Patty Tolan was headed up to the second floor of their ghostbusting building, hoping to figure out what's been going on with Holtzmann lately. The other two women didn't really see much of a difference in the eccentric blonde as she was still as awkward as usual and Kevin wouldn't notice anything. Patty, however, detected something was up. She didn't know why or how. Perhaps it was the fact that she was the only normal one of the bunch who wasn't thinking about scientific breakthroughs or spirits all the time. Anyway, it didn't matter. What did matter was Holtzmann's slight change in behavior and Patty was determined to figure it out.

When she got halfway up the stairs, she heard a loud crash and snapped her head, looking down to see Kevin on the floor. "Kevin!" Abby yelled. "Ugh! Are you kidding me?" Yates walked over to help him up. "I told you to stop standing on your desk. It's not gonna help you hear ghosts!" Erin helped him up as well, though she seemed more concerned with touching his muscles as she did so. Patty couldn't help but shake her head with a chuckle.

Mumbling to herself, she said, "Man, he ain't gon' last long." She continued to walk up the stairs and make her way up to Holtzy. When she reached the second floor and looked inside the inventor's room of machinery, she found the blonde testing her walnut cracker with the stale goldfish she still had in her locker. "Girl, what you doing?" Tolan asked, knowing that the Nut Cracker was tested enough and they all knew how well it worked. Holtzmann gave her one look before returning back to enjoying herself. "You missed Kevin falling off his desk again." Patty laughed. "I didn't see it, but this one sounded bad."

"Oh, good." Jillian said with a smile before crushing another goldfish cracker, causing Patty to jump.

"You, uh..." Patricia swallowed with a nervous grin. "You alright?"

Holtzmann looked to her colleague and awkwardly laughed, clapping her hands together and strangely raising both arms in the air. "Oh, yeah. I'm fine. I'm just taking evasive action." She crushed another fish shaped, cheese snack and silently celebrated with a high five to herself.

"Evasive action from what?" Patty asked. The shorter of the two kept her smile but widened her eyes at the other woman. "Yeah, that's right I know what that means." Patty boasted with a nod.

Attempting to change the subject, or at least avert the question, Jillian spoke again. "Did you see Gilbert's outfit this morning?" She squinted as if she were thinking of something significant. Small talk was never her strong suit.

"Uh...yeah." Patty responded, unaware of the reason for bringing that up.

"Where do you think she buys her clothes?" Holtzmann asked while she crushed a goldfish with a hammer, just for fun.

"I, uh, I don't know? Kinda look like a mixture of the Gap and JC Penney to me. Why?" She couldn't picture Holtzy in any of that style of clothing. Jillian didn't answer her, which brought her mind back to the 'evasive action' comment. "Holtz, what's up?" She asked nonchalantly.

"Nothing. Nothing's up." The blonde answered. "Oh, well...the sky is. Aha!" She laughed at her own (fail of a) joke and crushed one more goldfish with the hammer before setting it down. "Woo!" She bent her knees and raised her hands in the air, proud of herself for disposing of all the leftover goldfish in the funnest way possible.

"Uh..." Patty stared down at the table filled with crumbs and she tried to ignore the mess when she spoke again. "Have you eaten?" She wondered, seeing as the only food in the place was now in extremely tiny pieces all over the counter and the floor.

Ignoring the question, Jillian responded with an unrelated remark. "Kevin is single, isn't he?"

Caught off guard by that comment, Patty replied, "Well, uh...to be completely honest, I don't know. Part of my guess would be a no, by the way he's treating Erin. And the other part of my guess could possibly be a yes, by the way he looks at Abby."

"Oh, Abby?" Holtz was suddenly very interested in the conversation, unlike her attitude about it before. "Really?"

"Yeah. But that's just an observation, I'm not sure if I'm right or not. I-um, I'm not a mind reader, but to me it looks like he's got a thing for Yates." She shrugged. "I don't know. Why?"

Jillian's eyes squinted again and she bit the end of a pen she randomly picked up from her desk. "I'm just wondering."

"Uh, okay." Patty looked around the room, now feeling confused.

"He is a beautiful man, isn't he?" The blonde squinted again.

"Kevin? Oh yeah! But his lack of smarts kinda ruin it." The tall, dark woman replied with another shoulder shrug.

Jillian loved that answer and she couldn't help but grin. "It does, doesn't it?"

