NEW EPISODE!!!!! Best quote by the cute director, "Serena, I'm gay." But on a more serious note, this episode reflects my blog on last week. Girls truly are the most spiteful creatures on the planet. In this episode, rumors are being spread like wildfire during the play the school is hosting, Age of Innocence. Dan's relationship with the teacher, Rachel, gets out. The other teachers mock her and treat her job as a joke. This makes her very bitter and angry. She wants to hurt the source where it is the most traumatizing. She called the Dean of Yale and spilled everything about why Blair was in trouble. This cost her the early admission and admission at all. She was devastated and on a mission to find out exactly who did it. But this is very difficult to do because almost all the girls in the school dislike her and would do this. She realizes this and is very introspective about it. Serena is also hurt by Rachel's gossip. It seems everyone is. But she of all people should know better because she is the older one and supposed to be their teacher. When Blair finally figures out what happened, she starts over to her in a rage then Rachel realizes how horrible she is. Blair chooses to punish her in the worst possible way. She decides to just let Rachel live with the thought of all she destroyed and the person she became, like Blair is forced to do everyday. All this starts over spite, which only destroys everyone.