- Jerry offends Elaine's assistant. Kramer makes a contact for Cuban cigars. A box of letters from John Cheever is all that remains after Susan's father's cabin burns down.
- Susan Ross invites George to dinner to meet her parents and he's worried about what to say when the subject of the now destroyed cabin comes up. Susan's father doesn't take it very well. When a metal box containing letters from author John Cheever is retrieved, a Ross family secret is revealed. After Jerry makes a remark to Elaine about her chatty assistant, the woman quits forcing Jerry to apologize and take her out for a drink. It doesn't go well. In need of more Cuban cigars, Kramer visits their offices at the UN.—garykmcd
- George is not looking forward to telling Susan's (Heidi Swedberg) parents that her father's cabin was destroyed by fire. The fire was started by Kramer, with Cuban cigars Susan's father gave to George. Jerry suggests that the Rosses (Warren Frost & Grace Zabriskie) are likely to see the irony of the situation.
Jerry and George struggle with their sitcom pilot script. Jerry telephones Elaine and complains to her about her chatty secretary, Sandra (Lisa Malkiewicz), and Elaine asks Sandra not to talk to Jerry so much when he calls in speak to Elaine. Annoyed, Sandra quits. At Jerry's apartment, Kramer asks George for more Cuban cigars to bribe his way onto the Westchester Country Club golf course. Turns out Kramer had got the golf course round (in the previous episode), by offering a Cuban cigar to one of the patrons. Now the patron wants the same deal for another round of golf for Kramer. George has none, so Kramer leaves to find some.
That night, George has an awkward dinner with Susan and her parents. Susan eventually tells her father about the loss of the cabin, and he asks if anything was recovered.
Elaine asks Jerry to apologize to Sandra, to keep her from quitting. Jerry does so and arranges a date with Sandra that night. They return to his apartment, but Sandra storms off after they begin talking dirty and Jerry goes too far. The next day Jerry tells George that he said, "You mean the panties your mother laid out for you?", and this led to Sandra storming out. George and Jerry then doze off after failing to write any more of their script. Elaine thanks Jerry for getting Sandra back to work, but Jerry says she should relocate her quickly and is relieved that Sandra did not mention the previous night.
Kramer asks the Cuban diplomatic mission at the United Nations about buying Cuban cigars and learns that they are illegal in the United States. However, the chief diplomat (Miguel Perez) likes Kramer's jacket, and they reach an understanding. The diplomat arranges Cubans for Kramer in exchange for the jacket.
Jerry and George go to Susan's house to return her sunglasses. A doorman delivers her family a metal box from the insurance company, the only object which survived the cabin fire. Inside are letters detailing an affair between Susan's father and novelist John Cheever. Susan reads one aloud before her father enters the room and snatches the box. He describes Cheever as "the most wonderful person" he has ever known and says that he "loved him deeply-in a way that you wouldn't understand!" Jerry and George slip out the door, leaving the stunned family.
They again fail to progress with the script before they are interrupted by Elaine, who is angry with Jerry because her company charged her $429 for making phone calls to Europe from work. After Sandra was transferred, Elaine's former secretary turned her in. Jerry gladly gives Elaine the money, and as she leaves, she reveals that Sandra told her about her night with Jerry: "Maybe I should go visit my mother. She just bought me some new panties, and they're all (mock-seductively) laid out for me."
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