- Hey! - Hey.
- I thought you were flying there to stop it.
- I think he's making a mistake,
but I'm the last person who would tell him that.
- I feel like you're the one person
who could tell him that.
- These are the first copies
of "Marriage Vacation".
- Empirical?
I cannot believe Charles did this.
- It is going to be a bigger book as an Empirical title,
especially now that we're about to announce
a new "Crown of Kings" prequel.
I've been reviewing some of the things
that went on here over the past year.
- And now, my princess, I get to meet you.
- If there is anything that you would like to discuss,
now would be the time.
- When I sit down to write every morning,
I think about burying my face in your royal fur.
- He told me my tits were big enough to nourish a tribe.
- He said my vagina spoke to him in his dreams at night.
- I've heard enough.
Unfortunately, due to recent disturbing allegations
against Edward L.L. Moore,
we're going to postpone the publication
of "The Pam Pam Chronicles" until further notice.
- What?
That's absurd.
After all our years together,
you at least owe me a meeting.
This one has absolutely zero credibility.
The fact is
she's a divorced 40 something housewife from New Jersey.
- I was wondering how you found Liza.
Was it through a friend? An agency?
- Actually, I'm not sure.
- As your lawyer, I'm telling you
you cannot fire her.
- What? Why?
- You kissed her,
and now you wanna fire her because she's too old.
- Look, look, look, look, look!
The next Reese Witherspoon book club pick
is "Marriage Vacation"!
- She wants us to meet her people.
- "Marriage Vacation" is perfect for us.
- Bottom line,
Reese is ready to make a sizable financial commitment.
- I'll have to think about it.
- Oh, okay.
- Clare just called.
She's not coming.
I mean, the truth is we didn't have the greatest time
on our honeymoon.
- Didn't look that way on Instagram.
- She was just posting for immigration.
- Excuse me, everyone,
Reese Witherspoon's company
was so impressed with Millennial
that they have offered us an unprecedented incubator deal.
Let's give a big hand
to Kelsey Peters and Liza Miller.
(crowd clapping)
This isn't working.
I love you, but I am not in love with you,
and I just can't do it anymore.
- Just as the book about our marriage comes out,
he wants a divorce.
- Postpone the truth,
at least until you make the New York Times Bestseller list.
- How is your real life relationship?
- I think she's got this.
(Pauline sniffling)
- Obama's former speech writer
is making the rounds with a memoir.
- You just have to publish with the right place,
and, of course, that's Empirical.
- Or Millennial.
- You know he's gonna go with me, right?
- You know what? I love your confidence.
Sometimes it's even sexy.
Sometimes.
- I've decided that I would like to work with you.
- Who?
- Both of you.
- You'd think the lying would get easier,
but the more it accumulates, the harder it gets.
- How's it working out between you and the real life?
- The truth is my marriage was over before I left.
- I'm sorry, Pauline.
Sometimes I am blind to what's right in front of me.
- Charles.
Wait!
I'm just a woman who lied about her age to get a job.
- You betrayed me,
so from now on,
we have a professional reporting relationship.
- And who is this for?
- Liza Miller.
- Don Ridley?
I throw a party to meet men
and you get a date out of it.
- Bring Tupperware.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- At Diana's when he thought that nobody was looking
I saw Don stuff a pork chop into his pocket.
- What?
- Have fun.
- Enzo, how have you been?
- You disappeared over a year ago. I got the hint.
- Well, I was seeing someone,
but now I'm not.
- How's dinner Thursday?
- Oh my god, I'm going on a date with my plumber.
- When you have a book idea,
you know where to bring it.
- How about tomorrow?
This book is about all the dirty sexy messes
of Manhattan society.
- Well, that could be problematic.
- He knows about me.
- What, he's just gonna punish you
and just tank every author you bring in here?
- I'm so sorry that I lied to you.
I just, I care about you so much.
I need you to know that.
- And I need you to forget about it.
