Episode 12
S3E12 - "The Debarted"
This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are diving headfirst into the juicy chaos of Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 12, "The Debarted." With the anniversary of Bart Bass's death creeping up, the Upper East Side is bubbling over with drama, shocking secrets, and a few heartstrings being pulled.
Join our dynamic duo as they tackle Chuck's emotional rollercoaster while he wrestles with memories of his father. Meanwhile, Serena is trying to untangle herself from the mess that is Trip. And let’s not forget Jenny, whose ambition takes a dark twist as she gets caught in a web of lies and betrayal—because who knew power came with such a heavy price tag?
Get ready for a whirlwind of emotions as Leif and Steve break down the episode’s most jaw-dropping moments, from surprise showdowns to gut-wrenching choices that will change everything for our beloved characters. With their signature witty banter and sharp commentary, this episode is bound to leave you hungry for even more scandalous gossip from the world of Gossip Girl!
Transcript
It's nighttime, and Dan goes to the dorm to meet
Leif:Willa, uh, Weinstein.
Leif:And Willa then commits it.
Leif:And then Willa commits a bit of white sexual
Leif:assault by showing a video of herself naked to
Leif:Dan without first asking for consent.
Steve:Genetic. The
Steve:apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Steve:I saw where you were going, right?
Leif:Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving listeners out
Leif:there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast
Leif:pod where the coffee is strong, the
Leif:waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than
Leif:ever. My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned Gossip
Leif:Girl veteran.
Steve:And I'm Steve. The newbie, the
Steve:greenhorn, the. I don't know, Leif. What do
Steve:we call the season three version of me?
Leif:Well, since apparently you love your new bag more than your old
Leif:friends, I guess you can carry it across the street.
Leif:Enjoy being BFFs with a hunk of leather.
Steve:Oh, uh, come on, Leif. We know I don't have friends.
Leif:Yeah, I guess we did establish that.
Leif:It's canon.
Steve:It's canon in the
Steve:NJB POD universe.
Steve:So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching since the very
Steve:beginning, and I'm tuning into Gossip Girl for the
Steve:very first time. And together, we're your
Steve:dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama,
Steve:romance, and sometimes questionable fashion
Steve:choices of this iconic, uh, 2007
Steve:series.
Leif:Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week we're dissecting
Leif:every juicy detail of the show one episode at a time.
Leif:We'll connect the dots, uncover those sneaky little
Leif:Easter eggs, and of course, serve up some piping hot behind
Leif:the scenes tea. And expect some iconic moments from
Leif:Phantom too, because what's a deep dive without a little
Leif:drama?
Steve:And since we are all about inclusivity here at the non
Steve:judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you at our
Steve:non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab a
Steve:mimosa, a cup of coffee, or your stash
Steve:out of Old man in the Sea. And let's go ahead and get started.
Leif:Let's get started. And we are recording on Mother's
Leif:Day. So happy Mother's Day to all those mothers out there.
Steve:Yes, happy Mother's Day, Robin.
Leif:Uh, hopefully you're a better mother than the mothers of Gossip Girl.
Steve:Because so far the best mom of the season is just
Steve:not around. Is in Paris.
Leif:Of course you guys will be listening to this episode on Memorial Day. So
Leif:happy Memorial Day as well.
Steve:And happy Memorial Day. Yes. I hope you're enjoying your
Steve:weekend.
Leif:Let's go ahead and get into it. We are here to talk
Leif:about season three, episode 12,
Leif:the debarted.
Steve:The Departed, obviously taken from the
Steve:Departed. It
Steve:made me feel really old when I put that together.
Steve:I kind of ignored it at first. It was just
Steve:the debarted and didn't really think about the movie
Steve:itself. And then when I thought about where they
Steve:got that from, I realized how long ago that
Steve:movie was made. Because to me, that's still
Steve:like
Steve:Marty's newest film,
Steve:even though there's been how many since? But
Steve:that just feels so fresh because Taxi
Steve:Driver or not, Taxi Driver was that. He wasn't.
Steve:No. Uh, what was his.
Leif:Goodfellas is the biggest one.
Steve:Was his big early one with De Niro. Right? Yeah.
Leif:Like the other Bart title they did.
Leif:Simpsons also did this one as well. So they did, uh,
Leif:oh, brother. Barthau and the Departed.
Steve:The Debarted.
Leif:Both and Simpsons both did it.
Steve:Simpsons did it.
Leif:But the original air date of this episode was
Leif:December 7, 2009. So we're getting
Leif:close to the end of the year. And the episode was
Leif:written by series co creator Stephanie Savage.
Leif:This is her first episode of season three. In
Leif:season two, she wrote Solo, Never Been Marcused,
Leif:and the aforementioned oh Brother of Bartha. Whereup,
Leif:Barthab. And also co wrote Valley
Leif:Girls.
Steve:I think this may have been her best of
Steve:those.
Leif:Really?
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Uh, we're gonna disagree big time on this.
Steve:Really.
Leif:I think her only episode she's written good by herself was oh, brother,
Leif:where part that.
Steve:I really like that one, too. That. That was the funeral,
Steve:right? Yeah, that one was really good. And
Steve:I felt, uh. I'll say this. I feel like she can.
Steve:That she knows Chuck. I feel like she.
Leif:Like she likes Chuck.
Steve:I feel like she likes Chuck. I feel like you're right about
Steve:that.
Leif:Yeah. Episode was directed by Jason
Leif:Ensler. This is first and only episode of
Leif:Gossip Girl. He's been a TV director since
Leif:2003. Also worked on such
Leif:shows like Chuck, Heart of Dixie, also a
Leif:Josh Schwartz joint. He did an episode of Scrubs,
Leif:did some episodes of Psych. My name's Earl.
Steve:Two broke girls, big TV
Steve:resume. Yeah.
Leif:Yeah. Why don't you give us that
Leif:vulture recap?
Steve:Sure thing. Here we go. In
Steve:ancient cultures, the wolves.
Steve:I thought I would get through the first line. In ancient
Steve:cultures, the wolf stands for many things.
Steve:Hostility, aggression, and ferocity, to be
Steve:sure. But also loyalty,
Steve:fidelity, family. The wolf may
Steve:hunt alone, but it always returns to
Steve:its pack and will do anything to protect
Steve:them. In the beginning of last night's episode of
Steve:Gossip Girl, the pack was scattered.
Steve:Serena was off On Long island,
Steve:acting like a teenage Riel hunter
Steve:with her married query, Trip
Steve:Vanderbilt, who seemed remarkably
Steve:unbusy for a newly elected congressman.
Steve:Back at nyu, Nate and Dan were together,
Steve:but alone, each tormented by thoughts of
Steve:the other's ex girlfriend. And the
Steve:anniversary of his father's death drove
Steve:the recently domesticated Chuck Bass,
Steve:the show's original lone wolf,
Steve:back to his old, wild, snarling self.
Steve:Thankfully, just as he was on the brink of
Steve:climbing atop the nearest homeless shelter and
Steve:unleashing a righteous howl, the pack
Steve:managed to call him back.
Leif:Uh, the wolves.
Steve:The wolves.
Leif:Writing mistake number one. Why? Why?
Steve:Yeah, okay. The wolves.
Leif:Why wolves?
Steve:The wolves were ridiculous. Maybe it wasn't
Steve:the writing that I liked as much as I
Steve:liked the episode, but. But the what
Steve:was with the wolves?
Leif:Nassau county is right on the other side of Queens.
Leif:It's right next to Queens.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah.
Steve:You know where the wolf packs are.
Steve:That's why it was so symbolic, because it's
Steve:so rare now.
Leif:I didn't get the real hunter reference, and
Leif:I didn't look it up either. Do you remember that person?
Steve:No, I. I just assumed.
Leif:She slept with the politician.
Steve:Yeah. Ah. Yeah, I assumed that it was. I honestly
Steve:assumed it was some New Yorker, some New York
Steve:socialite that slept with a politician.
Leif:Listeners write it and let us know who Riel Hunter is.
Steve:Yes, because we didn't look it up.
Leif:We begin the episode in Act 1. An
Leif:SUV is driving down a rural road on
Leif:a wet night. We shift to an interior view of
Leif:the vehicle, and Trip and Serena are fighting over the
Leif:radio. A pack of wolves in the middle of the road
Leif:causes Tripp to swerve into the barrier.
Leif:Gossip Girl opens with.
Leif:They say there are no accidents.
Leif:Sometimes reality comes crashing into us.
Leif:Other times, it dawns on us
Leif:slowly, despite our best efforts to avoid it.
Steve:Watch the road, creeper. Stop being
Steve:dramatic on a swervy road. Just watch
Steve:the road. Make sure there's no wolves in front of you.
Leif:Deer, tree branch. Anything else?
Steve:Anything else?
Steve:They clearly wanted it to be
Steve:this symbol.
Steve:Of what?
Leif:When I first saw this, I thought the wolves were gonna attack him or
Leif:something.
Steve:Right? Yeah, it seems set up
Steve:for something much worse. Or at least
Steve:surround the car.
Steve:No, they were just in the road. They're. They're. They're on their way.
Leif:Now we get an in media
Leif:res and flashback to 12 hours earlier.
Leif:Blair tries to bring Chuck breakfast in bed, but Chuck
Leif:has other plans. He is already dressed and
Leif:heading to the lower east side to check out some property.
