6

"Food here?" Penny poked her head into the apartment.

"Amazing…" Sheldon looked up. "You know, if lost skiers smelled like Chinese food, I would bet you could find them in an avalanche."

"Bite me." Penny took her seat with the gang as Leonard gave her an egg roll.

"So, Penny…" Bernadette sat on the end of the sofa with Howard. "Any news on the part?"

"No…" She sighed a bit. "It's been five days… and they'll be shooting next week. I don't think I got it."

"You could still hear something, right?" Howard asked.

"No, I don't think so." Penny added more sweet and sour to her rice. "They wouldn't have me wait this long with the schedule they got." She paused to take a bite of her egg roll. "You know… I'm starting to think I should go back to Nebraska and work in my uncle's movie theater."

"What?!" Leonard reacted abruptly than lose her. "No! I mean… you don't want to do that…." He lowered his voice to sound more supportive. Everyone but Penny knew what he wanted. "Look…" He gazed back at Penny. "Your work as an extra is just taking off. You can't leave now. So you don't get this movie, you'll get the next." He and Penny shared a hopeful smile and a comforting kiss.

"And maybe after that performance you can get Leonard a part." Sheldon stoically commented. Raj had reacted to a sound in the hall and turned to whisper to Howard. His selective mutism kept him from talking before Penny or Bernadette, and it was worse around both of them.

"Penny, someone's at your apartment." Sheldon said it before Howard.

"I got it." She left her sweet and sour chicken with Leonard and headed around Raj to check it out. Opening the door to the guy's apartment, she noticed Jason at her apartment. He turned around upon glancing over and noticing her.

"Penny…" He looked as if he was just getting in. "This is for you." He handed her a large envelope.

"What is it?"

"It's the script I'm working on." He confessed. "I told Morty and Moses you were in my building, and that I'd drop it off; they want you back for a screen test."

Leonard and Howard heard Penny suddenly scream and wondered what was up. Raj leapt to his feet behind Bernadette, and Sheldon sighed at having his dinner interrupted. Wondering if Penny was being attacked, Leonard raced to the door and saw Penny grabbing and kissing Jason. Bernadette was shocked.

"What the hell?!" Leonard reacted jealously. It had just been a reflex action of gratitude. The script clutched to her chest, Penny started jumping up and down excitedly out of control.

"I got the job! I got the job!" She felt like a little kid.

"You got a call back!" Jason looked at her. "There's a big difference!"

"Leonard… oh…" Penny was grinning so hard her face was about to burst. "This is Jason; Jason, the guys… This is your script?"

"Yeah…" Jason started to head up then paused. "Oh, just so you know… that's just the main body of the movie. Moe doesn't want anyone knowing who the killer is going to be until just before shooting those scenes."

"So…" Sheldon faced Jason. "You're the new tenant?" He eyed Jason up and down very haughty. Jason looked back at him distantly unconcerned.

"Yeah…" He mumbled. "And you must be the whack job Leonard warned me about."

Sheldon looked back to Leonard.

"We met over laundry!" Leonard answered. "What do you think we talked about?"

"I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!" He noticed Jason looking him up and down very curiously.

"You know…" Jason stared Sheldon down. "If you were a character on a TV show, I don't think anyone would believe it."