Oh Nathaniel, It's On!

**Oh Nathaniel, It's On!**

## Plot

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.

## Recurring themes

### 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.

### Continuity

* **Previously:**
	+ Rebecca asks Nathaniel if they can go to Raging Waters.
	+ Rebecca starts obsessing over Nathaniel.
	+ Rebecca talks to her therapy group.
	+ Dr. Shin warns Rebecca she’s repeating patterns.
	+ Rebecca breaks up with Nathaniel.
	+ Nathaniel and WhiJo commiserate about being dumped.
	+ Rebecca tries to frame Stacy Whitefeather with illegal cash.
	+ Stacy tells Rebecca she bought a hot tub with her money.
	+ Heather’s parents support her quitting whatever she starts.
	+ Heather admits Rebecca’s criticisms of her aimlessness is correct.
	+ Hector isn’t ashamed he lives with his mother.
	+ Hector takes his mother as his plus one for Josh and Rebecca’s wedding.
	+ Rebecca agrees to donate an egg to Darryl.
* **Callback:**
	+ Heather explains she doesn’t want to wear pantyhose as it’s unsanitary. This is a callback to the Season One episode “My Mom, Greg's Mom and Josh's Sweet Dance Moves!” where Rebecca described pantyhose in a similar way.
	+ 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!”

* Hector returns.
* Estella, Hector’s Mother, returns.
* Jim Kittsworth returns.
* Maya returns.
* Mona returns.
* Matt Walsh debuts as Frank, a manager from Home Base corporate.

* Sugar Face
* Hector’s house
* Home Base
* Home Base corporate offices
* Whitefeather & Associates

* Hot tub

### Pop culture references

* 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.