Steve:Yeah, Chuck, who's got really spicy here and
Steve:now, because I saw the preview, I
Steve:knew why. He was spicy, right?
Steve:Uh, not a huge spoiler that it's the anniversary of his
Steve:dad's death, but he is just.
Steve:I like that they referred to him as domesticated in
Steve:the Vulture report because that's this really
Steve:grown up, the only real adult of
Steve:this group and then just becomes an
Steve:asshole again. And, um, you know, something's
Steve:really bugging him.
Leif:Lily is going through the coat closet, clearly looking
Leif:for the letter that Maureen took last week. Rufus
Leif:is concerned because it sounds like Lily has been cleaning the closet quite
Leif:a bit. Lily asked Rufus to go to a co op
Leif:garden meeting in her place.
Steve:Lily's reorganizing this closet over and
Steve:over again because she lost a fucking letter that she
Steve:knows she put in there. And man,
Steve:that passive aggressive.
Steve:Oh, I figured you'd say that when asking Rufus
Steve:to go to the thing. You fucking married a
Steve:retired rock star. You knew
Steve:this is what he did before you got married.
Leif:Well, not really. He had a
Leif:job right before, right up until right before you're right
Leif:together.
Steve:He had the gallery that was obviously.
Leif:To pay for Yale.
Steve:A ton of money.
Leif:Yeah, but he had a job to go to.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Now he's just staying at home doing nothing.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah. And combine that
Steve:with the fact that Jenny's at school all
Steve:day, so he's not really doing
Steve:anything. I didn't really think of it that way because I
Steve:really thought of it more just like, you know, he's a retired
Steve:rock star and like, he. Because even his job that he did
Steve:have, he just kind of popped in and out whenever he felt like
Steve:it. Uh, yeah. It was
Steve:a very convenient place for him to have.
Leif:Yes.
Steve:For scenes, Trip is holed up with.
Leif:Serena and takes a call. Serena is in full
Leif:lovey dovey mode, but Trip seems distant. He
Leif:gets up and says he's going to town for supplies.
Steve:This is a 2P episode for
Steve:Trip's name in the closed captioning
Steve:all the way until Nate's phone
Steve:later on in the episode.
Leif:Uh, well, that's because that's his.1p is like,
Leif:that's how the writers have it.
Steve:And what's funny is that I was
Steve:trying to look up something else of the episode on the
Steve:wiki, and the wiki said that it's always spelled with
Steve:two P's except for a in Nate's
Steve:phone. But it's not, because I have seen the closed
Steve:captioning now that you pointed that out to me.
Steve:Now I can't unsee it whenever it happens.
Steve:And Tripp you fucking idiot. Yeah, I meant to lead
Steve:with that, Jeff.
Leif:What do you think he can't get any worse.
Steve:Yeah, well. Oh my God.
Steve:Just. And it's like, just wait. Like this is just
Steve:starting to get bad.
Leif:Blair notices the homeless man outside the building Chuck is
Leif:looking at buying and suggests that Chuck should be going to his
Leif:father's grave today. Instead of this, Chuck sends Blair
Leif:off in his limo.
Steve:So this is where we get the. Oh, it's Chuck's
Steve:dad's anniversary. But it also.
Steve:It was this time of year last year. It was
Steve:maybe the same episode, right? Was it episode
Steve:1112 when he died?
Leif:I thought it was 10, but maybe not. I don't know. I. I forget.
Steve:It may have been, um, just the,
Steve:you know, it fits.
Leif:Mhm.
Steve:And you see Blair like
Steve:confronting him about it too.
Steve:And he's trying to buy this like, what
Steve:is it, a homeless shelter to turn into a
Steve:club or condos, I think.
Steve:Condos, sure. Yeah. And
Steve:his attitude of like, I have to
Steve:do this, I have to.
Leif:Jay Z's Empire State of Mind
Leif:plays. Lily is sitting in the closet now
Leif:empty of coats. And Gossip Girl has this to say.
Leif:We make our own fortunes and then call them fate.
Leif:The song continues and we transition to Trip
Leif:calling someone and telling them they should meet.
Leif:Gossip Girl continues. And what better
Leif:excuse to choose a path than to insist it's
Leif:our destiny? But at the end of the day, we all have to
Leif:live with our choices. We transition to Chuck,
Leif:who has the ghost of Christmas Bart standing behind him
Leif:and patting him on the shoulder. Chug shrugs off
Leif:Ghost Daddy's hand and Gossip Girl finishes the act with
Leif:no matter who's looking over our shoulder.
Steve:I actually had a bit to say about Chuck in
Steve:this episode and the
Steve:tragedy of Chuck here. Now
Steve:when I saw the preview and I saw Barton it,
Steve:I was originally like, no, um,
Steve:no. Is this some. Did he. They fake
Steve:his fucking death? Is it
Steve:like, like it was
Steve:back to the soap opera of
Steve:fucking Marcus in season two?
Steve:Like, oh, he's. He's still there
Steve:and faked his fucking death. And now like,
Steve:Jesus Christ.
Leif:But now Chuck is having full on hallucinations.
Steve:Yeah, Chuck is just hallucinating his dad.
Steve:The thing that really
Steve:struck me about this because, uh, it really
Steve:did make me feel for Chuck in this episode that
Steve:he has his dad on his shoulder
Steve:shitting on him all the time. His
Steve:dad poured himself into his work because
Steve:he lost his wife and didn't know how to be a
Steve:dad to this guy who looked to this
Steve:kid who looked like the Woman he just loved.
Steve:Right. That was what Bart had said.
Steve:And yet Chuck internalized all of
Steve:this disappointment to it being him being
Steve:weak. But no, Chuck, you were
Steve:a fuck up. You were getting drunk, you
Steve:were sexually assaulting women, you were
Steve:gallivanting around town, you were being a.
Steve:A reputational asshole.
Steve:And he was always disappointed from constantly
Steve:having to bail you out of all of your
Steve:bullshit. If Bart saw you
Steve:running the empire right now, he'd be
Steve:proud as fuck. I would think if he saw
Steve:you having a, um, meaningful adult
Steve:relationship with Blair, I think he'd be
Steve:happy for you.
Leif:We even got that in season one finale.
Steve:Yeah, yeah.
Leif:He's like, finally, you're stepping up and being a man.
Steve:Yeah, exactly. And so
Steve:just knowing that this is Chuck
Steve:beating himself up, I
Steve:found really tragic in this episode. And it
Steve:really moved my heart for Chuck to
Steve:see because it felt realistic
Steve:because it is what kids do, Especially someone that
Steve:loses their dad, who was their. Who they kind of
Steve:hated, but was their idol. And to him, his
Steve:dad is still beating up on him because his
Steve:dad doesn't know that he changed.
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:So I just felt that was really tragic.
Leif:Yeah. We could, though, without the fool on hallucinations, I
Leif:think.
Steve:I don't know. Honestly, it didn't bother me.
Steve:I felt like it really showed what
Steve:was going on in Chuck's head,
Steve:I don't think.
Leif:But I think they just took it too far. Like when he started, like, arguing with
Leif:Bart in the back of the limo and the driver's, like, staring at him,
Leif:okay, what the hell's going on?
Steve:Yeah, the stop looking at me thing, that.
Steve:Okay, I'll give you the limo one.
Steve:I think more about sitting
Steve:on the couch. And this scene when he first shrugs him
Steve:off. Those are the. Yes, the limo
Steve:was silly.
Leif:Yes, those could be played off as being subtle and just kind
Leif:of showing the audience what's going on in his head. But when they
Leif:started transitioning to him, um, having actual conversations
Leif:that other people could hear, that was weird.
Steve:Yes. I will say that I've
Steve:kind of done that before. Right. That
Steve:I've been caught up in an
Steve:imaginary conversation in my head that I'm
Steve:having with somebody that I'm with. Like, my
Steve:dad is a great example. The shit that I've never said
Steve:to my dad that I would like to, but just
Steve:know he would be a brick wall. I know I've
Steve:had that and, like, said something out loud like
Steve:that I, uh. Not hallucinating my
Steve:dad, but I've pushed a button in my
Steve:own head. And so that's Why I didn't
Steve:come. Never in front of people, never in
Steve:the back of a limo. Although he was also
Steve:pretty fucking drunk because he was. He had
Steve:whiskey in hand all day long.
Leif:Yeah, yeah, but that's just. That's kind of the norm
Leif:for Chuck.
Steve:It is. And like, obviously it's all him projecting
Steve:his own insecurities and his own ill
Steve:fated relationship with his dad that never got the
Steve:resolution that he wanted.
Leif:So we move on into Act 2. The
Leif:establishing shot of, uh, Central park is way too green to
Leif:be December. Jenny
Leif:is walking down the street and a very chatty Gossip Girl
Leif:says, spotted an it girl with an it
Leif:bag. It looks like the roadie to success is
Leif:paved with cruel intentions. The minions are
Leif:impressed by Jenny's new purse, which Jenny says didn't come
Leif:from Lily. When Sawyer shows up with the same
Leif:bag, Jenny says she can ditch the bag or
Leif:find new friends.
Steve:Jenny just fucking, um, cold.
Steve:My mom brought it home for me. Okay, well, you can go walk across
Steve:the street like Jenny.
Steve:So shitty.
Leif:Yeah. Uh, what were the thing about
Leif:Bart? I've actually been meaning to mention this for a couple weeks now.
