In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close. Lo and behold, we get the episode we should've gotten last week and it is GOOD! Adam Brody returns to adorable form following Ryan to Mexico to find Volchok, where he is promptly ditched and left to fend for himself in some dive bar surrounded by Steve-O and friends. The "O" stands for "over-actor," by the way. Seth gets drunk and a tattoo. He also finds out where Volchok really is, but tells Ryan the wrong place and goes to confront Volchok himself, telling him to stop running from the law. Yeah, right. The Cohens finally remember how to parent and run down to Mexico to find their sons before anything bad happens. Thanks to Seth, they do. Everyone returns to Newport, with Kirsten and Ryan sharing their usual few words that still mean a lot on their way. Sandy tells Julie off for sending his son on a murder mission, and it's great. Taylor Townsend tries to hide out at Brown, but gets sick of Summer's earth-loving and Seth-not-loving ways, admits she's married to a French guy, and heads back to Newport. Kaitlin further endears herself to us by stealing from a charity event. Ryan and Seth make sad faces at each other. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
It's six in the morning and Ryan, the world's only teenager capable of functioning at such early hours, has just finished packing. He calls Julie, who asks him if he needs anything. He says he doesn't. Seth is also on the phone up in his room, trying to get in touch with Summer on her plane back to Rhode Island. Awww, he woke up all early to see her for breakfast and then she ditched him. Anyway, he doesn't have much luck there. He tries to call the airport back using the house phone instead of his cell, because this will let him inadvertently listen in on Ryan and Julie's conversation and get him involved in the plot. Ryan and Julie hang up and Seth starts writing a note.
He comes downstairs as Ryan's cutting through the house on his way out the door. Ryan claims he's on his way to the gym, but Seth says he knows what Ryan's really up to. He thinks they should call the police and let them handle Volchok. But since that would be the reasonable and mature thing to do, Ryan refuses and heads outside. Seth drops the note on a table and follows him. In the driveway, Seth tells Ryan he won't let him go after Volchok alone, and takes a seat in Ryan's car despite Ryan's protests. Ryan assures Seth that he'll call the cops on Volchok eventually. He just wants to "see" him first. And by "see" he of course means "rip apart." "Nobody believes that," Seth says. He insists on accompanying Ryan, saying that if Ryan is really serious about not hurting Volchok then he shouldn't have any problem with Seth tagging along. Ryan doesn't have a choice, so he agrees. "Where are we going?" Seth asks. "Mexico," Ryan says. "Perfect, I need Chiclets," Seth replies. ¡Hola!
Over in Rhode Island, Summer returns to campus, where Bright is waiting for her. Summer tells him she had to go home and it was "hard being there." "What an amazing spirit you have. I'll bet you in a past life you were an eagle soaring through mountain passes," Bright replies. Ugh. Even Summer has to see through this bullshit by now. Bright says there's an emergency on campus: an old tree is going to be cut down and they're just the people to stop it. Bright hugs Summer and sniffs and rubs her hand a few times. I think he's on ecstasy.
Summer finally escapes the clutches of Bright and heads to her room, only to find someone in her bed waiting for her. It's Taylor Townsend, who somehow managed to fly to Rhode Island last night and sneak into Summer's room. For all the money Dr. Neil is paying in tuition, you'd think Brown would have better security than that. Taylor offers to let Summer in bed with her for some snuggle time, and any heterosexual man watching this show's heart just leapt with hope, but Summer turns it down. She wants to know what Taylor Townsend's deal is. Taylor just says that "something happened" in France and she needed to come back to America to tell her mother about it. Then she chickened out because her mother is freaking terrifying. She was hoping Summer could help her out instead, but since Taylor Townsend is not a tree or a caged chicken, Summer leaves her when Bright calls for her to help him stop some guys from sawing their tree down.
Julie pretends to be a parent and meets with Harbor's new Dean of Discipline, played by Tia Carrere. Apparently, Principal Kim wasn't available for this episode so they had to improvise. Dean Tia reports that Kaitlin has been skipping class, falling asleep in the classes she does make it to, missing assignments, and flirting with her biology teacher Mr. Castle. Can't blame her there. Mr. Castle sounds hot. Julie is more concerned about the cell phone reception in Dean Tia's office, which should tell Tia all she needs to know about the root of Kaitlin's problems right there, shouldn't it? Dean Tia finally gets some of Julie's attention and asks how things are at home. Oh, how the hell do you think they are? Her sister just died. I'd say things at home totally suck. But Julie just says they're "good" and they're doing their best to get through the difficult times. Except not really. Dean Tia asks if Julie is staying involved in her daughter's life, to which Julie laughs. She says that Kaitlin is fifteen years old and therefore gives her mother no positive attention. Yeah, just like your other daughter and things ended up so well for her, didn't they? LEARN, Julie. Even anti-drug PSAs know you're supposed to force your way into your kid's lives. Dean Tia has an idea: Kaitlin and Julie should participate in an upcoming clothing drive. Together. Julie asks if cell phones get reception in Mexico. Is she asking Dean Tia this because her last name is "Torres?" That's racist.
