How I Met Your Mother

Previously:

Ted meets Victory at his friends wedding.

Robin has feelings for Ted.

Victoria gets a job in Germany.

Ted and Victoria try a long distance relationship.

Robin talks to Ted over the phone about the possible break up of Ted and Victoria, while she's working.

Robin calls Ted and invites him over (late at night).



opening credits



Ted starts with a sentence of his mother: Nothing good ever happens after 2 A.M. (the reference of the title)



It's night in NYC and 2 am. Ted answers his phone. It's Robin, she invites him over.



twenty hours earlier

Robin wakes up in the middle of her five dogs. She gets up and leaves her apartment.



Robin is referring about her job in Lily's kindergarten She tells them it's a cool job. She gets asked about her love live by the kids. The result is: no fiancé = lesbian? Barney is there too and enjoys it. He doesn't start to talk about his job, he starts with a magical show and so the kids love him.



Ted and Robin talk over the phone, while Ted is home and Robin in the TV studio.

Ted is afraid of the future of his relationship with Victoria, because she hasn't called. He makes jokes about the viewer number of Robin's station. The co-anchor sitting beside Robin (Alexis Denisof) asks her about her love life too. He offers her sex. No involvement, just sex.



When she gets home not even her dogs care for her and so Robin gets depressed and starts drinking wine. Later that night she sits home alone with her dogs so she calls Ted and invites him over.

Ted doesn't know what to say. So she invites him for some juice, because she has a new juicer. So he agrees to go over.



Ted is in the cab and starts to talk to the driver about his situation. He has a girlfriend and he doesn't want to cheat on her, but she's in Germany and now he's going to visit another girl that he has a crush on. On that the cab driver takes a draft out of his hip flask and offers Ted one too. Ted is scared and changes the cab immediately.



In the next cab he starts to talk about his problems again, but this time the driver transforms into Victoria and so he and imaginary Victoria have a conversation about their situation. Ted calls Marshall about his problem.



Marshall is in a bar with Lily and Barney. Ted asks him about the situation. Marshall tells him only that he will call back. So Marshall starts discussing this problem with Lily, avoiding any mention of the fact that Robin is into Ted, but Barney tells them that he already knows that too. So Barney starts to fight with Marshall, about who is better friends with Ted. Lily enjoys that.



Ted still talks to imaginary Victoria.

Then Marshall calls back. He tries to stop Ted from going to Robin. Remember: Nothing good ever happens after 2am. Lily takes the phone and tells Ted that Robin loves him. Ted tells Lily that he's on his way back home, but in fact he is leaving the cab just outside of Robin's house. Lily is relieved, but Barney disagrees with her. He tells her that she just said to Ted, there is a girl upstairs who is waiting to sleep with you, you better go home.



On the stairs of Robin's house imaginary Victoria sits and waits for Ted.



Upstairs Robin is happy to see Ted and about the vegetables he brought along. She asks him about the strange days in life. Ted tells her he has at least one in a week. She tells him about her rough day and that she wanted to see him, only him.



Ted tells Robin that he and Victoria broke up. He invites a story. Robin is relived and smiling. She's smiling, so that even Ted takes notice. She defends herself that this is a side effect of her job.



Back at the bar, a Korean Elvis does karaoke. Marshall is drunk and Lily wants to go home. She tells them that nothing good ever happens after 2 am. Barney disagrees, because all his "legendary" moments occurred after 2 am! The liberty bell incident and almost four-way and some other things! To convince Lily, Barney invites Korean Elvis to a drink.



Back at Robin's place Ted shows Robin, that he has now the same mobile phone like she has (Motorola V3plus). His phone rings. He goes outside to answer. It's Korean Elvis, but then Marshall talks to him. Ted tells them that he is at Robin's! He also tells them about the lie about Victoria. Marshall gets angry. Lily talks to Ted. She tells him that he can't get happy with Robin; because he still has a girlfriend and so the relationship to Robin would be based on a lie. All agree that Lily is right.



Ted goes back in to Robin's apartment. He plans to leave. When he's on the door step they start kissing, after they hug. They start to make out on the couch. Before they go into her bedroom, Ted goes into the bathroom - to call Victoria. First he talks to imaginary Victoria again. Imaginary Victoria tells him that he hasn't enough time to do so. She also tells him that he can't do that: call one girlfriend out of the next girlfriend's bathroom.



Back at the bar, Barney is still trying to convince Marshall and Lily of the good sides of the late night. Marshall and Lily plan to go home. Then Korean Elvis tells something into Lily's ear so she kicks him between the legs. Now the night is legendary and Barney was right!



Back in Robin's bathroom Ted is convinced that he can't break up now, but he wants to sleep with Robin. Then Ted realizes that he has Robin's phone instead of his own. In the living room Robin is on the phone, Ted's phone. It was Victoria! Robin kicks Ted out.



On his way home Ted really breaks up with Victoria.