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Outside, Marissa runs toward Ryan, distraught that everyone knows. Ryan angrily asks whom she told, and she insists that she didn't tell anyone. He asks if Summer did, and then repeats that he asked her not to tell. She asks why he's assuming she told, and he responds, "Because I'm the only one who knew. And you're the only one who told." Burn! Marissa firmly states, "I didn't. Tell. Anyone." Ryan snits that he never should have told her in the first place, and she tearfully agrees that he shouldn't have, since he obviously doesn't trust her. Marissa stomps off, saying he can find his own ride home. He watches her go.
The Big House. Kirsten arranges flowers by the pool; she greets Sandy, and then marvels over the Wards' situation and how fast the word traveled. Sandt's all laconic, replying, "Sometimes." She asks if everything's okay, and he curtly responds, "It's not." She begins to ask what's wrong, and he says it's "well-covered territory" between them: Jimmy Cooper. Kirsten looks caught, as Sandy adds that he's trying not to sound "too high-school," but: "He kissed you?" In response, Kirsten chooses the unsatisfactory "He told you?" Sandy adds that Jimmy apparently didn't want there to be any secrets between them, but apparently Kirsten doesn't feel the same way. Kirsten insists that she does, and pleads that the kiss meant nothing. He nods and sadly says that, putting his own skepticism about that remark aside, if it meant nothing, why didn't she tell him? When she claims it would have upset him, he snarks, "Thank you. Because I feel so much better having heard it from someone else." Kirsten continues to apologize as Sandy highlights all the "suspicion and paranoia" she had regarding Sandy's relationship with Rachel, while she's been "sittin' on this." As he turns to leave, Kirsten stops him, again imploring that the kiss means nothing. He lowers his head: "It means somethin' to me."
Inside. Dinner table. Clinking flatware. Seth thinks it's great: "After all the years of Luke callin' me gay. I don't know, I think it's great that now the shoe's on the other -- actually it's on his dad's foot, but you get the symmetry I'm goin' for." Sandy snaps that it's not funny: the Wards' marriage is over and their lives are irreparably changed. Kirsten heard that Mrs. Ward is filing for divorce, and Ryan volunteers that they seemed so happy when he was over there. Seth's all, "Yeah? By 'happy,' do you mean...'gay'?" He whispers the "gay" part. Kirsten tells him to cut it out. I do too. Because, of the myriad things Adam Brody does adorably, "gay slurring" is not one of them. Ryan wonders how people can be married for that long with that kind of secret; Sandy responds that Ryan would be surprised, but that the secrets eventually come out. Kirsten rebuts that some marriages can handle the truth. Seth, meanwhile, grinningly looks back and forth between his mom and dad, trying to figure out what's going on. He guesses that people will be accepting of Luke's dad because they're such a tolerant bunch. He clarifies that the joke was "at the expense of Orange County...not Luke's dad. His big. Gay. Dad."