Ryan sheepishly admits to Jim that he'd asked Karen out, via e-mail, in the past. Later, while Kevin, Jim, Ryan, and Toby hang out in the women's room, Creed enters, and it is revealed that he uses the women's room to "go number two" (but has been caught and has had to pay for it). He discovers a plush waiting room inside. Meanwhile, with the women out of the office, Kevin decides it is time to fulfill his fantasy of entering a women's bathroom. Karen buys some sexy lingerie for her and Jim's six-month anniversary (which a depressed Pam sees as she buys a fuzzy bathrobe, which she plans to cut up into towels). To thank them for their advice, Michael treats the women to one item each at Victoria's Secret. Pam is visibly pleased that her intuition won out over Karen's. Finally, Michael flatly states that he's not happy around Jan, and the women convince him that this particular "con" outweighs all of the "pros." Pam insists that his relationship with Jan is unhealthy an open rivalry between Karen and Pam begins to brew. Karen tries to give Michael reasons to stay and work things out with Jan. During the exercise he slowly reveals, with noticeable unease and shame, that Jan is sexually controlling in ways that humiliate him.
The women encourage him to weigh the pros and cons of his relationship.
( Angela abruptly leaves, mostly out of moral outrage, but also to special order clothes for her embarrassingly undersized frame.) Over lunch at the food court, Michael eventually starts "dishing" about his romance with Jan, after his attempt to prod them into gossiping yields awkward silence. Michael's group outing to the mall comes as he is beginning to openly doubt his relationship with Jan, having received an aggressive "booty call" from her earlier that day (which her assistant Hunter dutifully agreed to put on her schedule). Later Andy says he would like to take some of the fliers and post them near where he lives (close to a school). An oblivious Dwight and a vengeful Andy dutifully set about posting fliers with the "predator's" face. However, Phyllis says that she didn't get a good look his face, so Pam draws a picture of Dwight - but, with a mustache and without glasses. Although they consider the offer extremely condescending, they ultimately decide that they'd rather go shopping than stay at the office.ĭwight takes charge of the effort to find the flasher, and orders Pam to make a sketch of "the pervert". Panicked, he tries to make it up to the women by offering to take them to the place that they, as women, would feel the most comfortable: the mall. Oblivious, as usual, to his own biases, Michael makes several sexist verbal gaffes. Next, he forces everyone into an impromptu seminar on the everyday prejudices that women face - after deeming himself the most qualified to teach it. After realizing that his jokes were horrible miscalculations, Michael overcompensates by verbally blasting the other men with self-righteous, fake-feminist indignance (to appear empathetic with the women). When that upsets the employees further, Michael sticks his finger outward through his fly and jokingly pretends that the flasher is back. Michael tries to downplay the event with humor, questioning in particular why anyone would want to flash Phyllis. Outrage breaks out in the office after Phyllis gets an unexpected eyeful from a male flasher in the parking lot.
Jim then asks Dwight vaguely to have a copy on his desk by the end of the day or he will give Dwight a "disadulation" telling Dwight "you don't want to know" and walking away from a horrified Dwight. Jim asks Dwight to explain and Dwight explains how the demerits will pile up into a citation, which pile up into a violation, then a verbal warning and so on until a disciplinary review is placed on the desk of Dwight's immediate superior, which is in fact Jim himself. Dwight hands Jim a demerit for being late.