In Launch Party, instead of inviting Michael to the Dunder Mifflin Infinity celebration in person, Ryan puts him in a company chatroom where Michael, highly angered, calls Ryan an "asshole" with the entire company watching. In "Night Out", Ryan tries to indirectly confide to Michael that he has a drug problem, but Michael ends up giving Ryan useless advice from "The Wire". In a deleted scene, Michael is in bed with Ryan asking "Do you miss us?," to which Ryan declines to answer. Michael later is devastated when he learns of Ryan's arrest.