Chidi Anagonye/Synopsis

==Background==
Chidi Anagonye was born in either 1982 or 1983 to Ndeye and Emeka Anagonye in Nigeria and was raised in Senegal. By the age of eight years old, his parents were constantly fighting. On April 20, 1991, Chidi put together a presentation explaining why they shouldn't divorce each other and presented it to the parents. The parents agreed to stop fighting. Chidi thought that the reasoning in his presentation was what convinced his parents not to fight and divorce, thus convincing Chidi that there was always a concrete answer to every question in the world; even though his parents actually interpreted the presentation as a child's cry for the parents to not leave each other and didn't care about the reasons why. While they just wanted Chidi to be happy, this would quickly start Chidi's crippling indecisiveness that would be with him for the rest of his life. 
Chidi was best friends with Uzo since they were kids. Uzo was very understanding of Chidi's flaw and tried his best to be chill with and support him. At the age of ten, Chidi Anagonye wasted an entire recess trying to pick members of a teammates at a sport. Chidi eventually went through university and at one point, went to an American university to learn English. He became a professor of moral philosophy, whose work would take him all around the world, particularly Paris, France; before becoming a professor for St. John's University at Australia. He would spend the last 18 years of his life writing in a manuscript about ethics. 
Chidi became romantically involved with Allesandra. At one point, Chidi lies to a co-worker named Henry that he liked a new pair of cowboy boots that Henry bought. Chidi stressed over the lie for three years before confessing after Henry undergoes a difficult surgery. He had a dog that ran away before he could name it. Allesandra eventually broke up with Chidi because of Chidi's indecisiveness. His thesis advisors rejected his thesis due to his inability to answer a single concise question. In October 14, 2016, Uzo offered Chidi to be his best man at a wedding with Ellen. After his indecisiveness proved him to be unable to, Uzo reveals that he was just testing Chidi and asks to take them out for a drink at a bar. However, Chidi proves to be incapable of doing that. As Uzo is yelling at him at the streets and Chidi is stressing over picking the "right" bar, an air conditioner falls out and crushes Chidi, killing him.
==Season 1==
In the afterlife, Chidi made it to the Good Place and is introduced by Michael to his soulmate, Eleanor Shellstrop, a death row lawyer and human rights activist. When Michael leaves their house, Eleanor reveals to Chidi that she is not what everyone thinks she is. She was actually a salesperson who sold fake medicine to the sick and the elderly. During a party hosted by Tahani Al-Jamil, a wealthy philanthropist, Chidi tries to find any good or even neutral qualities in Eleanor. Meanwhile, Eleanor insults various guests; particularly Tahani due to her condescending nature and British accent, and hogs all the shrimp. That night, a chaos sequence in the Good Place unfolds containing various things representative of the things that Eleanor did during the party. Eleanor convinces Chidi to keep her secret and to teach her to be a more ethical person.
The next day, a machine that makes people fly is set up for the inhabitants for it to be used for a certain time period. Tahani proposes having some people clean up the mess that happened because of the chaos sequence. Eleanor scoffs at her proposal, prompting Chidi to volunteer and force Eleanor to volunteer by picking up garbage. Her garbage bag eventually breaks and hearing that the flying is almost going to be over, Eleanor hides all the garbage in various places and goes to the flying machine. This results in another chaos sequence, this time in the form of a trash rain that results in various injuries from the flying inhabitants. Eleanor tries to defend herself to Chidi before blaming him, making Chidi give up on Eleanor. That night, Eleanor picks up all the trash. Chidi witnesses this and decides to help Eleanor avoid getting caught and teach her to become a better person. Chidi moves into Eleanor's house to help do so.
During one of the lectures, Tahani gifts Eleanor a plant. After Tahani leaves, Eleanor tells Chidi about how suspicious she is of Tahani. Chidi tries to convince Eleanor to drop these suspicions. Afterwards, Michael tries to help Chidi find a new hobby but fails because Chidi wants to write his manuscript of ethics he spent 18 years writing when he was alive. Michael confesses that it took two weeks for him to read it despite being able to read the world's entire literature set in an hour. Chidi later asks Eleanor if he is a good teacher. Eleanor reveals to Chidi that she stole Tahani's diary, horrifying Chidi, and was sent a note saying that she doesn't belong here and she suspects that Tahani sent it. Chidi believes that Eleanor subconsciously wrote the letter out of guilt. After Eleanor follows Tahani and hangs out with her, Eleanor starts to suspect that Chidi is correct. Eleanor improves her relationship with Tahani much to Chidi's approval. Michael agrees to advise Chidi in fixing the manuscript.
