The Empire Strikes Jack



The Empire Strikes Jack is the 16th episode of Season 3 of Gossip Girl.

Summary
Eleanor is having a fashion show to expand her fashion line. She decides to hire Jenny and give her a second chance at working for her. Agnes is also working as a model; the two girls appear to make up, but Agnes is actually out for revenge. After Eleanor toasts Jenny for doing such a good job, Agnes slips pills into Jenny's champagne and drops her off at a bachelor's party at a club, putting Jenny in a vulnerable position until Nate shows up.

When Blair decides to invite her NYU friends to her mother's fashion gala, she realises that she has no friends at NYU. At the show, she meets some girls from Columbia who mention that they know of her from Gossip Girl. Blair then decides that she wants to go to Columbia.

As Elizabeth confesses to Chuck that she signed over his hotel because she is in love with Jack, she lies and tells him that she's not his real mother to try and help spare his feelings. She leaves New York, unable to face what she's done to her son.

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

 * Scott Bryce as Ed Conwell
 * Margaret Colin as Eleanor Waldorf
 * Laura Harring as Elizabeth Fisher
 * Desmond Harrington as Jack Bass
 * Willa Holland as Agnes Andrews
 * Zuzanna Szadkowski as Dorota Kishlovsky
 * Bree Williamson as Brandeis
 * Deadmau5 as Himself

Music

 * "Run" by Vampire Weekend
 * "Try to Find" by Danica
 * "Between Two Lungs" by Florence & The Machine
 * "Not Exactly" by Deadmau5
 * "Hi Fiend" by Deadmau5
 * "FML" by Deadmau5
 * "I Remember" by Deadmau5 & Kaskade
 * "Go Hand or Go Home" by Megha Man
 * "Hollywood" by Hollywood Holt
 * "Animal" by Far East Movement
 * "Falling Down" by Scarlett Johansson