Spoilers up to and including "The Deposition."
The Game
Cold Open
EXT. SCRANTON BUSINESS PARK
(Shot of Chrysler Sebring pulling into nearly empty lot.)
(Michael is dressed for work. He looks around, checks his watch. He heads towards the entrance.)
(Michael enters the office to see the lights on but no one around.)
MICHAEL: Hello? Any-body home? Wakey, wakey.
(No one answers. He tilts his head in confusion, then walks back to the hallway, and re-enters the office.)
MICHAEL: Honey, I'm home!
(No answer.)
MICHAEL: Christof?
CUT TO INDIVIDUAL SHOT OF MICHAEL
MICHAEL: Sometimes, I imagine that I'm inside of a television show, or, a movie set. Except I don't know it, everyone else around me is in on it. It would explain a lot of things, like that time I ran a guy over on the freeway and I never heard another thing about it. Why didn't I get caught? Maybe, that was an actor. And this morning, I came in to the office, and no one was here.
(Office workers come in, hang up their coats while a delighted Michael watches. He tries to pull up Jim's moppy hair as if it were a wig.)
MICHAEL (V.O.): An hour later they all waltzed in, pretending they were on time. (Giggles) Who knows, maybe all of this is just an illusion. There's some guy in a tower directing my life. The life of Michael Scott, regional manager. (Excited) George Clooney, I'm played by George Clooney. He's a good-looking guy. Attractive.
(Dwight enters and starts changing the times on all the clocks.)
MICHAEL: What, what the hell are you doing to my clocks? Stop it. Stop, it.
DWIGHT: Michael, it's my duty as official office time keeper to make sure all the clocks are turned back one hour.
MICHAEL: Okay, that's absurd. Why would you do that?
DWIGHT: Daylight saving is over. It's time to fall back, (looking into camera) or as my ancestors called it "die Sommerzeit ist kaput."
CLOSE UP SHOT OF MICHAEL
MICHAEL: Wh-, that was today?
CUT TO INTRO WITH CREDITS