<P> The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode, the office turns against Michael Scott when he refuses to fire the new office assistant, Luke (Peters), who has a terrible attitude and happens to be Michael's nephew . Meanwhile, after accidentally ruining one of Jim Halpert's (John Krasinski) pranks, Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) tries to prank Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) in return . </P> <P> "Nepotism" received generally positive reviews from television critics; many commented upon the episode's opening lip dub, although some noted it did not advance any story arcs . According to Nielsen ratings, the episode was watched by 8.4 million viewers, a slight increase from the sixth season premiere, "Gossip", and it finished second in its timeslot . </P> <P> The office returns from summer with a new office assistant, Luke (Evan Peters). However, it soon becomes clear that he only goofs off, deliberately messes up food and coffee runs, and has a poor attitude that leads everyone to openly despise him . When Michael (Steve Carell) steps up to defend him, it is revealed that Luke is Michael's nephew, whom Michael hired in hope that it will end the estrangement between him and his half sister, Luke's mother . The office demands Michael get rid of Luke, but he refuses . Later on in the day, the office employees discover the trunk of Luke's car is filled with packages from the office that he neglected to send (along with Michael's rejected pants from Talbot's). Since Luke is now costing the office customers, Gabe (Zach Woods) sends a heads - up on the situation to CEO Jo Bennett (Kathy Bates), who sternly tells Michael to deal with the situation . During a meeting Luke continues to rebel and act out, so Michael spanks him in front of the entire office, leaving Luke to quit and run away crying and the rest of them satisfied . Gabe assigns Michael six hours of counseling with Toby (Paul Lieberstein) after his' physical assault' of a fellow employee; Michael is aghast at having to sit down with his archenemy, but under company policies the only alternative is termination . </P> <P> Meanwhile, the rest of the office tells the camera crew what they've been doing over the summer . Erin (Ellie Kemper) started dating Gabe, and Andy (Ed Helms) tries to play it cool by using his anger management techniques . Kelly attended a corporate training class as part of the "Print in All Colors" initiative for Sabre, and is trying to impress everyone by dressing up and' sounding smarter' . Dwight (Rainn Wilson) bought the industrial park building, and Jim (John Krasinski) begins a lengthy prank to overload Dwight's key ring with fake keys . Seeing Jim adding on keys, Pam (Jenna Fischer) involuntarily laughs, alerting Dwight to Jim's prank . Though Jim tries to take it gracefully, Pam senses that he is mad at her for spoiling the prank, so she tries to make it up to him by devising a prank of her own . She enlists Kevin to rewire the elevator so the buttons all do different things . To her dismay, Kevin's alterations to the elevator's' circus board' result in Pam and Dwight getting trapped in the elevator together . In the end the backfired prank does impress Jim . </P>

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