In the season's tear-jerking finale, Nico's husband, Charles, suffers a heart-attack. Nico is especially upset by this because she was having sex with Kirby (and ignoring her phone) when it happened. Charles thinks she was at a work function, so he's not suspicious -- but Nico begins to suspect that Charles may be cheating on her, after grad student Megan drops by the hospital to deliver some of Charles's work, plus a "Miss you" note. The whole ordeal forces Nico into the arms of her friends -- including Wendy, whom she forgives at last. Victory and Wendy encourage Nico to look to the future and consider what she ought to do about Charles. So Nico breaks things off with Kirby, telling him she wants her marriage back, and then cries to Wendy about it.
When Wendy's not at the hospital hugging Nico, she's coaxing a finished script out of a slow-moving screenwriter in order to keep a high-profile Parador picture on schedule. The writer finally reveals that she's dragging her feet because she's worried this will be the last script anyone buys from her. Wendy makes a pledge to buy her finished script, so she'll have no more excuses not to finish this one. That whole plotline is even more boring than I made it sound, if you can imagine that.
Joe Bennett is still trying to win Victory's love at the start of the hour, but she says she won't consider him romantically as long as he owns her business. Instead, she turns her attention to a couple of weirdos that Nico has tapped to be on the cover of Bonfire. These two are way too happy to make Victory's acquaintance, and they both want her to dress them for the cover shoot. Eventually Victory discovers that they want her to undress for them as well, and she's so adrift without Joe that she actually goes along with their three-way scheme. Fortunately for all of us, before things can go to far, the man and woman start bickering over who's hogging who, and Victory makes her retreat. The morning she calls Joe to tell him she wants him back in her life, but she catches him in bed with some other woman. Ouch. Things end happily for Victory, though, because Roy comes along to make some pancakes and cheer her up.