■ THE DARK NIGHT BEST QUOTES
- Serena to Chuck: You know I envy you. Eww what am I saying you're disgusting.
- Catherine: You wouldn't understand.
- Blair: Hot young guy? Aging beauty enjoying her last hurrah before the surgeries start? It's called a cliche.
- Blair: You disgust me and I hate you
- Chuck: Then why are you still holding my hand
- Dan: Who? Who would I tell? Except everyone I've ever met.
- Catherine: Blair, have you seen Nate?
- Blair: Ummm, no, it's a blackout.
- Blair: (to Chuck) You are disgusting and I hate you.
- Chuck: Then why are you still holding my hand?
- Vanessa: No, Nate, there are no buts. You lied to me and you're sleeping with some Mrs. Robinson. And while on the Upper East Side that might be totally normal, I didn't sign up for some love triangle with you and somebody's mom!
- Serena: (to Chuck) You are not using Blair as sexual Drano!
- Rufus: (to Vanessa) He's not still reading one of those Dan and Serena should-be-or-shouldn't-be threads is he?
- Blair: (about Marcus) You know he wasn't pressured me about sex? Not once! (sad) Not once...
- Nate: (to Vanessa) When you called the other day, it was like... I could breathe again.
| | ●SEE MORE: Gossip Girl Quotes | | | ■ THE DARK NIGHT BEST MOMENTS AND BIGGEST SHOCKERS
- When Jenny is asked for her opinion on one of Eleanor's designs, she gives a less than stellar review. Eleanor overhears this and fires her immediately.
- Blair invites Nate and Vanessa to her party claiming to Nate that she wants to use Vanessa to keep Nate away from her boyfriend's stepmother, but it turns out Blair may be scheming with Catherine.
- With Dan and Serena in the elevator, and while Chuck is seducing Blair and Vanessa just realized what Nate has been up to lately (Catherine), conveniently there is a black out.
- Jenny gets stuck at Waldorf Designs during the blackout and is given a second chance once Eleanor realizes she was right in her assessment of the designs. They spend the rest of the night making adjustments to the line.
- Chuck pretends to be Marcus during the blackout kissing Blair, but then Marcus catches them. Blair claims she thought it was Marcus, but Marcus doesn't believe her. She admits that she knew, but that she's just frustrated with Marcus.
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| | | ■ THE DARK NIGHT RELATIONSHIP DRAMA
- Blair tries to get Marcus to have sex with her, but he wants to go slow. She's a delicate flower, and it should be special. When Catherine tells Blair that Nate makes her feel alive, Blair challenges Marcus to come upstairs and make her feel alive. When Chuck overhears the plan, he pretends to be Marcus and kisses Blair. Marcus catches them just as the lights turn on and she claims she thought Chuck was Marcus. Marcus doesn't believe her, and she admits that she knew it was Chuck, but that she needs Marcus to show her he wants her. He kisses her passionately in front of the whole party--and Chuck.
- Vanessa asks Jenny if she should call Nate after he canceled on her. Jenny tells Vanessa to do what she wants to do (which is call Nate.) When she calls, Nate makes another date. On their date, Vanessa asks if he wants to hang out tomorrow too. He tells her he has plans and after she complains about him being all talk, he tells her he'll cancel. Little do they know, Catherine has followed them. Blair invites Nate and Vanessa to her party admitting to Nate that she wants to keep him away from Catherine and is using Vanessa to do so. But once she leaves Blair calls Catherine and confirms that Nate and Vanessa will be at the party. But then Nate learns from Marcus that Blair and Catherine have become friends so he tells Vanessa not to go to the party, suspicious of Blair's intentions. Vanessa gets the message, but Rufus encourages her to go anyway. When she arrives, she sees Nate and Catherine together right before the blackout. Nate explains the situation to Vanessa, that Catherine is helping his family out financially and now he's stuck. When Catherine tells Vanessa how much she cares about Nate, Vanessa tells Nate to stay with her. Vanessa tells Dan about everything that happened and admits to him that Catherine threatened to tell the FBI where the Captain is which is the real reason she told Nate to stay with her.
- Nate borrows more money from Catherine. Catherine threatens Nate, telling him she'll tell the Feds where his father is hiding. She's glad they're still together. Nate still makes another date with Vanessa. Later, Catherine follows Nate and sees him on his date with Vanessa. Catherine calls Blair to get information on Vanessa. At the party, Catherine tells Blair that Nate makes her feel alive. Catherine also expands on her feelings for Nate to Vanessa. Vanessa tells Nate to stay with Catherine and then Catherine makes a lunch date with him.
- Serena and Dan debate whether to go public with their relationship. Dan wants to keep it to themselves, but Serena insists she doesn't care what everyone thinks and doesn't want to hide. But then a girl takes a picture of them kissing, so the point is moot as Gossip Girl now knows. Later, Serena complains that Blair isn't supporting her reunion with Dan and Blair tells her she will once they talk through their issues and are back together for real. Serena leaves in a huff. Later when Serena is out with Dan but on the phone with her mother, three young girls approach Dan and comment on his and Serena's relationship. The incident puts their issues back in the forefront. During the blackout they get stuck in the elevator and talk over their issues. Dan doesn't like that Serena gets preferential treatment and Serena doesn't like his self-righteousness. They realize that they are at a standstill and Serena admits she doesn't want to talk about it anymore. Once they leave the elevator, it'll be over. But they admit they still love each other.
