Dana and Tonya take Alice, Shane and Tina for a night on the town to a strip club where a girl, who looks like Bette, dances in front of her. Jenny enrolls in a creative writing class at UCLA taught by the stern and cynical Charlotte Birch ( Sandra Bernhard) in which the latest writing assignment makes Jenny decide to break up with Robin after she discovers Robin wishes to marry her. Ivan gives Kit the cold shoulder as she prepares to finalize her purchase of The Planet coffeehouse from Marina's visiting estranged husband.
Dana and Tonya have a get-together with Dana's parents to discuss their upcoming nuptials. Tina hires a feminist lesbian lawyer named Joyce Wischnia ( Jane Lynch) to help with her separation from Bette. With Marina gone after learning of her nervous breakdown and her attempted suicide, Kit decides to buy The Planet and continues to have mixed feelings over hanging out with Ivan ( Kelly Lynch).
Shane lands a new lover, a part-time DJ named Carmen de la Pica Morales ( Sarah Shahi), whom she meets at a movie studio while doing hairstyling. Jenny finds herself with writer's block and saying an emotional goodbye to Tim as he prepares to leave town for a job in Ohio. Alice and Dana continue to hide their romantic tryst from the others, including Tonya. But Tina is revealed to be hiding a shocking secret from her friends that she happens to be pregnant again.
Bette desperately begs for forgiveness from Tina over her affair with Candace. Main articles: List of The L Word cast members and List of The L Word characters Actor/Actressįive months later.