Leif:Robert Bobby Burke has actually had a role on the
Leif:Last of Us. Are you watching that?
Steve:I was waiting for a few more episodes to come out
Steve:to binge.
Leif:Okay.
Steve:Because I typically watch stuff like start stuff halfway
Steve:through. I watched the first episode, but
Steve:that was it.
Leif:Okay. So, yeah, uh, he has
Leif:a role in like two or three episodes. Uh, it
Leif:was a pretty small part in the game that got expanded a
Leif:bit.
Steve:Oh, cool. Yeah, it'll be good to see him. I
Steve:always thought he was good.
Leif:Yeah, it's funny too, because he's always playing like, these asshole
Leif:characters, but apparently he's super nice in real life. He's like a
Leif:volunteer fireman. And I
Leif:listened to an interview about some Irish podcast, uh,
Leif:a while back a couple weeks ago. Tis yourself.
Leif:It was fun. Yeah. He's a Irish American first generation.
Steve:Yeah. That. That scans. Yeah.
Leif:Grew up in New York.
Steve:Yeah. Awesome.
Leif:Blue collar.
Steve:Yeah. And I believe I've actually
Steve:heard that elsewhere that, like, you have this super.
Steve:The Bart Bass character type that he
Steve:plays, but he is just
Steve:super nice guy, apparently.
Leif:Yeah, he had a decent run on, uh,
Leif:lawn or svu, I think maybe. And he was
Leif:kind of evil on that too. Uh.
Steve:Oh, yeah, Yeah, I think.
Steve:But he was a cop, I think, right?
Leif:Yeah, he's a corrupt cop.
Steve:Okay.
Leif:I never watched the show, but I've heard that's what it sound like.
Steve:I feel like I've. I don't know If I was
Steve:watching, I watched religiously years ago
Steve:when it was new.
Leif:And we see Sawyer walks off humiliated. But we find out
Leif:that it was all according to Eric and Kira's plan, which is
Leif:to convince Carmen and Jane that Jenny is the meanest queen ever.
Leif:So they turn against her.
Steve:Yeah, Eric trying to crown a new queen and.
Steve:All right, Eric, I feel like you're in over
Steve:your head, but we'll see.
Leif:So what does Kira get?
Steve:Yeah. Yeah.
Leif:Why is she even still involved?
Steve:Yeah, why does she care
Steve:who's queen? No one likes you.
Leif:If she's just trying to get revenge on Jenny.
Steve:Yeah, well, and she was. Her whole thing was
Steve:in the beginning. Like, I want friends. I'm just trying to be friends with
Steve:you. So I guess she thinks if she helps this new
Steve:queen, then she can be one of her minions.
Steve:High aspirations for Hera. I
Steve:want to suck up to another friend. In high school.
Leif:Dan and Nate are having a coffee date. Dan says
Leif:he missed his shot with Vanessa, who is now entangled with Paul.
Leif:But Nate gives him, uh, his bro. A pep talk.
Steve:Single Nate is the best. Nate.
Steve:Single Nate is when Nate is funny. When
Steve:Nate is Dan's pal. When he's Chuck's friend.
Steve:When he does all. When he's goofy and he's
Steve:jokes. Single Nate is the best Nate.
Leif:Nate just being a bro.
Steve:Hey, Willa.
Steve:It was so good.
Leif:The boys are interrupted by Vanessa and Willa, who
Leif:invite Dan for a weekend at her family's country house with a
Leif:hot tub. At first, Dan turns it down, but
Leif:Nate says to go. So he can either box out Paul with
Leif:Vanessa or get with the hot drama major.
Leif:Dan decides to go.
Steve:Yeah. Nate's not wrong
Steve:in the. In the mentality and morality
Steve:of college. Right. This person is into
Steve:you, you're into that person. Go on this
Steve:trip, and something's bound to happen.
Leif:Yeah. Either go head to head with Paul and get your girl or
Leif:get a palate cleanser.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Get your mind off of
Steve:this. And Will is cute.
Leif:Yeah. A little forward.
Steve:How so?
Steve:Here. Here's my art. Here's my
Steve:performance piece.
Leif:Rufus shows up at the meeting and discovers he has become
Leif:a house husband.
Steve:Yeah. Holland Campbell immediately flirting
Steve:with Rufus. And the second he
Steve:walks into this meeting. Oh, we knew you'd be here
Steve:eventually. Sploosh.
Steve:Can I escort you to the table?
Steve:I saved you a seat right under my face.
Leif:Pretty obvious.
Steve:Yeah, we knew you'd be here eventually.
Steve:Uh, yeah. And, like, laying all her business out,
Steve:like, yeah, your. Your wife's gonna cheat on you, too. By
Steve:the way, just like my husband.
Leif:Just like my husband banging the yoga teacher.
Steve:Yeah. Why are you with him? Like, why are
Steve:you part of this hoa if, uh, this
Steve:guy's such a piece of money? Yeah.
Steve:Facts. But also the look on Rufus
Steve:face and he's realizing he's a trophy husband.
Steve:He's like, I'm not some trophy husband. Oh,
Steve:sweetie.
Leif:Bless your heart.
Leif:A lonely Serena is bored without cable
Leif:and calls Trip to find out when he's coming back. Trip says
Leif:he's meeting with the grandfather when we back tonight. Before hanging
Leif:up, we see Trip is actually meeting with Maureen who
Leif:wants to be the public wife to a congressman and ah, allow
Leif:Serena to be the mistress.
Steve:He's such a disgusting fuck. Like, you
Steve:know that he's not with grandfather. When he starts saying that
Steve:turns, you know, it's Maureen. And then when she's there
Steve:and he's like, she's like, don't you care about your career? I
Steve:care more. I do care about my career, but I care
Steve:more about Serena and my
Steve:1930s driver outfit that I'm wearing.
Steve:Like, can we. What the are you wearing
Steve:with that fucking. The jacket
Steve:with the fucking looks like padded
Steve:leather armor.
Leif:Well, if anyone's going to be wearing it, it's going to be a generational
Leif:wealthy person from Connecticut.
Steve:Yes. I'm so m. Where were the
Steve:Knickerbockers to go with the hat though?
Steve:Where's your stick with a little hoop that you can
Steve:run down the street playing with it.
Leif:Chuck is back at the Empire drinking scotch and
Leif:arguing morality versus profits with the ghost of his
Leif:father. Ghost daddy mocks Chuck for admitting he
Leif:loves Blair.
Steve:And again, while it was all
Steve:the understanding of Chuck is beating
Steve:himself up because even what I.
Steve:What I really liked in this is that Bart
Steve:didn't always act like Bart. Especially this
Steve:scene. Bart acted more like
Steve:Chuck. Yeah. Than he did Bart. More
Steve:sardonic, more
Steve:sarcastic, more cutting in the way he does
Steve:things. Bart was always direct.
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:Bart didn't mock people. Why would Bart. Why
Steve:would Bart Bass mock someone? He would just buy you.
Leif:He kind of mocked, uh, Rufus a little bit.
Leif:A little bit.
Steve:A little bit.
Leif:But when he was talking to Dan.
Steve:Yeah. Yes, but
Steve:fair. But.
Leif:But the guy was banging his wife.
Steve:Yeah, he had. He had reason.
Leif:Serena calls Nate and he lets her know where the secret statue is
Leif:located. Nate gets a funny look when she mentions
Leif:Trip is meeting with the grandfather. As
Leif:Serena hangs up, she is surprised to find
Leif:Maureen is at the cottage. Maureen lays out her
Leif:proposal of allowing Serena to remain as Trip's secret mistress.
Leif:Serena at first balks, but then Maureen reveals
Leif:that she has Serena's letter from Dr. Daddy.
Steve:Yeah, I loved the whole Old man in the Sea thing
Steve:where Nate's like, I didn't read it either, but look at it.
Steve:Of course I didn't fucking read it. Books.
Steve:And yeah, I love that we can tell that he knows something's
Steve:up right away. But Maureen coming in
Steve:and laying out this. You can be a side piece
Steve:and.
Leif:Get whatever it is you're getting out of this.
Steve:Yeah. And it's funny. It's funny to
Steve:me.
Leif:I think that's when Serena rises. She's like, oh, shit.
Steve:Yeah, yeah. That she's really not
Steve:getting anything. Yeah. Uh, she's not really
Steve:involved in this relationship. This
Steve:is all Trip's whim. And when
Steve:Trip's whim is over, Serena's gone.
Steve:And, uh, like you said, I think this is where she first
Steve:recognizes that.
Leif:We move into Act 3.
Leif:A drunk Chuck stood up Blair for lunch, but
Leif:Blair is very understanding. However, Chuck is a
Leif:dick and throws Blair out. Bart tells Chuck,
Leif:maybe there's hope for you yet.
Steve:I really liked Blair here. Blair
Steve:can have such a temper and can take things
Steve:so personally. And her patience
Steve:in this episode. Uncharacteristic,
Steve:but also not out of
Steve:character.
Leif:Yeah. Very similar to the funeral episode.
Steve:Yes. Yeah. That. She just wanted to
Steve:be there for Chuck.
Leif:Eric is trying to poison Carmen and Jane against
Leif:Jenny, but Queen J is two steps ahead and
Leif:shows up with two more of the limited edition bags for the
Leif:Minions. Eric is confused how Jenny. The price
Leif:of a smart car for those purses.
