The Deposition (The Office episode)

"The Deposition"
Michael is asked a difficult question.
Episode No.	59
Prod. Code	4012
Airdate	November 15, 2007
Writer(s)	Lester Lewis
Director	Julian Farino
The Office Season 4 September 2007 - May 2008
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"The Deposition" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of The Office (U.S. version). It was written by Lester Lewis and directed by Julian Farino. It originally aired on November 15, 2007. It was the last episode to air before the show went on indefinite hiatus due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.^[1]

Synopsis

When Jan sues Dunder Mifflin for wrongful termination, Michael finds himself forced to be a witness against his employer. The deposition goes well for Jan at first, but the tide turns when Michael is humiliated when Jan introduces his diary as evidence and when he learns that Jan gave him a scathing performance review even after they had begun dating officially. Michael also learns he was never a contender for Jan's old Corporate job, but he defends the company anyway, and leaves the process clearly angry at Jan. Meanwhile, Jim constantly loses to Darryl at ping pong, prompting Kelly to gloat to Pam over her superior boyfriend. Unable to tolerate Kelly’s insults, Pam builds a makeshift ping pong table in the conference room for Jim to practice against other office employees. Dwight proves a superior adversary. During their rematch, Jim again loses to Darryl. Fed up with Kelly's continued taunting, Pam challenges her in a game of ping pong, but the two are pathetically incompetent players. Jim and Darryl, embarrassed, decide to play ping pong in the conference room. The episode concludes with Dwight playing a high-intensity game of ping pong against his cousin Mose.

Notes

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• The deposition is taken in the Robert Mifflin Memorial Conference Room, named in honor of a co-founder of Dunder Mifflin who took his own life ("Initiation").
• Michael's framed "love contract" was previously seen in a deleted scene from "Cocktails."
• Dwight claims that all of his heroes are table tennis stars. He mentions Zoran Primorac, Jan-Ove Waldner, Wang Hao, Andrzej Grubba, and 3 others.
• Dwight plays ping-pong with Mose in the warehouse, marking the first time Mose has been seen outside of Schrute Farms.
• This marks the first episode in which Andy is seen, but has no dialogue (although he does have a talking head interview in a deleted scene).
• This is the first time Jan tells Michael she loves him back. Prior to this Michael would profess his love and be met with awkwardness.

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