However, Lily urges him to keep his interview with the corporate, polluter-defending law firm Nicholson, Hewitt, & West.
Marshall is surprised at how young and understanding his interviewer Jefferson Coatsworth (John Cho) is, and agrees to go to dinner with him.
While Marshall enjoys his fancy dinner and meets one of NH&W's clients, Patrick Swayze, Robin discovers why Lily wants Marshall to take the high-paying corporate job: Lily has dozens of credit cards and has racked up so much debt from impulse shopping.
Although Marshall agrees to take the job, he has moral conflicts about it the next day, and Lily, unwilling to see him suffer from his selling out, eventually urges him to reject NH&W and work at the NRDC, while vowing to Robin to find a way to pay off her debt on her own.
Barney has discovered a pornographic movie titled Welcome to the Sex Plane featuring a porn star named "Ted Mosby" (Kevin Heffernan).