NYU? What was I thinking? You know how I feel about ironic facial hair.

Nate is giving Blair a subway riding lesson. She doesn't want to go because it is full of "molemen and middle class professionals." Sounds horrible doesn't it? Nate is starting to freak out about being all the way across the city from Blair. He gets an apartment halfway between both places, in Murray Hill. Gasp!(and to stick it to Chuck). Chuck and Nate are playing basketball and Chuck is dressed in polo shirt, a zippered sweatshirt and an ascot. What? There is friendly banter which leads to a little smack talking and the game begins. Chuck and Nate are competing for Blair and her attention.

Chuck tries to reel her in by involving her in a mystery. The mystery of Gabriel. Is he back together with Poppy Lifton? They have a huge blowup fight and Poppy threatens to make all of his investors back out. Luckily they are at a cocktail party with tons of possible investors. Gabriel says he met Serena long ago, before they were married in Spain, the night that Georgina roofied her. Too bad she can't remember.

Chuck and Blair seek Georgina. She is at some crazy God camp because that was the way out of boot camp. She seems to buy into the Lord. After Blair realizes she has become a pawn in the battle between Chuck and Nate she takes off and leaves Chuck in the woods with the Jesus freaks. Chuck calls a cab and Georgina takes a day off in the city.

Blair is angry with Nate because she realizes the apartment was not for her benefit. It was just to prove that he had won. Nate does not really trust her.

Unfortunately the scheme that Poppy and Gabriel have been cooking is not found out quickly enough to save Rufus from investing in it. He is still trying to come up with that darn Yale tuition.

Turns out Poppy and Gabriel are liars. They are using all this money but we don't know what for. Isn't Poppy an heiress or something akin to that? Next week looks to be a sorting out of this weeks follies.

**Programming note. Dangers of the DVR. I am just now watching this weeks GG on a Wednesday evening. (Unfortunately it is NBA playoff time and one can only fight for the remote so much) You may ask "what of any great importance might have been missed on the CW?" I would normally agree but it is a true tragedy. Nick Lachey was on One Tree Hill. Are you kidding me? I need to get on some kind of Nick Lachey mailing list so I don't miss any of his television work. I am bummed. I think he was playing himself, the best possible character he could play. Damn.