Lloyd will apparently stoop even to blackmail, by saying goodbye to Mrs. Ari and the kids, to get Ari to listen to him.

Ari tells him to sit on the porch of his house at 10PM that night. At 1:30 AM, Ari comes out and gives Lloyd his test: the next 100 days. Ari will determine after 100 days of Lloyd doing what he says if Lloyd is ready to be a full-time agent. Lloyd’s first assignment is to lose 15 pounds, although Ari says that’s more for Tom, his boyfriend. What Ari demands will be far worse.

Entourage Episodes - Fire Sale - S5 E4

Revealing mistakes: In the opening credit sequence, the shot with Adrian Grenier’s name has been flopped. His name appears normal while the lettering of the other signs is backwards.

It is appropriate that HBO warns us that there will be "Mild Violence" in tonight’s episode, as it marks the return of Seth Green and the thing that came between him and Eric: Sloan McEwick. Seth is re-entering his life because the studio wants to green-light Charlie’s script. Eric, Amy Miller, the studio rep, and Charlie have a three-way call (while Charlie has a two-way with a very hot woman) to discuss matters. Despite E’s past with Seth Green, he assures the two of him he can be professional about the proposal and Seth Green can be a part of the cast. Of course, nobody actually knows this past, as Seth plays innocent and tells Amy that Eric should call him. The boys are extremely unhappy about this. Turtle and Johnny can’t believe that Eric has to kiss Seth Green’s posterior, and now Vince’s few remaining decent lines in the movie have been cut out. Vince has already told them not to get up in arms about it, since he wants to make things right on the set.

At home, Ari is lamenting what little power he actually has over women. Doing this is front of his daughter, Sarah, clearly is not the way to solve these issues. To be fair, Sarah does point out that Ari has to be nice to women in order to get what he wants. Some of that diplomacy would be good for Eric, who attempts to call Seth Green. Seth is not above humiliating E over the phone at a pool party. After a few unplesant moments (most of which can’t be written here), Seth will agree to the pilot if he can meet with Eric face-to-face in Los Angeles. Eric doesn’t want to leave Vince up in Big Bear without some professional backup, but Vince tells him it is OK if he goes.

Verner Vollstedt greets Vince, but Vince is all business. Verner wants to brush off Vince’s troubles, but Vince demands to know why his lines have been taken away 2 days in a row. Verner tries to pawn it off as Vince being greedy, but he finally relents and says that they’ll shoot the scene as written. They’ll also shoot it "the other way" so they have that, too. In today’s scene, Vince is having a discussion with the other firefighters in a helicopter. He’s in the middle of his speech when Verner cuts the scene halfway through.

"Now let’s do the shorter verison. I saw enough. Vincent, I gave it a try."

Vincent convinces Verner to do it again. They re-run the scene, but Verner walks away. Clearly, the re-take won’t be taken anywhere.

At MGA, Ari meets with Barbara Miller. Ari is trying full-nice mode, despite Barbara’s brusque attitude towards meeting with Andrew Klein, even after getting flowers and an apology from Ari. However, Ari’s begging (right down to the "please") convinces her to meet with Andrew. Now it’s time for Lloyd to have brilliant idea #2 for the day. (#1 was the flowers) Ari and Lloyd are going to take Andrew for an "extreme makeover" (which would have worked better had Lloyd not mentioned the ABC show) and impress the hell out of Barbara Miller.

E makes it to the Village Pizzeria. To nobody’s surprise, Seth is not there. He calls Seth, who is now on the beach. E is not going to be suckered into this, but Seth is interested in another sucker-punch: the one he thinks Eric gave him 2 years ago in Las Vegas. He even suggests that Eric ask Sloan to call him and convince him to be in the pilot. E does exactly that. He heads to Sloan’s house, and she greets him at the door. Eric dances around his purpose for being there, not wanting to talk in front of her boyfriend. However, it turns out that Sloan and her boyfriend had broken up 2 months earlier. Finally, Eric gets down to business and tells Sloan that he has a new pilot he’s trying to get green-lit. The studio wants Seth Green, and he’ll only be in it if Sloan calls him. Sloan can’t believe that’s what Seth wants. Eric agrees it’s probably some sort of joke, but "it’s all I got." Sloan isn’t happy that E isn’t convinced that she and Seth never slept together, but E decides not to continue to drag her into this potential mess. He heads out to leave, but it seems to be a slow, rather interesting departure.

