the real l word season 1 episode 8 online

Back in Los Angeles, Tina is shocked and angry when Joyce makes a pass at her, having slept with a number of her past clients. Tina is devastated when she finds an e-mail love letter from Candace on Bette's computer.īette travels to New York on business to ask for continued funding for the California Art Center from Helena Peabody ( Rachel Shelley), the English daughter of Peggy Peabody, who takes over her mother's business after Peggy's retirement.

Kit tries to find an opening act for The Planet's grand re-opening and things heat up, then cool down, between Shane and Carmen. Dana and Alice continue to hide their attraction, while Tonya decides to make a show of her impending marriage to Dana. Joyce also offers Tina a place to stay at her guest house during her legal battle. Bette goes on a downward spiral over Tina's lawsuit. When Jenny meets Carmen for the first time, an attraction between them develops almost at once. When she is rejected from the writing class of Charlotte Birch, Jenny sets out to win over her intimidating professor by writing a page based on her life story. 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.

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The real l word season 1 episode 8 online