When Brody gets his first paycheck from working on the ground floor, he gets the shock of his life. In an effort to downsize, he gives up his apartment and crashes with Jenny. But when crashing starts to feel a lot like living together, Jenny freaks out. Normally, Brody would turn to Mansfield for advice, but his boss has made it clear that this time Brody is on his own. Harvard and Derrick bet they know how to stretch their modest ground floor pay further than Brody.

When a rival, Jasper McCabe (recurring guest star Brent Morin – Undateable), starts poaching Mansfield's top guys, Brody thinks Mansfield will finally give him his job back, but when Mansfield makes it clear that things can never be what they were, Brody has to make a big change. At Derrick's urging, Jenny has to "break up" with Harvard - even though they have never dated! - so he will finally move on and pursue other women… like the clearly interested Lindsay. Meanwhile, Threepeat has a hard time accepting the fact that Mansfield's rival has tried to poach everyone but him.

Brody is excited for the first day of his new job with his new boss, Jasper McCabe (recurring guest star Brent Morin). That is, he is excited until he gets his first assignment: Take down Mansfield. Brody now has to go up against the man he has admired for years, and possibly drive his hero out of business. Meanwhile, Lindsay helps Threepeat fill the Brody-shaped hole in Mansfield's life. Downstairs, Jenny and Derrick help a "newly single" Harvard get back out there and introduce him to the world of online dating.

Brody is back upstairs in his natural habitat, and it's just in time for Mansfield's annual basketball tournament! He and Threepeat are excited, but when Jenny, who always regretted losing her college basketball scholarship, decides that she has something to prove, she signs the ground floor up to play too. Now the tournament is upstairs vs. downstairs and boyfriend vs. girlfriend. Meanwhile, Derrick tricks Harvard and Lindsay into going on their first date and Harvard learns that dating is harder than he remembers.