Sandy and Kirsten have found Seth's note but have no idea what it means as it says "angry nudfo chocolate love." Kirsten suspects it's some kind of coded message, but Sandy thinks it's probably just some new band Seth likes. Then his phone rings. It's Seth, and he says he left them a coded message in case Ryan found it. He says the note was supposed to be an anagram except that he didn't have time to think of a good one so he added a few letters to make the words make sense. That still doesn't explain "nudfo." "Angry" is "Ryan," "nudfo" is "found," and "chocolate love" is Volchok. I wouldn't mind a little chocolate love with Volchok. Anyway, Kirsten's super mom sense figures out the crappy anagrams note immediately and Sandy asks Seth where they are. Seth says they're in a Mexican gas station. Sandy orders them to come home immediately. Seth says he can't do that and assures Sandy that he'll make sure nothing bad happens. With his mind, I guess, since there's nothing else Seth can really do to stop Ryan. Seth hangs up on Sandy and walks outside, where he lies to Ryan that he was just leaving Summer a message. Ryan figures out that Seth called his parents, grabs Seth's cell phone, and chucks it somewhere. He demands to know what Seth just told Sandy. Seth admits that he told their parents about Volchok and he's glad he did. Ryan tells Seth to trust him that he won't kill Volchok. Seth says he does even though Ryan is a seething cauldron of barely controlled rage.
Kaitlin's hanging out with the Ward boys again, who are shaving each other's chests for the water polo team. I hope the cuter one's hand slips and shaves off a chunk of the other one's ridiculous clown hair. Kaitlin says they're acting gayer than their father. And they're not even doing that over a sink, which is gross. "Yeah, well, our brother slept with your mom," the cuter Ward boy retorts. Kaitlin doesn't blink an eye and says that a gay dad trumps a slutty mom any day of the week. Good to know. Julie enters the room and spots the Wards. She's temporarily thrown by their chest shaving, but recovers and lectures Kaitlin for having bad behavior in school that has forced Julie to have to work at the clothing drive. Kaitlin laughs at her. She stops laughing when Julie informs her that she'll be working at the drive as well. "And stop hitting on Mr. Castle!" Julie says. Ha! That was awesome.
Kirsten packs up some clothes for the clothing drive because why worry about your kids or try to find them when you can do menial household chores? Sandy comes in and is sad to find that Kirsten has thrown both his and Ryan's leather jackets in the clothing drive box. Kirsten hates leather jackets, I guess. Kirsten says she's sick of waiting for Seth to call, but Sandy assures her that he will and then they'll get "some real information" and be able to do something. Keep dreaming that dream, guys.
Down in Mexico, Ryan and Seth enter their motel room, which is dingy and missing a window, but still a lot nicer than I would have expected. It's got a coat of paint on the walls and nice bedding and everything! Ryan says they need the room to hide out while they wait for Volchok to start his night shift at the bar he works at. I wonder if this bar also has a back room for cage fighting. That would be cool. Seth stupidly leaves the room to use the bathroom. About three seconds after that, Ryan has vanished.
Night has started to fall on Mexico when we get back from the commercial break. Ryan finds Volchok's bar and heads inside, where he finds the place filled with white people. Even in Mexico, this show insists on casting way too many white people. If they really wanted Volchok to hide out in another country and insisted on casting white people, why didn't they have him run off to Canada? One white person in particular gets Ryan's attention. It looks like Volchok from the back, but when the guy turns around it's not him. Again, this is an easy mistake to make when the bar in the slums of Mexico is filled with attractive white people. Ryan asks the bartender, who actually looks Mexican although he speaks with absolutely no Mexican accent, where Volchok is. The bartender says he fired Volchok and has no idea where he is now. He asks a waitress if she knows, but the woman doesn't respond. If she did, she probably wouldn't have a Mexican accent either. The bartender tells Ryan to get lost.