- Chuck is not able to "get it up" for any of the girls he finds. After a talk with Serena, he realizes that Blair is the cause. He wants to have one last fling with her to "clear the pipes." At Blair's party, Chuck tries to seduce Blair, claiming that her sex life with Marcus will never be as good as what she and Chuck had. Chuck overhears Blair's request that Marcus meet her upstairs and plans to make it there before Marcus does. He puts on a British accent and starts kissing Blair. Later, Chuck is in a limo with a girl, but she complains that he's not better. He explains that he's better, just not for her.
| | ●SEE MORE: Gossip Girl Relationships | | | ■ THE DARK NIGHT SYNOPSIS
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| | Serena (Blake Lively) and Dan (Penn Badgley) are forced to deal with their unspoken problems while trapped in an elevator during a citywide blackout. In a humorous twist, Blair (Leighton Meester) questions the lack of passion in her relationship with Marcus (guest star Patrick Heusinger), while at the same time Chuck (Ed Westwick) appears to have lost his "passion" for any woman other than Blair. Meanwhile, Nate (Chace Crawford) struggles between his feelings for Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) and his more-complicated-by-the-day relationship with Catherine (guest star Madchen Amick). Jenny (Taylor Momsen) risks losing her internship when Eleanor (Margaret Colin) catches Jenny critiquing one of the Eleanor Waldorf designs. Matthew Settle also stars. | As "The Dark Night" gets underway, Dan and Serena are planning a coming out party. Well, more accurately, they're planning on going public with their relationship again at Blair's big upcoming party.
But when one of Gossip Girl's minions takes a cellphone pic of them and the secret is out, it immediately starts to get in Dan's head. Making matters worse, he's confronted by a bunch of catty girls in the park. Having read Gossip Girl's blog, the youngsters want to know why Dan could possibly go out with Serena again after everything she did. Also having a personal (read: physical) crisis of course is Chuck Bass. He can't get his "game" on, no matter what he does. Seriously, the equipment doesn't work. For Chuck Bass.
When he confides this to Serena, she points out that he's obviously still hung up on Blair. He determines that what he needs is one more roll in the hay with Blair, just to clean the pipes. This is bound to go well.
In the exciting world of fashion design, Jenny is busy working on a dress for Blair's mom when she's overheard making a couple of bitchy comments about it. Eleanor is pissed, and basically fires Little J on the spot.
Nate Archibald is in a bind. Blackmailed by Catherine to continue their affair, he finds himself yearning for Vanessa.
Blair is getting into the mix as well. With her big party just around the corner, she's determined to throw Nate off his game - with Catherine. She therefore invites Vanessa to the party to halt Nate's affair with her boy Marcus' stepmother. But will it be that easy?
Blair is also worried that Marcus sees her as too delicate, because he hasn't pressured her about sex. Not even once! The night of the big party arrives, and before long, the power goes out.
Thus, "The Dark Night." The fun is about to begin. Nate had tried to get Vanessa not to come, but she ignored his voicemail and showed up anyway... to discover Catherine holding his hand. He pulls V aside and tells her everything. She tells N to break up with the cougar now, for his own sake. He's better than this, she tells him!
Jenny finds redemption during the city-wide blackout as Eleanor realizes J's criticisms were actually spot-on, and that she overreacted because of how it made her feel - irrelevant. Jenny then compliments Mrs. Waldorf's awesome designs and they bond, agreeing to work late on Eleanor's upcoming project, even as Rufus and his date (!) show up to pick Jenny up.
On the way up to the bash, Serena and Dan get stuck in the elevator. It's then that the floodgates open even as the elevator door will not. Stubborn Dan calls for help, then bristles when mentioning Serena's name results in faster assistance. After finally talking about why they broke up in the first place, they realize that neither can change who they are, and agree that when they leave this elevator, it's over.
Very sad.
Now for tonight's main event(s).
Catherine corners Vanessa and asserts her demands that Vanessa back off her turf. We don't see the end of that conversation at the time, but Vanessa finds Nate and tells her he belongs with Catherine. Later, Vanessa confides to Dan that if she didn't back off, Catherine threatened to turn Nate's dad in to the FBI, because she knows where he's hiding. This cougar has won yet again and is not going quietly.
Chuck sweeps over to the party and tells Blair to sleep with him, one last time. She shot him down but there was MAJOR sexual tension lingering. After Catherine tells Blair she intends to keep Nate at any cost - because she feels alive with him, which B would never understand - Blair decides she wants it all with Marcus. She tells him to meet her upstairs in her room.
Up there, a mysterious man lurks in the dark. But who is it? He speaks in a British accent, but it's Chuck! He and Blair cannot keep their hands off of each other, but then the lights come back on and Marcus catches them in the act! She says she didn't know it was Chuck, then admits she did, but says what she really wants is Marcus. To prove his love for her.
Less than a minute after being caught sucking face with Chuck, Blair is all over Marcus in full view of the Basshole. This is one love triangle that just keeps getting better and better.
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