Rufus chats with Eleanor while participating in Bring Your Father to Work Day.  He asks her to fire his daughter, but she thinks that would be a waste of Jenny's talents.  Rufus hangs out for the rest of the day and agrees that Little J has genuine talent, but he still thinks school is too important for her to miss. She has to go back whether she likes it or not.  Back at Yale, Chuck lets Serena (Blake Lively) know that the dean will ask everyone at the party who they'd most like to have dinner with, living or dead.  If her answer is impressive enough, it'll guarantee her early admission.  While Serena ponders whether she should have let B go to the party, Nate's dorm room make-out session is interrupted when the real Dan Humphrey knocks on the door.  He's looking for help with a recommendation letter and blows Nate's cover.  Nate gets a book thrown at his head for his lies, and also yells at Dan for having a chip on his shoulder.  That should make my co-worker Debbie Chang quite happy, since she kind of hates Mr. Humphrey.

After Blair bribes her way into the dean's party, she taunts Serena with the perfect answer she's come up with for the dean's question: female author George Sand.  Unfortunately for B, S learned the answer from Chuck and plans to impress the dean before Blair gets the chance.  Meanwhile, Chuck's private party for the Skull and Bones crew fails to impress.  They want him to deliver Nate, whose dad caused many of them to lose their trust funds.  C agrees to sell out his friend, arranges to meet him at a local bar, but actually has a secret trick up his sleeve.  Instead of giving them Nate, he gives them Dan (Penn Badgley).  It's really a bad idea to cross Chuck Bass.

B tries her best to network at the party, but everywhere she turns it's Serena, Serena, Serena.  It's not long before the dean asks his question of choice, which S thinks she's got in the bag.  Little does she know that Blair switched her pre-written answer with a card reading Pete Fairman, who just happens to be the man Serena killed.  S is shocked when she hears the name read aloud by the dean, and even more taken aback when B admits she killed the guy.  Oh, how I love Blair.

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