Taylor Townsend hangs out in Summer's room. A weird gothy-looking girl enters the room and introduces herself as Summer's roommate, Amber. Taylor asks Amber about Summer's new college life, noting that Summer has plenty of save the earth posters up but no pictures of her friends. Amber, on the other hand, has an entire wall full of Polaroids of various men. Amber says one of them is her boyfriend, while the rest are just "guys." "Guys ... ?" Taylor asks. "You think I'm a slut, don't you?" Amber asks. No, just someone who hasn't yet discovered the joy of digital photography, where you can take an instant picture that looks semi-decent and not blurry and gross like Polaroids. Well, and a slut. But only because you got way too defensive which probably means it's true. Amber says that society says that men can sleep with all the women they want, but when a girl does it, she's a slut. She claims that the pictures are up for some class project on social taboos. "I didn't sleep with them all," she says; "most are just oral sex." That must be some report she's writing. I'm sure her professor is really, really looking forward to reading it. Taylor again mentions that Summer doesn't have any pictures on her side of the room, not even one of her boyfriend. Amber's surprised that Summer even has a boyfriend. "You mean Bright?" she asks. Uh oh.
Seth wanders into a bar. He doesn't find Ryan, but he does find a table full of rowdy Marines, lead by Jackass's Steve-O, whose choice in cameo appearances baffles me. I guess he should take what he can get, though, considering that even as a loud, insane, out of control drunk he's still not very convincing. Seth decides to approach him and asks if they can help him find his friend, who's in trouble. This prompts Steve-O to scream a whole lot and declare his love for Seth. "WE'RE DOIN' SHOTS!" he announces. He won't take no for an answer. I wish Bam was doing the cameo instead of Steve-O.
Kaitlin tries to get out of working at the clothing drive by saying she has to go study. Julie's intelligence is insulted. Julie picks out some lacey shirt thing and says it's nice. Kaitlin says she should try it on, but Julie says these clothes are for the Darfur refugees, who I'm sure will really appreciate their new leather jackets and lacey tank tops. Nothing goes better with that hot Sudan sun. Kirsten strolls up, looking distressed. Julie asks her what's wrong, and Kirsten tells her about how Seth and Ryan went to Mexico without asking them. "Wait -- Seth went too?" Julie blurts out before catching herself. Her phone rings and she walks off to answer it and get away from Kirsten and Kaitlin's curious stares at the same time.
Ryan's on the phone. He tells Julie that Volchok doesn't work at the bar anymore, but he's going to keep looking for him. Julie is devastated. Kaitlin and Kirsten watch her from afar and wonder what bad news she just got. Kaitlin guesses Dr. Neil just called up to tell her he's leaving her. Kirsten doesn't have a guess, although it would have been funny if she had said something about how it could be a potential client for that business she and Julie used to own.
Taylor Townsend finds Summer to the tree with Bright and some other environmental activists. They're setting up to spend the night at the tree as part of their protest, and what a fun time at college Summer's having! The only time she should be spending a night to a tree is because she was too drunk to make it all the way home and passed out to one. Not that I am advocating such behavior. Taylor drags Summer away from the group and demands to know what's going on between Summer and Bright, asking Summer if she's even called Seth back yet. Bright whines that the chains tying him to the tree are coming loose. Taylor Townsend dials Seth's number and shoves the phone in Summer's face, daring her to talk to her boyfriend. Summer reluctantly takes the phone. But Seth doesn't answer. The only guy in The O.C.'s version of Mexico who actually speaks Spanish found Seth's phone and is taking advantage of Seth's anytime minutes. Summer hands the phone back to Taylor, who starts chatting with the Mexican guy. That makes four languages Taylor is fluent in. She is so awesome.
Seth, Steve-O, and the Marines drink the hell out of some shots.
Sandy and Kirsten lie in bed and worry. They realize that Seth and Ryan are adults and they can't stop them. On the other hand... "I'm going to Mexico," Sandy declares. "I'm going with you," Kirsten responds. They both leap out of bed at the same time. Cute. And I'm so happy to see Kirsten finally doing something!
Back in Mexico, Seth, sporting a "Semper Fi" T-shirt and a bandage on his upper arm, staggers into the bar Volchok used to work at. He slurs to the bartender that he's looking for Ryan, who's looking for a guy named Volchok, who killed his girlfriend. This gets that silent waitress's attention, but the bartender orders Seth to leave. That bartender is always ordering people to leave! How does he stay in business? "I've got a tattoo, pal. A TATTOO!" Seth cries. Awesome. The bartender orders Seth out again, and he complies.