You and Jake look cozy,
cozier then an author and his editor should be.
(telephone ringing)
- Liza Miller speaking.
- Hi, there.
I'm checking some details for a story about you.
- Who's writing this article?
- You told Don your real age?
- No, he saw both of my IDs
when I slipped on ice and dropped my bag.
- Here's your license,
and here's your other license.
- Liza, how old are you?
- I'm the age queer.
- What?
- That fact checker was trying to age-shame us
for being young, so I told them I'm old in protest.
- Age queer?
That was insane.
- Yeah, and probably offensive.
- We have to stop this story.
- Suddenly everyone's sensitive to age shaming.
They just pulled it.
- You know, I think I might know why you can't find work.
- And why is that?
- Because you're an asshole, Don.
- My landlord wants me to sign a 10-year lease
or to vacate.
- Josh, I can't let you do this.
I know how much you love that place.
- I'm not ready to give up yet.
- Chrissy Hart's memoir,
we still don't have pages.
- Why don't you send Charles?
I would like to hand my book
to the man I made the deal with.
- Hello?
- Liza!
The curators for the Whitney Biennial just called.
I've been chosen for the next show!
- This is next level, Mags.
You have officially arrived.
- Liza!
Charles texted me.
Still no book, Chrissy's stonewalling me,
have to stay the night.
- I'll go.
- And who the hell is this?
- Liza Miller, one of our finest editors.
- Uh-huh.
- You're a busy man, so let's cut to the chase.
I don't like your chapter.
- Jake, we're gonna call you back.
Let me carry the ball here.
Trust me. I know how to handle him.
- The nice guy turned out to be sexy.
The sexy guy turned out to be nice.
That's a win-win.
- Enzo has invited me to stay over.
This is your mother?
- Of course.
- And she lives with you?
- No, I live with her.
- So, how old are you?
- When are you gonna trust me again?
- I don't wanna do this right now.
- I just don't know how much more I can take.
- How did you get this?
- I didn't run away.
- Luca and I are so excited
to add you to our collection.
- I can't believe they bought all of your art.
- I nearly blacked out when I saw that check.
- It's the one present I requested for Christmas:
one night together as a family.
- Charles Brooks, this is Liza Miller.
- It was very nice to meet you last night.
- Try humiliating.
Caitlin's why I work so hard for my job,
why I did what I did.
- Jake said he would prefer
to work with Kelsey for the rest of the book.
- There's something going on between you two,
and now you have your bestseller all to yourself.
- This is Akela Jeffries.
- Did Penelope give these to you?
- The golden handcuffs?
- Mm-hmm.
I'm really thankful for everything,
but I just don't feel that I'm the right fit
for your collection.
(telephone ringing)
- I don't care anymore.
- We can't go back to how we were after this.
- I hope not.
- Oh, look who's back.
- Happy New Year to you all.
- Whoa.
You know what they say.
Men who grow beards are hiding something.
- Can I see you tonight?
- Yes, of course.
- You used whatever you had
to get Devereux all to yourself.
You screwed me, and then you screwed me over.
- You're breaking up with me?
- Let me be there for you professionally as your editor.
- Wow.
So I was thinking,
Kelsey, she is not a bad editor.
She's just, she's a little green.
- What do you think about making Devereux's book
an Empirical title?
- I would love to take credit,
but Kelsey practically invented that book.
- Next time I decide to sleep with somebody from work,
please slap me.
- Will do.
We should probably talk about how this is going to work.
- Can I ask you a favor?
Can we stay in our bubble just for tonight?
- Oh my god, yes, please.
- This is my roommate, Josh, and that's Maggie.
- Malkie.
- What, do you two know each other?
- We used to go out.
- I wanted to apologize for last night.
- Maggie, she left right after you did
practically in tears.
- Relationships are about doing the work.
I can do the work.
- I guess a sequel would have to be all about divorce.
Kate discovers that her husband
is secretly in love with someone else,
a two-faced young assistant in his company.