Steve:And I turned to Robin and I said,
Steve:jenny's selling drugs.
Leif:And I did actually look up, uh, in 2009,
Leif:Smart cars ran between about $12,021,000. 12,000 and
Leif:21,000
Leif:for a Smart car.
Steve:Do we call them smart cars anymore? Do they still make cars that we
Steve:call smart cars?
Leif:Well, that was like an actual brand.
Steve:Oh, was it?
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:Remember them?
Leif:Yeah, it's those little box cars. They're like little teeny
Leif:two seaters.
Steve:Oh, is that what they were called?
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:Are they still. Are they gone? Are they still around?
Leif:They might be still around in Europe, but definitely not. They did not
Leif:catch on here.
Steve:Wonder why. And actually,
Steve:I really do to an extent wonder why. Because if you're
Steve:living in a city, those would be. If m.
Steve:You're a single person in the city, that's what you should be driving.
Leif:Yes, yes. But like, there's zero cargo
Leif:room at all. So you can. Yeah, yeah.
Steve:If you're living in a one bedroom apartment in the city. That's what you should be
Steve:driving.
Leif:Yeah. Or at a European city where they have tiny
Leif:roads or.
Steve:Yes, fair. Well, many of.
Leif:The maniac roads are huge compared to cities in
Leif:Europe.
Steve:Yeah, yeah. Yes. I've actually, I do know
Steve:that I have seen or especially some of
Steve:like the highways outside of the cities
Steve:where you have mountainous,
Steve:you know, areas with one lane roads.
Leif:Yeah. Blair is having tea with Lily
Leif:who completely forgot that it was the anniversary of Bart's
Leif:death. Blair tells Lily that Chuck has never
Leif:been to see his mother's grave and doesn't even know where
Leif:it is. Lily promises to go see
Leif:Chuck.
Steve:Lily recognizing that she's been
Steve:so caught up in her own shit that she forgot that it was
Steve:Bart's. The anniversary of her husband's
Steve:death.
Leif:And to be fair, at the funeral she was already
Leif:hooking up with someone else.
Steve:She was, yes. She had moved on fairly quickly.
Steve:Yes. Uh, and
Steve:yeah, she was gonna leave. They were on the
Steve:brink of breaking up when he died. It seemed
Steve:to.
Leif:Yeah. Now, when you first watched
Leif:this, did the mention that Bart
Leif:never shared the location of the mother's grave? Did that throw up
Leif:any red flags for you?
Steve:I thought in an earlier episode
Steve:Chuck had visited his mom. Had
Steve:discussed visiting his mom's
Steve:grave. I thought I did. That was the only thing. When
Steve:they said he's never seen. Been to his mom's grave. I
Steve:had a. Oh. Moment.
Leif:Well, and it specifically said that Bart refused to tell him where
Leif:it was.
Steve:Yes.
Leif:So did that throw up any red flags?
Steve:Yes. Yeah.
Leif:Oh, for the end of the episode.
Steve:For the end of the episode. Yes. That was
Steve:like. That's a weird thing. Why wouldn't you ever.
Steve:Yes. I didn't quite formulate the. Is
Steve:she not dead? But I did get to the.
Steve:That's weird. Why would you never do that?
Steve:There's something else underlying here
Steve:and. Yeah.
Leif:Rufus returns and finds out that it is the one
Leif:year anniversary of Bart's death and assumes that is why
Leif:Lily has been so upset. Lily just leans right
Leif:into it.
Steve:Yep. That is
Steve:exactly why she's so evil.
Steve:She is. I, uh, I
Steve:love the character of
Steve:Lily Van Der Woodsen.
Steve:I really love.
Leif:She's Humphrey now.
Steve:Well, Lily Humphrey. Yes.
Leif:As Jenny points out.
Steve:Yes. I love her
Steve:character because she is.
Steve:She does good things and she is good
Steve:sometimes. And she has the potential
Steve:for good and this potential for
Steve:fucking evil. And. And
Steve:it just makes her very human to me
Steve:that a lot of TV characters, even really
Steve:dimensional characters don't always Feel so
Steve:human. And I really like that in one
Steve:episode, she can do something super sweet and
Steve:loving like go to try to support Chuck,
Steve:but also doesn't remember her
Steve:dead husband's anniversary and
Steve:is lying to her living husband about
Steve:bang. About visiting her first
Steve:husband.
Leif:Serena calls Nate and is upset about what
Leif:Maureen said, but still claims to have faith in Trip.
Leif:Nate reveals that Trip lied about meeting with the
Leif:grandfather and that that faith erodes
Leif:just a little bit more. Gossip Girl says,
Leif:looks like the love's nest has become a hornet's
Leif:nest. We find out that Nate is on his way to
Leif:Nassau county, and Gossip Girl continues.
Leif:And here comes Nate to stir it up.
Steve:Yeah, I like. I love how
Steve:Nate's like this. Like,
Steve:Tripp this shit.
Steve:Um, and that he's just fucking done with
Steve:it.
Leif:We go into Act 4.
Leif:It's nighttime, and Dan goes to the door to meet
Leif:Willa, uh, Weinstein.
Leif:And Willow then commits it.
Leif:And then Willow commits a bit of white sexual
Leif:assault by showing a video of herself naked to Dan
Leif:without first asking for consent.
Steve:Genetic. The
Steve:apple doesn't fall apart from the tree.
Steve:I saw where you were going. Right.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:So, uh, as the audience, of course, we don't actually see the video, but
Leif:judging by Dan's reaction and the sounds that were coming
Leif:out of it, it was probably pornographic in nature.
Steve:Yeah. Well, Dan does say you're naked.
Leif:Oh, yeah, we know she's naked. That could be somewhat arty.
Steve:That could be. Yes.
Leif:But by the sounds and his reactions, you're naked.
Steve:And taking it from three dudes is a little less
Steve:artistic to some. Yes.
Leif:Lily shows up at Chuck's suite to get him to come with
Leif:her to Bart's grave. Chuck is trying to blow
Leif:her off because continue to work would be the best way to honor his
Leif:father. Lily gets a call from Serena to let her know
Leif:that Maureen has the letter. Lily says she's going to tell
Leif:Rufus everything and that Serena should come home. Lily
Leif:is being a good mom for once. But Lily
Leif:asked Chuck to go to Bart's grave for both of them. Chuck
Leif:throws the flowers in the trash and says they should be yellow
Leif:roses. That was his mother's favorite.
Steve:Yes. Lily coming in and being a better parent to
Steve:Chuck than to her own kids is not unusual.
Leif:Well, she was a good m. Parent to Serena. Finally, in that moment, too.
Steve:In that moment, she was. She just come home and she.
Steve:That's. That is her pattern with Serena. It is.
Steve:Something happens. Get the fuck out. I don't want to see you.
Steve:Go away. And then it's okay,
Steve:just come home and we'll work it out. And typically, because
Steve:something happens, because Serena's
Steve:decisions do lead her to a place where she just needs
Steve:her mom. Yeah,
Steve:she does kind of trap herself like
Steve:that.
Leif:Serena is leaving the cottage as Trip finally
Leif:returns. Serena gives Trip a chance
Leif:to deny everything, but he doesn't. Serena agrees to
Leif:let Trip drive her home, but won't be talking to
Leif:him. We hear the same Ravenette song from the opening of the
Leif:episode as they get into Tripp's Range Rover.
Steve:Don't get in that car, Serena. There's wolves out there.
Steve:There are wolves on the street. Don't get into that car.
Leif:So I did not like the writing, but I did like the acting and the
Leif:directing in this episode. And, um, using that same
Leif:song again to show we're now here.
Leif:Ah, we're at that point.
Steve:Yes. Yes. And, yeah,
Steve:Trip, just how spineless
Steve:he is. That. Yeah, I
Steve:just, uh. He just made me
Steve:cringe.
Leif:Yeah. As we see. We see the wolves again and they
Leif:crash. We see the crash again. We also see Nate
Leif:is still riding into the city in a limo. Chuck, also in
Leif:a limo, ignores a call from Blair, who is returning to the
Leif:dorms. A day's Trip stumbles out of the
Leif:SUV and looks at an unconscious and bloody Serena
Leif:before calling Maureen.
Steve:Maureen. The motherfucker calls
Steve:Maureen before 911.
Steve:This fucking guy who's. I care more about
Steve:Serena than my career. I'm ready to burn it
Steve:all down for Serena. Oh, fuck Maureen.
Steve:I may have just killed Serena. Can you get here quick
Steve:so we can move her fucking body to a
Steve:different seat? I know we're not there yet, but.
Steve:Fucking asshole.
Leif:Yeah, not good. We go to Act
Leif:5, and Nate gets out of his limo when he sees police cars
Leif:and an ambulance. He sees Serena being wheeled
Leif:on a gurney. However, Tripp has apparently left the
Leif:scene of the accident.
Steve:And one P in his name.
Leif:Nate leaves a voicemail for Trip and tells him,
Leif:meet me at the hospital or I'm going to the cops.
Steve:Yeah, good, uh, guy Nate. Yeah, good guy
Steve:Nate. And. And everything Nate here is.
Steve:I feel completely justified.
Leif:Yeah, Nate had a great episode.
Steve:Yes. And it's funny because, like, Nate has
Steve:those kind of. As Robin often used to
Steve:refer to me as Captain Save a Ho.
