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"Sorry, Harvey" is the 4th episode from Season 4 of the dramedy television series Entourage.

Plot

With Medellin now scheduled to appear at Cannes, E must tell Harvey Weingard he won’t sell him the film as previously promised, and plans to do it face-to-face over dinner. Ari warns against it, citing Harvey’s hot temper when double-crossed. This will be the second time E and company have killed a deal with Harvey, having previously screwed him over in a Sundance package involving Aquaman. But E denies any fear of Harvey and sticks to the plan. Meanwhile, Ari meets up with M. Night Shyamalan in a graveyard where the thriller director is filming an American Express commercial. Night gives Ari a new script and asks him to read it by the next morning, but a preplanned dinner party threatens to sideline the assignment.

Drama outlines his plan to bring Beverly Hills Mayor Nell Laurie along to Winston's, a (ficticious) club frequented by Hollywood heavyweights. He hopes to have his condo’s property line annexed into the city of Beverly Hills so he can receive its fire/rescue services located just a few hundred yards away, and more importantly get the coveted "90210" zip code, and thinks schmoozing the Mayor will seal the deal. The boys arrive at Nell’s mansion only to find him dressed down and interested in having Vince provide him with free female companionship for the night. Hoping to score at the club, Nell drives his own car.

E meets Harvey for dinner, and despite seeing Harvey’s enthusiasm for the supposed acquisition, begins to tell Harvey the bad news. But he stops short when Harvey points out an industry player sitting nearby who once stole his VP of Production and considers cracking a bottle of wine "over the cunt’s head."

After dinner, Ari’s wife berates him for rushing the event, especially his decision to have the check come before the entrée. In an effort to multitask, he asks her to pull the screenplay from his briefcase and read it to him while he drives, a suggestion she resists until he promises to buy her diamonds if the resulting movie is a hit. But the briefcase is not in the car. Confirmed by the presence of an African-American dildo in the trunk, they realize that the restaurant’s valet crew gave them the wrong black Lexus, and that Night’s top-secret screenplay is now in the open.

After Drama, Turtle, and Vince meet up with Nell at Winston’s, E calls Vincent from the restaurant to say that he’s hesitant to tell Harvey, but still not afraid of him. Harvey grabs the phone from E and talks to Vince, who drops no hint of the imminent screw over but somehow motivates E and Harvey to show up at the club to celebrate with Vince in person. Meanwhile, thanks to some matchmaking by Drama, Nell lands a bombshell from Prague named Annika.

Back at the restaurant, Ari has a colored conversation with the valet manager about methods for recovering swapped cars. He ultimately suggests that Ari use the wrong Lexus’ navigation system to find its owner’s house, thus his own car. Ari finds the house and innocently informs the woman of the house that there was a mix up at Morton’s and her husband is in the process of driving home the wrong Lexus. Confused as to why her husband was at the restaurant in the first place, she erupts with jealous rage as he pulls into the driveway. Ari leaves with his Lexus—and the screenplay—before things get ugly.

At Winston’s, the club bouncer announces that Annika is actually a pre-op transsexual who is let into the club only because she/he is a frequent guest on the Howard Stern Show and would bad-mouth the club if they banned her. Drama is convinced to tell Nell about Annika before he finds out for himself, but Nell doesn’t seem to mind the news, claiming his connection to Annika trumps her status as a biological male. He even plans to hold up his end of the annexation deal. E finally admits that he is scared of Harvey, so Vince agrees to help him, but backs out—just as E had—when Harvey again vents of his rage, this time at a waiter who supposedly screws up a drink order. In a moment of spontaneity, Drama tells Harvey—as he is being bounced in mid rant—that they will not sell him Medellin. “We're not sellin' you the movie, Sorry bro.” Harvey instantly redirects his rage, spewing "you'll never work again!" as he's hustled out the door. Drama hopes Harvey meant E, not himself.

With screenplay in hand, Ari speeds home to read it, but, as if Ari’s night wasn’t stressful enough, he gets pulled over for going 140 mph and spends the night in jail. Ari finishes the screenplay just as he walks into his office the next morning, where Night is waiting—only to discover that Night had a revelation and changed the entire third act, thus making Ari’s night of jumping through hoops worthless.

Breakfast at Drama’s condo ends with a surprise. While surfing online, Turtle learns that the online celebrity gossip site TMZ.com captured video of Mayor Laurie leaving the club via the back alley with Annika. On camera, he calmly denies hiding anything, but when Annika steps into his car, her panty-less condition combines with her miniskirt to expose her "something extra" to the camera—likely sending the Mayor’s career, and Drama’s annexation, into oblivion.

Guest cast

• M. Night Shyamalan as himself
• Stephen Tobolowsky as the Mayor of Beverly Hills

Trivia

• Joyce, Mrs. Ari's best friend, makes another appearance on the show. She previously appeared in Strange Days
• The part of Anika, shown in the episode to be a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, is played by model and actress Natasha Alam, a non-transsexual woman who was at one time married to the Shah of Iran's grandson Amir Ebrahim Pahlavi Alam.
• Harvey Weingard is based on real-life EX-Miramax Chairman Harvey Weinstein.
• Mayor Nell Laurie wears a t-shirt displaying the name and artwork of Ed Hardy, a famous tattoo and graphic artist based in California.
• Nell calls Drama the rarely heard "John Chase."
• The episode's title is a callback to the season 3A finale, Sorry, Ari.
• The amount of shaving cream on E's face fluctuates throughout his entire phone conversation with Ari at The Shave.
• Except for the nature of the equipment revealed, the "flash" shot of Annika is a nod to the rash of starlets (including Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan) "accidentally" exposing themselves throughout 2007 to a paparazzi cameras as they emerged panty-less from various limos.
• In the episode, the John "Drama" Chase character intimates that the building which houses his condominium is located in unincorporated Los Angeles County, and that the city limits of the City of Beverly Hills begins an extremely short distance away, perhaps just on the other side of the street. In reality, however, the City of Beverly Hills does not abut any unincorporated Los Angeles County territory; Beverly Hills neighbors the incorporated cities of West Hollywood and Los Angeles only. It may be that when Drama alludes to local emergency services for his area coming from "County" he is referring to his building being located in the City of West Hollywood, which contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to provide police protection, which could be geographically possible. But either way, annexation of territory by one incorporated city of either unincorporated LA County territory or another city, as Drama would like done and which seems within the realm of possibility as described in the show, is an incredibly difficult and time-consuming procedure, involving action by the state and a vote of the residents of both affected communities, and certainly could not be a unilateral action on the part of the mayor of the annexing city, as portrayed in the episode.

• Entourage (TV series) episodes