- ♪ I know you like what you see...♪
- You excited for your trip to Chicago?
To go beg for money?
No. Not really.
- It'll be great. - I did my research,
and I'm gonna be the only woman in the room.
- And what is wrong with that?
You... will get their attention.
- You've never had an issue
being taken seriously, have you?
- Uh, I would just use every asset I had, that's all.
- Well, then I guess I have more assets than you.
- ♪ I say get back 'cause I get what I want ♪
♪ Yeah, I get what I want ♪
All right, you feel good?
- I feel good.
Maybe a little bad, like I should be coming with you.
You know, like... to help you prep
or grab coffees or Yelp restaurants.
- Stop feeling guilty.
Quinn was a bad business partner from the start.
- Yeah, but one we needed. - We will get the money.
Everything is going to be fine.
- Okay. - See you soon.
Bye.
Thank you.
Bye.
- ♪ I wake up every morning ♪
♪ A smile on my face ♪
♪ 'Cause I got you ♪
♪ And I am all in for my guy ♪
♪ As long as I have got your eye ♪
♪ I'll show you...♪
- Oh--sorry!
- ♪ And don't knock it till you try it ♪
♪ It ain't love until you die...♪
- Oh...
my...
God!
- ♪ Now that I got you, ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
♪ I'm feeling love now that I got you ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
- So I've done some research.
The Jacobs Group is old-school.
They made their money in specialty metals
and they've never invested in this kind of space before.
- Well, I'm hoping that means they'll be hands off.
And after Quinn and Bryce, that's what we need.
You can run this company. You don't need
some outsider pushing their agenda.
- God, wouldn't that be nice?
- Ha.
Oh, it's my colleague. 'Scuse me.
Hey, what's up?
- Hey, I just--I wanted to wish you both a safe flight
and say good luck.
- Aw. Thank you. - Also...
have you seen the Infinitely 21 ad?
- No. How does it look?
- Like a 20-foot tall photo of me and Josh,
and it looks sort of, um, intimate?
- Wait--what?
I thought the campaign was just you.
- Yeah, well, I guess that wasn't enough
to sell a bodysuit.
Look, I wanna be the one to show it to Charles.
Do you think you could keep him from seeing it
over the next couple of days?
- Come on. I doubt it's that bad.
Why don't you reach out to Lauren
and see if she can contact the company and--
Wow.
Uh...I'll see what I can do.
- Hey, Kelsey-- - Hey, I hate escalators.
Uh, they're...weird, and I don't like 'em.
Can we take the elevator?
It's right-- - Uh, yeah.
Uh...sure.
- So...I've got news.
- Hit me. - Google is offering me
a senior project manager position.
- Hey, that's fantastic!
- Which means Gemma would get top priority for daycare.
- Awesome! Yeah, we were hoping she'd get in.
You're gonna be so smart, baby girl.
You're gonna go to Google daycare
and then just skip straight to college.
- By the time she's ready for college,
it's gonna be so expensive.
- Hey--or free. - Look, I-I just mean
that we don't know what the future holds.
- Yeah... - Which is a great reason
for me to take this promotion.
It's a lot more money, Josh.
- Hey, you don't have to sell me.
- It's also... in Los Angeles.
- Wait--what?
- Look, I don't want to separate you from Gemma,
but...I'm trying to think of the big picture.
This will give us a lot of security
and when she's not in school, she can spend summers with you.
- And what about until then?
She's just gonna stay with you...
in California?
Come on, Clare, that's crazy!
- Josh, last year I was working in a bar.
I don't have any savings.
We're both just trying to do the best we can for her,
and this is the best.
- I can't believe this.
- I have to get back.
Look, we'll figure it out, all right?
I promise.
- Hey, man, is that you?
- Holy shit!
- Lauren, you're here. - Uh, yeah.
Diva's got a dress fitting at Kleinfeld's.
I pulled a few strings-- no big deal.
Except it's a pretty big deal.
- You're coming too. There's nothing to do here
except wait and see if the people we sent
to catch our food return. - Lauren, can I talk to you
for a sec? - Here?
- I saw the billboard. - So here. Okay.
- Why is Josh in the ad, and why wasn't I told?
- It was a hot set! I mean, anyone in that bar
was fair game! - Anyone else in that bar
would be fine, but Josh is--
- The ex? Let me see.
- You do not--
- Oh... - It's not "oh."
