The Middleman: Season 1, Episode 1

The Pilot Episode Sanction (16 Jun. 2008)

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A struggling artist, Wendy Watson, is fired from her temp agency and barred from all other temp agencies after a science experiment at her temp job goes monstrously wrong and is then ...

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A struggling artist, Wendy Watson, is fired from her temp agency and barred from all other temp agencies after a science experiment at her temp job goes monstrously wrong and is then recruited by The Middleman, who solves "exotic problems".

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The cigarette lighter that Wendy Watson's father left her has a bas-relief of a Boeing 737 on it, not an engraving of a DC-3. See more »

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[Title Card: Corridor to the illegal sublet Wendy shares with another young, photogenic artist. 7:00 P.M.]
Noser: Yo, Wendy Watson.
Wendy Watson: Hey, Noser.
Noser: Who's the Man?
Wendy Watson: That would be Shaft, Noser.
Noser: What kind of man?
Wendy Watson: A complicated man.
Noser: And who understands him?
Wendy Watson: No one but his woman.
Noser: Right on.
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