Plot

Joey drives to Las Vegas to shoot a new movie where he is in the lead role. Rachel gets an eye infection but is reluctant to seek treatment because of her eye phobia. Phoebe is mad at Ross, but doesn't know why.

Joey is excited to get the lead in a thriller, Shutterspeed, so he and Chandler decide to drive to Las Vegas where it's being shot, in Phoebe's late grandma's cab. Monica sees to it that terrified Rachel gets a glaucoma-test and the necessary eye-drops, whatever that takes. Phoebe is furious at Ross, but won't say why, or doesn't even remember, or... The instant answers-technique Phoebe taught Joey, to choose between two routes, makes Chandler blurt out he doesn't believe it's going to be Joey's big break as he gets no pay, just 1% of profit. The indignant star-to-be throws him out on New York's George Washington bridge. Chandler feels terribly guilty, but when Joey arrives...—KGF Vissers

When Rachel is complaining about her eyes (her eye is very itchy due to which she keeps winking, giving the wrong ideas to Joey), Monica tells her to see her eye doctor, but Rachel refuses due to an unnatural fear of having anything near her or anyone else's eyes. Rachel eventually visits the eye doctor after much persuasion by Monica (Rachel tries to stall by dropping breakfast cereal all over the kitchen (Knowing that Monica will have to clean it up, thereby forcing her to reschedule to appointment), but Monica still takes Rachel and begs Chandler to clean up the mess).

Dr. Miller (Michael Monks) tells her that she has a minor infection in her left eye (after tricking her into an eye exam) and gives her eye drops for it (3 times a day for a week). Monica takes extreme measures to give Rachel her eye-drops, to no avail (she pins Rachel down and squirts eye drops all over her, eventually emptying the bottle, but not getting any into her eyes). Eventually, Monica and the others manage to hold her down (Ross and Chandler pin her down, while Phoebe gets her eyelids open and Monica squirts the eye drops in) and give her the eye-drops (Monica promises to repeat the procedure every 3-4 hours).

Joey is told by his agent that he is to play the lead role in an upcoming movie called Shutter Speed, which is being filmed in Las Vegas. After hearing the news, Chandler decides to go with Joey on a road trip to Vegas. Phoebe lends them her grandmother's cab to drive. While the two are on the George Washington Bridge on their way to Vegas, Joey reveals to Chandler that rather than getting a fixed salary, he would instead be getting a part of the movie's profit (1% of all profits). This causes Chandler to inadvertently reveal that he does not think that this movie would be Joey's big break or that this is even a real movie, causing Joey to kick Chandler out of the car, right in the middle of the George Washington bridge.

In Vegas, Joey arrives at the film site where the director Stanley reveals that production is being postponed due to a lack of funds and tells Joey to stand by until filming can resume. Joey gets a job at Caesars Palace and hides it from his friends. He calls Monica and tells her how great it is going on the movie set and that Chandler could not have been more wrong.

Meanwhile, Phoebe finds herself upset with Ross, but cannot remember why. Ross posits several reasons why Phoebe might be unhappy with him, but is unable find the right reason. He soon plays Phoebe's game with her in an effort to find out, and discovers that Phoebe believes that he called her boring. Ross cannot remember ever saying that she was boring, and Phoebe then realizes that it was a dream (Ross and Phoebe were playing chess. Ross called her boring. Then he took off his energy mask and he was Cameron Diaz).