High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Deposition" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show`s sixty-fifth episode overall. Written by consulting producer Lester Lewis and directed by Julian Farino, the episode originally aired in the United States on November 15, 2007 on NBC. "The Deposition" was the last original episode of the show to air before the show went on hiatus due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.