Episodes: Seventeen Candles
Although feeling heartbroken about her breakup with Nate and guilty after her recent indiscretion with Chuck, Blair manages to put on a happy face for her seventeenth birthday party. Dan takes Serena to Blair's birthday shindig in hopes that Serena and Vanessa will bond. Great plan. Jenny brings her mother, Alison, home to the loft as a surprise, but Rufus isn't ready to forgive and forget. Great plans all around! Finally, with Nate's father facing charges of embezzlement and fraud, Nate's parents ask their son to make a huge sacrifice to save the family business.
