The next day, Lily and Rufus are waiting around for adoptive parents to call them back. Rufus gets the call from the agency, telling them that the parents don’t want to meet, now or ever.

It’s time for Chuck’s brunch, and members of the Bass Industries board are there to meet their new CEO. Serena asks about the canceled “date,” but Blair maintains that she and Chuck are still just friends. Jenny and Dan show up, Dan limping from the dinosaur of a cell phone he’s using now that his is “lost,” and Lonely Boy enthusiastically greets his girlfriend.

Jack walks in without Chuck, saying the new head is hard at work upstairs. Penelope wants Blair’s permission to release the dirt she has on Dan, and without finding out what, Blair consents just to get Penelope off her back. Jack asks B to show a few board members upstairs to meet Chuck.

Jenny and Eric bicker like the siblings they don’t know that they sort of are. Eric says he wants alone-time with his boyfriend. J calls him conceited. E calls her annoying. GG blast-time again: this time, everyone at the brunch checks their phones, including Jenny, Eric, and Serena. Gossip Girl reports that Serena and Lonely Boy share a sibling. (Finally! I was so ready for this secret to come out.) Serena storms out, shamed and confused. Blair and the Bass board members walk in on Chuck, two topless women, and enough pills on his desk to tranquilize a rhino. Oops! You know what they say about first impressions…

Chuck comes downstairs, tucking in his shirt. Blair confronts him about his lies, and he tells her to stop playing the wife. Dan catches up to Serena and explains why he lied, saying that he couldn’t bear to be around her if he couldn’t be honest. Serena needs time to process this alone.

Back in Boston, Rufus wants to wait, hoping the parents will change their minds. Lily wants to go back to New York. She doesn’t want another minute trapped with Rufus, scared that he’s going to hate her… when she’s still in love with him. They kiss. The mood changes from anger to arousal. [Commercial break for explicit content] Rufus and Lily got it on! Now they’re lying in bed, talking about the golden days of rock ‘n’ roll (yes, again). By the way, Rufus shirtless? Not bad. Rufus gets a call from the adoptive father, saying he wants to meet them without his wife’s consent.

Chuck confronts Jack about the Brunch-fiasco. Jack admits that he was bitter about being stuck in Australia, and resented Bart for the same reasons Chuck did. And now, he has his vengeance: Chuck violated the morality clause in his contract. Jack already talked to the board, and he’s in charge now.

Rufus and Lily meet with the adoptive father, who tells them that Andrew (their son) died in a sailing accident 1 year ago. It was too painful for his wife to tell them. Lily asks if the boy was happy, and the father says the boy always had a smile on his face.

Dan goes to see Vanessa, and Nate is there waiting for her so they can go out for their anniversary. Nate commiserates with Dan: he knows it sucks to have the painful details of your personal life blasted all over the island, but you find out who your real friends are. Turns out he’s talking about Dan, and Nate apologizes about the whole Jenny thing. The bros make amends.

Chuck shows up to B’s with flowers, but it’s too late for him. Chuck is the only one who didn’t’ believe in himself. Blair only wanted to be there, but when he called her his wife, he made it sound like the ugliest word in the world. “I’m done,” she tells him, throwing the flowers back into the elevator.

Serena and Eric go to Dan and Jenny’s. Serena and Dan decide that they love each other enough to make it work. If Paul Rudd and Alicia Silverstone could do the romantic-step-siblings thing in Clueless, then they can, too! Lily and Rufus walk into the apartment, holding hands, to see their four children acting like a happy little family.

And oh yeah: afraid they’d use their money and influence for evil, the adoptive parents lied to Rufus and Lily. The kid’s not dead.



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-Meghan Carlson, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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