The next day, Eleanor reveals to Chidi that she is going to be going over to Tahani's palace to visit her soulmate, a silent monk named Jianyu Li. Eleanor and Chidi hear EDM music and quickly go over to Tahani's palace where Jianyu is apparently playing EDM music as a DJ. Eleanor stops Jianyu and reveals to Chidi that Jianyu is actually a failed DJ and drug dealer named Jason Mendoza. Jason no longer wants to be under a disguise and wants to be his true self. Fearing that Eleanor will be exposed if Jason reveals his true self, she and Chidi try to convince him not to. At a gala hosted by Tahani to celebrate the opening of a restaurant, Jason is about to reveal the story of his actual favorite food. Eleanor crushes a cake to stop the gala. A sinkhole opens up in the restaurant, forcing everyone to evacuate. Jason is taken back to the palace where he is convinced by Eleanor to stay hidden and join Chidi's class.
Eleanor realizes the next day that Chidi is hiding something. Chidi reveals to Eleanor that he is stressed because he keeps spending time teaching Eleanor instead of during leisure activities. Michael quarantines everyone after learning from Tahani that the sinkhole is growing. Bart; an expert in identity fraud, and Nina; a marriage counsel are put in Eleanor's house by Michael because Bart and Nina's house were close to the sinkhole. Bart and Nina realize that there are tensions between Chidi and Eleanor's relationship and counsel them. Chidi reveals that the true reason why he is stressed is because he never had a true loved one while alive. Eleanor feels remorse and sets up a leisure activity that matched his description of paradise. This action fixes up the sinkhole.
Michael has Eleanor help find out why the sinkhole fixed itself. Eleanor distracts Michael from finding out. Meanwhile, Chidi has to try to keep Tahani and Jason together. His attempts make Tahani start bonding with Chidi. Eventually, Chidi draws a piece of artwork and has Jason git it to Tahani. Eventually, Michael announces to the entire neighborhood that he will be retiring, believing that he is the problem with the neighborhood. The "retiring" will consist of eternal torture. Eleanor and Chidi goes to the a kill-switch that will "kill" the neighborhood's Janet, who is part of a series of Janets who are all all-knowing artificial intelligences. Janet is the only one who can proceed with Michael's retirement.
Eleanor is debating about pressing the kill-switch to kill Janet to stop the retirement, even though Chidi thinks that murder is wrong. Janet has fail-safe in the form of a melodramatic cry for mercy that will always be put on when someone approaches the kill-switch, which fends off both Eleanor and Chidi. Jason comes along and decides to press the button wondering what it does. Chidi stops Jason, but inadvertently presses the button in the process, "killing" Janet. Her death is announced to the neighborhood and she is rebooted with no memories and limited capabilities. Michael announces that he will stay in order to figure out who killed Janet. Remorseful, Eleanor tells Chidi that she will always love him and then reveals to Michael that she is not supposed to be in the Good Place.
Michael interviews Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason about the incident. Chidi keeps quiet about the incident despite it making him miserable. Eventually, Janet is able to retrieve Michael a file of Eleanor Shellstrop. Michael discovers Eleanor's worst action on Earth, which resulted in her friend being ridiculed and mocked; and several innocent people losing their jobs because of a lawsuit. Eleanor is about to board the train to go to the Bad Place. However, Chidi confesses to killing Janet and convinces Michael to let Eleanor stay because humans can improve. Michael stops the train. It is then revealed that another "Eleanor Shellstrop" was on the train, who was what Eleanor Shellstrop was mistaken for.
There is discussion among Michael and the Bad Place demons of the fate of the Eleanor Shellstrops. While the demons initially walk all over Michael, he eventually declares war on them, even if it means getting the eternal judge Shawn involved. The "real" Eleanor Shellstrop works on Eleanor Shellstrop's case and ends up making her realize that she is in love with Chidi. Meanwhile, Tahani figured out that Jianyu was actually Jason and that Chidi inspired Jason to do all the nice things for Tahani. The "fake" Eleanor and Tahani confesses to loving Chidi to him, causing him to stress. After seeing Jason marry Janet in a wedding, Eleanor realizes that her love was of gratitude and Tahani realizes that her's was of rebound. 