Steve:Nate has those sort of tendencies
Steve:of, like, here's the shiny thing, and I'm going to
Steve:fight everyone who I can to, like. Um, go.
Steve:And it didn't feel like that. We know that Nate
Steve:now is crushing on Serena, but it
Steve:felt like I'm going To save my friend
Steve:Serena. And it didn't feel like it was about his
Steve:feelings for her, but about what was
Steve:right. I didn't feel. I feel like. Let me put it
Steve:this way. I feel like Nate would have
Steve:done everything he did in this episode if
Steve:he wasn't currently crushing on Serena.
Steve:I think he would have done this even if he was with
Steve:Blair. For example.
Leif:Probably. Lily comes home to find
Leif:Rufus cooking his famous Balinese. She
Leif:lets him know that she has to tell him something serious, but
Leif:is interrupted by a shocking call from a 516
Leif:area code.
Steve:Yeah. And so she doesn't get to tell him because
Steve:of the call. Yep. I.
Steve:When you're talking about the directing, I feel like the
Steve:direction from here to the end,
Steve:especially this next. The gathering of
Steve:the crew montage. I just thought that
Steve:the cuts and the
Steve:pacing were just really
Steve:energetic and really engaging.
Leif:Yeah, I agree. Dan and Willow are making
Leif:out pretty hard on her bed, but he's not really
Leif:feeling it and pulls away. Dan is saved from
Leif:further explanation when his cell phone rings, and he darts for the
Leif:door.
Steve:Oh, Dan, he's a nice guy. He's not
Steve:just going to sleep with someone because someone is there to sleep with
Steve:him. And I can
Steve:appreciate that. I've done it. I've
Steve:been there, too.
Leif:Willa, uh, is left with blue balls, and Dan goes to knock on
Leif:Blair's door to tell her that Serena has been in an accident
Leif:and they have to go to meet the family at the hospital.
Leif:Vanessa is standing in the hallway for some reason, so I guess she can
Leif:come too. I love
Leif:the day I ghost the Blair.
Steve:Yeah, I actually did, too. I love that that was
Steve:his first stop. That it is.
Steve:We need to go. And that Vanessa really was
Steve:an afterthought. And Vanessa, when
Steve:he sees her, it is like, oh, yeah, you're kind of friends with
Steve:us. Let's go. Come with us. But also, Dan currently
Steve:thinks he's in love with her. So, like, come on, let me. Come with me to
Steve:the hospital.
Leif:And presumably, Vanessa and Serena are friends,
Leif:supposedly. Even though they never had. They have never once hung out
Leif:alone.
Steve:Right. And I'm also thinking more
Steve:of how if something really bad was
Steve:happening to Serena, if Serena died
Steve:in this car accident, who would be the first person
Steve:to be there for Dan?
Leif:That'd be Vanessa.
Steve:Vanessa. Yeah, no doubt. So Dan
Steve:probably wants her there for other reasons, too,
Steve:but it is sort of like, come on, let's go. Like,
Steve:Blair, you and I need to go do this.
Leif:Uh, I don't know if you caught the sign on, uh, Blair's
Leif:door.
Steve:Oh, the.
Steve:The.
Leif:For inquiries, call Dorota.
Steve:Call Dodo with the phone number.
Leif:Chuck finally takes a call from Blair and finds out
Leif:Serena's been in an accident and redirects his
Leif:driver Arthur to Nassau. Ah, County
Leif:Ghost Daddy chastises Chuck for ditching the business
Leif:meeting for family.
Steve:And, uh, yes, again, the.
Steve:The flip out of. Of Bart. There's.
Steve:I kind of get it. I thought it was silly. I kind of got
Steve:it. The bigger thing here
Steve:is Chuck silencing
Steve:that voice for his friends. To
Steve:who? Chuck recognizing he
Steve:doesn't need to be his dad, his friends,
Steve:his sister is more important in this
Steve:moment.
Leif:Mhm.
Steve:And that really got me on Chuck's side here.
Leif:Trip finds Nate outside the hospital. We
Leif:find out that not only did Trip leave the scene of the accident,
Leif:he also moves Serena into the driver's seat.
Leif:Maureen comes up and tells Nate that she is prepared to give
Leif:Trip an alibi and that the grandfather will back her
Leif:up. When Trip asks Nate to help to see
Leif:Serena, Nate decks him.
Leif:Gossip Girl brings us to the end of the act with
Leif:Spotted. The Fall of a politician in the rise
Leif:of a Hero. Poor congressman. You've just
Leif:been vetoed.
Steve:Two things here, uh, are three things here. First of
Steve:all, the fact that Maureen comes in and
Steve:calls grandfather William.
Steve:Like I'm on a first name fucking basis
Steve:with grandfather now. So
Steve:who's he gonna be listening to? So
Steve:damn Trip having the
Steve:fucking audacity to
Steve:ask to see her. Can I
Steve:see the person that I just almost killed and then put in the driver's
Steve:seat to blame the entire accident on?
Steve:Are you fucking insane?
Steve:And finally, when. When
Steve:Nate punches him, um, Robin had a
Steve:total Nate boner for the rest of the
Steve:episode that she was like, that was hot.
Leif:I guess he doesn't. Just didn't want to get caught with
Leif:Serena because I don't understand. Other than that, like, why
Leif:would he even do this? Because. What, was he drinking or
Leif:something?
Steve:There was no evidence of that. It was simply,
Steve:uh.
Leif:He just didn't want to get caught with Serena.
Steve:Yeah, he didn't want to get caught. Which if that
Steve:accident happened, it was him and him and his intern
Steve:that he was driving home again
Steve:with all of them lining their stories up.
Steve:It would be fine. Of course this is. That
Steve:wouldn't happen because this is Maureen's out, right?
Steve:Like, no, no. This is how we get rid of Serena.
Steve:And, um. Yeah. What a
Steve:fucking spineless shit.
Steve:He was the good one.
Leif:We move into the epilogue.
Leif:Lily is comforting Serena, who is lying in A hospital
Leif:bed. However, Serena is upset that Lily didn't
Leif:tell Rufus yet.
Steve:Blake Lively is particularly pretty in
Steve:this scene when she's not wearing makeup and
Steve:they get her. You know, there's the one side with the bash, but then when
Steve:you get the other side of her, she's just
Steve:very. You're just a very pretty
Steve:m angle of her that, like, you don't really see because you
Steve:usually see her glamified because
Steve:that's the character that she plays. So seeing
Steve:her like that, it was. Yeah, she just.
Steve:It was a very pretty angle.
Leif:I noticed in this next scene here, she gives
Leif:Blair a little lip bite.
Leif:Uh, more romance between Blair and Serena. Theories
Leif:coming out. So as Lily leaves, Blair comes in and hugs her
Leif:best friend. Serena tells Blair she was right about Trip all
Leif:along.
Steve:Yes. Which we all knew. Blair was right about
Steve:Trip. And last week, Serena
Steve:or last week, Blair. You fucked up
Steve:when you told Serena. Oh, I was wrong.
Steve:Go. No, you weren't. You were right. Yeah.
Steve:Tell, like, don't tell Serena. Go chasing after him.
Steve:Be like, oh, wow. Yeah, he really did say all those things. But he's still a
Steve:married man. He's still a creeper.
Leif:Yeah. Chuck arrives at the hospital
Leif:and immediately starts having PTSD
Leif:flashbacks to a year ago when Bart died in the car
Leif:crash. Blair finds Chuck huddled on the ground.
Leif:Chuck is relieved to hear that everyone is here and going to
Leif:be okay. Chuck admits he was pushing Blair
Leif:away to prove his father wrong. Blair helps Chuck
Leif:get up.
Steve:I cried. I cried at the, uh. I cried when
Steve:Blair. Both times. Both times I
Steve:watched when Blair came around the corner
Steve:to find Chuck and went to him
Steve:and said the whole. You're becoming the man in ways
Steve:your father never was. And when she
Steve:went to him, I just. It punched me in
Steve:the gut.
Leif:Yes. It's kind of ironic that Blair was
Leif:saying that Chuck carried her and carried
Leif:everyone else when she was clearly carrying the
Leif:scene, because before she
Leif:showed up, I was actually laughing when Chuck was stumbling around.
Steve:Well, while stumbling around the hospital
Steve:again and him running away from his
Steve:dad and all that stuff. It was. Again,
Steve:it was that moment when Blair comes
Steve:around the corner to find him that it was. That
Steve:got me. You're right about. The flashback
Steve:was oddly
Steve:choreographed, and I feel like, again, it was
Steve:trying to fit the energy of what
Steve:was going on.
Leif:Jenny and Eric are alone in a waiting area. Eric is
Leif:frustrated with the vending machine and declines Jenny's offer
Leif:to share her coffee. However, after a moment, they
Leif:both apologize at the same time. There's nothing
Leif:like tragedy to bring People back together.
Steve:It's nice to see Jenny and Eric make up.
Steve:I HM was worried that
Steve:that was going to go on too long.
Steve:I actually wouldn't have minded another episode or two of them
Steve:taking shots, but I was really worried it was
Steve:going to go on too long and
Steve:I'm hoping that it does.
Leif:The problem was it was too one sided of a fight.
Steve:Yeah, yeah.
Leif:It was just Eric getting beat up.
Steve:Yeah, yeah. Eric has the resources but
Steve:Jenny has the brains. And Eric doesn't
Steve:have the soul to go after someone
Steve:like, oh, I'll buy this person a purse.
