30 Rock: Somebody To Love (Episode 206)

Pete is still crashing at Liz's, watching tv when Liz finds him. She's wondering why it smells like maple syrup. Pete's not making pancakes, so Liz is still stumped. When she calls Tracy to make sure he's practicing his Rerun dance for an upcoming "What's Happening?" sketch, Tracy reports that he's too distrated by whoever is making waffles on his block to practice. If Tracy smells it all the way where he lives in New Jersey, then what's going on. Jack calls Liz, making a conference call. Jack tells Liz not to worry, it's probably just an unusual wind pattern blowing north from Staten Island and besides, it couldn't be Northrax as they would have all died in 10 seconds from exposure. Well, that's comforting.

The next day, Liz finds Jack at the studio to thank him for his reassuring call. Jack is happy to put his NSA contacts to use. Speaking of which, he's on his way to a party thrown by John McCain and Jack Bauer (I know) for Robert Novak. His hair is actually being cut, and is cut every two days: "When it comes to hair nobody's bitcher than conservative males". The hair is in place, but the tux, picked up from the cleaners by Kenneth, are missing their pants. Rather than pay for a new $2,500 pair, Kenneth vows to find the missing trousers. He enlists Tracy, Dot-Com, and Grizz in his mission.

At home, Liz gets a package meant for a new neighbor. When returning the package, she's alarmed to meet Raheem, who is suspicious-acting and has maps of New York City posted all over his walls. Pete doesn't think anything of it, but Liz insists: she doesn't want to sound racist, but "that pita pocket might be a terrorist!" She manages to resist doing anything, even after she sees Raheem and a friend go through what looks like a terrorist exercise in a nearby park.

At the party, Jack orders up a Nancy Drew ("For men, it's called a Hardy Boy!") and flirts with C.C., a cute blonde who plays it cool when Jack makes his move. She comes around, though, when Jack plays "What The World Needs Now Is Love" on the piano. They spend the night together, but their post-coital bliss is short-lived -- C.C. is Congresswoman Celeste Cunningham, a Democrat! From Vermont! Who is dedicated to battling big business, specifically the Sheinhardt Wig Company for dumping dye in a Vermont river that made nearby resident children orange. When Jack reveals that he runs Sheinhardt subsidiary NBC, C.C. is appalled, and both swear they must never see each other again.

Liz takes her neighbor problem to Jack, who advises her to call it in when his assistant Jonathan (who is Middle Eastern) is out of earshot. Liz sticks around to overhear Jack take a call on a VERIZON WIRELESS phone, figuring out that it's not his phone when he doesn't recognize the ringtone. He and C.C. mixed up phones after their "night of doing IT". He makes up a story about the mix-up, saying he must have grabbed the phone because it's so popular. Liz picks up the bait, making an obvious plug before staring at the camera and asking "CAN WE HAVE OUR MONEY NOW?"

Kenneth may have found a way to raise money -- he tells Frank he'll drink a bottle of two year old ketchup for $400. Ew.

I'm Black, she's White. I'm Black, she's light-skinned. I'm Black, she's 17.

Meeting again at the studio, C.C. and Jack still have chemistry despite realizing their differences should keep them apart. After hearing her story about how her face was shot off and then reconstructed, Jack insults her by saying he thought she made love like an ugly girl. She still kisses them passionately, and this time Tracy watches. when Tracy asks Jack about her, Jack says she's nobody. Tracy understands the difficulties, having been through some of his own -- I'm Black, she's White; I'm Black, she's light-skinned; I'm Black, she's 17 -- but he tells Jack to go for it.

Back in the writer's room, Kenneth collects his $400. The writers want to give him the rest of the money, but Kenneth insists on earning it. Frank begins to tell him about how Lutz naps on the writers' room couch after dinner...

Liz's apartment. Raheem comes in, scaring Liz, but he's there to go out with Raheem to celebrate a project he's just finished. Liz doesn't like the sound of it, so she calls up Jack's friend at Homeland Security. They only want to know: "Who is he, and where can we find him?"

In another apartment, Jack watches the Lifetime movie made of C.C.'s story. He is obviously moved, especially wnen movie Liz forgives her movie dog for shooting her in the movie face with a movie rifle.

At the studio Kenneth successfully scares the bejesus out of Lutz when he sneaks up on him in a orangutan mask. He gets more cash -- and a beatdown from Lutz -- for his efforts, but Kenneth tells Frank he is still $700 short. Frank remembers the old lady in accounting who thinks Kenneth is her late husband...

Pete is shocked to hear that Liz got Raheem busted, but backs off when she threatens him with the same fate. Too bad, as Liz arrives home to discover a plea from Raheem -- the project was his and his brother's (the guy from the park) audition tape for "The Amazing Race". The maps with the pins? Places where the brothers have traveled. The hijinks in the park? Feats to show their strength and stamina for such a show. Liz looks crestfallen, to say the least.

We never see what Kenneth had to do to get that last $700, though, as we see him give Jonathan a replacement pair. Jonathan, surprised to meet someone who loves Jack as much as he does, accepts the pants... and hides them in a hidden closet with a bunch of duplicate tuxedo jackets, pants, shirts, and shoes.

Jack needs Tracy's help in wooing C.C. First, they find Clnton' office in Harlem where, Cyrano-style, Jack woos C.C. in her office while he stands on 125th street below. Though Tracy's suggestion to tell her that their privates should do a high-five is a good one, Jack's got it. Jack doesn't care about the inevitable career suicide -- he thinks they are soul mates. They can ignore their differences until the sex goes bad, and agree to start a secret affair in a nearby broom closet.

Raheem makes it home safely, and Liz plays dumb. Raheem looks a bit worse for wear, and swears to do something with his extreme anger at his ordeal. Before we can find out what, Raheem goes into his apartment, and LIz has to settle for waffles with Pete.