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Then Tina starts to go on about Helena needing an audience, and screams out the doors to tell the neighbors they're about to have sex and everyone's invited to watch. The way she's hollering reminds me so much of Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, it makes me giggle. But it's really kinda sad, because, as Helena says, this seems to be a case of hormones raging out of control.

Helena finally goes, which is not cool, because Tina probably doesn't really need to be alone right now. But the one she probably needs has left the building.

Therapy — Bette is telling that icky Foxworthy dude about the hot sex, and is wondering whether the friendship she was forging with Tina is now all fucked up, and what it all means.

Bette: "I don't think it means she wants to get back together with me."
Foxworthless: "Do you want to be back together with her?"
Bette: [long pause and pained look] "I don't know."

Yeah. That was the right answer, Bette, and not just because I think you should come over to my house tonight.

Foxworthless: "How did it feel, having sex with her?"
Bette: "It was fucking amazing. It was just fucking amazing. It was like all of the reasons that we fell apart just disappeared, and it was like I had... it was like I had my life back for just one second... and it was also really sad."
Foxworthless: "Sad. How so?"
Bette: "Because I've lost her. Because we don't... well, like she doesn't belong to me anymore. Like I could feel someone else had been touching her and making love to her, and I felt that other person, and I felt her connection to that other person, you know? And she did things that we had never done together, and it was like she was so... free."

And Bette admits that she always treated Tina gingerly, and that Tina's not even a little bit fragile now, and it was all kind of shocking. And of course she knows that's a good thing: "it just means she doesn't need me anymore."

Sigh. First of all, how fucking amazing is Jennifer Beals? No, whatever you said, it's not enough: she's even more amazing than that.

Second, I don't think Bette and Tina are ready to be back together yet. Again, that's not just because Bette is moving in with me tomorrow.

Mistress of her domain — There's Dana. She's in the sunglasses again, but she's walking tall, going right into the sex toy shop to stare down the dildos and wrangle them into submission. Get ready, Alice: it's gonna be a bumpy night! And I mean that in the good way. I don't know whether I'm jealous of Dana or Alice. Perhaps I should grab a few of my own favorite silicone friends and make myself comfortable on that big happy orange bed.

Mark's studio — Jenny needs the Burr Connor DVDs that Mark borrowed. He's not home, but she doesn't care: she goes right in and snoops. She finds a tape labeled "Shane/Carmen love confession" and can't resist.

The C.A.C. of Helena's iron fist — Bette and someone else are looking at art and talking about art and doing other arty things. Helena swaggers in, offering money as usual, saying that she doesn't want money to be a deciding factor on any creative decision. What? But you do want money to be a deciding factor on everything else, right? Like, I dunno, sex, and houses, and children? But not art. Gotcha.

Bette, who is wearing that foxy suspendered outfit we've been seeing in the promos right before the episodes air, doesn't want to show Helena the budget without showing it to the whole board. Actually, she probably doesn't want to show Helena anything, despite yet another plunging neckline that highlights her assets.

But Helena refuses to play nice, so she just sits and says "I'm just going to sit here and listen for a while." It's okay, Bette: just stand there and look amazing. It's enough.

The studio of cruelty — Jenny's watching the tape and hearing Carmen say that stuff about not knowing the real deal and about being lost in her own darkness. I know Jenny shouldn't complain — after all, she didn't have to watch the damn thing — but I still feel kinda sorry for her. It's a horrible thing to say, that someone wouldn't recognize love. Love is one of those fundamental things; we all know how to feel it, and how to express it, and how to hope it lasts forever. Even Jenny. Even goddamn fucking Mark.

Sorry. For a minute there, I almost evanesced.

Blah blah — Helena calls Tina and commands her to come over to the beach house tonight.

Tina: "Are you sure you wanna see me? What if I have some sort of hormonal fit?"

Haha! Tina also says Helena needs to understand that Tina's not a toy or a raging hormonal lunatic. Oh, Tina. If we're going to start with what Helena needs to understand, we'd better back up to basic things like "people are people" and "money can't buy you love." I don't think there's a school for this stuff.

But Tina agrees to see Helena anyway. Terrific.

Kickboxing or whatever — Burr is working out, and I suspect it's supposed to be homoerotic, but it's just homoboring.

Jenny is sorta watching, but mostly crying. Burr realizes something's wrong, and gives her a hug, despite her silly protests that everything's fine and she really just has such bad hayfever. Okay, Burr, that's kinda cool of you.

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