- She will keep quiet about us,
and in return, she wants the option to her sequel back.
- I can't believe you're doing all this for me.
- I just wanna stay in our bubble as long as we can.
- You, Kelsey Peters,
are going to be honored as this year's Maverick
the Glamour Women of the Year awards.
- Lauren Heller, this is my boyfriend Enzo.
- Have we met before?
That is Diana's boyfriend.
- Diana, as in Liza's boss, Diana?
- I can't watch that.
- No, no, no, no, just wait, wait one second.
(Enzo loudly grunting)
I wonder if Diana knows about this.
- Charles bought the Krieger book for Millennial.
- I gave it to him.
- Why would you do that? I passed.
- We were having dinner at this restaurant
and Redmond walked in and we both panicked
and I had the Krieger manuscript in my bag,
so we just pretended like I was dropping it off.
- Quinn is waiting.
- "Claw" isn't a book about friendship.
It's a book about getting ahead in business.
- And in business, sometimes the people
you think are your friends
are actually your biggest competitor.
- I don't know if that was feminist or anti-feminist,
but that book is gonna sell.
- I don't think that we can afford that, Kelsey.
- What if I got Liza to ask you
over dinner or after dinner?
- I'm giving you the money for "Claw".
- Thank you, Charles.
You going behind my back actually worked out.
- I did not go behind your back.
I would never do that.
So if you are asking me to choose
between the two of you,
I choose you.
- I am very lucky to not be running Millennial on my own.
I have an amazing partner who should be up here with me.
So thank you, Glamour, for this award,
on behalf of myself and Liza Miller.
- I just don't wanna wait any longer to be with you,
but there's just a lot on the table right now.
- Keeping this relationship a secret,
it's not gonna be easy.
- Nothing worth having comes easy.
- Ms. Trout, there's something I need you to see.
(Enzo loudly grunting) - Oh, that's him.
- You don't have to worry. It's been taken care of.
- I know how you cum and it's not like anyone else.
- Josh has totally transformed Inkburg,
and he still really wants to impress you.
- I just want to acknowledge one person in particular.
She inspired me to not give up,
so thank you, Liza.
We wanted to surprise you.
- All the way to the city for this party.
That's a big effort.
- Well, I'm also here for a wedding
I'm invited to with a friend.
- He is your father's age.
- Talk about glass houses.
I thought you'd be cool with this.
- So, how did you two meet?
- I'm an English professor.
- Well, not my English professor anymore.
- So it's a secret?
- Just for now.
- I've been doing the same thing
at work with Charles.
- I was honest about everything when we were together.
I told everyone about it.
I wore my heart on my sleeve for you.
I literally got it tattooed on me.
- Last call to keep it.
- No, I'm done with it.
- Enzo's mother invited me to a family potluck
and she will be judging me.
- She may be smart in the business,
but she's a dummy in the kitchen.
- I am not gonna waste my time trying to impress a mother
who has held her son hostage his entire life.
Torment the next woman who comes along.
- Give me a chance, please.
Yeah, I have a crazy family and I might be a late bloomer,
but I got a lot to give.
- What happened at the wedding?
- Another faculty member from Vassar was there.
He told me to leave.
- I can tell you from my own experience
that it's better to be in an open and honest relationship.
I don't wanna be in a relationship I can't be open about.
- But now is just not the right time.
- Call me when it is.
- The Frankfurt book fair is next week,
so get your passports in order.
- Diana!
- Cheryl Sussman, my liebchen.
You remember my assistant, Liza?
- I remember everything.
- Oh my God. She knows?
She plays dirty, Liza.
- I know.
- We have three months of operating expenses left.
If we don't get an investor,
everything that we have all worked for will just disappear.
- What do those young girls have
that we old gals don't?
- Tell me, how old is this tall one?
Does the young one do the young books
and you do the old ones?
- Believe me, we are both millennials.
- I wanna offer you a job.