Eleanor's points-system is started up again and if she reaches 1.2 million points, she can stay in the Good Place. The "real" Eleanor confesses that she loves Chidi also. Despite Eleanor trying her best to earn points, they only go up when she tells Chidi to respond favorably to the "real" Eleanor's declaration of love. Realizing that her motivations were corrupt, she apologizes to everyone in the neighborhood and she, Jason, and Janet hijack the train when Shawn comes to the neighborhood. 
Chidi, Tahani, and "real" Eleanor argue in Eleanor's favor. Shawn judges against her and Jason, saying if they don't return in a certain deadline, Chidi and Tahani will be taken to the Bad Place. Eleanor, Jason, and Janet come back, but barely miss the deadline because of Jason's apathy. Shawn decides that the Bad Place is owed two people and that the group has 30 minutes to determine who to send. This descends into a heated arguement until Eleanor has epiphany: they can't ever go to the Bad Place because they are already in the Bad Place. The neighborhood disguised as the Good Place was meant to torture Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason forever. Michael confesses that Eleanor is correct. He realizes that by putting the humans together, he enhanced their relationships. He convinces Shawn, who is actually the senior Bad Place architect, to have Michael redo the experiment one more time. Before Michael reboots the entire neighborhood, Eleanor writes something on a piece of paper and puts in Janet's mouth. In the reboot, an amnesiac Eleanor is given the note by Janet which says "Eleanor - Find Chidi".
==Season 2==
Chidi is forced to pick between two soulmates, Angelique and Pevita. Chidi forms a bond with Angelique, prompting Michael to pick Pevita for Chidi, whom he feels no bond to. In the party hosted by Tahani, Eleanor finds Chidi near a bar. However, Chidi cannot help Eleanor as he is preoccupied with his situation. After Tahani makes a scene at the party, Chidi realizes that the note that Eleanor has is from his book. At Eleanor's house, Eleanor admits to Chidi that she does not belong in the Good Place. The other humans and Michael come to Eleanor's house and the humans express dissatisfaction with their soulmates. Eleanor realizes that they are not in the Good Place and reveals the note. Michael reboots the neighborhood.
Michael reboots the neighborhood 800 times, but each time, Eleanor always figures out that she is in the Bad Place. On the 802nd reboot, the demons are getting tired of Michael's reboots and Eleanor and Chidi over hear one of the conversations. Eleanor, Chidi, and Janet escape to the Medium Place. Their, Mindy St. Claire reveals that they had there 15 times already. Often times, Eleanor and Chidi form a sexual relationship and once mutually expressed their love. Meanwhile, Michael is being threatened with a strike headed by Vicky. The humans confront Michael and tells to him that he will keep failing each time. Michael reveals that he wants to form an alliance.
Michael recruits the humans to his plan, they feign ignorance to the fact that they are in the Bad Place until a time that Michael can get them to the Good Place. Chidi immediately accepts, citing his failure in ethics work during his life. Eleanor is initially distrustful of Michael, but concedes when Michael tells her that Chidi never refused to help Eleanor. In return, Eleanor forces Michael to join Chidi's ethics class. The neighborhood is rebooted with Vicky now being the honorary mayor of the neighborhood. 
The humans and Michael meet in secret. Michael doesn't engage with Chidi's lessons because Michael is immortal. Chidi decides that in order to get him to engage, he reminds Michael of the process of retirement, which causes Michael to have an existential crisis. Eventually, Michael transitions to a midlife crisis and outright denies the act of retirement. Chidi finds this less ethically productive then a existential crisis. Eventually, Eleanor calms Michael and tells him that it is okay to feel sadness over death as it is intrinsic to human life.
Chidi teaches the trolley problem. However, Michael's knowledge of the afterlife points-system conflicts with Chidi's teachings. In order to "engage" with the trolley problem: Michael puts Eleanor and Chidi through simulations of the trolley problem. Eleanor realizes the Michael is torturing Chidi, resulting in Chidi to expell Michael. Michael tries to bribe his way back in through giving the humans presents. However, Chidi does not fall for it and forces Michael to apologize to him genuinely. Michael does so and is admitted back into the Chidi's class. Janet starts to glitch, which threatens the destruction of the neighborhood. It is revealed that Tahani and Jason are dating and are going to married, which Janet subconsciously does not like as she was married to Jason in the first reboot.
