Lionel and Jean are very lucky people. Not only are they in Hollywood, but they have a picture window view of the Hollywood sign. It must have been the Sy Lieberman, after all. They walk into the hotel room after having had breakfast. Lionel is complaining because his bacon was done to a crisp. Jean informs him that he ordered "crispy bacon." He blames it on the waitress who confused him when he asked for fried eggs by offering 50 different suggestions for preparing them. Same was true about the bacon and toast. In fact, he says if they go to the restaurant to eat dinner they'd better get there by five o'clock to allow two hours just to order. She laughs and says she knows what the problem is. He just doesn't feel safe here -- his bottle's gone. No, that's not it, he says, it's just different. It's one thing to just fantasize about having a miniseries while he's in London, but it's another thing to actually be here in Hollywood trying to convince Mike whatsit and Sy something to produce it. Jean tells him they're already half-sold on the idea. He tells her that Americans blow very hot and cold on things. For someone who has so much trouble doing something simple, like ordering breakfast, she doesn't know how come he thinks he's such an expert on Americans. He's just trying not to be too optimistic. She thinks there's not too much danger of that. In the meantime, Jean just thinks Lionel should "enjoy." That's what the waitress said, he tells her.

She tells him to look outside. Smog, he says. No, above the smog, in the hills. "More smog," he says. They go outside on the balcony. She's very happy about being here. It's better than a rainy day in Holland Park, she tells him. Still, he knows where everything is in Holland Park. She wants to go strolling down Sunset Boulevard. She points out towards a street and he tells her that she doesn't know it's Sunset Boulevard -- she tells him it's somewhere out there. The telephone rings and they dash back inside to answer it. It's Mike Barbosa. He's coming up to the room. Jean wonders why a drizzly day in Holland Park suddenly sounds attractive. Lionel wants to know whose bottle's gone now. He's very nervous. He needs to pee.

There's a knock on the door and Jean's the only one left to answer it now. She moans and opens the door. Mike walks in with a large bouquet of flowers for her. He spits out about 4 questions at once, talking quickly, welcoming her to Los Angeles in his lousy American accent. Jean answers all four questions bang, bang, bang, bang. Lionel comes out of the bathroom and Mike asks how he is. "Better now," says Lionel. Mike wants to know if he's been unwell. Lionel tells him he just had a leak. Mike picks up the phone to arrange to have the leak fixed. They tell him they're using leak in a different sense. He finally gets it -- in fact, he wants to make sure he remembers that one. "It is the language of Shakespeare, after all," says Lionel. They apologize for not having responded to an earlier message. He says he just didn't want them to feel ignored. He says he figured that they were busy, working out in the gym or something. They say they were having a huge breakfast, a big fry-up. He looks at them as though they are unschooled in the matters of body maintenance and good health which are so prevalent in southern California. They sit down.

Mike has good news and better news. First, Sy Lieberman's therapy session has been put back to this afternoon, which means that he'll have time to see them today at 11:30. Jean's pleased. They can have time for their walk before.Mike doesn't get it. No-one walks in L.A. He asks them please to use the stretch limo that is parked outside the hotel for their use. They say they will. Jean says they'll compromise and walk around in the stretch limo. He looks at her with the puzzled look that seems to live in him. Suddenly he realizes it's a joke. He laughs as though he gets it.

