Michael and Toby's Counseling Session

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==Backstory==
Michael and Toby's counseling session was required after Michael physically assaulted his nephew, Luke Cooper. When Gabe Lewis tells Michael that the only other option would be termination, Michael gives in and allows himself to be dragged into Counseling with Toby ("Nepotism"). 
==Counseling Session==
The counseling session starts off with Michael refusing to say anything with a stony face as Toby looks at him expectantly. 
When Toby starts to say something, Michael tersely interrupts. "This is the worst! You are the worst! I hate looking at your face, I want to smash it!"
Toby is undeterred as Michael plows on. "I know what you wanna ask me. Did your Mom ever see you naked?" 
Toby replies with, "We can do this more privately." 
"So you can molest me? Oh, okay. I don't think so. We're gonna leave the blinds open so everyone can see what a failure you are."
As Michael refuses to say anything after that, Toby speaks up. "I can't count the hour if you don't talk."
Michael won't stand for that. "No, no, no, no. I know my rights, and I only have to sit here for six hours. Do my time."
"Michael, it's my job to check off the boxes, and I can't do that without-"
"Do you have any idea how angry that is making me?"
"Tell me!" Toby said, with a tone that's more forceful than usual. 
Privately, Michael whispers to the cameras. "Yes, I will talk all right. Be careful what you wish for, Toby." 
When Michael returns, he starts to spin wacky tales of him being abducted by aliens and eating his penis and being a werewolf. Toby knows not to believe this, and announces that they aren't getting anywhere. He takes out some board games that his daughter, Sasha Flenderson, plays with at the office when she's bored. 
Toby has a plan, though, and that starts to work as he pours his heart out to Toby while they play Connect 4. Eventually, Michael figures Toby out. Accepting defeat, Toby sighs and gives Michael the checkbox paper, which Michael, blinded by triumph, checks off all of the boxes on the left side, assuming that they mean that their counseling session went well. 
==Aftermath==
Gabe brings Toby to the attention that Michael's boxes all checked off as severe, including at risk for homicidal actions, but when Toby tells Michael, Michael says that "They should bang it out," And the episode ends as he walks out the door with Toby. ("Counseling"). 
Category:Events
Category:Season 7