The prosecutors in Ken Starr's office had a code name for their planned confrontation with Monica Lewinsky at the Ritzcarleton Hotel.

They called it prom night.

As you may remember from episode one, this was the secret operation scheduled for January 16, 1998.

The plan was to convince Lewinsky to wear wire in order to catch the president committing a crime.

The prosecutors referred to it internally as prom night in the days leading up to it.

I recently had the opportunity to ask Kent Star in an interview what Prom Night meant.

Here's what he said.

I didn't fashion that. It just kind of emerged out of our process of bantering and reflecting on it, but it has become to my colleagues and comrades forever known as by that name. But it could have been a very happy

event and it didn't turn out to be so happy given the fact that she just said, no, I'm not going to make the deal,

and the rest of the story had to unfold.

I guess my curiosity was who was the one, who was going to prom in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the analogy or in the metaphor?

Well, she was being invited to be a part of our community. So welcome to

the truth-seeking party. So we're trying to get to the bottom of this. These are very

serious allegations that the president had lied under oath. I was reminded of this explanation

last week. When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was answering questions

in a congressional hearing about the meaning of phrases like Renata alumni and Devil's Triangle.

Devil's Triangle?

Drinking game.

How's it played?

Three glasses in a triangle.

And?

You ever played quarters?

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