There's no "oh." - You look happy.
- I'm normally happy, so I look normal.
- Okay, look, how 'bout this? Just don't think of it as Josh.
It's just a hot guy and a hot girl/woman
who look like they're into each other.
No one knows that's your ex. - Well, her current lover...
"knows."
This emoji!
I-I don't know what to say! They're not gonna pull it.
I guess the only silver lining is that it's regional,
so with Kelsey and your boo in Chicago,
it's tomorrow's problem.
- I guess that buys me some time.
- Yeah, how much time do you need to say,
"Sorry, Charles, my ex is a big, fat snack?"
- Oh, God.
- I'm sorry--How did this become about you?
- So none of the other hundreds of photos that were taken
were good enough for the campaign?
The scooter? People were really smiling
when I was on that scooter. - They were holding in
a laugh, Liza. I am sorry, listen...
I called Shelly from Infinitely 21 and I asked her
to swap out the photos. I told her that you felt misled
and that you were uncomfortable with the final image.
- And? - This was all in a voicemail.
I left a voicemail for you!
- Zipper? - Yes.
- You look pretty. - Eh. I think we can do better.
No, I saw a mandarin collar jumpsuit in off-white
that was giving me bedroom eyes--I'll B-R-B.
- Off-white.
Sounds like there's something wrong with it.
- I wore off-white to my wedding.
I was ten weeks pregnant with Caitlin at the time,
so those were the rules. - You saw my wedding dress.
It was all taffeta--It was like wearing a bale of hay.
I was itching all day and night.
By the time I got home, I had welts everywhere
and Andy wouldn't go near me.
Probably other reasons for that, looking back.
- Well, I don't know about you,
but I didn't know what I wanted in my 20s.
- Oh, you mean two weeks ago?
It does seem a little backwards,
all the pomp and circumstance and...fabric
for the ones that didn't work out.
- Yeah. Seems like the bigger celebration
should be for when you finally get it right.
- You know what?
I agree.
- Okay, um...bad news.
The mandarin collar had a lettuce hem.
Diana Trout is not walking down the aisle
looking like a spring roll.
Also, Shelly Rozanzky from Infinitely 21 called.
- Oh, good!
- Mm, did you not hear when I just said bad news?
No, the campaign is doing so well that it's...
it's--it's going national.
Liza, I am so sorry. - What? When?
- It's digital. You just press a button,
so, like...now?
- If you two will excuse me.
- Where're you going?
- Chicago.
- I'm just trying to think of this as practice.
You know, it's our first pitch.
If it doesn't go well, learn and move on.
- Uh, this is our only pitch.
- What? You said we had a long list of investors
to meet with.
- And when I went through that list,
I realized we have hit up every single one
except Jacobs.
- So this is our only shot at keeping the company alive?
- Sorry.
- I'm sorry.
- Kelsey, Charles. Jeffrey Jacobs.
This is my dad Ennis. - Hi!
- Glad you could make the trip.
- Hi, Ennis. - We're excited to be here.
- We made our money in specialty metals,
immutable alloys.
Ha. Do you even know what those are?
- Uh, we have both done our research.
- What I mean is, uh,
we're not accustomed to the kind of change
you have to deal with in the publishing industry.
- As potential investors,
how can you put our minds at ease?
- Well, this company's been around for six decades.
We've always been competitive with the larger houses.
We've even managed to lure away some of their heavy hitters.
- And how have you done that?
- Uh, we have done that
by having an appetite for hard work
and by believing that what we do is for the greater good.
- And we participate in the change.
We're not the same company that we were six decades ago
or even six months ago.
When I became publisher,
I immediately hired a social media strategist
because that's really the only way
to stay ahead of the curve now. - Everyone says social media,
but how does that actually translate to better business?
- People expect access and transparency.
I post book lists and stories to my Insta every day.
All of you can find me at @MillennialKelsey, by the way.
Accessibility and transparency build trust,
which means as a company, we'll have more success
launching new authors,
and that's how it translates to better business.
So...
in the spirit of transparency...
we need your money.
- Hey. - What's going on?
- Do you have any weed?
- Yeah, but could have texted me that.
-Uh, Clare is taking a new job in L.A.
- What? - Yeah.
It's a big new promotion which means a lot more money,
which is great-- I mean, we need it,
and obviously, I wanna do what's best for Gemma.