Michael goes to Chidi and Eleanor for help and Chidi recommends telling Tahani and Jason about Janet's prior relationship with Jason. Eleanor does so just as Tahani and Jason are about to marry. Eleanor reveals to Chidi that she has been watching the tape recording from Mindy St. Claire of Eleanor and Chidi mutually declaring their love for each other. Chidi and Eleanor claim to not feel any love for each other. 
Shawn comes to the neighborhood to congratulate Michael for torturing the humans for so long, not knowing about the 802 attempts. They a hold roasting of the humans to "reveal" to them that they are in the Bad Place. The humans are left alone and they debate about whether or not to escape to the Medium Place or expose Michael to Shawn. Eleanor realizes that Michael left an encoded message in the roasting about a plan the humans are supposed to do. They have Derek, a rebound AI Janet created during her crisis, ride the train to the Medium Place while the humans hide underneath. Vicky is framed for releasing Janet allowing for the humans to escape, when in reality, Janet was still cuffed. The demons leave, leaving Michael, Janet, and the humans alone. 
Michael hooks a hot-air balloon to take the humans to the Good Place. However, they have to go through a sensor that identifies them has the best version of themselves. After some mishaps with the machine, Michael admits that he does not actually know how to take them to the Good Place. The only way he knows how humans get to the Good Place is to be a good person while alive. Eleanor admits to Chidi that she has feeling him. Chidi has complicated feelings on the matter and wishes that he and Eleanor met in more conventional circumstances. After holding a party, Michael comes up with a plan. They go to the Judge Gen, the supreme overseer of the afterlife, to ask her to take the humans to the Good Place. However, her chambers are located in the Neutral Zone, meaning the team has to travel through the Bad Place to get to Gen. 
They incapacitate a Bad Janet to have Janet conduct the train to the Bad Place. In the Bad Place, the humans hide in a museum while Michael grabs badges for them to go into Gen's chambers. The museum is filled by demons who are awaiting a new exhibition. The humans and Janet are forced to undergo disguises, with Chidi being disguised as Trent. Chidi does not like to lie and as a result, is initially unwilling to undergo the disguise. Eleanor reassures Chidi and points out moral particularism: moral principles are not absolute and depend on context. 
In his disguise as Trent, Chidi is confused by Chet for an actual demon named Trent who worked at the Partial Decapitations department 800 years ago. Chidi is forced to come up with an effective torture. Chidi comes up with boring the person with textbooks and professors and is commended by Chet and his cohorts. The humans' disguises are exposed when the exhibition is revealed to be Michael's "accomplishment" which features what the humans look like. The humans and Michael are forced to escape. They find the portal to Gen's chambers, but are one badge short of everyone going in. Michael decides to sacrifice himself to let Eleanor go in.
The four humans talk to Gen about letting them go into the Good Place because they have improved so much. Gen decides to test them on their improvements. Eleanor and Chidi walk through the door to their tests and end up back in Gen's room. Gen reveals that she is lettting the humans go into the Good Place on their own because they already good on their own. Chidi says that is okay to leave their friends behind, making Eleanor realize that he isn't the actual Chidi and declines entrance, passing her test. Chidi's actual test was deciding between two hats. Chidi thought it was about choosing the right hat and spent an hour deciding, making him fail the test. Because not all the humans passed the tests (Eleanor was the only one to do so), Gen judges that they should all go to the Bad Place. Just before she sends to the Bad Place, Michael and Janet manage to reach Gen's chambers. 
Michael argues that the afterlife system process is flawed because it doesn't take into account humans improving. Gen decides to put all the humans into their own Medium Places for a million years before she casts off her judgement. Eleanor opposes this, considering it unjust. After some insistence from Michael, Gen decides to wipe all the memories from the humans and have Michael prevent their deaths. After the prevention of their deaths, Eleanor tries to be a good person but loses motivation after six months. After six more months, Michael, disguised as a bartender, convinces Eleanor to look Chidi's lectures on "What do we owe to each other?" Afterwards, Eleanor travels to Australia to learn from Chidi about how to be a good person.
==Season 3==
Eleanor asks Chidi if he can teach her to be good, explaining her death and what she went through following her death. Chidi agrees to helping Eleanor, which momentarily confuses her as Chidi does not know who she is. Chidi explains that he too had a near-death experience. While going under stress of picking the right bar and Uzo yelling at him, Michael rides a bicycle towards Chidi, forcing him to move back. After that, the air conditioner falls in front of him. He realizes that his indecisiveness is causing him trouble and he consults Simone Garnett, a neurologist from the same university he works in. Simone helps Chidi become a more decisive person and he enjoys being deciveness for six months. 
