In the episode, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) decides to give up on love and tries being a spinster, but eventually meets a man named Anders (Eion Bailey).
Meanwhile, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) finds it hard to negotiate a proper salary with his night nurse, Sherry (Adriane Lenox), as she has some sort of leverage on him.
Following her breakup with her pilot boyfriend Carol (Matt Damon), Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) announces her intention to give up on love.
To demonstrate this, she has bought a cat, calling it Emily Dickinson, and joined the senior center book club, which is reading Murder on the Orient Express.
At TGS, Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander) discovers that Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) used to be in Loverboy, so the pair form a new band of their own and write a song entitled "It's Never Too Late for Now."
It is revealed the entire evening was orchestrated by her friends, that "Canal Yards Project" is an anagram of "Tracy Jordan's Place," and Anders was a Swiss prostitute recommended by Martha Stewart.