Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) tells Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) that he wants to come clean with Karen about his sordid past.
Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (Debra Messing) are having trouble deciding what project they want to do next.
At Bombshell's premiere before the show starts, Jimmy tells Karen about his past, that he was abused as a kid.
After his mom died, his brother Adam got him on the streets selling and using drugs and that he wasn't a good person.
Afterwards, Ivy finds out that Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) asked Karen out a few weeks ago and she turned him down.
Her publicist Agnes (Daphne Rubin-Vega) thinks their publicity campaign should be cautious given the Times review, but Eileen decides to double down on the promo budget and says they'll go for Tony nominations to increase excitement for the show.
Derek runs into Daisy Parker (Mara Davi), who previously sued him for sexual harassment.
Songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (who also write songs for and are executive producers of Smash) played themselves, also in attendance to see Bombshell.
There were two songs featured in the episode, one original (a reprise) and one cover ("That's Life", mostly popularized by Frank Sinatra).
The show's in-house songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman wrote the reprised "Don't Forget Me" (sung by Megan Hilty).