- Serena van der Woodsen: B, are you okay? You seem different.
- Blair Waldorf: [reverently] I'm doing a cleanse.
- Serena van der Woodsen: No, I mean...
- Blair Waldorf: Oh. I'm fine. Being fired-slash-quitting W was humiliating, but... it was also a wake up call. If Chuck and I are meant to be together, then I should trust that. And in the meantime, I want whatever's best for both of us.
- Serena van der Woodsen: [as Dorota serves the table] Well, that's very enlightened.
- Blair Waldorf: It's the leafy greens. B vitamins are excellent for cognitive function.
- [Dorota looks at her suspiciously]
- Serena van der Woodsen: Good, because I need your help. Ben hasn't been returning any of my texts since we...
- [Blair nods]
- Serena van der Woodsen: spent the night together. And it was amazing. But it can't be a coincidence if he's suddenly avoiding me.
- [shakes her head]
- Blair Waldorf: Well, did you *tell* him you thought it was amazing?
- Serena van der Woodsen: No, I think I made it pretty clear.
- Blair Waldorf: He is a guy. You should march over there and make sure he knows. You can take a juice, on me, for the road.
- Serena van der Woodsen: Thank you. B, you really did some good.
- [leaves]
- Blair Waldorf: [Dorota comes to clear table] You're doing it again!
- Dorota Kishlovsky: Something *is* different about you. I have a sixth sense.
- Blair Waldorf: You have no sense.
- Dorota Kishlovsky: You don't come to me with *any*complaint about anything. You're... too happy. Content. I'm worried you join cult.
- Blair Waldorf: I have found my center, that's all. But... just to reassure you, here's a complaint. Why haven't you picked up my cocktail dress for Chuck's party yet?
- Serena van der Woodsen: [at Ben's front door] Now would be the perfect time to bolster my confidence by letting me in.
- Ben Donovan: So you still don't trust me? What do I have to do that I haven't done already?
- Serena van der Woodsen: Be honest with me.
- Blair Waldorf: The world just wasn't ready for a Humphrey-Waldorf friendship.
- [Dan offers his hand, and they shake hands]
- Blair Waldorf: It was nice not being friends with you.
- Dan Humphrey: Let's not do this again sometime.
- [they part ways]
- Chuck Bass: [stunned tone] You're lying.
- Russell Thorpe: No. Believe me, I wish I was. Because of your late, ruthless, cold-blooded father, my wife is dead.
- Chuck Bass: I confronted my father three years ago about the fire when he was alive. He admitted that a security guard died in that factory warehouse fire and that Bart personally compensated the man's wife and family.
- Russell Thorpe: Why do you think the security guard was inside the building? He was trying to save my wife. Two weeks before she died, she confided in me that she suspected that Bart Bass was plotting to set one of his own warehouses on fire in order to burn it down since it was only making a moderate profit than a huge profit, and that way he could not only collect a large insurance settlement but also get much more in government tax write-offs. Now do you see the reason of my vendetta against your father? My resolve to destroy his company? No one knows the truth, not even Raina. She thinks her mother left her when she was 10 for another man and that she lives somewhere in Europe under a false name.
- Chuck Bass: You blame my father for your wife's death in a fire that was purely an accident. You'd say anything to hurt my father's memory.
- Russell Thorpe: Perhaps. But I think you know your father well enough to belive that he was very capable of taking a life... commiting murder for business sake. Well... I'll be leaving back for Chicago tonight. I hope your stepmother enjoys rotting in prison to protect the legacy of the late great Bart Bass.