- So hire a lawyer, okay, Josh,
and fight to keep her here.
- No, no, no, I don't want to get into
a big legal battle. over custody.
- Well, no one does, but sometimes you have to.
- I mean, you know me, right?
You know that I fight to keep people in my life.
I just don't know if it's the best thing to do anymore.
- What are you talking about? - There's all these ads
all over the city of me and Liza,
reminding me that no matter how much you love someone,
it doesn't mean they stick around.
It doesn't mean
that you're what's best for them.
I don't know. I think it's a sign.
- No. It's not a sign.
- Uh, it's literally a sign, Maggie.
It's in Chelsea, it's in Midtown,
it's on a deli in Gowanus.
I mean, they're everywhere! - Okay, okay, okay.
All right, look...
maybe...maybe you take this new publicity
as a business opportunity.
Maybe--just sayin'--
it's a sign that you could make more money
so that Clare doesn't have to take that new promotion.
- Okay. How?
- I don't know, but Infinitely 21
is making bank off of you.
Why not make bank off of them?
- Mm, eh...kinda seems like a reach, Mags,
don't ya think?
- Well, if I were you...
- I'd start reaching.
- Okay, just to-- to triple, triple check,
"We would love to be in business with Millennial"
means we got it, right?
- We definitely got it.
- Whew! - I know that was hard.
But you did such an amazingjob, Kelsey.
You have my gratitude forever.
- This company means a lot to me too.
- Hmm.
- Let's commemorate this.
Come on, the obligatory glass-clinking post.
- Ah. - Just cheesy enough
to make people forgive you
for rubbing your success right in their face.
Ready? - Yeah.
- Go! - Go.
Cheers. To you.
- Hi! So the meeting went well?
- Liza! - Hi.
- What are you doing here?
- I didn't have plans for the weekend, so...
- Hi! I, uh...
God, this day just keeps getting better and better.
- Aw. - You can celebrate with us.
- 'Cause we got the money!
- Oh, my gosh!
- She was un...believable.
Let me get you a drink. - Okay.
I am so proud of you!
- Thank you.
I was kind of amazing. - Tell me everything.
- I will, but first tell me why you're really here.
- The Infinitely 21 campaign is going national.
And so I just wanted to talk to Charles
before he sees it.
- Liza... - What?
- Not now--come on! The company's back in black,
and we are celebrating.
- You're right. I'll wait.
- What? You made out with Chrissie hart?
- Yeah. It was a really
"Don't meet your heroes" kind of moment.
- I'm so sorry. - Are you?
- Actually, no, but I'm a little jealous.
- Okeydokey. All right. I'm gonna go to my room.
Don't keep him out too late,
'cause deal isn't signed yet.
- Night-night. - Good night.
Bye.
- ♪ Got my girl goon squad, got me swinging in ♪
♪ Got the ladies first, we on top of it ♪
♪ Got the program so we ain't havin' it ♪
♪ Got the glamour and the power so we smashin' it ♪
- Guess who got the money, honey?
- ♪ Nah nah nah nah nah ♪
♪ Girls girls girls ♪
♪ Rulin' the world ♪
♪ Girls girls girls ♪
♪ Rulin' the world ♪
♪ Girls girls girls ♪ - Guess who got the money,
honey?
- Kelsey...Lorraine!
- ♪ Rule the world ♪
♪ Ladies first, we on top of it ♪
♪ Got the program, so we ain't havin' it ♪
♪ Got the glamour and the power so we smashin' it ♪
- Mm.
No...
No, No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Aah!
- Good morning.
- Mm.
- Mm. This is my fantasy--
you, me, coffee, paper.
- Mm.
- Mm. You are right.
What am I doing reading the paper when you're here?
- Ha.
The, um, the Infinitely 21 ad is out.
It's out everywhere. It's in the paper
that you were reading which is now in my hand.
- Well, let me see it. - No, no, um...
- Can't be that embarrassing.
- It's just not what I expected.
There were a lot of photos taken,
mostly just of me, but...
sometimes there were other people in the shots as well.
You were in some of them.
- Am I in the photo? - No, um...
Josh is.
- Oh. - They liked that he was
sort of the inspiration behind me passing for 26, so...
He saw it. - Charles saw my boobs?
- What? No, no, the Infinitely 21 ad.
Liza!
Hey, we might have a big problem.
- What is going on? - A private video
that I meant to DM to Zane...
