The entire office braces for the fallout of
Michael Scott learning about his girlfriend Donna's infidelity, but surprisingly, Michael is as cheerful as usual. The office deduces that Michael is secretly still seeing Donna. When they confront him about this, Michael becomes defensive and refuses to cut off the adulterous relationship.
Andy Bernard, having been in the situation of the
cuckold when Angela was cheating on him with Dwight, decides to step up and make Michael confront his girlfriend's husband. They both go visit him while he is coaching a high school baseball team, and Andy gets the two of them to talk.
Dwight Schrute and
Angela Martin are working out the baby contract they signed a few months earlier. Instead of going to court, they have asked a mediator to sort out the issues. After pushing through the contract line for line, which include several bizarre clauses such as one that stipulates "whether this is all part of
the Matrix", the mediator determines that the contract is solid but unenforceable. Instead, Angela could sue Dwight for damages up to $30,000 for breach of contract. Knowing that Dwight could never pay her damages, she offers him a "settlement": five separate sessions of intercourse. He accepts. Later, Dwight carries out various methods to try to sterilize himself before the first "session", such as holding his crotch near a running microwave, dropping books on it, and aggressively beating it with drumsticks.
Pam Halpert and
Jim Halpert are both exhausted from the long nights with the new baby, and their work is being adversely affected.
Gabe Lewis catches them both sleeping at their desks and talks to them privately about it. He asks them what they would do about the rumors of printers catching fire, but they both nearly fall asleep listening to him.
Darryl Philbin hears them discussing how to get enough energy to make it through the day, and lets them in on a secret sleeping place in the warehouse they can use. Unfortunately for them, this secret location is within earshot of Dwight and Angela's "warehouse meeting" place, where Angela complains about the damage to Dwight's testicles while Dwight gripes about having to perform foreplay. After returning from the baseball game, Michael expresses a sense of freedom and power from the knowledge that he is having sex with another man's wife.
Ryan Howard tries the same attitude and petitions
Erin Hannon for sex, but cannot hold through and says he was just joking. He explains to Michael that to do what he is doing, one has to be completely cold and uncaring of what other people think, and that he does not know how Michael can do it. The rest of the office increasingly shuns Michael. He leaves to secretly meet Donna at a motel for sex, but on the way there has a change of heart and breaks up with her via text message instead. He consoles himself, alone, with his favorite ice cream, and tells the camera crew that he chose being able to live with himself over being happy. At the end of the episode, Michael is ambushed by
WBRE-TV reporters, to whom he begins to confess the adulterous rumors to, before they clarify that they were inquiring about the rumors of Sabre printers catching fire. ==Production==