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At your service — Shane is making a sandwich. Mark shows up and tells her that according to the samurai code, he's indebted to her, because he saved her ass.

Mark: "So, it's like, basically, I'm your servant now."
Shane: "No, thank you."

Unfortunately, Mark's not taking no for an answer.

Burr Connor's house — As Jenny drives up to the gate, I try not to listen to the background music. Look at Jenny's dorky little car — I'm glad not everyone on this show has a Saab or a Mini Cooper.

Inside, Jenny talks about something she's known for a really long time — something she knew her family wouldn't approve of. Of course we think she's talking about being gay, but then Burr starts talking about acting, and we realize Jenny was talking about writing.

Burr wants to know what kinds of writers Jenny models herself after — "Judith Krantz? Danielle Steele?" Jenny makes a funny horrified face and says "Ew!" But of course Burr was kidding — he's thinking maybe Mary Gaitskill, which gets him an appreciative gasp. But Jenny says Charlotte's pushing her really hard, and her style is still evolving, so she doesn't quite know who she's most like. Hmm, I'm not sure either: I don't really read pretentious navel-gazey stuff, at least not intentionally, so I have no suggestions.

Jenny says she's seen all of Burr's movies, but he's clever and says "In the last two days, right?" Jenny admits this, but says "my girlfriend actually has seen all your films." Burr gets a burr up his ass and says "So she's a tomboy?" Jenny says "Gosh, I've never thought of her like that. I just think she's beautiful."

Burr thanks her for coming over and says he'll be in touch.

Jenny: "Um... are you firing me, um, because I'm gay?"
Burr: "Well, I wasn't aware that I'd actually hired you. But I do prefer not to have certain things flaunted in my face."

Jenny just turns and goes. If this were an A.M. Homes novel instead of a TV show, Jenny would probably at least spit in a potted plant on the way out. Speaking of "out," it's kinda cool that Jenny is so out now, but why didn't we get to see any of her internal conversations about that? Wait: never mind. I don't like to see the internal Jenny. And that is yet another reason I adore this episode more and more every minute: no Jenny carnival scenes.

Oh, and Burr? You're not fooling anyone.

The Planet — Alice is still working on not being herself for the KCRW audition. She thinks maybe "Go Ask Alice" can be her tag line. This would be a good time to be playing The Murmurs' version of White Rabbit in the background, but that would require someone on this show to actually have good taste in music.

Kit just sort of makes a face at Alice's idea, and says she needs to go talk to the new chef, whom she stole from A.O.C. — oh! A chef! But first we have to see Gabby, who startles Alice and then annoys everyone:

Gabby: "You look good."
Alice: "Thanks. What's wrong with you?"
Gabby: "Mmmn, nothing, except that I'm love. Yeah, Gabby Deveaux in love. What about you? What's going on with you?"
Alice: "Um, I'm in love too."
Gabby: "Aw."
Alice: "Yeah! You can't tell? Um, maybe I'm not showin' it or someth... I'm very private, so."

Haha! Yeah, you're private, just like Helena is self-effacing and thoughtful.

Gabby wants to know who the lucky lady is, but Alice doesn't wanna say. Gabby is happy to introduce her new paramour, however: that's right, it's Lara the soup chef. Lara says hi to Alice and then kisses Gabby and calls her "honey" and giggles, which bugs me. Lara asks Alice how Dana is; Alice sorta mutters pleasantries as she hurriedly packs up her stuff and gets the hell out of there.

Okay. First, what is Lara thinking? Second, why didn't Kit identify her new chef by name? She knows Lara from that little exhibitionist sleepover last season. Weird.

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