Can it really be possible that this was already the fourth of our five post-strike Gossip Girl episodes? I think after next week’s finale, I’m going to be going through major withdrawal, just like Serena will be whenever she kicks her newly reacquired bad habits.
The episode began with a mad search for S, who was failing to answer phone calls from both Dan and Georgina. Dan was waiting outside her hotel when he finally got a call from Serena’s phone, except the voice on the other end was a bartender explaining Serena had walked out of his establishment with a bunch of guys, forgetting to take her phone, or pay her tab.
Dan continued to wait outside the hotel for Serena to show up, but it was Blair who found her first. B summoned the feuding Chuck and Nate to her penthouse for “help” with Serena, who was lying in a crumpled heap in the elevator. The former friends banned together to order the maid to make coffee and draw Serena a bath while they reminisced about the good ol’ days when they all battled hangovers together. But Dan crashed the happy reunion to find Serena and hear her version of what happened the night before. Her explanation? She’d cheated on him. That was enough to send him out the door.
But everyone besides Dan could tell from her twitching and lack of eye contact that Serena was lying. Her friends then insisted on hearing the truth about what was causing her old bad habits to resurface. They reminded her that after all the terrible things they’d done, none of them was in a position to judge. This was Blair, who’d slept with Chuck in a limo; Nate, who’d had sex with Serena at a wedding where Blair was his date; and Chuck, who was, well, Chuck. Seeing that they’d made an excellent point, Serena caved and finally told the story of why Georgina was blackmailing her.

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