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Andy and Maggie, dressed in their peasant-best, watch Ben Stiller direct a war film. After they cut, Stiller introduces Goran, the man that inspired this story and lost his family in the war. Stiller explains why he's doing this film by trying to sound modest about his box office success (it's not working). What would he do if he found an orphan in a war zone? Put on Dodgeball a few times? Sure, it'll make him laugh but it's not going to help in the long run... And that's precisely why he's making this film. Stiller continues his false-modesty rambling as the cast and crew look on. Goran then requests to have more smoke in the scene for authenticity and also brings up that his Coke isn't cold. Andy takes note that Goran's part in the production is where all the power is. Looks like some brown-nosing is in order.


Maggie remarks that Goran's actually quite handsome but Andy immediately says that she shouldn't even start getting interested. "Never get involved with a man whose wife's been murdered," he starts. "He's not going to be a barrel of laughs..." Seems like Maggie really wants a love interest -- preferably one without a dead wife. She pops into the office to speak to someone about a possible "supplementary acting fee" (because she did some overdramatic crying). A strapping production manager, John, is behind the desk. Maggie awkwardly brings up any possible wives, girlfriends, or boyfriends the guy might have. John says that he's available and Maggie giggles loudly and states that she is too, nervously thudding the head of her on-set baby doll onto the side of the desk repeatedly.

Andy approaches Goran about possibly talking to Stiller to try to get Andy a line or two. Goran seems a little pre-occupied though, looking through pictures of his late wife and family. He shows Andy some pictures of his happy family... and then solemnly remarks that they're all dead now. He shows another picture to Andy, who turns away. "Oh! Shouldn't look at that one. She's sunbathing." Goran says angrily, "No. She is dead. Lying in the street. Dead." He shoves the picture in Andy's face. "Look! Dead! Naked! You look!" Andy reluctantly does so and then asks, "Where did you get these developed?" After all, pictures of your slaughtered family aren't something you'd pop into the one hour photo with. Just as Andy tries to talk about Goran asking Stiller for a line again, Goran begins crying over the pictures. Andy walks out with a quick "I'll catch you later" and leaves Goran to weep.

Jackie, one of the people working on the film, is having a birthday party and invites Andy and Maggie along. Neither of them want to go but Jackie insists. After failed excuses about a sick sister, Maggie agrees to go. Andy adamantly refused but after hearing that the producer was going to be there, he says yes too. At Jackie's hip party, Maggie finds John already speaking to a group of people and tries to squeeze in. Just as Andy starts getting somewhere with his showbiz mingling, Maggie drags him away to tell him that she's going home with John tonight. Andy looks over and asks Maggie if she minds John's funny leg. She didn't even notice until that moment that John's wearing on elevated shoe because one leg is longer than the other. She insists that she doesn't mind because she's not a shallow person but Andy keeps rubbing it in. He suggests that she say no now and then sleep on the idea of being known forever as Maggie: the girl that goes out with the guy with the big shoe. So when John comes over to take Maggie away, she tells him that she can't. "Is it... is it the leg?" he asks. She tries to act like she doesn't know what he's talking about so John takes off his big shoe and slams it on the table. "You didn't notice that?" Some awkward words are exchanged, including Andy's comment, "Do you have to buy a pair and throw one away?" John hobbles out angrily and Maggie and Andy are left to bicker.

Goran's spoken to Stiller and Andy's got a line ("Don't go down there! There are snipers down there!"). Unfortunately, Andy's not content being Journalist #2. Journalist #1 has got a lot more lines so he wants Goran to speak with Stiller again. After Stiller finishes demonstrating how to beat an old woman with a rifle to the soldiers (which is almost as bad as Stiller trying to get a child actor on-set back into character by pointing a gun at his mother and saying, "You think this would be funny? If I shot your mother. Right now. If I shot y'mummy in de face would dat make y'laugh?" earlier), Goran asks him for another favor. Stiller, already frustrated by the film, tells Goran that he's the director and doesn't want to do the favor. Goran reminds Stiller that he may be the director but it's Goran's story about his dead wife. "Would you stop going on about your fucking dead wife?" Stiller hisses. Silence on the set. Maggie steps in, "Ben, that's a bit much." Stiller is thrown off that a lowly extra has addressed him by his first name. Who the fuck does she think she is? There's a spat between Maggie, Andy, and Stiller. After some angry Starsky & Hutch jabs, Andy gets kicked off the set. Stiller continues bragging about his box office grosses in an attempt to somewhat regain his power. He spits out these figures like he's memorized them, adding that he's got to kiss Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore... smack Jennifer Aniston's butt. Maggie points out that this was all onscreen but Stiller cries back, "It still counts!"