However, he reverts back to his indecisive ways after convincing Henry to lose weight which results in him getting severely injured. Michael, disguised as librarian, convinces Chidi to help the next person who asks for help. Back in the present, Chidi agrees to teach Eleanor moral philosophy. Upon Eleanor's encouragement, Chidi starts to date Simone. They conceive a joint-study thesis involving Eleanor to study near-death situations and their effects on humans. They open up the study to anyone willing to join. Jason and Tahani join after being persuaded to by an under-disguise Michael. Trevor, a demon, infiltrates the study under disguise as a human joining.
Trevor tries to break apart the study by driving Chidi away from the other subjects, saying that his relationship is interfering with the results of the study. This saddens Eleanor, resulting in her absence the next day. Simone convinces Chidi to reconcile with Eleanor. Chidi affirms to Eleanor that he is still her friend. Eleanor agrees to join the study the next day. On the next day, Trevor "announces" by letter that he has quit the study. In reality, he was exiled by Gen due to his interfering with Earth along with Michael and Janet. Michael and Janet escape from Gen and spy on the humans for the next year.
The humans are manipulated by Michael and Janet to stay together and focus on their project. One of these ways is by giving Chidi state-of-the-art teaching equipment. They also manipulate Tahani to hook up with Larry. When Tahani announces that she is traveling to London with Larry, Chidi disbands the study. This results in Eleanor having a mental breakdown during the farewell party, causing her to trash it and wreck the cake. She is consoled by Simone and Chidi agrees that they could meet back together annually. However, the team discovers Michael and Janet opening a portal to the afterlife to reset the timeline.
Because all the members of the team recognize Michael, he is forced to explain the afterlife and the team's past experiences. This dooms the humans to damnation because the explanation corrupts their motivations. Chidi has a mental breakdown. He buys $880 worth of candy and puts peeps in a chili pot during a university class he was supposed to be teaching. When a student asks Chidi to teach them something, Chidi tells them to disregard the philosophies thought up by famous philosophers and instead, to become nihilists. After the lecture, Eleanor confronts Chidi and they meet up with the rest of the group. They form a group known as the Soul Squad and decide to dedicate the rest of their lives helping others get to the Good Place.
Chidi decides to break up from Simone in order to not risk her learning about the afterlife and be doomed to damnation. Janet hooks up a virtual reality for Chidi to practice breaking up from Simone. However, the actual breakup goes poorly. Upon Eleanor's urging, Chidi reconciles with Simone and they break up regrettably but amicably. After Eleanor reconciles her relationship with her mother, Donna, Michael tells Eleanor that in one of the reboots, she was in love with Chidi. However, the memory of the reboot ends with Michael being apathetic to Eleanor and Chidi's relationship. Eleanor becomes nihilistic for a short while, believing that she has no free will. She is consoled by Michael and they mutually apologize.
The Soul Squad regroups in Arizonia. They wait in a bar while Michael and Janet investigates Doug Forcett who was the only human to accurately predict what the afterlife is like. The investigation turns out to be bust as Doug is under constant fear of the afterlife system and lives in isolation, leading to Michael to start to believe that the afterlife system is being tampered with. The humans are abducted by the demons by the time Michael and Janet come back. They get into a brawl that ends with Janet forcing the humans and Michael into her void, ending their life on Earth.
The humans take on forms of Janet, only being distinguished when they conjured up clothes by Janet. Michael and Janet leave to investigate the points-system. Eleanor confronts Chidi about their past relationship in one of the reboots. Chidi claims that he has no feelings for Eleanor at the present moments, which results in Eleanor going through an identity crisis that threatens the void. Chidi fixes it by listing off who Eleanor is before kissing her, making them regain their human forms. They are ejected out of the void and into Accounting in the Neutral Zone with Janet and Michael. Michael reveals that no one has been in the Good Place for over 500 years and he believes that the demons are torturing it.
Michael steals the Book of Dougs and the Soul Squad escapes into a pneumatic tube that leads into the Good Place office. The humans and Michael pose as accountants from the Neutral Zone while Janet poses as Neutral Janet, tricking the Good Place committee into letting them in. Eleanor and Chidi go on a romantic date that culminates into them having sex in a closet. Michael discusses with the Good Place committee about his concerns of the Bad Place tampering with the points-system. However, the Good Place committee is going to take 400 years just to pick investigators. 
