- Ted makes a fateful phone call to his old girlfriend Victoria, Barney's magic trick gets him in trouble with airport security just as he's about to leave on a trip with Quinn, and Robin tries to take the perfect birth announcement photo.
- As Lily and Marshall become a threesome with the arrival into the world of Marvin Wait-For-It Eriksen, Ted, Robin and Barney review the status of their lives at this present time. Ted and Robin come to an understanding about their relationship. Robin believes that Ted has always chased after the wrong girl, with the exception of one, who she encourages Ted to go after. But Ted will have to make one further decision based on the status of that woman's own life at this time. And Barney is afraid that running away to Atlantic City has led to the end of his and Quinn's relationship. Their relationship is able to survive this incident, so much so that they decide to take their first vacation together to Hawaii. But they have some problems getting through airport security because of the magician's box Barney has in his carry-on, the secret to which he refuses to divulge except to a fellow magician. The secret of the magician's box will lead indirectly to Barney's life with who will become his wife.—Huggo
- Part 2
Part 2 begins with a flash-forward to Barney's wedding, where Lily tells Ted that the bride wants to see him, mirroring the ending of "The Best Man".
Marshall and Lily have a baby and have barely time for themselves. They tell Ted that he cannot come to them unless his issue is an 8 or higher on the crisis scale.
After the birth of Marshall and Lily's son, Ted and Robin finally reconcile as friends again. Robin bluntly tells Ted that all the women he has pursued in the past were the wrong person, with Victoria (Ashley Williams) being the only exception. Robin says that she herself told Ted that she did not want kids and yet Ted did not stop pursuing her. Stella had a child with another man, whom she still loved. Zoey was married and trying to sabotage his career.
She convinces Ted to call Victoria; Ted eventually asks Victoria to meet him at MacLaren's, hoping to find out if she ever got engaged. The last time Ted met her was 8 months ago. She arrives in a wedding dress and asks him to run away with her, as she has never stopped thinking about him. Though he initially agrees and gets in the car with her, some further thought causes Ted to admit he cannot let Victoria leave her fiance at the altar after what Stella did to him. He tells Victoria that he is taking her back to the church so that she can go through with her wedding. However, as they near the church Ted begins reminiscing about their past relationship (specifically, the moments he let her walk away) and drives past it. When Victoria tells Ted that he has driven past the church, Ted says that he knows, indicating that he has willingly changed his mind, the two passionately hold hands as they drive off into the sunset together.
Marshall and Lily appoint Robin to take the photograph for baby Marvin's birth announcement, but she can't take a decent shot of the family together (with the only good photo emerging being when they take the baby down to MacLaren's to give advice to Ted (since the situation with Victoria was a 10), and the two are horrified when they realize their son's first outing was to a bar). Eventually the two fall asleep on their bed with Marvin between them, allowing Robin to get a perfect, if unconventional, shot.
Barney returns to Quinn to find that she has completely re-decorated the apartment bright pink as an act of revenge for his leaving town for Atlantic city suddenly after their fight without telling her, but Barney is only glad she had not left him and the two quickly make up. On the way to Hawaii, Barney is stopped at airport security because of a mysterious box he has placed in his luggage, the contents of which he claims he cannot reveal due to "the Magician's Code". He and Quinn are taken in for questioning, where she reveals that she has quit her job for Barney and is now unemployed. After missing their flight, Quinn is ready to leave, forcing Barney to perform the trick contained within the box, which turns out to contain an engagement ring. He proposes to Quinn, and she accepts. They return to Marshall and Lily's apartment to announce their engagement. As Quinn leaves the room to tell the story of the proposal, Barney asks Robin if she is okay with everything. Robin says that she knows how awesome he is, and that she is happy for him.
The episode closes with a flash-forward to Barney's wedding. Ted and Marshall stand in a hallway, with Marshall talking about how everything turned out for them. Ted then enters a room where the bride is located, when the bride turns to face Ted, it is revealed to be Robin.
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