Directed by: Mark Mylod
Written by: Dusty Kay

Vince’s ‘Lost in the Clouds’ cash has landed the crew in new digs, a $30k-per-month rental in the hills, but while E struggles to locate the place, actress Anna Faris rear-ends his Aston-Martin. When he gets back to the house, E tells the guys that he and Anna had “a moment” when she gave him her phone number – too bad the digits turn out to be off the mark. Turtle suffers a disappointment as well, announcing that his favorite strain of marijuana has gone extinct. Vince promises to share his stash of the dwindling weed, which Turtle nearly loses during a traffic stop later that afternoon as he returns from the supermarket with some random hotties. E manages to track down his own lady, using a star map to find Anna’s house and finally acquiring her insurance info. He drives her to a meeting – her car fared worse than his in the accident – and when she insists on his opinion about a script she’s attached herself to, E wins her over with an honest assessment of its flaws.

At the Gold house, Ari’s spotlighting a few flaws doesn’t go over so well. A producer from ‘The Young and the Restless’ calls to ask Mrs. Ari to reprise her role as Kendall Scott, and Ari tries to dissuade her by warning, “You left the show when you were 25, and they shoot in High Def now.” Karma comes back around to bite him, though, when he learns his wife will be making out with a hot young Latino named Javier on the show. Ari bribes the young actor with a future in film, but when Javier shies away from kissing Mrs. Ari, she seizes him in a lip-lock. Later, she explains to Ari that all she really wanted was for him to think she’s still sexy. “You’re the beautiful mother of my children,” he tells her as he throws her on the bed.

E thinks he’s en route to some star-studded romance himself when Anna calls to set a dinner date. He meets her, but it turns out she already has a boyfriend and wants to hire E as her manager. When E gets back to the house, Drama taunts him for thinking he had a shot with a celebrity, and all Vince can say is, “She wants you to be her manager? Interesting…”

Now that E’s leapt off of Vince’s mountain-climbing movie because of Walsh, he decides to jumpstart his management company with some office space. Vince and the guys mock his new headquarters – a cubicle on the sketchy side of town – but then hunt for a surprise gift to spruce up the place. The perfect piece, a $42k desk once owned by Robert DeNiro, comes at an even higher cost when a sales rep tells the crew that Gary Busey has already laid claim to it. The madcap actor/artist agrees to relinquish his rights, but only if Drama will help him show “The Unseen Faces of the Familiar” by posing for him. Drama takes one on the chin to secure E’s present, but the desk won’t fit through the doorways of his low-rent office.

While E awaits a call back from Peter Jackson’s video-game division, none of the other industry players he approaches have a clue who he is. Even the ad department at Variety laughs him off when he tries to put the word out. Shauna helps the upstart manager by hooking him up with a reporter at the trade magazine, meanwhile Ari has his own business issues to juggle. Hustling to prepare for an annual meeting with top-tier client Mary J. Blige, Ari runs into drama between Jeff and Jim Jensen, a set of twin brothers working for him. It turns out Jeff slept with Jim’s wife. Clearly one of them must go, but Ari finds himself forced to punish the victim because Jeff consistently out-earns his cuckolded brother. Jim, who happens to be Blige’s favorite staffer, drops the scandal at her feet after cleaning out his desk. The R&B queen follows Jim out the door, so Ari fires the remaining twin for good measure. Meanwhile, E’s company strategy doesn’t pan out much better. In the Variety article Shauna arranged, the reporter trashes him as a product of Hollywood nepotism, and the fancy new office Vince sets him up with (primarily to accommodate the desk) only underscores E’s dependence. But just when the manager can’t sink any lower, Peter Jackson returns his call, eager to work with Vince – and glad to have a representative besides Ari to deal with.

Directed by: Mark Mylod
Written by: Rob Weiss

While the guys grab breakfast at Urth, E catches the eye of a hot waitress – too bad Drama calls him out for being incapable of “unemotional sex.” When E can’t name a conquest he didn’t pursue a relationship with, Drama throws down a $5,000 bet that Turtle can hustle a one-night stand before E musters the nerve. Vince matches his brother’s action, taking E under his wing at the Mondrian pool, while Drama and Turtle peruse the online meat market of Craigslist personals. Ari, on the other hand, prefers to gamble with his son’s future, hiring a private investigator to help blackmail the Briar Country Day School’s headmaster, Andrew Preston, into matriculating his kid. Unfortunately, Preston turns out to be a model citizen, reducing Ari to begging on the headmaster’s doorstep. Glad to have taught Ari a lesson in humility – and snagging an industry job for his own son in the process – Preston withdraws his barring of the Golds. “The things we’ll do for our children,” Ari says.

