With Liza Minnelli in town, Tom plans a surprise for Ivy in an attempt to find a balance between their work life and their friendship.
Relations between Karen, Jimmy, and Derek explode just as Hit List's rehearsal process nears its close.
Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) is still mad at Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) for bringing her mother on board and clashes with him during Bombshell technical rehearsals.
Ivy is invited out by best friend Sam Strickland (Leslie Odom, Jr.) and the Bombshell cast for her birthday, but keeps it from Tom.
Julia is still helping Scott Nichols (Jesse L. Martin) with Hit List, particularly in how to enlarge The Diva's part.
They meet with Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus), one half of the Hit List team and Julia gets him to storyboard the musical and helps him figure out how to improve The Diva role.
They decide to make The Diva (being played by Ana) a bigger presence in the musical, especially in the second half, which will come at the expense of Karen's part.
Richard Francis (Jamey Sheridan) and Eileen go out to dinner (the same place where Tom and Ivy meet up with Liza) and he's a little upset that she did some work with the paparazzi when it was supposed to be just the two of them.