Steve:You gotta. That's not cutting anyone's throat,
Steve:Eric. And Eric isn't a throat cutter.
Leif:Rufus is about to leave for the hospital when Maureen shows up at
Leif:the penthouse. She gives Rufus the
Leif:letter. Why?
Steve:Like that's your whole leverage, isn't it? But I guess now that
Steve:Serena is all fucked up and out of the picture, it
Steve:doesn't matter and now you just want to blow shit up.
Steve:Uh uh. That one I was very
Steve:much why. Maybe
Steve:she has an end game with this. But I was
Steve:really baffled as to why she would go to
Steve:Rufus with it. Other than the TV
Steve:gods needing the turmoil.
Leif:That's the biggest reason. Although it
Leif:could be that she was actually being honest at that moment.
Leif:That she knows what it's like to be cheated on and she just
Leif:didn't like. Rupert is a nice guy. She felt bad for
Leif:him. Could be possible.
Steve:And with you saying that, I'll say this, I
Steve:don't have ill will towards Maureen.
Steve:Really. What she did to move Serena in the
Steve:car was shitty. But Maureen has
Steve:been on the receiving end of
Steve:bullshit. All she tried to do was help her husband
Steve:win an election in the wrong way.
Steve:Doing the worst, you know, doing something wrong.
Steve:But he was already ready to bang
Steve:Serena. Well, I guess it was the end of that episode
Steve:that he, that they first talked. Yeah.
Leif:Because he was. If he had just found out that it was her or
Leif:dad. Did he?
Steve:No, he didn't even know it was her yet.
Leif:Yeah, that's what he didn't find out.
Steve:It was her until the next episode when they were
Steve:already still flirting. Uh, like all of that was
Steve:already in motion before he knew it was even
Steve:Maureen. And all the Maureen stuff was just
Steve:an excuse to bang a teenager.
Steve:I don't care that she pulled the stunt to get her husband
Steve:elected. Like that shit happens. No, uh, one got
Steve:hurt. I don't really. Uh, I, I probably
Steve:wouldn't vote for the guy one. Well, I don't know. Who
Steve:knows what his Policies were. But it really
Steve:didn't bother me. The only thing that Marine has
Steve:done that I think is really shitty is
Steve:setting Serena up in the car. I
Steve:think most of the rest of what she's done is
Steve:borderline justifiable. Okay.
Steve:I found this letter. I didn't steal
Steve:this. This was in my fucking pocket. Your mom gave
Steve:me this letter, and I have it.
Leif:The whole setup, she was proposing this. This episode was
Leif:pretty bad though, as well.
Steve:In the morality
Steve:of right and wrong, human beings.
Steve:I get it. In the morality of
Steve:politics. I don't think she was
Steve:out of line to be like, I still
Steve:want my political shine, so here's
Steve:how we're going to do it. I saw it just
Steve:as political maneuvering only
Steve:sexually, essentially. And my point,
Steve:just being like, yes, Maureen is diabolical.
Steve:I don't think that the things that she has done have
Steve:been completely unjustified.
Steve:She was cheated on.
Steve:She was. Yeah, she was cheated on.
Leif:She was definitely wrong. But that doesn't make her a good person.
Steve:Uh, I'm not saying good person. I'm saying I'm not really holding as
Steve:much against her.
Leif:Okay.
Steve:Like, I don't think that she's.
Steve:I don't put her in the category of
Steve:Aaron. Right. Or as.
Leif:I mean, technically, I think she's worse than Aaron.
Steve:And it was a bad example.
Leif:In a real life morality situation.
Steve:Yeah, that was a bad. Aaron was a bad example.
Steve:I feel like. Like, I don't.
Leif:I mean, just the moving Serena in the car seat makes
Leif:her one of the worst people.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah. Again, I. I'll that that
Steve:alone doing that is the worst thing I think that
Steve:she's done. And the thing that she's done that was
Steve:uncalled for and unjustified being
Steve:mad enough to do it. I. I can get it, but
Steve:I. But that was wrong.
Leif:Back at the hospital, Dan turns to Vanessa and gives
Leif:her his most earnest look and tells her he loves
Leif:her. Vanessa says she loves him too, but clearly in
Leif:a friendly way. Vanessa gives Dan a graceful out
Leif:and gets up to check on Serena.
Steve:Shuts that shit down.
Steve:I fucking never liked
Steve:Vanessa more than her being like, I love you
Steve:too. Oh, Dan. Sometimes tragedy brings people
Steve:closer together. Deuces
Steve:like, nope, this isn't happening. Yeah,
Steve:I hope it stays that way. But I really,
Steve:really loved how she just
Steve:shut it down.
Leif:Lily returns home with Jenny, uh, and Eric.
Leif:Rufus is nowhere to be found, but the letter is sitting on the end
Leif:table in the living room. Gossip Girl begins her end of
Leif:episode monologue. Sinatra sings New
Leif:York, New York Is a hell of a town, but on the Upper
Leif:east side, sometimes it just feels like hell.
Steve:Yeah. So Rufus finds the letter. We haven't
Steve:seen the next thing that he does yet, though, right?
Leif:No.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:That was just them coming home and finding out Rufus in there. Then we see
Leif:Rufus is meeting with the woman from the co op meeting, and
Leif:Gossip Girl continues. Even when we're sure
Leif:we've earned that happy ending, it doesn't always
Leif:come.
Steve:So, yes, he's now with Holland Kemble.
Leif:Again, and she is very happy to see
Leif:him.
Steve:She is very happy to see him. And Rufus
Steve:finds this letter, and his
Steve:instinct is, I'm going to go find
Steve:that woman who was flirting with me earlier today and talk to her
Steve:about this. Instead of calling
Steve:Vanessa's mom, who's one of his best friends,
Steve:instead of going to anyone else that
Steve:he knows, he calls this person
Steve:that he met today that was flirting with him that
Steve:he knows is down to pound.
Steve:Because she kind of made it clear.
Leif:Does he? Because I have a feeling Rufus just gets that a
Leif:lot.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Uh, and he. I think he went to. I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt. Say
Leif:he went to her for advice because she knows. She's
Leif:dealt with this before. She knows what it's like to have a cheating spouse.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:And Rufus is just used to women being nice to him.
Steve:Yeah. I mean, God damn it, Rufus,
Steve:I hate you so much.
Leif:Yes. Yeah.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:So, yeah, I would notice if a woman was being like that to me,
Leif:but, yeah, Rufus might just be used to it.
Steve:Yeah, it just happens all the time.
Steve:It's like John Hammond, 30 Rock
Steve:when he's in the bubble.
Leif:Dan is going home to the loft alone. And Gossip
Leif:Girl continues. Second thoughts
Leif:creep in. Dan's all alone.
Steve:Um, Dan's all alone. As you should be right now.
Steve:Dan, go find Willa. Go find Willa
Steve:Weinstein.
Leif:Stay away from her.
Steve:Get that Weinstein money.
Leif:Jenny is pretty dressed up for bed. And Gossip
Leif:Girl says secret missions sneak
Leif:out.
Steve:Yep. Jenny's dealing drugs. I
Steve:know I will. We're about to see that, but
Steve:Serena.
Leif:Rolls over and sees Nate sleeping in the chair in her
Leif:hospital room. She then smiles before going
Leif:back to sleep. Gossip Girl says, and
Leif:only sleeping beauty finds her prince.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Jenny meets Damien on the street. And we find out Jenny
Leif:has been dealing drugs with him to finance those
Leif:handbags. Gossip Girl says,
Leif:in this city, nothing is for certain. The
Leif:night can push you forward into a dark future or
Leif:plunge you into a mysterious past.
Steve:So we. We see Jenny dealing drugs, and this
Steve:is when we see.
Leif:Yeah. The music abruptly stops and we
Leif:see Chuck exiting his limo with a bouquet of
Leif:yellow roses. He finds a dark
Leif:haired woman at his father's grave. She immediately
Leif:recognizes Chuck and runs away. Chuck
Leif:finds one halfway locket with the letter E
Leif:engraved on the outside and a picture of his
Leif:father on the inside.
Steve:And, uh, the woman left. Did you say
Steve:the woman left yellow roses on the grave, too?
Leif:I did not mention it, but yeah, she did.
Steve:Yeah. So the woman at the grave also leaves the
Steve:yellow roses, sees Chuck and runs away.
Leif:And, uh, have we heard what his mom's name
Leif:is before?
Steve:No.
Leif:Oh, we haven't.
Steve:I don't believe so. I believe that the only.
Steve:I believe that it's only ever been mentioned as
Steve:your mom, Chuck's mom, my mom. I
Steve:don't believe we've heard her name before.
Leif:I. I feel like they must have.
Leif:Why show us the E. Yeah, I.
Steve:I had that thought too. Like, should I know E.
Steve:Because the assumption is it's his mom. And my
Steve:other reaction was, oh, great, another Chuck
Steve:mystery. Because the last Chuck mystery was
Steve:so compelling. And I really hope this doesn't
Steve:become another one of, like, the noir
Steve:attempt that they did with that other.
Leif:Talk about the Eyes Wide Shut plot line.
Steve:The Eyes Wide Shut plot line.
Leif:Yeah. Hopefully it's a little better.
Steve:Hopefully.
Leif:But it looks like Chuck is going to go off the deep end again.
