2. In an attempt to save her friendship with Lisa, or as Lisa puts it: "try really hard to lie to her more," Maggie heads to Queens to track down the woman who posted the fateful Don–break–up YouTube video and tries to convince her to take it down. Shockingly enough, the woman, who Maggie (with the help of Sloan) located via Foursquare, decides go the fame whore route and exploit her interaction with famous financier Sloan instead of take pity on Maggie's situation. Laundromat lady's lengthiest line described why her Sex and the City fanfic wasn't really fanfic but something more nuanced instead. Anyone still surprised that she didn't take the video down? Of course not, so Lisa gets to see it. A nasty argument breaks out between the former best friends, and their relationship is left at "landlord and tenant" because according to Lisa, they're both too poor to live alone. The upside: Maggie finally gets the green light to go to Uganda and get traumatized.
3. Jim has a new sexy blonde reporter friend up in New Hampshire and is dodging Maggie's calls (four rings, they're not there; two rings, they don't wanna talk to you as Maggie so kindly explains to Sloane… let's call that investigative reporting) Sexy blonde reporter friend, aka Hallie Shea, is played by Mamie Gu—oh wait, Grace Gummer? No one can tell Meryl Streep's daughters apart. Anyway, Jim's time in New Hampshire is peppered with a few jokes about the Republican presidential campaign trail and a lot of weird kind-of flirting with little Meryl. The campaign bus guy is still being a dick to Jim, who will seemingly never get 30 minutes with Romney, despite Hallie's deadpan that "eventually he'll have to speak."
4. Neil continues to follow the Occupy Wall Street lead that the newsroom relentlessly mocks. While we don't don't know yet if Neil continues chasing the story because he really think it's going to be something or because his one OWS contact is an attractive young PhD candidate, we do get to watch Neil get arrested in Zuccoti Park when one of the protests actually turns quasi–Tahrir (gasp! could this actually be a big deal?). Will bails Neil out of jail and makes a scene in the process.
5. Last but not least, let's talk about drone strikes. This episode marked the death–by–drone–strike of American citizen Anwar Al–Awlaki, and affirmation that Sloan was right to be worried about the whole thing. All the important newsroom people—Charlie, Mac, Will—debate in Will's office what to about it as Will still inwardly whines about being taken off 9/11 anniversary coverage. Won't it look like Will's defending Al-Qaeda if he gets all up in arms about this guy's death? Charlie and Mac know they have to cover it, but Will's bruised ego makes sure to give them a hard time about it.
Also, and that new Jerry guy got a real tip about Operation Genoa that's essentially given away by the title of the episode. Overall, kind of a boring episode, but let's have faith this means ACN will heat up next week.
