After waking up in a panic about her father, Emma meets Charlie in the kitchen on her way to the airport. Charlie makes small talk with her and learns about her father’s situation. Emma is shocked when he asks her not to go to the airport and instead stay and help him rewrite the screenplay because he realized she is right about it being terrible. Charlie reveals that he stayed up half the night reading her writing, and he liked it despite hating rom-coms. Charlie explains how the project is essentially fake, as it is being made solely for a movie executive’s lover to star in. However, Emma just wants to go home, so she says no. When she says she wants to work on a project she feels proud of, Charlie gives in and agrees to write a real script with her rather than just a passably good one for the production company. He admits that when he was reading Emma’s writing, he actually wanted to work with her, so he agrees to any terms she proposes.