You're killing it for a company that's going underwater,
and I'm throwing you a life preserver.
And the great part is I know your age,
so you wouldn't have to lie anymore.
Think about it.
I think I found a way out for you and me.
- You at Plaza?
That's a lot to wrap my head around.
- Not being together during working hours
allows us to be together after hours,
and we're pretty good after hours.
- Consider yourself fired.
- I haven't lived here for 20 years
to start dodging stroller traffic on the sidewalk.
- I was hoping to be one of those cliches.
- You want to have a baby?
- Yeah.
- When were you planning on telling me this?
- I don't know,
when we were on solid ground again.
- I thought we were.
- Can I talk to you?
- Oh.
- Hey, keep your hands off her.
- Why am I in your room?
- You lost your coat and your key,
so I brought you here.
- You just tucked me in, right?
- Yup, ucked with a T, not an F.
I slept on the couch.
- What a gentleman.
- While you and Liza were busy patting yourselves
on the back yesterday,
Gerhard Schmidt finally answered my email.
Once I sign him, I'll have my pick of everything.
Yeah, sorry about that.
- Oh, Liza!
I need an answer about that job offer right away,
as soon as possible.
- Is now soon enough?
- Mm-hmm.
- Because the answer's yes.
- Smart girl.
- Did you forget-
- Sorry, wrong room.
- I got a job offer.
Cheryl Sussman at Plaza Publishing, and I'm gonna take it.
- No. - Kelsey,
I can never repay you for what you have done for me,
but that day when you hate me,
I have got to get out of here before that happens.
- No, there has to be another way, okay?
- Kelsey, it's okay.
It's time for me to go.
Cheryl, oh my god.
- I know.
It's quite a step up from what you've been making
as Diana Trout's assistant.
- Do you think that I could have my lawyer
just take a quick look at that?
- Of course.
Just sign them and bring them back to me tomorrow.
This Chicky is ready to hatch.
- I just had a very interesting lunch with Quinn Tyler.
She wants to make a significant
capital infusion in the company
predicated on making Millennial and not Empirical
our flagship brand.
- You cannot leave now. She is investing in us.
- I lied about my age to get my job at Empirical.
If I stay at the company, it endangers your investment.
- God, did you not read my book, Liza?
You embody every single "Claw" principle.
This is gonna be huge for you and for Millennial.
- And for your book.
- Oh, see?
Then you already know I'm not gonna let you go.
- I've been named to a task force
that's gonna take down a Fatberg.
- I'm sorry, what?
- I'm on the Fatberg Five.
- (giggling) I'm sorry.
- My job might not be as glamorous as yours,
but this is a big deal to me.
- Is everything okay with you and Enzo?
- It's not. He stormed out last night.
He won't answer any of my texts.
We may have come to the end of the road.
- Liza!
- I appreciate everything that you've done for me,
but I can't take this job.
- Are you kidding me?
After all I've done for you?
Are you kidding me?
Get out of my face!
- Oh my god, did you see the news?
- A troubling scene here
as a sanitation worker has gone missing.
- That's Enzo.
I've got to get over there.
Enzo!
- I told you it was dangerous.
- What major publisher has been having a torrid affair
with his 27-year-old assistant?
- So her lie I can spin.
Having an affair with an assistant in your office,
that I can't spin, not in this climate.
And you're the public face of the company,
so we're going to have to withdraw our offer.
We can't afford the liability.
- What if I'm not the public face?
Excuse me, everyone,
could I have your attention for a minute?
It is my distinct honor
to introduce you to your new publisher, Kelsey Peters.
- It is my honor to introduce to you
your new chairman of the board, Charles Brooks.
- I can't believe Charles would accept it.
- But he just got promoted, didn't he?
- They're putting him out to pasture.
- Why would Quinn do this?
- She found out about you, us.
- Oh my god, Charles, I am so sorry.
- The company survives.
It's a good thing.
I have got everything I want.
I'm happy.