Content Warning: This section contains references to suicidal ideation.

Smith stays inside an apartment he shares with Tanya after he hears Bucky has been shot. The shooting occurred as people turned on one another when the FBI started their investigation. Tanya and Will are now a couple. She comforts him for a while but then decides that he needs to get back to his life. She convinces him to go hang out at The Arsenio Hall Show. Charlie and Smith spend almost every day on the set, and Charlie keeps introducing him to every celebrity he sees. One day, Will meets Benny Medina, who asks him if he knows how to act. Will says that he does. Medina has been planning on making a show around his experience as a teenager living with a Jewish family and going to Beverly Hills High School. 

Smith gets a call from Quincy Jones at Warner Brothers asking him to attend his birthday party that night because he and Medina want to pitch a TV show to Smith. Smith gets to the party, and everybody necessary to get a show approved is there. At the party, he finds out that they want him to read some lines.