Cassie experiences various difficulties during her childhood, including disturbing interactions with male relatives after she hits puberty, as well as the tense divorce of her parents, which was followed by her father's descent into drug addiction and poverty. In the present, Rue falls into a deep depression, alternating between manic episodes and an unwillingness to do anything, even urinate. She tells Fezco her suspicions about Nate and asks Fezco to intimidate him. Fezco does so, but Nate reacts by alerting the police to Fezco's drug dealings, forcing Fezco and Ashtray to frantically flush their drugs while the police demand they open the door. After Kat has sex with Daniel at the Halloween party and is upset by his dismissive attitude afterwards, she is confronted by Maddy, who berates her about her newfound personality. Kat later becomes uncomfortable during a cam show and ends it prematurely. Cassie struggles with her desire to admit to McKay about both kissing Daniel and her pregnancy. She eventually reveals her pregnancy to McKay, who is overwhelmed and suggests she get an abortion. Jules visits TC, a friend from her old school, and meets TC's roommate Anna. Jules and Anna get high and have a sexual experience, during which Jules hallucinates about both Nate and Rue. She later texts a recovering Rue about how much she misses her.