The Hurt Locket



The Hurt Locket is the 13th episode of Season 3 on Gossip Girl.

Summary
Nate and Serena are finally together and unable to keep their hands off one another. Although both Dan and Blair advise them to take the relationship more slowly, the two are too lost in the moment to listen. Trying to heed Dan's advice, Nate invites Serena to a dinner party at the French Ambassador's. Meanwhile, Blair advises Serena to play more coy with Nate.

A series of misunderstandings lead Nate and Serena to get confused, Serena decides to invite Damien as her date to the dinner party to make Nate jealous. Damien, who always had a crush on Serena since boarding school, leaves Jenny in the cold, although she's been helping him deal drugs.

As Nate and Serena make up, they decide that Blair and Dan haven't got any idea about their relationship and sleep together at the dinner. Damien's drug deal is almost compromised because of his attraction to Serena but Jenny saves the deal and impresses him.

Chuck is still concerned about the strange woman at his father's grave and finds clues about her that leads him to think she might be his birth mother, Evelyn Bass. Rufus confronts Lily about her ex-husband who admits that they kissed.

Main Characters

 * Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen
 * Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf
 * Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey
 * Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald
 * Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey
 * Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass
 * Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams
 * Kelly Rutherford as Lily van der Woodsen
 * Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey

Special Guest-Stars

 * Laura Harring as Elizabeth Fisher
 * Sherri Saum as Holland Kemble
 * Kevin Zegers as Damien Dalgaard

Music

 * "Janglin" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
 * "Go Away" by The Breakups
 * "At War With The Sun" by The Big Pink
 * "Spirit Horse" by Seawolf
 * "Crystalized" by The XX
 * "Map of the World" by Monsters of Folk
 * "Wild Wolves" by Athlete