Jess tries to find a new career after shes laid off from her teaching job. She also starts dating a handsome doctor, but her increasingly close friendship with roommate Nick leads to romantic complications. Also this season, Nick is dumbfounded when he gets a visit from his future self, Winston must answer to his disapproving mother and basketball star sister, Schmidt panics at the thought of getting old and then becomes jealous when Cece starts dating the anti-Schmidt.