At the Mondrian, Vince attracts a pair of British girls, but just as E starts to settle in with one named Heather, he runs into Sloan, sending him into his characteristic relationship tailspin. Turtle encounters some complications, too, when the hot girl he meets on Craigslist turns out to have a stuffed-animal fetish and a man-sized bunny costume to match. In the end, it’s just a little too freaky for Turtle, but Drama opts to take the furry romp as a consolation prize for his lost bet. E breaks down and calls Sloan to “talk about us” but gets back in the game after she tells him she’s met someone else. Hanging up, he heads to Heather’s room at the Mondrian, and when she asks him what he’d like to do for the evening, he replies, “What would you say if I said let’s just blow off the restaurant and order in?” Catching the green light, he closes the door behind him and wins five grand for Vince – if he can keep his hands off the telephone, that is.

Vince has finally landed some work with ‘Lost in the Clouds,’ but E threatens to derail the “package deal” when he calls Ari to boot Walsh off the pic. Ari tricks E into meeting the director at his office to make nice – which actually happens when Walsh apologizes for blaming the ‘Medellin’ trailer’s leak on E. As it turns out, his editor’s betrayed girlfriend uploaded the video to exact revenge. E and Walsh shake hands, but Ari finds himself mired in another sour relationship when Lloyd’s breakup with his boyfriend, Tom, leaves the assistant too heartbroken to work. With bungled schedules and general chaos shrouding the desk outside his office, Ari takes the logical approach: He visits Tom at work to mend the breach. Tom says Lloyd cheated on him, but Ari covers his assistant’s tracks by swearing they’d been together on the night in question. Tom buys it, but when Ari calls Lloyd to deliver the good news, he includes a warning: “I love liars, but I hate cheaters.”

Drama and Turtle have concocted a scam of their own, buying into a shady investment with Turtle’s cousin Ronnie, whose father’s obsession with Sandy Koufax has unearthed some lucrative info. Apparently, Koufax hasn’t left his house in weeks, meaning the game jersey Turtle, Drama and Ronnie intend to buy at auction will skyrocket in value after his imminent death. Ronnie backs out at the last minute, unwilling to profit on the demise of his father’s hero, so Drama picks up his end of the $62k tab. As Drama collects the goods, the auctioneer informs him that Koufax couldn’t appear to sign the uniform because his schnauzer, which had been sick for weeks, just died. But Koufax, thank God, is “healthy as a clam.”

While meeting with Dana Gordon about ‘Lost in the Clouds,’ E realizes – thanks to Walsh’s argumentative tactics – that life is too short to deal with the director throughout another shoot. Later, he tells Vince and Ari he’ll take to the sideline this time around, but he also warns Vince off the film. Considering his manager’s advice, Vince decides to go ahead with the project. “There we go,” Ari says. “I’ll have a $2 million advance check cut today. How horrible.”

Drama brings the crew to Barney’s to scrape a few years off his look. While he preens in a leather jacket, Vince and E run into Snoop Dogg on their way to the store’s restaurant. The rapper compliments them on the ‘Medellin’ trailer, which he saw leaked on YouTube that morning. Vince and E take the news in stride, but when they meet Walsh at the restaurant, he freaks and blames E for the disclosure. The argument escalates to vulgar insults and ends in a table-scattering scuffle. While E grapples with his director, Drama sees a customer wearing a “California Homegrown” hat that he must have. His quest leads him to a medical marijuana facility, but he’s barred from entering without a prescription card. Naturally, Turtle knows a guy and hooks Drama up with a doctor to remedy his “anxiety disorder.” Leveraging his diagnosis to buy the hat – and the maximum pot dosage allowed by law – Drama heads to the ‘Five Towns’set. But, his cast mates are less impressed with his polished image than the dank he scored, leading to a real re-visitation of his youth, ripping bong loads in his trailer.

