The story about the secret service agent being reassigned for smiling has broken and Amy is taking the heat. Jonah calls up Dan and tells him that he shouldn't be excited about the prospect of taking her job because as the new guy, he might take the fall for it. The Veep demands that her staff find out who leaked the story about the secret service and when they step out, Gary gives them some news - the Veep suffered a miscarriage. Jonah shows them a new viral video mocking the Veep and Selina decides to go on the offensive. Mike is sent to talk to the agent in question and in response to a request to publish the secret service records, Amy suggests releasing "all" of their records. Selina agrees and they plan a partial disclosure masquerading as a full disclosure. When everyone else leaves, Selina holds Dan back and asks him if her office's attempt to get Clean Jobs attached as an amendment to the Fiscal Responsibility bill will leak. Dan assures her that is will not.
The next day, the correspondence is given to the press and Mike visits the secret service agent, Martin Collins (William L. Thomas). Back at the office, Mike tells the Veep that the press are linking Ted's overnight visits to the pregnancy rumours. Turning on the news, they find it covered with a story about a senior member of the Veep's staff "threatening" agent Collins. Selina summons Dan, Amy and Mike into her office and tells them that one of them will be fired. Dan tries to blame the other two but Selina tells him that "a suck-up won't fix a fuck-up".
Selina meets Ted (Andy Buckley) at the only place they can do it discreetly - Gary's house. Ted steps outside to take a call and Selina asks Gary to break up with him for her before he has a chance to dump her. The Veep gets back to the office and Dan, Amy and Mike try and sweet-talk Gary into telling them who's getting fired but he's not talking. Dan proposes to Amy that the two of them form a "suicide pact" - if the Veep tries to fire one of them, the other threatens to resign. Mike tries to muscle in on their pact and then tells Dan that he found an email from him to Senator McAuley's chief of staff connecting him to the Clean Jobs amendment. Dan lets Mike in on the pact and the Veep summons the three of them into her office.
While Gary and Sue compete over who the Veep is closer to and trusts more, she tells him that the pregnancy story was leaked when a pharmacist Gary bought pregnancy tests from saw his security pass. Amy explains the suicide pact, Selina mocks it and Gary tries to resign, which she dismisses out of hand as he's the only competent one of the bunch. Amy is held behind as the others leave and Selina asks her what they're going to do. Amy proposes saying that she was pregnant and reassigned the secret service agent because she was hormonal. That evening, Amy meets a reporter and explains the story. Dan pops his head in and the reporter asks if he's the father. Oh no, Amy replies. He can't.
Episode five is beginning to look like the high water mark for Veep. Once again, it wasn't bad but it wasn't especially good either. There were a couple of good lines but it really needs more than that. It has apparently already been renewed for a second series and I hope that they get the formula right next year because it looks like this series will end not with a bang but a whimper.
6 out of 10.
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