| It's that stressful time of year when Constance Billard and St. Jude's students find out who is and isn't worthy of early admission to Yale University. Serena (Blake Lively) bonds with her new Shakespeare teacher, Rachel (guest star Laura Breckenridge), who has no clue the wrath she is about to suffer after giving Blair (Leighton Meester) the first B of her prep school career. Chuck (Ed Westwick) pairs up with an unlikely ally in his war with Jack (guest star Desmond Harrington) over Bass Industries. Nate (Chace Crawford) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) spend a romantic evening at the opera. Taylor Momsen, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. | Well, it's Yale Day on the Upper East Side and no one is more excited about this than our own Blair Waldorf. She walks downstairs to find her father, father's boyfriend, Dorota and a Pit bull (Yale's mascot) all dressed up in Yale attire for her big day. Her father tells her she is a shoe-in since he personally called the Dean of Admissions on her behalf. Everything seems to be perfect.
Over at Serena's house before school, Dan is not feeling so confident and Serena is worried that she might get in and Blair will not. Then, Lily and Rufus walk downstairs after clearly spending the night together and talking about how little sleep they got, making everything completely awkward for everyone. Lily invites Rufus to the opera, to make their "society debut."
Thus far, Chuck's plans to take Uncle Jack down have not been all too successful. Uncle J continues to taunt him and be an all around creep and jerk. Chuck, realizing he can't do this on his own, goes to Lily for help. She asks him to come back home and live with them but he refuses. Regardless, she agrees to help him and handle it like a grown-up, throwing her weight around with the board rather than trying to get Jack caught with coke or hookers. When her attempts with the board fail, she puts in calls to Australia to get more dirt on Jack. Chuck and Lily seem to be bonding over plotting Jack's demise but when Lily gets a call from Rufus, Chuck tells her off and walks out.
At Constance Billard, Dan and Serena run into Serena's new Shakespeare teacher, Miss Carr, who looks to be about Serena's age but is clearly not from the Upper East Side.
Blair has all her posse constantly refreshing their email on their phones to find out if she got into Yale all morning but when the news finally arrives, she got wait-listed. Dan comes running up to Serena with his good news, that he did get in to Yale. Serena checks her phone and sees that she too was accepted, but doesn't want to say so in front of Blair, so she tells everyone she got wait-listed as well. Blair goes rushing to the head mistress to plead her case and finds out she is next in line if someone if one of the two people they have accepted turns it down. Knowing that Dan would never give up his chance at Yale, B goes on the hunt for the other accepted student.
Serena talks to new teacher Miss Carr about her acceptance to Yale and Miss Carr tells her that she needs to stop thinking about what makes sense for Dan and Blair and concentrate on what she wants....she just needs to figure out what that is. It only makes matters worse when Yale calls Serena asking to issue a press release saying that she will attend.
Blair on the other hand is on a witch hunt looking for the student who got accepted to Yale. Her and Miss Carr become fast enemies when Miss Carr gives Blair a B on an assignment, possibly ruining her unblemished transcript and thus wrecking her chances of getting into Yale. Blair tries to explain to Miss Carr how things work at Constance, but Miss Carr remains unaffected. Later Blair and the mean girls start plotting against Miss Carr, and the only way Serena can think to stop her is to blurt out that she declined her Yale offer, essentially giving the open spot to Blair.
Nate is planning to take Vanessa to the opera tonight and he has some amazing seats now that he has his family's money back. Before he can tell Vanessa, she makes a big speech to him that he has been taking her to all these fancy things and that she can't keep up. So she is very proud of herself that she managed to get them nosebleed seats to the opera.
Jenny and Eric try to coach Rufus on the finer points of the opera, but it turns out it was the wrong opera they studied.
Later that night, Blair decides to get Miss Carr back even though she got into Yale, just for fun. She calls her and invites her to a (closed) restaurant and then to the opera (an hour late).
The whole gang is at the opera that night. Rufus and Lily make Dan and Serena uncomfortable by making them talk about colleges. Rufus and Lily see Uncle Jack who berates her for showing up with a date so soon after Bart's death. Lily then gets an idea to help Chuck's situation and tells him to meet her later and she can solve his problem. She and Bart had drawn up papers to adopt one another's children so all Lily and Chuck have to do is sign something and Lily adopts Chuck, becoming his legal guardian. When Jack finds out, he is clearly not happy about it.
Vanessa learns that Nate had way better seats and though she is hesitant to move, they eventually do.
Dan and Serena talk about how Brown is a better fit for her, and how they hope their parents will break up soon. Once they make up, on their way back to the seats, they catch their parents making out, which is discouraging and gross.
Blair, also at the opera, gets a call from the head mistress saying that Miss Carr has agreed that she could end the course with an A, showing that she cares about her students. Blair then feels super guilty for setting her up, and leaves the opera to go find her. She apologizes and Miss Carr accepts her apology...and then calls the head mistress.
Lily goes into the powder room and Jack follows her in there and locks the door. She calls him high and tells him she was just doing what Bart wanted. Jack doesn't let her leave the room and starts to get violent. He forces himself on top of her and starts kissing her and pulling up her dress when Chuck bursts in dramatically and saves her.
The next morning, Lily tells Chuck that Jack is on his way back to Australia and she is now the head of the company. On his 18th birthday he can have everything, the way Bart intended. Chuck admits to Lily that he knows what happened to his father was an accident (and not her fault like he previously said). She says she wants him as part of her family, and he agrees to move in with them.
Dan ignores a call from Serena when Miss Carr, Rachel, comes to the coffee shop and says she's taking him up on his offer to visit Brooklyn, which was more like an off-handed comment he made earlier, but still.
Blair is excited to be invited to see the head mistress and is shocked to find out she has detention for setting up Miss Carr, and her acceptance into Yale is again in jeopardy. She then declares war on Miss Carr. I'm pretty sure having Blair Waldorf as an enemy is scarier than anything she had to face back in the midwest. Good luck, Miss Carr, you're going to need it! |
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