Steve:Yep, yep, yep.
Leif:The full quote from Gossip Girl at the end of the episode is
Leif:Sinatra sings. New York, New York, it's a
Leif:hell of a town. But on the Upper east side,
Leif:sometimes it just feels like hell. Even when we're sure
Leif:we've earned that happy ending, it doesn't always
Leif:come. Second thoughts creep in.
Leif:Secret missions sneak out. And only Sleeping
Leif:Beauty finds her prince. In this city,
Leif:nothing is for certain. The night can push you forward into the
Leif:dark future or plunge you into a mysterious
Leif:past.
Leif:What are your predictions?
Steve:Number one. Like you said, Chuck's gonna go off the deep end trying
Steve:to figure out who this mystery woman is.
Steve:I think that Chuck can get a little obsessive
Steve:sometimes, and I think that this might. He
Steve:might spiral a bit. I could see Chuck
Steve:spiraling a bit here, which could
Steve:mean an uncertain future for Chuck and
Steve:Blair. I don't think this Dan Vanessa thing is
Steve:over. Over. I think Vanessa put the kibosh on it. But
Steve:that's also very much how the Dan Serena
Steve:relationship kind of teetered for a
Steve:bit in a couple times. Like both when
Steve:they first got together and then in. In
Steve:a later time getting together that it was Oh, I think I
Steve:like her. Oh, I think I like him. And they
Steve:kind of teetered.
Leif:So this was actually the mid season finale. This
Leif:episode aired on December 7th. The next episode
Leif:is until three months later. March.
Steve:Really? So no Christmas episode.
Steve:Wow.
Leif:Because they plenty of time for Serena to heal up.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:She doesn't have to be in a hospital at all.
Steve:You're right. Right. And doesn't have a shattered uh,
Steve:head too. How about that
Steve:scar goes away like
Steve:completely.
Leif:I think that was probably the last time we see it.
Steve:Probably like Scott.
Leif:So we got Chuck going off the deep end. Uh,
Leif:what's. What's else for what?
Steve:Oh, Lily and Rufus.
Leif:I don't know.
Steve:I. Do they break up? Do I?
Steve:Rufus has a loft to go back to. So I.
Steve:I definitely feel like there's going to be
Steve:a blow up with them.
Steve:I don't think Lily slept with baby
Steve:daddy. I think she went there for another
Steve:reason. For another thing that
Steve:because of how Lily was like, it's time I told
Steve:Rufus the truth and was doing it with
Steve:like ownership that it felt like, yeah, I'm
Steve:keeping a big secret. But it's not as
Steve:bad. The other side of it is, uh,
Steve:if she did bang her ex while she was engaged to another person
Steve:and she went to Rufus and said, well, I
Steve:banged you when I was engaged to Bart. You
Steve:can't be that mad. You should know this is just kind of what I
Steve:do.
Leif:Yeah. But yeah, it is definitely easy to see why Lily has been
Leif:married five times now.
Steve:Yes. Yeah. And okay, so
Steve:let's talk about this for just a second. When we
Steve:first meet Lily in season one, it is
Steve:Lily Van Der Woodsen, right? Mhm.
Steve:She is then Lily Van
Steve:der Woodsen Bass. And then she is Lily
Steve:Humphrey. So she got married twice
Steve:and didn't change her name and kept her.
Steve:Either that or was Serena and
Steve:Eric's dad the third
Steve:in the line. Which he's not because we know
Steve:Klaus came in between there and somebody
Steve:else.
Leif:Yeah, that's pretty. Uh, that he was the first.
Leif:But we know the Klaus that she married was
Leif:only for like a month. So that can explain why she never changed her
Leif:name that time.
Steve:Yeah, yeah, that's true. That it was
Steve:really quick. And were there two Klaus?
Leif:Yeah, but one was just a boyfriend and lasted longer than the one that she
Leif:married.
Steve:That's right. That's right.
Steve:God damn. I really do want a Lily spinoff. I
Steve:just want an entire show of.
Leif:Lily banging her way across.
Steve:Banging her way. Banging her way through the 80s and
Steve:90s and early 2000s,
Steve:uh, rated R
Steve:TV, Ma, Lilly, Lily
Steve:spinoff.
Leif:What about, uh, Jenny? What's next for Jenny?
Steve:Oh, Jenny's going to jail.
Steve:Jenny is not.
Steve:Jenny is smart. Jenny is cunning. Jenny is
Steve:not a drug dealer. And Jenny is going to find herself in a really
Steve:bad situation. You know, she was
Steve:had the whole, like, next time I want to go to the table alone,
Steve:I guarantee there's an upcoming
Steve:episode with I'm at the table alone, and
Steve:click, crank handcuffs right
Steve:there at the table. Jenny's getting arrested is my
Steve:big prediction. I feel like I. I
Steve:feel like Rufus has wanted her to arrested for so long that he's
Steve:finally going to get it.
Leif:What about Serena and Nate? Are they going to get together?
Steve:I hope so. Single Nate is the best
Steve:Nate. So I'm worried they'll get
Steve:together and it'll be boring because
Steve:Nate in relationships is boring.
Steve:Serena in relationships is dumb. So
Steve:I'm worried that it's going to be dumb and boring. But I
Steve:also feel like they deserve
Steve:each other in that way. Of
Steve:the two golden retrievers getting together
Steve:and having golden
Steve:retriever love, it's cute to me.
Steve:So I kind of want it to at least happen also
Steve:to. Because my initial
Steve:prediction, my overall number one prediction of they're all gonna
Steve:bang needs to be fulfilled, and
Steve:it's not being fulfilled yet, But I do
Steve:want to see that happen.
Leif:Um, and, you know, Serena's got. And he got to do something
Leif:while Dan and Vanessa are together.
Steve:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of hope that
Steve:eventually comes back to Dan and Serena.
Steve:I kind of feel like that would be a good way to
Steve:close out season six. That I feel
Steve:like that'd be a good way to close out the show is those
Steve:two getting back together. But I don't really need it
Steve:right now.
Leif:Well, let's go ahead and get into some segments.
Leif:This week in fandom, we jumped in the wayback machine to
Leif:travel to the fan forums from 2009.
Leif:Hello there, Peabody here. And this is
Leif:the wayback machine for traveling through time. And this
Leif:is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman.
Steve:Hello.
Leif:Good boy. The overall reaction
Leif:from the fan forum, unlike me, they thought this was the best episode of the
Leif:season.
Steve:I loved this episode. I
Steve:really did. You are right about
Steve:some of the writing problems. The wolves are
Steve:ridiculous. There are flaws.
Steve:But as far as an episode moving me
Steve:emotionally, yeah, it wins.
Leif:They thought Ed was great.
Steve:I mostly did. He didn't talk a lot.
Steve:He brooded the whole episode so he didn't have to hide his
Steve:accent. But also, the fandom loves Ed
Steve:anyway. Like, they Just. Yeah.
Leif:Love Nate and Serena at the end.
Steve:Yeah. Yep.
Leif:Positive reactions to Dan and Vanessa.
Steve:Positive as in positive to them being together or
Steve:positive in how that ended up?
Leif:They're excited for them to get together.
Steve:Gross.
Leif:I agree. But I think Phantom
Leif:just wants them to be separated from the Upper east side.
Steve:Yes. Also, there's a get it over with
Steve:aspect to it, too, that no relationship
Steve:lasts.
Leif:Hopefully they. They break so bad, Vanessa just leaves
Leif:forever.
Steve:Or they could kill her off. Oh, but then they don't
Steve:leave forever.
Leif:I don't want Vanessa to die. She's a good person. She's just
Leif:annoying.
Steve:Yeah. Fair. Fair.
Steve:Usually a good person. Unless she's
Steve:blackmailing Blair.
Leif:Chuck and Blair are chef's kiss.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Happy that Jenny and Eric made up.
Steve:Yep. I'm, um. There.
Leif:There was mixed reactions on Jenny being a drug
Leif:dealer. Some people liked it, some people hated it. Thought it was
Leif:gross.
Steve:I think it's gross, but I love it.
Steve:I think that it's exciting. Uh, what?
Leif:It's exciting?
Steve:Yeah, it's exciting. And it's
Steve:so in line for Jenny. It's so
Steve:something Jenny would do. I don't think it's a stretch
Steve:for her character. I think that Jenny believes
Steve:she's invincible. She sees the money.
Steve:She doesn't want to take Lily's money.
Steve:She wants her own.
Leif:I don't think she really cares about the money so much as. That
Leif:excites.
Steve:Uh, yeah.
Leif:She's just bored with being queen. That's. She's. She's above
Leif:that.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:She's not Blair. She. She's. She has a real
Leif:ambition.
Steve:Yes.
Leif:Unlike Blair, who just wants to be popular.
Steve:Yes. Yeah. And. And wants to
Steve:be. Blair just wants to belong.
Leif:Yes.
Steve:And rule.
Leif:Yes.
Steve:Jenny wants to sell drugs. Have a little excitement.
Leif:Well, that is it for this week in fandom. Uh, let's go
Leif:ahead and move over to episode grades.
Leif:It is my week to go first. So,
Leif:as I mentioned, not my favorite episode.
Leif:I thought the acting was, for the most part, pretty good, other than
Leif:Chuck stumbling around in the hospitals. A little
Leif:over the top for me. The directing was good. He had
Leif:junk.
