- Blair sabotages her mother's show at Fashion Week; Dan starts hanging out with Chuck, and learns that a walk on the dark side always has risks.
- As Gossip Girl narrates the so-called Fashion Week where the students of the Upper East Side gather for the annual fund raiser, Blair becomes angry with her mother when she gives Serena and her new socialite friend, Poppy Lifton, front row seats to the Eleanor Waldorf Fashion Show. Hurt and betrayed by both Serena and her mother, Blair decides to sabotage the show. Meanwhile, Dan, also humiliated and shunned by Serena (who has fully returned to her former bad-girl self), starts hanging out with Chuck and his life of parties. Dan quickly learns that living the life of the dark side has its risks. Also, Lily learns a secret that her new husband, Bart Bass, has been keeping from her.—Anonymous
- Fashion Week in NYC. Michael Kors alert! Our very own B is making the seating chart for mommy. Her friends are in the second row, because that's what friends trying to win affection by bestowing favors do. Dan and Jenny stroll to school. He needs to get his Dartmouth application done. Yale is so last week. He sent his story to Noah Shapiro and he loved it. Jenny has three missed calls from Laurel. She won't be going to French class.
Lily adores her own artwork as S comes downstairs. She was hanging out with Poppy yes, Poppy the socialite, last night. Lily wants to buy a Maplethorpe coming up for auction. Turns out he didn't just photograph men. Lily becomes coolest mom ever.
Chuck and B stroll as he needles her over the loss of her throne. "A true monarch bestows favors," she tells him before giving Fashion Week invites to the harpies. That moment is quickly ruined when they see S's picture with Poppy in Women's Wear Daily and find this more impressive. B leaves S to her moment and takes it out on Chuck, proclaiming him less than human. She tells him no one likes him, not even his dad.
Dan gets the bad news from Noah: his stories aren't good. They're all about a sheltered young man with girl troubles who lives with his dad in Brooklyn. Taking writing what you know to all new boring levels. He's advised to go get some life experiences already.
Eleanor makes yucky noises over a green dress. She tosses it to Jenny to fix. Eleanor and Laurel moan about their lack of A-List celebs. Kirsten Dunst is SO 2007. Jenny shows them the Daily pic of S with Poppy, a somebody. Maybe S could help?
Dan searches for life experiences. Ends up at Chuck's. He tells him he'd like to experience the world of Chuck Bass which, at that moment, involves wearing a neckerchief and sipping Scotch in the afternoon.
B kvetches to the maid, then adds more yelling. Yelling continues when B sees the chart has been changed, socialites and Poppy added. The maid tells B that Jenny did it. "Little J just started her own trend," GG tells us, "wearing a bull's eye on her back."
B confronts her mom. B can't believe S is going to ditch their ritual of watching backstage to sit front and center with Poppy, who will be skipping Marc Jacobs for the first time in years. Lily arranged it. Oh, and all this is thanks to Jenny. Fabulous. Where does she find the time? Eleanor informs B that Jenny has independent study. A 10th grader with IS? Yea, right. She runs into J on the way out. "You never learn do you?" she purrs. J learns that the seating chart was B's. Bad news to her.
Dan and Chuck experience Chuckness. It starts with six shots for Dan. "You're either in for a full ride, or you're out," says Chuck two seconds before he turns into a pusher, offering Dan pills. Because writers do drugs. (No really, they do.)
S and Poppy dine (stare at lettuce) with Lily. S tells mom that ditching her ritual with B might not be the best idea. Poppy offers Marc Jacobs after-party passes as balm.
Lily gets a call. Her nekkid Maplethorpe sold - before the auction.
B visits Rufus, bearing chicken soup. She "heard" Jenny was sick, had been out for two weeks with mono. Rufus smells a well-dressed rat, telling B he knows she doesn't have his daughter's best interests at heart. Facts are facts, Jenny hasn't been at school and, why, B just happens to have the head mistresses' number in her phone.
Dan tries to soak in the Chuckness. He tells stories of sex clubs, twins, out of his mind in the back of Chuck's limo. Then, he's out of Chuck's limo, shoeless and phone-less. Live some life now, writer boy.
Rufus finds Jenny, hard at work at Eleanor's. B supervises as Rufus calls his daughter out for lying and demands she leave mid-hem.
At home the next morning, Rufus makes angry waffles. Jenny tells him someone was emailing her assignments and she was keeping up on her reading. She tells her dad how much she was helping Eleanor, but he says it's time to try to talk her way back into school. She has a meeting with the head mistress, on a Saturday.
S visits B. Sparks fly. How could you ditch our ritual and take the girls? Oh, who cares? B cares. S says she won't go and then B's mom's front row will be empty. B says that'd be better than watching another episode of "the Serena show" (check with your local cable operator). S regroups. She's going. Sitting front and center. And B can watch.
Dan tries another story about walking shoeless. It doesn't work either, but this "Charlie Trout" character is interesting. Try writing from that perspective, Shapiro tells him. Find "Charlie's" secret and get to know him.
J waits outside the head mistress' office. Laurel texts her to get to the show now.
Lily is told who bought the Maplethorpe. She already knows him: her husband. She thought he didn't know. Oops.
At the show, S and Poppy show up to find their seats in the last row. Jenny appears and commands a lackey to fix it. B counter-commands. Eleanor arrives, asking why Jenny isn't backstage. J tells her "someone" moved S. Eleanor tells lackey to fix it, glowers at her daughter, telling her to spare her the dramatics. "Go backstage, try not to get underfoot," mommy says to S. "Jenny, I am so glad you are here."
