…or in Ari’s case, an emotionless prick. Seriously, though. What was with Ari this week? Apparently feeling the weight of Vince’s “break-up,” the dude just isn’t the same. First he saved his assistant Lloyd from certain rape (conceding a multi-million dollar signing), and then he couldn’t even fire an inept employee (apparently his favorite thing to do) because the guy mentioned something about his recent break-up with his girlfriend.
Mrs. Ari definitely knows the score, as she tells their marriage counselor that she thinks her husband is depressed (he hasn’t eaten a full meal in a week), but Ari just uses the moment as a chance to unleash yet another great Ari Gold rant. Of course, his wife is right, and when he suddenly breaks in the middle of his office (crying, even), Ari calls an emergency with his counselor to get some immediate help. She seems to think that his more recent experience with emotions (like guilt and compassion) are good for the usually emotionless agent, but Ari doesn’t like the new transformation – “I don’t want to evolve. I want me. I like me.” And like that, he’s back. Here’s hoping Ari either gets back with Vince real soon or learns how to cope with his emotional outbreaks, because it was pretty emasculating to see Ari in that situation.
Moving on, Vince and Eric are officially in hot water with Amanda. And before I continue, can I just say one thing? Carla Gugino is smoking hot! Okay, that’s better. Back to Amanda, it seems she’s a lot tougher than we originally thought, refusing to back down from Vince’s runaround about the Sam Mendes film. She wants a decision by the end of the day, and Vince and Eric agree as long as they can read the script one last time. Problem is, no one likes the script the second time around, and it seems Vince only agreed to the project because Amanda was so convincing in her sales pitch.
When Vince tells her this, she doesn’t believe him, but he urges that it’s hard to say no to someone so “cute.” Wait, did he just say the c-word? I didn’t think guys were allowed to say that. No, she’s HOT in my book (and Vince’s too). Heck, even Amanda finds the wording more than a little interesting, and when she calls Vince back later in the night for some clarification, she mentions that there’s definitely some sexual tension between the two. Amanda doesn’t like sexual tension (who does?) and so she makes Vince an offer he can’t refuse: have sex with your hot new agent. It would be silly to think that Vince would decline, and by the looks of next week’s episode, he doesn’t, but we all know what happens when Vince gets involved with a girl he likes, and that only means one thing: the return of Ari Gold.