Seth wanders outside, where a bunch of white people are hanging out. Are you sure we aren't in San Diego? Or Cancun during Spring Break? Anyway, Seth sits himself down on a curb covered with I don't even want to know what kind of filth. But Seth may want to burn his pants when he gets home. The silent waitress sits down to him. She actually speaks and tells Seth that Ryan was at the bar earlier. Seth asks her where Ryan is, whining with drunken indignation that the bartender wasn't very helpful. He wasn't very Mexican, either. Neither is this woman, who asks Seth if Volchok really did kill a girl. Seth says he did. Waitress says she knows where Volchok is. She must a real bitch to ask for directions. "Can you direct me to Main Street?" "Did anyone kill anyone there?" "Um... I don't think so." "Then no."
Sandy and Kirsten emerge from some Mexican coffee place (El Starbuckos), drinking something out of paper cups. Apparently, they like having diarrhea for days and days. Kirsten wonders if they're crazy for coming to Mexico. Sandy says probably, since they drove all night to a country where neither of them know the language. That's okay, Sandy -- no one in Mexico appears to know their language either. You have plenty of company. Kirsten wonders how many more times they'll have to "rescue" their sons when they're in trouble. I'm guessing fourteen more episodes, Kirsten.
Seth somehow made it back to the motel room. He dials the front desk and asks them if they saw Ryan come in last night. "I'm in the room without windows," Seth says. This doesn't help, as it seems the motel has multiple rooms without windows. Even so, their front desk workers speak better English than motel desk workers generally do in America. Amazing. Seth asks to place a call to America.
Taylor Townsend chats with the guy who has Seth's phone and makes an espresso from the machine she bought from the espresso machine store that's apparently right on campus. Summer returns from her tree protest and finally notices something besides herself: Taylor's bags are packed. Taylor says she's going back to Newport to face her issues unlike some people. She came to Summer for help, but now realizes that Summer needs more help than she does. Taylor says this in her typical perky upbeat way, which is great. Summer ignores Taylor's truth-telling and babbles on about sleeping outside. "You can't turn off the stars," she says. Oh, sure you can! It's called light pollution. Taylor says that she can't believe Summer would dump Seth for "some guy who read Siddhartha and did a couple of Outward Bound courses." Ha! Taylor knows people better than anyone else on this show. Summer denies that Bright is anything but a friend. "I don't do love triangles anymore," she adds. Thank god. Taylor says Summer is using Bright and her new environmental campaign to hide from Seth. Summer denies this, but Taylor tells her to talk to Seth either by phone or letter. Something. Summer says that here, in America, people hide their feelings. No, Summer, they hide their feelings in England. Close enough, though. Summer doesn't hide her feelings of anger, as she suddenly goes off on Taylor, yelling at her for saying she had some big secret and then spending the whole time telling Summer everything that's wrong with her life instead of revealing it. Taylor just says that Summer should do something before she loses Seth and regrets it. She starts out the door, then turns and says that she got married in France and now has to get divorced. Oh. Okay. Um... I guess we'll see how that turns out. Summer asks Taylor where that espresso machine came from. "It's a gift!" Taylor snaps at her. I hope she bought some shade grown organic fair trade coffee beans to go with it.
Ryan finally returns to the motel. Seth asks him if he killed Volchok, since he knows that's what Ryan really plans to do and was lying when he told Seth to trust him that he wouldn't. "You don't understand," Ryan says. Seth says he does, and he came down here with Ryan instead of staying home and trying to fix things up with Summer. Ryan says he's free to go back to Newport. "That's not the point," Seth says. If it was, Seth wouldn't be able to go home because he has no transportation. Ryan says that he didn't find Volchok last night but he's not leaving until he does. Seth, sounding sick and tired, asks Ryan if he's just going to stay there forever and open a burrito stand. Ryan doesn't answer. Seth sighs and says he'll tell Ryan where Volchok is if Ryan promises not to kill him. Oh, dumb, Seth. Dumb! Ryan will not promise not to harm Volchok. He just orders Seth to tell him where Volchok is, his tone and posture very threatening. Seth pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket and hands it to Ryan. Oh, great.
Julie watches a show about stupid cops and eats mini-donuts. A return to her trailer park roots. "Are people in America really this fat?" Julie wonders. Kaitlin sits her size 0000 jeans down Julie and asks her if everything is okay. Julie says she's fine, although "the world is an amoral toilet bowl and one day we'll all be flushed." That sounds like something Bright would say. "That was a really uplifting message for your daughter," Kaitlin says. She leaves for the clothing drive because unlike Julie, Kaitlin wants to participate in life, even if it sucks sometimes. "I suck it up," Kaitlin says; "you know, some of us are still alive."
