Meet Jonathan Ames. Moonlighting from his job as a novelist and writer, Jonathan is looking to jettison some heavy emotional baggage through an unusual second career of cracking cases of missing persons, espionage and infidelity in the Big Apple.
EPISODE 1
Stockholm Syndrome
Numbed after his girlfriend moves out because of his repeated failure to stop drinking and smoking pot, between-books novelist Jonathan Ames peruses his favourite Raymond Chandler novel and is inspired to place an online ad offering his unlicensed services as a PI.
EPISODE 2
The Alanon Case
During an unsuccessful attempt to win back Suzanne, Jonathan gets a phone call and a new case: a woman named Jennifer wants him to tail her boyfriend to see if he's been unfaithful. Jonathan heads out in search of her boyfriend - with uncomfortable results.
EPISODE 3
The Case Of The Missing Screenplay
A filmmaker and fan of Jonathan's first book is interested in having him rewrite a screenplay. Later, after leaving his personalised script in a therapist's office during an ill-advised late-night tryst, Jonathan asks Ray to pose as a patient in order to retrieve it.
EPISODE 4
The Case Of The Stolen Skateboard
Jonathan falls for his latest client, the mother of a boy whose skateboard was stolen by neighbourhood bully. Meanwhile, Ray agrees to help a lesbian couple start a new family, and George has a nostalgic "armpit crush" on a young publicist he hopes to woo.
EPISODE 5
The Case Of The Lonely White Dove
A Russian parolee hires Jonathan to track down a chanteuse known as "the Lonely White Dove". After a vodka-fuelled reconnaissance at the restaurant where she works, Jonathan persuades Suzanne, Ray and Leah to join him there for dinner, failing to reveal his true purpose
EPISODE 6
The Case Of The Beautiful Blackmailer
Jonathan is enlisted to retrieve a sex tape that a female escort is using to extort money from a married New Jersey man. With Ray and George in tow, Jonathan ends up in a motel room with the escort, who attempts to blackmail him as well.
Jason Schwartzman
Ted Danson
Zach Galifianakis
Kristen Wiig
Jonathan Ames
Sarah Condon
Stephanie Davis
Dave Becky
Troy Miller
Alan Taylor
