The Search (The Office)
| "The Search" | |
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| The Office episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Michael Spiller |
| Written by | Brent Forrester |
| Production code | 715 |
| Original air date | February 3, 2011 |
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"The Search" is the fifteenth episode of seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's 141st episode overall. Written by Brent Forrester and directed by Michael Spiller, the episode aired February 3, 2011 on NBC.
In the episode, Michael gets left behind at a gas station when Jim leaves him to attend to CeCe and starts wandering around Scranton, leaving Dwight, Erin, and Holly to look for him. Meanwhile, Pam starts a caption contest in the office, with Gabe instituting rules that no one wants to follow.
Michael Scott (Steve Carell) continues to try to ask Holly Flax (Amy Ryan) to get back together with him, but she continually refuses. Since she dated Michael when she worked in Scranton before and A. J. when she moved to Nashua, she feels like she does not want to fall into her pattern of dating co-workers again. Michael and Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) then go out on a sales call. After landing the sale, an irritable Michael needs to stop to use the bathroom. While at a gas station, Jim gets a call from Pam Halpert's (Jenna Fischer) mother Helene (Linda Purl), who was taking a feverish CeCe to see the doctor when she accidentally locked the child in the car. Panicked, Jim attempts in vain to tell Michael through the door of the bathroom, then tells another gas station customer to tell Michael what happened and drives off, but the customer leaves after only waiting for a few seconds. Michael is left with no way of contacting the office, as his cell phone and wallet are with Jim and he does not remember the office's number, so he ends up wandering around Scranton and making stops at a pet store and a hot dog stand.
Jim, now with CeCe, calls Pam and tells her Michael is at the gas station, so Holly and Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper) plan to head out. Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) says he will lead the expedition. Finding Michael has left the gas station, Dwight and Erin are rude to Holly, but when Dwight suggests that Michael walked back towards the office, Holly correctly guesses that he went in the direction of the bakery next door "just for the smell of it". After stopping at a grocery store to get some things for Pam, Dwight and Erin notice Holly changing cell phone services at a kiosk outside the store. They and the kiosk attendant are annoyed to discover that Holly used a joke name to complete the forms in order to get a rubber stress ball, but when the attendant mentions that someone else had done the exact thing earlier, Dwight and Erin recognize a fake name that is used by Michael. Believing that Holly can subconsciously determine where Michael has been, they follow her to a Chinese restaurant, where they find his picture on the wall along with others who have dined there without paying (Creed Bratton (Creed Bratton) also being among them).
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