Fistfights notwithstanding, the ‘Medellin’ leak turns out to be a blessing: Ari’s office has been flooded with calls looking to cash in on Vince’s sudden marketability. But, the agent promises Vince he’ll convince Dana Gordon, who’s back on top after Ari got her fired from Warner Bros., to attach Vince to a mountain-hiking story called ‘Lost in the Clouds.’ Also, Elvis Mitchell from Interview magazine is in town to meet Vince, E and Walsh about the genius behind ‘Medellin.’ The trio makes it through the meeting without a meltdown, but afterward, a shirtless Walsh (complete with a monstrous ‘Medellin’ tattoo on his back) chases E’s Aston-Martin down the street. Swearing he’ll never speak to the director again after the release of ‘Medellin,’ E takes a call from Ari who’s sold Dana on his dream team: “Who wants to climb Mount Annapurna,” he asks. “Vinny stars, E produces, Walsh directs. Boom.”

Trapped between a trip to Cannes and volatile studio head Harvey Weingard, E can’t even enjoy some pampering at The Shave without Ari calling to jump on his back: “You sold a movie you weren’t in a position to sell.” E assures Ari he’ll sever the deal with Harvey. Hanging up, Ari meets M. Night Shyamalan in person to pick up his latest screenplay, which the paranoid filmmaker expects him to read that night. At Drama’s condo, the elder Chase has hatched a plan to schmooze the mayor of Beverly Hills into annexing his condo into 90210 territory – but he needs Vince to lend some star wattage to his carousing with the mayor, who hopes a touch of celebrity will raise his odds with the ladies. Meeting Harvey for dinner, E starts to see his own odds – for survival – slipping through the cracks as the exec berates the waiter and contemplates fighting a nearby guest.

Restaurants aren’t treating Ari well either. When a Morton’s valet accidentally gives his car – along with the Shyamalan script – to a stranger, Ari tracks down his ride using GPS. A 140 mph speeding ticket lands him in jail on the way home, but at least he has plenty of time to read. Out for drinks at Winston’s, Drama manages to hook the mayor up with a hottie without Vince’s aid but receives bad news when the bouncer says she’s a tranny. The good news? The mayor doesn’t care. With Drama’s zip code all but updated, he shifts his attention to the awkward ballet unfolding around Harvey, who’s come along with E to “celebrate the sale.” Neither Vince nor E has the cojones to break off the deal, especially when Harvey works himself into a lather over a botched drink order. As the bouncer drags him out of the bar, Drama – elated in his victory – steps in to do the deed: “You can’t buy the movie. Sorry bro.”

The next day Ari, haggard but prepared, meets Shyamalan in his office only to find the filmmaker has rewritten the script. “Here, read it,” he tells Ari. “I’ll wait.” It seems Drama has wasted the previous evening as well when Turtle shows him the latest gossip online: a video of the mayor escorting his “lady” to the car, which ends in a Britney-esque crotch shot – and two nasty surprises. “Don’t know how much longer he’ll be mayor,” Turtles remarks.

In a major role-reversal, Vince and the guys are crashing at Drama’s place. While Turtle tries to identify the senior Chase’s whacked-out health food - “What’s a psyllium husk, anyway?” - the man of the house returns, offering bagels and good news. Donna Devaney, an L.A. party girl from Drama’s surprisingly lengthy past, has finally agreed to hook up with him. Plus, she has a hot friend for Turtle. Vince and E aren’t sitting so pretty with the Medellin cut, so E tries giving Walsh some notes to spruce up the film. Predictably militant about protecting his vision, Walsh won’t cooperate, and making things worse, has already sent a print to the Cannes Film Festival. E runs to Ari for a solution and settles on the option to ditch Walsh by selling the movie to Harvey Weingard.

Vince rolls with his brother and Turtle, promising not to steal their thunder, and they couldn’t be more thrilled when he hops out at a stop light to join a random hottie in a convertible. She takes him to the home of her “family friend” to go swimming, which turns out to be Dennis Hopper’s beach house. Hopper and his buddies tempt Vince into placing a $100,000 bet - that he can’t cover - on a soccer game. The future holds less uncertainty for Drama and Turtle; their cougars are ready to pounce. Too bad for Turtle, Donna’s “hot” friend Marjorie is twice his age, not to mention twice his size. But, in a typical turn of Drama’s luck, Donna decides at the last minute to opt for Turtle, leaving Drama manhandled by Marjorie in the hot tub. Vince’s soccer win comes through, infusing him with some much-needed cash, but he and E still differ on the direction they want to take ‘Medellin.’ When E says Harvey made an offer of $25 million, Vince throws him for another loop: Cannes accepted the film. “Maybe you should watch it again,” Vince tells him.