Sy Lieberman is on the phone talking with someone named Harry, who is threatening suicide and crying because his television series was cancelled. There is a knock on the door and Sy puts Harry on hold. Mike comes in with a folder which has something to do with Lionel. He tells Sy that he has Lionel and Jean with him -- Korean War Miniseries project. Sy has no idea who they are. He wants to know "Do I like it?" Mike tells him he's crazy for it. Sy reads the three or four sentence synopsis. "I'm crazy for it?" he says in disbelief. Mike brings Lionel and Jean into Sy's office and introduces them. Mike tells them it's thrilling to meet them and asks them to have a seat. He excuses himself because he has a fellow writer on the line and needs to finish the conversation. He picks up the phone and tells Harry to stop crying and start communicating. He knows he said he loved the series, he says, but that was before he saw the ratings. He hangs up on the man and calls him a sore loser. Sy sits down with Lionel and Jean and tells them how thrilling it is for him to have them here. Jean says it's thrilling for her too. Lionel, too, is "incredibly" thrilled. "So how is your queen?" Sy wants to know. Mike prompts him -- "Queen Elizabeth." Lionel says, "Yes, I know her name, but how should I know how she is?" Jean can't believe that Lionel is being so abrupt and she quickly jumps in to explain that they don't know her personally, but from what they gather she's quite well. Sy is glad of it. He really wants this story to happen, he says. "It did," says Lionel. "On screen, Lionel," he says. "It's a story which...." Sy snaps his fingers waiting for Mike to supply the right words. "Tears out your guts?" suggests Mike. Lionel interrupts and tells him that he's trying to figure out publicity before he's even decided to produce the thing. He thinks he's going about it backwards. Sy takes his point and says they need a meeting. Jean thought they were having a meeting. Sy says they have to have Josh and Lisa sitting in. Mike gets on the phone and finds out that Josh and Lisa are over at Fox. Sy tells him to set up a meeting as soon as possible. Lionel says he wants it to be real soon because he wants to go home. Jean laughs nervously and says Lionel is joking. Lionel says he is not joking. He says he's thinking of a drizzly day in Holland Park. Jean says that's the title of Lionel's new book. Sy says "You writers..." "Yes, us writers," Lionel laughs back, mockingly. Mike asks if Lionel has anything to show him. "What do you want me to show you?" he asks grumpily. Anything on the new book, he says. "There isn't anything," Lionel tells him. Jean explains that it is in the development stage. Sy sums it up -- he tells Mike to arrange another meeting with Josh and Lisa and have Stefan sit in and he tells Lionel and Jean to have fun in their great city and call Mike if they need anything. Jean says Thank You, Mr. Lieberman. He tells her to call him Sy -- only his wife calls him Mister. He laughs, Jean laughs. Lionel pushes her hard out the door. Mike is the last one out. Sy stops him and asks if it's him or is Lionel a strange guy. Mike tells him that Lionel is a strange guy.

Jean is upset by Lionel's willful behaviour at the meeting. She should have taken him in a push chair, she says. Well, he would have outranked Sy and Mike in their prams. She says, "Oh," and flops down on the bed. He wants to know if that can be construed as a sulk. She says she didn't flop on the bed. He sits down on the edge of the bed. "That was a flop," she says. "You can't flop in a sitting position," he tells her. "Oh," she says again and gets up and paces back and forth. He wants to know if her mood -- the one that has her pacing and saying "Oh" -- can have something to do with jet lag. "You never look at yourself," she says. He counters with the fact that there comes a time in life when mirrors lose their attraction. She says that he went into the meeting like an empire builder meeting the natives -- he was "pompous, patronizing and ...." She was looking for another "P." "Pernickety" is what she comes up with. She tells him that Mike and Sy are there to help him. He says that they are there to make money. She says -- "What you you there for?" He agrees that's a fair point. He's not prepared to act like a fool to do it though. He just didn't like Sy. He was all a veneer. He knows that underneath, Sy is hard as nails. How the hell was he supposed to know how the Queen was? He tells Jean that she heard him on the phone -- he destroys someone's career and then calls him a sore loser. He says that could have been me he was talking to. Jean says if it were Lionel he'd have punched him in the nose. Yes, or put him over his knees and spanked him, Lionel says. Jean realizes it's an age thing. Lionel doesn't like the fact that these bosses are nearly children -- and they're running the world. And what's this Lisa and Josh? And who's Stefan? Jean says it could be his hairdresser for all she knows. Well, Lionel's not falling into a crowd like that, he says. It's not a crowd, she says. Wait until the next meeting, he suggests. "Fight your nature and just try to be civil," she says in frustration. If that includes cackling at jokes like only my wife calls me Mister, he isn't having any part of it. She says if he continues on like this she's going home. Well, if they continue on like this, he says, he'll be home before her. He says he's sticky and he's going to have a shower. He actually stepped into a patch of fresh air between the air-conditioned limosine and the air-conditioned hotel. He walks into the bathroom. "God give me strength," she says. "I heard that," he shouts from the bathroom. "I hope God did," she says.