I accidently posted to my story.
- What does that mean? - It means
everyone that follows Kelsey potentially saw her...
message. - That includes, like,
editors of "The New York Times" and authors
and all of those investors
that I convinced to follow me yesterday!
Look, I have deleted it,
but it comes up when you Google my name.
Or Millennial. Or publisher.
Or..."Guess Who?"
- "Guess Who"?
- Guess who got the money, honey?
- Oh...I see.
Well, you look good. - I'm a meme!
What if this affects the deal?
- I don't know.
I mean, I have to think if it was going to,
they would have canceled the meeting already.
- I hope you're right. - The only thing that we can do
go down there and sign those papers.
- Thanks for meeting me. I really appreciate it.
- My pleasure, honestly.
I mean, I don't have a ton of time, but...
- However much you need.
- I, uh, hear that the campaign's
doing really great for you guys.
- Oh, I think we've really tapped into something
with this ad. - Nice!
Well, I would like to keep on tapping.
- Ha ha ha ha.
Okay. - So, I've been wanting
to franchise Inkburg for a while now,
and I've done a ton of research
and I've found that
people associate more strongly with a brand
when they can link it to a fun experience.
- Retail-tainment. I'm...familiar.
- Great. So...
what do you think about partnering with me
to bring your customers the experience
of getting a tattoo right here in the shop?
- Hmm. - This is obviously
what it could look like-- I've done some exteriors,
and then inside, I would just operate one chair,
so I wouldn't need a ton of space or anything.
- In the storefront window? Okay...
- Rivington Tattoo just did it at Saks,
and it was a huge success.
We set up shop facing Broadway
so we get every tourist's attention,
and we call it Inkburg Midtown.
- It would have to be
Infinitely 21 presents Inkburg Midtown.
- Absolutely. Yeah.
We offer a certain set of flash pieces
that people can only get in the store.
- So a very exclusive line.
- The most exclusive.
- I love it. - Yeah?
- Mm. And I love you.
For bringing us that. - Right.
So what do you think?
- I'm a hugger. - Okay.
- There was a...
slight social media slip-up last night.
I don't know if any of you saw it,
but it was a silly inside joke
intended for one person,
and it's embarrassing,
but I'm sure it's gonna blow over by this afternoon.
- We understand wanting to share
your big...news.
Bu when we invest,
we want to feel comfortable in our decision,
and right now, we're all feeling a little...
uncomfortable. - Well, the real issue
is that it's just too much
of a good thing.
Meaning Kelsey's internet presence.
She has quite a following,
which is a great thing for Millennial
and the only reason this post is even being discussed.
- Ms. Peters, have you ever thought about
separating your "presence," as it were,
from the Millennial brand?
- After this, I think that might be a good idea.
- You know, we think so too.
We're still interested in Millennial.
That hasn't changed.
But not with Ms. Peters as publisher.
Now, if Mr. Brooks could return to that position,
we'd keep funding in place.
- Kelsey's judgment should not be up for debate.
This is a woman who has made
nothing but smart decisions for this company
since she has been in a position to make decisions.
- Which is exactly why I...
understand where the group is coming from.
This is the right move for Millennial.
- What are you doing?
- Thank you for your investment.
You guys are in great hands.
- Kelsey.
- Hey, how'd it go? - I need to stay behind a day
to finalize some things with the investors.
- What about Kelsey?
- You should go back to New York with her.
She needs you now.
- And I need you to know that that photo--
it was just an ad to sell clothes.
That is all.
And it just happened to be with Josh.
- I agree, but it made you get on a plane to fly out here.
I think that's what we need to talk about.
- I just didn't want you to see it and wonder.
- Yeah, I don't have to see that to wonder.
Everybody's got a past.
But in order to have a future, you move on from it.
- Some people. Other people live in the past
in order to have a future.
- Is that what you wanna keep doing?
- No.
It's too complicated.
And that last-minute plane ticket was really expensive.
- I'm not gonna see Josh anymore.
- I went to bed last night with everything.
- You'll get it back.
- I don't wanna go home.
- ♪ Where did it all go wrong ♪
♪ Didn't we have it all ♪
- Me either. - ♪ Now it's all gone ♪
- One more ride? - Yeah.
- ♪ It was a perfect dream ♪
♪ Nothing we couldn't be ♪
♪ But it's all over ♪
♪ Now ♪