The Other Storylines
Sandy sneaks into his house, still not telling Kirsten his old flame Rebecca isn't dead after all. He has agreed to represent Rebecca in trial, because she actually didn't set fire to that building years ago, and has been only been running from the feds because she didn't want to rat out her friends. Sandy and Rebecca get closer (all while Kirsten thinks she's dead) and talk about smoking weed out of an apple. Kirsten eventually finds out, when she goes over to Sandy's office to "spruce it up" and discovers Rebecca, who is temporarily sleeping there.

Meanwhile, Seth thinks it will be weird working around Summer, and they nearly kiss when he comes over to draw her for the comic book and finds her in a tight spandex superhero costume. Summer's boyfriend Zach, oblivious to the sexual undercurrent between his girlfriend and her ex, sends some of Seth's drawings to Wildstorm ("an unbelievable comic book company"), and the company invites the trio to visit them in San Diego together--just when Seth and Summer had decided that maybe it was best to not spend so much time together.

In other news, Ryan tries to get Lindsay to come to dinner with him, Kirsten, and Caleb, using a very cute Star Wars metaphor, which Lindsay duly trashes. In desperation, Kirsten goes over to visit Lindsay (who is playing the oboe, increasing her levels of cuteness) and gets her to come have dinner with Papa Caleb. At the dinner table, Caleb and Lindsay talk about Brahms, which leads to Caleb insulting Ryan yet again. Ryan starts retaliating to the evil old man, who then, in perfect timing, collapses from a heart attack, which is shown in a very cool slow-mo shot with dramatic music, maybe Brahms.

Of course, this heart attack causes Caleb to see that he is a mouldy old man who wants a second chance with his daughters, which leads Lindsay to ask Ryan if they can temporarily stop seeing each other while she mends her relationship with Caleb.

The Alex-Marissa Storyline
The first time we see them in the episode they are wearing skimpy outfits in Alex's apartment, clearing up bottles from the previous night's shindig.

ALEX: Who knew you harbor chicks could throw it down?
MARISSA: Yeah, well, I'm not like the other girls.

They flirt and giggle, and the innuendo-laded lines and intense stares continue throughout the episode. When Marissa goes to take a shower at Alex's apartment--after deciding to skip school again so Alex can teach her to surf--she strips off her t-shirt in mid-walk, then turns around clutching the t-shirt to her barely-covered breasts to ask an open-mouthed Alex if she can borrow one of her tops.

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