Jean stares at the telephone, looks around to see if Lionel can see or hear her and walks over to the phone. She picks it up and tells the operator she wants to make a long distance call to London, England. Meanwhile, in London, England, in her home Judith and Alistair are having a "cozy" moment. She had previously referred to it as domesticated, but that seemed to send shivers up Alistair's back. On Alistair's back, incidentally, is a woman's robe -- perhaps even Jean's. Alistair, bringing two cups of coffee, revolves once to model the robe. Judith tells him that pink is definitely his color. Judith is wearing a navy blue and white striped robe. Romantic music plays in the background. Judith says she didn't mean to scare him by saying that this was all very domestic -- she reminds Alistair that she tried domesticity twice and failed miserably both times. If she were really after him, she says, she'd be a lot more subtle about it. Then Alistair says his trouble is that he's not all that sure he's after her. Not a really smart thing to say, under the circumstances. Things go quiet. The phone rings. It's Jean. Judith says "you're phoning because Lionel's in the shower? What's the matter, has he got stuck in there?" Jean says no, she just doesn't want him to hear her. Jean wants to know if Alistair is there. When Alistair gets on the phone, Jean tells him that she needs backup. Sy and Li are from different galaxies and Lionel is becoming downright rude. She's becoming an apologist and everything is going wrong. Alistair tells her the cavalry is coming.

Lionel comes out of the bathroom and asks Jean who she was talking to on the phone. Perhaps she called Sy to tell him how funny his joke was. She laughs, but doesn't answer, but he's waiting for the answer. Finally, in desparation, she says she called room service. She thought it would be nice to eat out on the balcony. Lionel says that's fine, one good thing about American room service is they're quick -- the food should be there in ten minutes. She looks the way she always looks when she's caught in a lie -- a pretty familiar look by now. He wants to know what she ordered. It's a surprise, she says. She gets up quickly -- taking on a Lucy Ricardo kind of look and says she thinks she'll have a shower before lunch. He tells her to hurry up. She starts to pick up the telephone in the bathroom, but first she goes over to the shower and turns on the water to block the noise. Then she goes to the telephone and calls room service. But she can't think of what to order so she tells them she'll call back. She goes into the main room, grabs the menu and starts back towards the bathroom. She tells Lionel she forgot something and is about to close the door when Lionel asks what she forgot. "I just remembered," she tells him, "it's in here" and she quickly closes the bathroom door. She's holding the menu and she calls room service. "... me again ... the me being Jean Pargetter..." she says. On the other end is Lionel saying "and this is me, in the other room." She looks angry and hangs up the phone.

She tells him he didn't have to let her go through that charade. He tells her she didn't have to play it in the first place. She should have just told him that she called Alistair. She wants to know how he knew. He says it was just simple deduction -- it was going very badly with Sy Lieberman and he knew it. He thinks it's a good idea that Alistair is coming. He needs all the help he can get -- he can only understand one out of five words that Sy says, but he can understand 2 or even 3 of Alistair's. She sits next to him on the couch and he puts his arm around her -- she wouldn't have gone behind his back if she thought he'd agree. Lionel phones room service for that lunch.

Jean and Lionel are in the hotel restaurant trying to figure out when Alistair will get there. Jean says he'll never make it on time for the meeting. A waitress brings a decafe and a blueberry muffin. Jean says they didn't order it. The waitress says "your friend did." Lionel says he did not. "Your other friend," she says. Alistair walks up to them, arms open wide. Jean hugs him. She's very happy to see him. So, too, is Lionel. Alistair who is flirting with Mary Beth, the waitress, tells her to put it all on his room tab. She tells him to have a very nice day. He tells her to do likewise. Alistair tells Lionel that he'll fill him in on the details in the limo, but the keyword is "agree." They may throw a curve here or there, but when they do, bite the bullet, think of the money and agree. Lionel says he'll do his best.