After hearing from Tahani about her not being able to calm Jason and Janet, Michael realizes that the points-system hasn't been hacked, but instead is unfairly taking into account unintended consequences, which have become more common because life has gotten complicated. A Good Place committee member realizes that they are not from the Neutral Zone after seeing Janet cry (Neutral Janets cannot cry) and Eleanor and Chidi announcing that they had sex in the closet. Though the member is about to report them to Gen, Michael announces that he just did already. The Soul Squad meets up with Gen at IHOP (Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes.) 
Gen is told by the Soul Squad that life has gotten too complicated for anyone to get into the Good Place. After a speech by Jason, Gen reluctantly teleports to Earth and lives as a human for thirty years. She reappears in IHOP and agrees that the complication of life puts the humans at a disadvantage. She pulls Shawn into the meeting, who casts doubt about the goodness of humans despite their ability to improve. Chidi proposes that they set up an experiment similar to the neighborhood Michael set up. Shawn picks four new moderately bad humans to see if they improve without the stress of life. The neighborhood is built next to Mindy St. Claire's mansion and the inhabitants are produced by Janet and Derek.
Michael has a panic attack as the first human, John Wheaton, shows up, forcing Eleanor to be head architect. Tahani reveals that John was a gossip columnist that tormented Tahani while she was alive. Eleanor realizes that Shawn didn't pick the worst people in general but the worst people for them. This includes Simone, who was picked for Chidi and is the second human to be waking up. Shawn is confronted about this in a meeting and Gen rules that the humans are allowed to have some connection to experimenters and they can have their memories about the experimenters removed. 
Simone's memories are removed and she is introduced to the afterlife by Eleanor. Chidi believes that his memories of Simone will contaminate the experiment meaning he has to have his memories removed. This means his memories of Eleanor will also have to be removed as they have merged with the memories of Simone. Before his memories are removed, he and Eleanor watch a presentation of their past memories together. After Chidi's memories are removed and he wakes up in the waiting room, Eleanor welcomes him into the afterlife. Eleanor introduces him to his house includes a library where he can reach out his hand for any book to fly into his hand.
==Season 4==
Eleanor introduces Brent Norwalk; an entitled and racist male chauvinist, and Linda Johannsen; a boring old lady from Norway, to the afterlife. Eleanor and Michael tries to learn about Linda and get her to show emotion. Linda punches Eleanor and attacks the residents of the neighborhood. It's revealed Linda is actually a demon in disguised named Chris Baker. He is reported to Gen, who rather than have Shawn picking a replacement human, makes Chidi a subject of the experiment. Later, Simone reveals to Eleanor that she believes that the entire afterlife is just her imagination and that she believes that she is in a coma.
Eleanor puts Brent along with Chidi and Wanda, who is pretending to have a backstory that involves saving every duck and horse in the world, in a gameshow where each person talks about their backstory in an attempt to guilt-trip Brent. This fails and after Brent becomes convinced that he belongs in the Best Place following a chaos sequence, Eleanor starts to doubt her leadership. After being encouraged to keep going by Michael, Eleanor introduces Chidi to Simone as soulmates and convinces Brent that he can go to the Best Place if he does enough good actions in the afterlife.
Chidi becomes to relaxed in the Good Place to focus on helping other humans. Eleanor and Michael decide to torture Chidi to force him to help others. They have Jason go under his disguise as Jianyu and join Chidi's ethics study. He reveals to Chidi that he is actually Jason and Chidi is forced to lie on his behalf and help him become improve ethically. Eleanor becomes so obsessed with terrorizing Chidi that he starts to believe the universe is punishing him. When Chidi expresses his concerns to Eleanor, Eleanor breaks down and starts crying, realizing that she has gone too far. Chidi decides to relieve his stress by teaching Jason ethics.
During a game of Pictionary hosted by Janet, Chidi draws a terrible horse that comes to life thanks to Janet and terrorizes the neighborhood. Chidi starts to teach himself to draw in order for the incident to not occur again. After Jason finds out that Janet is actually Bad Janet who is trying to break apart the experiment, the humans start to glitch following Bad Janet's arrest. While Jason and Michael rescue Janet, the humans are forced to stay at an isolated lake house. While Chidi prefers to stay home to study ethics, Eleanor convinces him to try new things including going to the lake house.