Steve:Act drunk. Ed act
Steve:drunk.
Leif:He wasn't acting drunk, though. He was acting like he was, like,
Leif:hyperventilating.
Steve:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leif:Just a little over the top. The directing was good.
Leif:Uh, we had, you know, good use of music in the episode. They
Leif:kind of did some different stuff with Gossip Girl. Kind of. They
Leif:did, like, the end of the episode, Gossip Girl thing a couple times
Leif:where she was, like, inners dispersed within a scene, like.
Steve:Yes.
Leif:But yeah, the writing. Not good. I just.
Leif:I don't like Sevyn's writing.
Steve:She's. I mean, honestly, she's the worst
Steve:recurring writer.
Leif:The whole hallucinating with Bart was just a little over the
Leif:top.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:The ptsd, which is. I mean, I've
Leif:never lost a parrot, so I can't really say, but it just seems
Leif:a little over the top. And the wolves.
Leif:Ridiculous. So at the end of the day, I came
Leif:down with a C. Damn.
Steve:Damn. Okay, so I did not
Steve:have all the problems you had with it. And
Steve:when an episode, um, moves me the way this
Steve:one did, I go to the top.
Steve:I gave this an A minus. I
Steve:agree with a lot of your criticisms. It didn't
Steve:distract from the episode to me. And I
Steve:think that's really the big difference is that your
Steve:criticisms are valid. The wolves.
Steve:Why? Why wolves? What is
Steve:your symbol? Stephanie? At the same
Steve:time, it wasn't enough to
Steve:lessen how I felt about the episode itself.
Steve:It got me engaged and emotional, so I liked it.
Leif:Moving to Stockwatch. Going up.
Leif:Nate.
Steve:Nate.
Leif:He was awesome. This episode. Jenny and Eric because they made
Leif:up. Blair, because she was a great
Leif:girlfriend. Maureen, because she won.
Leif:And that's it.
Steve:Yep. Yep. I had
Steve:the same. I had Chuck, but I'm going to take him
Steve:off because I don't think that he went up.
Steve:I just think that he. I don't think Chuck
Steve:went up. I just think that Chuck did the right thing.
Steve:But other than. So I really had all of.
Steve:Exactly what you said. Nate, Blair,
Steve:Maureen, Jenny, and Eric.
Leif:Uh, for me, going down.
Steve:Lily.
Leif:Rufus, because he's just pathetic.
Steve:Poor Rufus.
Leif:Dan, because he got shut down and sexually assaulted.
Leif:Serena because, well, she got into a car accident,
Leif:almost died and lost her boyfriend and
Leif:tripped because he's just the absolute worst.
Steve:Uh, I also had Lily and Rufus for the
Steve:same reasons. I also had Trip
Steve:and Serena for the same reasons. I also
Steve:had Kira because she's no
Steve:longer in the plotting circle.
Steve:All of her work is now out the window.
Steve:And who was the other one that you said?
Leif:Dan.
Steve:Yeah, I didn't have Dan go. No, I just. I had
Steve:Dan neutral.
Leif:Yeah, I Chucked neutral. I actually almost had him going down
Leif:because he was kind of spiraling all up.
Steve:Yeah, I'm keeping him at neutral.
Steve:Um, like you said, I almost had him going up,
Steve:but. Nah. But
Steve:here's the best outfits from the last
Steve:episode we seen.
Leif:Best outfit for me. So, anyways,
Leif:it wasn't a very big fashion episode because
Leif:there was no party, for one thing.
Steve:No party. And it was all Outerwear. Yeah, they were all outside
Steve:most of this.
Leif:So I ended up going with Blair's houndstooth pussy
Leif:bow blouse from Alexander McQueen with, uh,
Leif:the Brooks Brothers fleece double breasted black skirt
Leif:and a white star style coat and
Leif:slingback white with black toe cap Levin
Leif:heels.
Steve:So I actually also went with
Steve:Blair, but her Giovanni Rufino
Steve:coat that she was wearing, the big, uh, she
Steve:had like kind of a podcast poofy kind of coat with a big
Steve:black scarf on it as well.
Leif:That's the same thing, isn't it?
Steve:Oh, was it? Yeah, I thought it was. Okay, then we had to.
Steve:I. I must have seen the name wrong. Maybe mine is
Steve:a photo credit.
Leif:But yeah, she. It was that scarf. It was a pussy bow
Leif:blouse.
Steve:Oh, okay. Oh, I didn't. So I thought it was a scarf.
Steve:That's.
Leif:And she had. She. There was a scene earlier without the jacket
Leif:as well.
Steve:Oh, okay. It was. It was the coat that I
Steve:loved, though.
Leif:There was also from the flashback, I
Leif:might have given this. This dress best dress
Leif:on the episode where Bart dies where
Leif:Serena was wearing. You don't really see it in this episode because she's wearing a
Leif:coat over it.
Steve:Oh.
Leif:But it was like a tulle dress underneath there.
Steve:Yeah, I remember that.
Leif:Jenny's jacket was kind of nice. I like that.
Steve:Robin's comment. It was the first like five
Steve:minutes of the show and Robin was like, the
Steve:outerwear on this series is
Steve:next level.
Leif:That was the WB and CW in general. Yeah, they
Leif:had a lot of great coats.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah.
Leif:Uh, that Drax back on Dawson's Creek.
Leif:I love the jackets they were wearing like the 1560s
Leif:in.
Steve:Also, while we're talking about the outerwear and
Steve:complimenting it, trip, we're not talking to
Steve:you and your padded leather armor.
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Leif:to talk about season three, episode
Leif:13, the Hurt
Leif:Locket.
Steve:The Hurt Locket.
Leif:The episode description reads, chuck tracks the
Leif:woman he saw at his father's grave.
Leif:Jenny agrees to help Damien, Nate and
Leif:Serena get friendly.
Steve:All right, what class is Chuck? What?
Steve:What, uh, what DND class would Chuck
Steve:be if he's trying to go on this? Like,
Steve:does he have the ranger skills
Steve:necessary or the rogue skills
Steve:necessary to track this person down? He seems like an
Steve:NPC class. I don't know if he can do the tracking himself.
Leif:M. NPC nobleman.
Steve:NPC nobleman. Yeah.
Leif:Either that or he's a vigilante.
Steve:Oh, that. Oh, that. Yeah. Well, the Batman
Steve:voice definitely, definitely
Steve:leans into that. Right?
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:Like, Dan's a bard. Right? Just all written
Steve:word. Bard.
Leif:Yeah. Yeah.
Steve:I would put him as a bard. Nate would probably
Steve:be a fighter. Something that doesn't need to do too much
Steve:thinking and use Paladin. Paladin. Yeah.
Steve:Nate's a Paladin. Nate's a Paladin.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Serena is a siren.
Leif:She's a monstrous humanoid.
Leif:That tracks.
Steve:That tracks.
Leif:Jenny is a halfling.
Steve:Rogue. Yes. Yes.
Leif:So, uh, Eric is an
Leif:aristocrat.
Steve:Yeah, I was going to say he's also got to be an NPC
Steve:class. Roof, uh, is also
Steve:a bard, obviously.
Steve:Lily, uh, an NPC aristocrat.
Leif:I would also think Lily might be a
Leif:necromancer.
Steve:Oh, that's fair. Oh, yeah,
Steve:because she learned it from Cece. I mean, that makes
Steve:sense.
Leif:Training to become a lich.
Steve:Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Fair.
Steve:Yeah. It wasn't chemotherapy that she was going through. It was
Steve:actually the ritual to ascend to lichdom
Steve:that Cece had to do over the summer. That makes
Steve:a lot of sense.
Leif:Blair.
Steve:What would Blair be, then?
Leif:Yeah, uh, she could be an anti
Leif:paladin. Possibly.
Steve:She could be. She could. Yeah, she could be
Steve:an anti paladin. An assassin.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Although I don't really see
Steve:her as being so much sneaky as much as
Steve:subtle.
Leif:Yeah, she might be a vigilante. Class as well.
Steve:Yeah, I could. Yeah, that one makes sense.
Leif:She does like disguises.
Steve:Yes. Oh, yeah. Claire.
Leif:Well, until next time. You know you love us.
Steve:XOXO Every time you walk away,
Steve:run away you take a piece of me with
Steve:you there Every time
Steve:you walk away or run away you take a piece of me
Steve:with you there every
Steve:time you walk away or run away you take a piece of
Steve:me with you there
Steve:oh, it seems I'm walking.
Steve:Right to your door
Steve:my heart still.
Steve:Resting looking for something more
Steve:are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
Steve:me I'm trying really hard to believe
Steve:every time you walk away or run away you take a piece
Steve:of me with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away I run away you take a piece
Steve:of me with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there
Steve:never feels right when I'm out here on
Steve:my own
Steve:I left last night and it feels like
Steve:way too long
Steve:are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
Steve:me I'm trying really hard to believe
Steve:every time you walk away, run away you take a piece
Steve:of meat with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there.
Steve:Come back to me.
Steve:Smile and you'll make my.
Steve:Life complete.
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there
Steve:ah Every time you walk away
Steve:or run away you take a piece of me with
Steve:you there Every time you walk
Steve:away or run away take a piece of me
Steve:with you there Every
Steve:time you walk away or run away and take a piece of
Steve:me with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece
Steve:of me you there
Steve:Every time you walk away or run away you take a
Steve:piece of me with you there.