Ryan puts some Top Gun sunglasses on and grabs a lead pipe out of his jeep. A lead pipe? Is Ryan getting his deadly weapon ideas from Clue? Will Volchok retaliate with a candlestick in the library? I mean, I know Ryan left Newport in a bit of a hurry, but I really think he could have found a better weapon than that. Ryan walks into the bar and removes his sunglasses, making sure that any and all witnesses will be able to know exactly what he looks like. Brilliant! He finds a hallway behind the bar with a bunch of rooms in it. I guess it's one of those bar/apartment complexes. Ryan gets the lead pipe ready and bangs on a door. I'm sure he's just going to fix Volchok's plumbing.
The knock on the door interrupts Volchok's enjoyment of a 40 oz. He picks up a knife (I guess Miss Scarlet has the revolver) and heads for the door. It's the face-off we've all been waiting for! Ryan grows impatient and breaks the door down. But wait -- he finds himself in an empty room. Either Volchok moved out really fast or Seth tricked Ryan. It's the latter! While Ryan's throwing a hissy fit and slamming the lead pipe against a wall, Volchok opens the door to find Seth standing there. "I need to talk to you," he says. I'm shocked! I really thought Seth was stupid enough to give Ryan the real address and we were going to have to watch Ryan and Volchok have their little bad-ass fight. But no! I am surprised and impressed.
So is Volchok. In fact, he even says "this is a surprise." I guess he's been expecting Ryan to catch up with him sooner or later. He didn't think Seth would get there first. He lets Seth into his humble abode and asks Seth if he's alone and how he found him. Seth says he is, and the waitress at the bar told him. Volchok says the waitress's boyfriend wants to kill Volchok. He's just a regular Goodwill Ambassador, isn't he? Spreading joy and cheer all over the world. Seth states the obvious -- that Waitress's boyfriend will have to get in line behind Ryan for that. And Ryan's in town looking for Volchok, although he doesn't know where Volchok is. Volchok starts to pack and asks Seth why he's "looking out" for him. Seth says he's looking out for Ryan. And Volchok can run, but Ryan will find him again. Seth asks if Volchok wants to run from Ryan for the rest of his life. Pretty much, Volchok says. Seth says Volchok can turn himself in -- his father is a lawyer and he can help him. I'm sure Sandy will be thrilled to be volunteered for this. Volchok will have to go to jail, but it might be a "safe" jail. Because jails on this show are so safe. Seth urges Volchok to face up to what happened. "You didn't mean to kill her," he says. "I know. But she's dead. That's all that matters," Volchok says, and leaves.
Ryan returns to the bar to find Sandy and Kirsten there, waiting for him. Not only did Seth tell Ryan the wrong address, he also told his parents where to find Ryan! Seth is a hero! Hero Seth! Ryan doesn't want to go home where everyone pretends that nothing has changed. "We all miss her. It's never gonna be the way that it used to be. But we are still a family," Sandy says. No, it's not going to be the way it used to be. And that's not a bad thing. Ryan says he won't leave when Volchok is so close. Seth walks in and says that Volchok is, in fact, gone.
Taylor Townsend cries in a Rhode Island airport. Summer shows up. Taylor puts on an angry front until Summer apologizes and then Taylor says she's sorry too and hugs the hell out of Summer. She hates fighting with Summer. Summer says Taylor was right -- not about Summer liking Bright, but about Summer avoiding Seth. Taylor says she understands why. And so will Seth when Summer tells him. Also, Taylor Townsend is married with a fancy French last name and everything. Her only explanation for how it happened is that she met the guy and then was suddenly in his family's chapel getting married. Oh, well that does explain everything. No questions there. Taylor even namedrops that Ethan Hawke was at their rehearsal dinner. Summer promises Taylor she'll write to Seth and they say they'll see each other at Thanksgiving, which will be tomorrow, thanks to Fox's sudden and rather bizarre decision put this show on two days in a row and ruin my weekend. "Oh, by the way," Taylor says, "your roomie is a big slut." "Yeah, I know," Summer says. I guess Amber was kinda right about people thinking women who sleep around are sluts.