Sy is conducting the meeting and is happy, he says, that Alistair is able to sit in on it. Also present are Josh and Lisa as well as Stefan, a man who is wearing dark glasses in the room and looks somewhat like a gangster, but who appears to be a secretary. He thinks that first they ought to listen to the minor changes which Josh and Lisa would like them to take on board. Lisa says they'll call the characters Jean and Lionel -- for simplifaction, says Josh. Jean and Lionel look at one another. This is only the beginning. But they don't meet in London at all -- they meet in Korea when Lionel is shot in the head. Jean nurses him back to health and they get married. But then Lionel is involved in a shooting accident -- maybe grouse shooting, but they haven't firmed that one up yet. Then he regains his memory, forgets Jean and decides to go to Kenya to plant coffee. Jean goes to Kenya and takes a job as his secretary -- he doesn't know who she is. Sy says "This grabs me by the throat." Lionel says' he agrees. They go on, but it gets absolutely worse. It's a wrap. He wants to know what Mike thinks. Mike says, "I think...." before he can finish, Sy says he thinks it's brilliant. Almost immediately Mike says it's brilliant. Sy is going around the room. Alistair? "It's incredible." Lionel? "I think" -- he hesitates -- Alistair looks at him "it's very good indeed." Jean? "I think it's the biggest load of claptrap I ever heard in the whole of my life." It's a mangled version of Random Harvest with Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson. Jean is very passionate about what she's saying -- they lived it, it was all true, they told the truth and that's what they thought he wanted. Lionel says he should have said that.

Just then, suicidal Harry bursts in with a gun in hand. He changed his mind between then and now. Now he says he's going to kill Sy. Who's that? someone says. "A writer," says Lionel. Sy cancelled his series without giving it a chance and now he's not going to give him a chance.Everyone scatters. Harry tells them to get on the floor. Everyone hits the floor except for Jean and Lionel. Lionel says they were just building up to a damned good row and he'd better wait his turn. And, in the meantime, he says very deliberately as he takes the gun out of Harry's hand, don't be so hysterical. Harry falls in a heap on the desk and starts crying. Jean goes to comfort him.

They're in the hotel room, packing. Jean says "an unusual day." Lionel agrees and wonders what happened to Harry. Last she heard he was being hospitalized -- probably in a home for bewildered writers. Probably jam-packed in there, says Lionel. Jean asks Lionel if he knew that Harry's gun was only a replica. He didn't. She says it was ironic that she called Alistair to come and keep Lionel calm and she was the one who does a nut. Someone knocks at the door. Lionel says it might be Josh and Lisa with a machinegun. It's Alistair, who is really pleased. He thinks Lionel will be the talk of Los Angeles by this evening -- Hero Brit saves Sy of CBS. Even now Sy is watching Random Harvest and Josh and Lisa are sinking into their seats. Mike is angling for a spot on the news. He asks why they're packing. We're going home, says Lionel. Oh, no, says Alistair. They have a deal. It's pay or play. Lionel gets to write the first scripts his way and he gets paid whether they use them or not. Sy completed the deal because Jean set a precedent by saying what she thought and Lionel saved Sy's life. "We won," Lionel says. The battle, but not the war -- Alistair cautions. They'll settle for the battle. As for fleeing the country, Alistair tells them the Sy said they could stay for as long as they want. "We'll go home tomorrow, then," Lionel tells him. "A drizzly day in Holland Park." Jean tells Alistair that's the title of Lionel's new book. He wants to know why he doesn't know about it. Lionel says he doesn't know about it either. Jean made it up. Alistair says he'll take them to dinner that night and he can be discreet and leave by 10:30. He leaves and says he'll catch them later.

Lionel says there's got to be a snag in all this. Jean says, oh, no, he's Sy's flavor of the month. Lionel says, yes, but it's the 27th. She's holding a drawstring bag which she just took from the suitcase. It's very light and if it's filled with anything it's probably something like nylon stockings. As she passes Lionel she laughs at his joke and hits him in the neck with the bag. He sounds as though he's hurt. She's sorry, she says, she was only mucking about. She asks if she hurt him.He looks at her blankly. "Who are you?" he says. "I don't know who you are." She tells him to think of her as Greer Garson. They laugh, Jean falls towards him on the couch and they kiss.