College Dean Craig Pelton (Jim Rash) is forced to hire administrative consultant Francesca "Frankie" Dart (Paget Brewster) to help organize and insure Greendale.
Despite wanting to work together with Dart and being the only member of the Committee to have befriended her and put his trust in her, Abed is eventually won over by his friends, spending much of his time at the speakeasy.
Dart, who has figured out what is going on, resigns from her position as Greendale's administrative consultant after expressing her opinion that the Committee has a negative influence on Abed.
Elsewhere, former Save Greendale Committee member Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), who had left Greendale to watch after her ailing father and ended up becoming the personal chef to a troubled detective, saves her new employer (Steven Weber) from an attempted suicide and vows to help him solve the case that left him paralyzed and led to the loss of his wife.
The episode's end tag is a closing scene for a fictional police procedural drama entitled The Butcher and the Baker, which follows the exploits of Shirley and her employer as crime-solving partners.
The opening sequence flashback featuring Leonard (Richard Erdman) referenced the intro in Dazed and Confused with the song "Sweet Emotion" by the band, Aerosmith.
The episode also parodied the overuse of uplifting montages in pop culture, a film-making device that Abed said was "a movie apologizing for reality".
[6] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix called the episode "so busy dealing with exposition and meta-commentary about departed actors and changed situations [...] that it doesn't have a ton of room for big laughs, even as it wisely only tries to introduce Paget Brewster's Frankie into the ensemble, saving Keith David's Elroy for 'Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care'".