Jen and Ethan are drifting farther apart, which is not helped by some news from Adam. While Jen turns to Adam, Lisa is there for Ethan. Beck's ghost counsels Quinn about moving on with his life in pursuing the opposite sex. Excluding Carrie who seems to be hanging out more and more with AJ, the options include Kristina Brody, who was always after Beck and may only want Quinn because he is Beck's "silver medalist", and Isabelle, a waitress at a coffee shop he has been frequenting. What Quinn decides to do is based partly on his belief that Beck committed suicide. With his own executive assistant away, Adrien asks Nicole to accompany him on a several day business trip to West Virginia, a move which Ryan believes is solely for Adrien to get closer to her. However, several people take advantage of both Adrien and Nicole's absence. AJ continues to have problems, the biggest being that he owes several thousand dollars to his drug dealers, who are a little less accommodating now that he has been cut off by Adrien. Carrie has to decide whether to trust AJ in this matter of money. And Shelby, who has been cut off by Adrien while he is away, has to figure out a way to continue to lead the life to which she is accustomed in light of her belief that Adrien knew about her and Beck's affair.
—Huggo