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Sasha breaks up with Ben a few weeks later. While she had told Ben that she was single, she was actually on a break with her girlfriend, who has since returned from research abroad. At work, Ben announces that the movie theater is closing due to declining ticket sales and seismic issues. Ben attempts to call Miko but receives no response, and also fails to make progress on a [[screenplay]] that he is working on. Alice invites Ben to New York, since he has hit “rock bottom.”
In New York, Ben stays with Alice, who to his surprise is now in a serious relationship with Meredith, a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] professor. When Ben tries to surprise Miko at her internship, he learns from the actual intern that Miko has never worked there.
Upset that Miko is dating a white man, Ben rants to Meredith and Alice and assumes that Leon is an [[Asian fetish|Asian fetishist]]. In response, Meredith asks Ben about his own racial preference for white women. Feeling defensive, Ben
Ben returns to Miko’s address and confronts Miko and Leon in the street. Leon lets Ben and Miko talk privately in the apartment, where Ben tells Miko that Leon is fetishizing her because of her race, based on Leon’s professed interests in [[East Asia|East Asian]] culture. Miko calls out Ben’s own hypocrisy for being angry she’s dating someone else, when her friend saw Ben and Sasha on a date as well. Miko says that she should have told Ben about Leon, but that Ben needs to look into his own toxic behaviors and that their relationship is over.
Returning to Meredith’s apartment, Ben apologizes to Alice and Meredith for causing their fight and announces that he is leaving New York early. While Ben at first runs towards Miko and Leon’s apartment, he eventually catches a cab to the airport and returns to Berkeley.
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