- When Avery is kidnapped while on assignment in North Korea, Jack turns to an old girlfriend to get her released. Meanwhile, Tracy makes the entourage recreate an inside joke, and Liz wages war on a plastic bag in a tree outside her window.
- Liz realizes that she needs to take control of her personal life by fixing up her dream apartment, but she encounters an obstacle along the way. Meanwhile, Jack has his own problems to deal with when Avery is held hostage. Elsewhere, Tracy finds out that Kenneth, Dotcom and Grizz have bonded in his absence.—NBC Publicity
- Open with Jack and the nanny singing baby Liddy to sleep. The computer rings with a Skype call from Avery in China. She loudly asks Jack to wake the baby up. Jack says no and closes the computer.
Liz and Jenna clean up the room Tracy has been hiding in. She discards a Learn Spanish book, a novel she never finished and "The Secret." Jenna tells her the book works, that visualizing has paid dividends in her career. Liz responds that taking action is what works, but Jenna points out that Liz's social life is lacking. Liz thinks she needs to start caring about herself as much as she does her job.
Liz tells Jack her new philosophy is called "Lizbeanism." She saved TGS and will now save herself. Liz is going to re-do her apartment. Jack is so impressed he gives her one of his neck ties. Jack talks about how it might be easier if Avery stays away until Liddy is sleep trained.
Kenneth, Grizz and Dot Com welcome Tracy back to work. Tracy is upset that those three have jokes he isn't a part of. He forbids his entourage from having inside jokes from which he is excluded.
We see a montage of Liz working on her personal life. Afterwards she notices a plastic bag stuck in a tree outside the window of her almost-perfect apartment. The doorman says it is a city issue.
The next time Avery call Jack on the computer she is ready for Skype sex (nighty, Reagan mask). Unfortunately Jack is holding Liddy this time. Avery says she has the option to stay in Asia longer and Jack doesn't tell her to rush home.
Kenneth, Dot Com and Grizz continue their inside joke -- "Smooth move, Ferguson" -- and Tracy catches them. When Tracy doesn't understand the joke he demands that they re-create the circumstances that led to the joke -- a delivery guy falling down.
Jack sees on TV that Kim Jong-il has abducted Avery.
Liz enters City Hall full of confidence and leaves a defeated woman.
Jack gets a phone update from John Boehner about Avery's status. Liz come in to complain about her bag and he tell her Kim Jong-il's plan is to have a Western journalist report on North Korean TV about how the free world is being conquered. Liz thinks he should call Bill Clinton. Jack says Avery would never accept his help after he didn't hit on her during the '96 campaign. Jack thinks they will both solve their "equally important" problems.
Kenneth is having trouble replicating the circumstances that led to the inside joke. Jenna's hair, rain and illness are all problems. They decide to wait three weeks until Jenna's hair has grown to the length it was when she got her hair cut that day.
Three weeks later ...
Liz still can't get the bag out of the tree. Trained squirrels and grappling hooks haven't worked. The bag begins speaking to Liz, saying that he is just a representation of her mortality.
Everything is put in place for the "Smooth move, Ferguson" moment. Tracy sees a TV report about Avery's still being held in North Korea and mentions that he co-starred in a movie with "my boy K.J." Frank realizes that Tracy starred in a propaganda film. The delivery guy arrives and falls. Grizz says "Smooth move, Ferguson" and after a long pause Tracy begins to laugh. He demands everyone else laugh as well.
Since Tracy knows Kim Jong-il, Jack asks him what Avery may be going through in North Korea. Tracy is critical of Kim as a director. Jack sees Avery on TV speaking in a monotone voice about what's happened to her. Jack is aghast when she says she's learned that capitalism may be flawed.
Jack meets with Condoleezza Rice, who is still bitter that Jack broke up with her years ago (by text, on Valentine's Day). She wants him to admit she's better at the piano than he is on flute which leads to a playoff that Rice wins. She says, "I'll see what I can do."
Liz finally gets the bag down after using a long saw. But the moment she catches it a cop tasers her for destroying city property.
Avery is able to call Jack from North Korea because they've never seen an iPhone. She tells him not to worry. He says he's contacted Rice and is working on getting her out.
Tracy tells his entourage he's upset that they moved on and were laughing without him. Kenneth tells Tracy that they were miserable without him and they all hug.
Liz calls Jack with her bag news and says, "We are in control." Jack says he was wrong as we see on TV that Avery has married Kim Jong-il's son. "They're never going to let her go," Jack says.
During the closing credits we see a scene from the propaganda film Tracy made for Kim Jong-il, in which Kim blatantly plagiarizes from "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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