Kaitlin finds the Ward boys at the clothing drive. They're wearing Sandy and Ryan's leather jackets and thrilled at such a great clothing drive find. Enh, those Darfur refugees didn't need leather jackets anyway. Honestly, though, they'd probably be better off with some of that creamed corn you give away during Thanksgiving food drives. I guess recycling the wardrobe is one way to cut costs. I'm glad the cute Ward got Ryan's jacket, though. It looks hot. But Kaitlin thinks they look gay. Julie walks in and says that what Kaitlin said to her at the house made sense. Life is hard, but you have to live it. Julie, you are good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. Kaitlin uneasily says that she and the Wards are bringing some of the Darfur refugees' clothes to a local shelter. Dean Tia, whose shift never ends, appears and pulls Julie aside to talk to her.
She tells Julie that some Newpsie found two of the tops she donated to the clothing drive at a "used clothing boutique." Julie's first reaction is glee to hear that the Newpsie shops at a secondhand store, followed by anger when Dean Tia spells it out that someone stole the clothing drive clothes and sold them off. "Oh, no," Julie says, slowly turning towards Kaitlin. "Oh, crap," Kaitlin says. Hee hee.
Summer tries to write a letter to Seth. She makes several attempts, but all of them turn into crumpled pieces of paper on the floor. She manages to say "Seth, I still love you," but she just can't tell him.
Seth drives Sandy back to Newport. Seth feels bad about betraying Ryan, but Sandy says Seth did the right thing and may have saved Ryan's life. He's sure Ryan will realize that soon.
Kirsten and Ryan are in Ryan's car. This probably wouldn't be a good time for Kirsten to say something about how nervous she is driving with Ryan since the last he had a female passenger, she totally died. So she doesn't. Instead, she says that "this was [her] worst nightmare," that Seth would follow Ryan somewhere and get hurt. Ryan apologizes for taking Seth with him. But Kirsten wasn't finished: "all this changes now that I have two children to worry about." A few cracks appear in the wall Ryan's built around himself, and he glances at Kirsten and maybe even smiles a little bit before they seal up again.
Summer finds Bright in the hall. He tells her the tree has been saved. Wow, they're like the first student protest group that's ever actually accomplished something. Congratulations! Summer wants to camp out at the tree anyway because it means she won't be stuck in her room trying to write letters to Seth. Bright says she's right; they should be with their "tree friends" in times of sadness and joy. Hey, maybe Summer likes hanging out with that tree so much because it reminds her of her dead friend. Except that the tree has much better screen presence.
Sandy lifts Seth's sleeve up to check out his new tattoo. It's a picture of a woman with the words "Senorita Vixen" written under it. It's kind of cool, actually. Sandy laughs at it. Seth says it has a "gay vibe" to it. It would have a gay vibe if it was a picture of a man shaving his chest. This? Not so much. And what's with all the gay-calling this episode? Sandy wonders how Ryan found Volchok in the first place. Seth begs him to leave him out of this. Sandy keeps wondering aloud... he'd need a private investigator... private investigators cost money... Julie has money.
Julie marches Kaitlin into her offensively pink room and yells at her for stealing clothes. Kaitlin says she really doubts refugees need "Paul Frank tops" or "last season's Manolo Blahniks." I think those refugees need whatever they can get. Kaitlin says the internet told her that there are more than enough clothing donations for those refugees sitting in a New Jersey warehouse anyway. "You just made that up," Julie says. She knows when Kaitlin's lying because she looks exactly like Julie. Julie says she can't deal with Kaitlin's issues while she's trying to recover from Marissa's death. She begs Kaitlin to act right. Kaitlin doesn't agree to this, though, and asks Julie if she really believes that Dr. Neil is at the conference in Seattle all by himself. Julie isn't that naïve. Kaitlin volunteers to make her mother some ice cream. Julie says that would be nice, but then she gets a phone call and has to go. She leaves and Kaitlin removes many layers of clothing drive items she stole.
Julie's caller was not her private detective as I suspected, but Sandy. He meets her at the Yacht Club and tells her that Ryan and Seth are back home and Volchok has disappeared again. Julie feigns innocence, but Sandy snaps at her to stop. He says she reached a new low sending his kid out on a revenge murder mission. "After everything our families have been through, you would put our kids in danger?" Sandy says. "At least you still have all your kids," Julie says. Sandy and Julie stare each other down and then Sandy leaves Julie to cry and keep from falling apart.
Kirsten and Seth talk about Ryan in the kitchen. Seth's upset that Ryan's mad at him. He heads outside to talk to Ryan, only to have the poolhouse door locked and the shade closed in his face. Seth looks like he's about to cry. That's what you get for helping Ryan.