Chuck sits alone. He calls his dad, trying to invite him out for a drink. Dad's too busy. Dan overhears the whole thing. That was easy. Secret discovered. Dan sits.
At fashion week, B tells the lackey her jobs got switched with Jenny's. What were Jenny's jobs again? Getting the models to the runway. Lackey takes Jenny's dress for the after party.
Dan peppers Chuck with questions. Chuck stands up to find better company. He saunters over to the nicely dressed young woman at the bar, offering her cash. Except she's not a prostitute. Her boyfriend returns and isn't pleased Chuck has mistaken her for a pro. Dan steps between them. BF offers to teach Chuck a lesson but Dan gets out the rulebook first, knocking the guy out. Chuck approves.
Rufus returns home to an empty apartment and a message on the machine from the head mistress saying the situation has gotten "out of control." He sees an article about fashion week.
At the runway, Dad calls and Jenny ignores it. Laurel tells her it's time to get the models ready. Jenny thinks it's done. But cut to her confronting B, asking where they've gone. Somehow they got the silly idea that they were overbooked, B says, so they left. Laurel proceeds to freak out. The show starts in 10. Jenny looks out into the front row of the audience and sees a bunch of too-thin, hot leggy chicks. It's going to be OK.
Dan and Chuck in jail. "Brawling in public," apparently. Chuck thanks Dan for having his back. Dan says his dad is going to kill him. Chuck wishes his dad cared enough to kill him. Bart hates Chuck. Dan doesn't believe it. And then he gives Dan the writer backstory he needs: Bart hates him because his mom died during child birth. The guard comes. Chuck's been bailed out. He's going to see what he can do to get the lawyer to help with Dan. They manshake hands.
Bart returns home, bearing gifts for Lily. But it's not a photo in his pocket, but an absurdly expensive emerald necklace. She wants her art. Yes, he bought it, but not why she thinks. He has to protect them. And how did he know about it? He had someone look into her. Oddly unromantic. Lily wants to see the full report.
Backstage at the show, Laurel tries to calm a hyperventilating Eleanor. She sees a non-model high schooler in her clothes. It fits. "How handy is it that society girls are wafer thin?" Eleanor says in a stating-the-obvious self-deprecating joke that doesn't make up for the "90210" stick cast.
The high school girls walk. Naturally, they're pros at it.
Backstage, Poppy asks S why she's not dressed. B wouldn't appreciate it, S says. Poppy says she can't live her live try to be "less sparkly" than B. "If Blair's a true friend, she'll support you," Poppy says.
Up comes Blair, being "supportive." She gives her Jenny's dress for the finale. Poppy struts on the runway.
Blair comes out in Jenny's dress, a green, poofy, very fashiony dress that's a hit.
Backstage, Jenny walks up to B with the dress S is supposed to be wearing. Eleanor sees her dress in Jenny's hand. Then S on the runway in a dress that is definitely not hers. Jenny knows. It's hers.
Jenny says she waved the white flag at school, why'd B do this? She couldn't help it. Jenny figures out it's about S. She tells B that she's like her, she has to work for everything. S just glides through life. She wanted to be B's friend last year.
Chuck collects his things from jail. Except they're not his. They're Dan's. Including his story about "Charlie Trout" on which the words "get his secrets, find out what makes him tick" have been written.
Bart gives Lily her files, which include letters from college boyfriends. Lily says she wants her kids to know who she is. But would she want her kids to know... this? (ominous envelope produced)
Lily looks at it. She's bothered. She asks Bart who gave it to him.
Chuck confronts Dan, still behind bars. "No one uses Chuck Bass." He storms off, but not before telling Dan he was lying. His mother died in a plane crash in the Andes when he was six.
Eleanor confronts Jenny, saying she did it on purpose. Jenny professes innocence. Laurel says Andre Leon Talley is raving about the finale dress, saying it tied everything together. Jenny tells Eleanor she made it from scraps from around the atelier and it was modified from Eleanor's dress. It's practically hers. Blair says using the socialites was Jenny's idea, and it was a hit. Jenny begs Eleanor to take credit for her work. Eleanor takes her bow.
Backstage, Lackey tells Jenny there's a guy outside, demanding to be let in, claiming to be Jenny's father. Should she let him in? No, Jenny decides, her father is out of town.
Noah Shapiro bails Dan out. He's proud of Dan for living a little. He got "Charlie Trout's" secret, but he doesn't want to have to use people. He has a new idea for a story, about an egomanical washed up writer who uses proteges to boost his ego. "Good luck with that, I'll look for it in Reader's Digest. I'll use it to prop up my Pulitzers."
After the show, Eleanor raises a glass for a special toast to Jenny. B joins in. Rufus arrives just in time to see it.
B goes to talk to S. She's hurt that S blew off their most beloved tradition. S tells her to get over it. She's lived her whole life being concerned about upsetting B. "It's not my fault you're so insecure," says S. "And I'm sure it's not your fault you're so conceited," B replies. S says she's tired of holding herself back so she doesn't outshine B. From now on, S is going to be who she is. If B can handle that, great. If not...
Rufus grounds Jenny, which includes telling her to quit her job. Jenny points out rocker dad pursued his music when he was young. Maybe she's just more talented. She told the head mistress she's not going back to school she informs dad.
Dan writes, Jenny admires her dress, Lily takes her kept woman necklace, S poses for paparazzi as B looks on, hurt. GG talks about secrets. Hiding, finding, keeping.
"Don't worry, B, the brightest stars burn out the fastest. At least that's what I heard. Waiting for a star to fall, XOXO, Gossip Girl."
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