a pretape with that idiot who's still sitting in the studio-
SSandy
Are you talking about me?
No! Yes. When when I was prepping for her pretape I said, "God, please show me a sign that I'm not doing a big thing badly." And right that second all the power went out. And so obviously I thought, "There's my answer."
Raise your hand if Mac's freaking you the hell out right now. [He and Don raise their hand]
Just tell us how we do the show if the power doesn't-
By being a team again. And that was God's plan.
Keep God out of this and talk more about electricity.
...
Does anybody think we're not good enough to pull this off?
SSandy
Should I still be sitting here?
I'm so sorry, Sandy. I know you had your heart set on entertaining us with private details of a man you were sexting with and maybe a "Playboy" spread, but we're not able to do pretape. So if you want to do the show, you're gonna have to do it live.
SSandy
I already committed to Fox, and no offense but it's a bigger audience.
Shoot! Does anybody think we can't do this?
This is a blessing in disguise. I say the power going out is the best thing that ever happened to us. I say the power going out is what is gonna save this-
[The power goes back on suddenly]
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