"I mean, I don't need a man who's a genius...but he can't be as dumb as that. And I'm not even a scientist myself."

"What do you mean?" Holtzmann asked through gritted teeth.

"I mean, if someone like me don't want someone like him...then I have no idea why someone like you or Erin or Abby would. Y'all are smart and he would just, he wouldn't be able to keep up. Plus, you'd probably be doing everything and I need me a man who can help out every once in a while without worrying that he's gonna end up putting the TV in the kitchen sink or something like that." Patty loved Kevin as a friend...but when he put the phone in the fish tank at the old place, his idiocy was actually beginning to scare and concern her. "That boy needs a cat scan or something! You know what I'm saying?"

"Yes, yes." Jillian's grin had grown two sizes since Patty had begun to talk and she was still chewing the end of her pen with delight while she answered. "I know exactly what you're saying." She chuckled before dropping the pen like a mic drop and backing away from it, confusing Patty again.

"Hey, Holtzmann! Patty! Get down here!" Abby yelled up the stairs.

"What do you need?" Tolan yelled back down.

"We just need you down here!" Abby couldn't think of a fake reason for them to join, so that's the best she could come up with.

Patty looked to Holtz, whose eyes had widened as if she were terrified to go downstairs. "Let's just go down and see what's goin' on." When Jillian rapidly shook her head no, Patty walked over to her and grabbed her hand, pulling her toward the door. The blonde awkwardly fought back as best as she could, but Patty's strength got the best of her.

The moment they reached the middle of the staircase, Patty understood Holtzmann's hope to not see anyone this morning. "Happy birthday to you!" Everyone, but Patricia sang.

"Oh, dear God!" Jillian exclaimed aloud. "Abby!" She grunted, trying to run back up the stairs, but Patty's grip was too tight.

Kevin, Abby, and Erin finished the song and clapped for the blonde who let out a loud moan when they pulled her down to blow the candles out in her cheap cake. "I can't believe you didn't tell me it was your birthday! Ours is so close!" Erin gushed and Jillian just stared at her with wide eyes.

"Yeah, why didn't you tell me either?" Patty asked with her hands on her hips.

The blonde tilted her head to the side as if she were annoyed with the group and she let out an audible sigh. "Hey, why does the cake say 'happy birthday, Horsemen?'" Kevin asked, leaning over the dessert and squinting.

"It doesn't." Gilbert said.

"Kevin!" Abby lightly smacked him on the stomach, forcing him to step back. "If your glasses worked properly then you would know that it says 'Holtzmann.'"

He looked at the cake once more. "Oh." He smiled, scratching his eye through the hole that was supposed to contain the lens."Thank you for clearing that up, beautiful."

"Oh." Erin giggled. "You're welcome."

"That's..." Abby stared at the two. "...that's not appropriate." She whispered the last part, but loud enough for them all to hear it and Patty shook her head at the cluelessness of both women. They were just as bad as Kevin in this department.

"Ohhhhhhh!" Jillian stretched her arms once more, hating where she stood. "Well, I blew out the cake, I heard you sing. I am now going back up to my lair." She turned to leave. "Arrivederci!" She said 'goodbye' in Italian and headed for the stairs.

"But you have to eat your cake!" Abby practically begged.

Soon, it didn't matter at all as the phone began to ring. With irritation, Jillian was the closest to the phone, so she just picked it up, not wanting to wait for Kevin to get it. "Hellllllloooooo, this is the Ghostbusters. We answer the call, such and such." The others in the room watched her nodding along to the voice on the other end with a hint of annoyance and when she hung up, she rolled her eyes. "We've got one." She lagged and pushed the button, triggering the fire siren and all the women ran to the second floor to grab their gear and slide down the pole.

While putting her jumpsuit and pack on, Patty thought about how strange it was to see Holtzmann rolling her eyes at the end of that phone call. Usually she was the most excited for a ghost hunt. Maybe it was her birthday, but Patty, the occasional party animal found that hard to believe though she'd never seen Jillian on her birthday before. 'Abby has!' She thought to herself. 'After we catch this ghost, I'ma ask her if she's always like this on her birthday.' Now, she wondered if that's what Holtz meant when she said she was taking evasive action, but right now she had a job to do and she ran over to the fireman's pole and slid down it, heading to the ghostmobile with the others.