The director wants to make a tragedy, but it's a comedy studio. The writer doesn't have a script, so he may yet get to direct a tragedy. Sheldon, the producer, tosses a "gizmo" out the window--a horizontal tube on a wooden base topped with two artificial hands--and it inspires the writer to write a script about it as a wacky invention, although one of the actors believes it's a missing modern art piece by Fernando Fiasco.