"Maybe I’ll call."—Eric "Maybe I’ll answer."—Sloan

Back on the set, Turtle and Drama didn’t get to watch Vince’s scene, either. Of course, walking away from the set wasn’t their decision, as Verner had them kicked off the production area. Verner approaches Vince and states that Vincent is clearly not happy with him. As they walk together, Verner tells Vince his problem: Vince needs to trust what the director is doing. He has to stop getting caught up in losing his lines and look at the bigger picture.

"Filmmaking is a collaboration, but not a democracy. You’re on this film for maybe 8 weeks, then you fly off to something. I work on this film for two years. This has to be MY film, MY decisions. If you trust me, I’ll get from you the performance that enhances my film the most, which will enhance you’re role the most. But you have to trust me and not work against me."

Given this perspective on the film, Vince agrees to do what Verner wants on the set. Verner also asks Vince to sit with him viewing some "dailies" on the film so that he can see what the director sees.

Back at MGA, Andrew Klein looks like he belongs in Beverly Hills. Ari is pumping him up with confidence. This is great until they hit the door of the conference room to meet Barbara. The "open mind" Barbara promised to bring to the meeting must be having a late lunch because she refers to Andrew’s "working staff writers" as the minor leagues. She’s throws a hard curve at him by asking him how he’d pitch someone like Julia Roberts to join their agency. Ari tries to lighten the air, but Andrew needs a moment away. Barbara confronts Ari and says she hasn’t seen this big of a loser since her second husband. Ari is ready to explode, but Andrew is having a panic attack over the whole interview. Ari is hell-bent to fix this, but Barbara has already gone to her scheduled luncheon. Ari decides to follow. He invades Barbara’s Powerful Women in Hollywood luncheon to say that she’s a powerful woman because she found a powerful man to partner up with. Barbara tries to stop Ari from making an ass of himself, but he’s not stopping for anything. He is interesting in finding out how well Babs will do if that "powerful man" suddenly goes away. Barbara is furious, but Ari is willing to go to civil war with her over what Ari perceives as her lack of respect for him. She finally relents, but guarantees that he’ll go down with Andrew if it happens that way. She also demands an apology, which Ari gives as thus…

"Ladies, I’m sorry, I’d like to congratulate each and every one of you, but unfortunately, Barbara’s c*ck is all that I can handle right now."

As Eric heads back to the set, Charlie is none too thrilled that Eric can’t resolve his issues with Seth Green. Charlie would very much like to getting away from folding sweaters at The Gap and do this pilot with Seth. Thankfully, Amy Miller picks this opportunity to call and say a meeting is all set with them and Seth for later that day. Eric grudgingly delays his return to Big Bear while Charlie celebrates.

Meanwhile, Vince and Verner are looking at some clips from the film. Verner points out a head tilt that Vince is doing, making it look like "he is a dog trying to understand what his master is saying." Vince can’t see it, but it seems Verner is not a fan of the George Clooney head tilt school of acting that many young actors in Hollywood seem to have picked up. He also points out a "lip quiver" that Vince has while pausing during his lines. These are two things Vince has to correct for tomorrow’s big scene. "It could be an Oscar scene, Vincent. But you have to follow me."

In the lobby at Amy Miller’s, the tension is quite thick. Eric is playing it cool, but when Charlie wants to know how E and Seth know each other, Seth happily chimes in that they dated the same woman. As Eric doesn’t take the bait, Seth ups the ante by saying that Sloan called him and went over there. E says to back off, and Seth brings up the sucker-punch Eric supposedly gave him.

"Does it look like I need to sucker-punch this kid? I’ll take him out to the parking lot right now and throw him a beating. But that’s what he wants, so I’m not gonna let him get to me."

"Oh, I’ve gotten to you, Eric. And your impossibly hot girlfriend multiple times. Now your show is next."

This throws up a red flag for Charlie. Seth says he won’t do the show unless Charlie fires Eric. Charlie backs E to the hilt, so Seth decides that he’ll tell Amy he’ll only do the show…with his close, personal friend, Nick Cannon. The punches finally fly, but it’s Eric playing peacemaker this time as he has to get Charlie off of Seth. Unfortunately, all of it happens in front of Amy, so the show is still looking for its premiere.

Returning to Big Bear, Turtle and Drama have told E that the day has been weird. The fact that Vince is balancing a can on his head, is insanely optimistic about the next day, and goes to bed early lends credence to the weirdness.