Six months later, Brent writes a terrible mystery novel titled Six Feet Par: A Chip Driver Mystery, which is disliked by the humans. John finds Chidi dancing with Jason, revealing to him that Jianyu is not what he says he is. Though John initially wants to gossip this with the other humans, Chidi convinces him not to so Jason won't be sent to the Bad Place. Brent holds a book signing and demands compliments from everyone. When Simone and Tahani call him out, Brent throws a tantrum and shoves Chidi, who punches him in return.
On the last day of the yearlong experiment, Simone reveals to John, Chidi, and Brent that she has been studying the neighborhood and believes that they under some sort of experiment. They reveal their secrets, including Jason's identity and Chidi's relationship with Simone as soulmates. They discover a board in the Eleanor's office that has their pictures in front of whiteboard underneath two emojis. In the central square, Brent falls down a pit to lave, but grabs onto a ledge. Chidi believes that he is ethically required to save Brent, but John and Simone refuse to help Brent and leave. While trying to help Brent, he falls down the pit and grabs onto another ledge.
Chidi and Brent are saved by Eleanor and Michael. In their office, Eleanor asks where Simone and John are. Brent insults them for not helping, while Chidi defends saying that they tried to be his friend. When Brent brings up the Best Place, Chidi declares that he believes that they are in the Bad Place. Eleanor and Michael laugh and "admit" this to be true. They leave saying that Chidi and Brent will be transferred to the "real" Bad Place. Brent still believes that he is a good person, prompting Chidi to coldly declare him to be a bad person. Though Brent is still upset, he starts to apologize to Chidi just as the experiment ends.
The four subjects are held in stasis as Gen makes her ruling. The Soul Squad holds fake funerals for each of them, including an unconscious Chidi. Gen rules that the afterlife system is bad and her solution is to reboot Earth to start over. Various Janets steal the reboot device and hides it in their voids, forcing Gen to find it. Michael snaps Chidi's memories back to him before waking him up, so he can help propose a new afterlife system. Chidi lives through the events of him reconciling his parents' relationship through a lecture about divorce during his childhood, Allesandra breaking up from Chidi during his adulthood, and his thesis advisors rejecting his thesis as he is unable to answer a single question. When Chidi wakes up, he asks the Soul Squad if he was annoying. He asks Janet to hand him a piece of paper that he wrote on before giving to her and losing his memories for the experiment. The paper reads "There is no 'answer.' But Eleanor is the answer."
The Soul Squad initially proposes to Shawn that humans with a negative score go to the Bad Place, humans who got a positive score below one million go to the Medium Place, and humans who got a score over one million go to the Good Place. Shawn rejects this proposal. Eventually, Chidi devises a new system and the Soul Squad proposes it to Gen and Shawn. A deceased human will be put through tests that gets reset if the human fails, but with a vague memory of the previous tries. After the human passes the test, they go to the Good Place. Though Gen likes the idea, Shawn still rejects it, making Gen reject it as well. Michael persuades Shawn to approve of the system, convincing Gen to abandon her plan.
While Michael sets up the new system, Eleanor expresses concerns to Chidi that her past life will make her grow bored of Chidi in the Good Place. After Chidi reads her file, he expresses the same thoughts and believes that they are too different. Jason convinces Chidi to stay with Eleanor, pointing out that he and Janet are together despite being different. The humans are admitted to the Good Place for real, as they literally saved the entire human race from damnation.
The Soul Squad arrives in the Good Place. Chidi wants to meet a famous philosopher. Janet takes Chidi to Hypatia of Alexandria, who goes by the nickname Patty. Hypatia reveals that everyone in the Good Place has become numb to and bored of eternal paradise. Eleanor proposes a solution, a door that people can go through to end their existence once they are ready. This helps the inhabitants appreciate the Good Place more. Eleanor and Chidi cuddle up as they watch a sunset. Chidi remarks that the Good Place is about spending time with those they love.
Many eons later, Eleanor suspects that Chidi is about to enter the door to end his existence. Fearing abandonment, Eleanor gives Chidi a tour of the Acropolis of Athens and Paris to convince him not to. Chidi realizes what Eleanor is doing and decides to stay with her for a longer time. At a dinner with Chidi, Eleanor realizes that she is being selfish and lets Chidi make his own decision. After one last night, Chidi is taken to the door by Janet to end his existence. When Janet says that Chidi can sit on the bench near the door for as long he wants, Chidi says that he is ready and walks through the door.
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