Michael orders a lockdown to hide from the I.T. guy
A sunny Friday turns into Michael killing the lights and hushing the office, all to avoid the tech he got off on the wrong foot with.
S2E9 · Email Surveillance
12 moments · 19 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Password 1234, Dwight's doom list, and Stanley's e-mail
Michael gets e-mail surveillance set up, Dwight lists ways Michael might die so he can take over, and a search on Michael finds Stanley's verdict.
Oscar calls out the spying; Michael goes full robot
Oscar confronts Michael about reading their e-mails, Michael deflects with a robot routine, then defends loving his Big Brother.
Jim and Pam start to suspect Dwight and Angela
Dwight warns Angela to delete her sensitive e-mails, Jim and Pam put it together with disgust, and Jim probes Dwight with a 'friend' question.
Michael finds out he's not invited to Jim's barbecue
Reading Meredith's e-vite, Michael finds every name but his, then tries to be 'approachabler' at lunch with a Cup of Noodles and party tales.
Jim's party plan, and Dwight decides it's a surprise for Michael
Jim explains why Michael isn't invited; Dwight assumes the secret party is a surprise for Michael, and Jim asks Pam if Roy is coming.
Michael fishes for weekend plans and gets the improv-class excuse out
Michael's hang-out offer is turned down, so he claims improv class, then quizzes everyone on their evenings; Dwight invents soccer practice.
Jim's party: Dwight meets the roommate and Jim gives a house tour
Jim hosts, Dwight is baffled by Mark and shows off his special-occasion Birkenstocks, and Jim leads a mock-formal tour of the house.
Michael's improv class: every scene starts with a gun
Michael barges into a scene as an FBI man, explains why guns can't be topped, and shoots everyone until the teacher takes away his imaginary guns.
Pam explores Jim's bedroom and finds his yearbook
Pam slips off the tour into Jim's room, recreates their desk setup at his home office, and laughs at his yearbook photo.
Pam's Dwight-and-Angela probe backfires with Phyllis
Angela sulks, paper talk is banned, and Pam's question to Phyllis about secret romances turns back on her and Jim; she drops her side project.
Michael crashes the party and takes the karaoke mic
Dwight's surprise lands as Michael shows up uninvited, grabs the karaoke for a duet with Kelly, then tells how he got into improv.
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