Vince and company return to L.A. after an Italian vacation that wiped out the last of their funds. Drama volunteers his new condo for his baby bro’s “welcome home” party, which Turtle slowly escalates from intimate gathering to all-out rager. While Drama scrambles to party-proof his pad, hiding furniture and padlocking the bathroom, Vince and E meet with Ari to decide which job to take next. Ari delivers the bad news that the industry has placed Vince on death watch; no one will sign him before seeing ‘Medellin’ in case the film bombs a la ‘Gigli.’ But Ari’s problems extend beyond business; some sort of hitch has threatened his son’s admission into the Briar Country Day School, which his daughter already attends. After charming, threatening and bribing his way to an answer from the headmaster, Ari finds out his cell phones and swearing have driven the school over the edge, and blackballing the son is the only way to expel the father. Ari yanks his daughter from class on his way out.

Vince and E try to speed up the ‘Medellin’ release with a visit to Walsh - who’s wearing the only cut around his neck - but the director tears off on a motorcycle to avoid showing them the film. After a day spent hunting for him, E calls from Vince’s party and shames Walsh into screening the movie. As soon as Vince and E leave the condo, Drama ejects the entire crowd, which resettles in Vince’s hotel room, a venue Drama couldn’t care less about destroying. Walsh sweats out the screening by performing calisthenics in the hallway, but after the flick Vince and E congratulate him on a job well done. On the way home, E asks Vince, “You didn’t really like it, did you?” Vince says he thought it was great, but E tells him, “I thought it sucked.” A call from Turtle interrupts the conversation. Anthony Michael Hall has urinated off of Vince’s balcony, and the hotel management didn’t exactly appreciate it. Adding “homeless” to their list of “broke” and “unemployed,” Vince and E head to Drama’s condo to sleep it off.

At long last, Vince and his comrades have arrived in Colombia to shoot ‘Medellin.’ A documentary crew captures the action, most of which occurs behind the scenes as Walsh steadily unravels. When Walsh demands 1,000 extra soldiers, assaults the director of photography, and confesses that he doesn’t have an ending for the script, rookie producer E rushes to hold things together.

In a rare moment of vulnerability, Walsh confesses, “Too many sets, too many extras, too many explosions. I’m melting down.” E reassures him, going so far as to hire an Academy Award winner remove the pressure or writing the ending. But, before the writer arrives - and after E pays him 275k - Walsh rewrites the entire script, complete with the finale his masterpiece deserves. As explosions on Pablo Escobar’s compound punctuate the last day of shooting, the narrator asks Walsh whether he thinks he made a good film, and the director replies, “Till I see the final cut, I have no idea. But you know what, neither does anybody else.”

With only a few boxes separating Vince from his new home at the Mondrian Hotel, his buddies hound him for declining Prince Yair’s indecent proposal to fund “Medellin” - maybe because the rest of the crew’s new digs don’t look so luxurious. E moves in with Sloan despite his friends’ warnings against “planting a flag,” while Turtle and Drama kick off their apartment hunt with a studio slum. A call from Shauna forbidding Drama to taint his brother’s image by living like a “transient crack whore” sends the pair to a $1.4 million condo that, through the sly art of negotiation, Drama buys for $1.5 million.

As Johnny sets himself up for a fiscal disaster, Vince and E solve one when Nick Rubenstein decides to finance the flick with his freshly released trust fund. Too bad he’s offering less than half of what the studios estimated the budget would be. In a stroke of genius, E taps Walsh - who’s been trying to “bring the class back” to porno - to direct ‘Medellin’ on a shoestring budget. As the crew pours champagne to celebrate E’s first production, Walsh calls to drop the inevitable bomb: He plans to shoot the entire film in Spanish. Raising his glass, Vince shrugs it off, positing, “It could work.”