OTH: "You could have protected him from all this"

Last night's episode was all about the scandal involving Nathan. Here is what happened.

- Millie goes to Alex's hotel room to pick her up for a photoshoot to find her just walking in from a night out. Alex says she needs sleep, but Millie threatens to pull her $500,000 if she doesn't get to the shoot, so Alex storms into the bathroom to get ready and makes it there. Once there she is her usual annoying self, but she is ever the professional while in front of the camera. Then, when Julian gets there, she announces how cute she thinks he is. She flirts with him a bit and at the end of the episode shows up at Brooke's house with a script for him to read, promising that is will be worth it.
- Mouth is still trying to get Skills to move out. They have moved on from the naked stand, but now Mouth planted a "creature" in the bathroom that freaks out Skills and leads him to a girlish scream. Skills gets Jamie to help him capture the creature and while Skills is so afraid of the animal, Jamie is fearless. Come to find out it is an iguana (or at least looked like one) and Jamie decides he wants to keep him as a pet, but not at home since he already has his rabbit. Skills tells Jamie that the problem with Mouth wanting him to move out is that Lauren will want him to move in and he is not ready for that pressure yet. Jamie, always much wiser than he should be, points out that Mouth and Skills need to talk. When Skills tells Mouth his concern and that he does not feel ready to make such a commitment to Lauren, Mouth understands and tells Skills he can stay as long as he wants.
- During a taping of Dan's show a fan stood up in the audience and starting yelling murderer at Dan. When someone asks Rachel if they should stop filming, Rachel says no because "he is one." So Dan takes some time to talk about being a murderer, pointing out that he can't hide from it. During this episode we also learned a bit about how Dan and Rachel "met." They obviously had known each other from before, but they met up again while Rachel was a stripper and the first time they had sex was a prostitution arrangement. As the episode ends we hear a confession from Rachel: She hired the man to yell out during the taping because, as she put it, it makes for good TV.
- Quinn is the photographer Brooke decided to use for the photoshoot. Throughout the shoot Brooke keeps praising Quinn's ability. Then, at the end of the episode, her husband shows up after weeks of unanswered phonecalls. Maybe now we will learn the real reason for Quinn leaving him.
- Hailey, after seeing the pictures of Nathan and the woman starting trouble, says that it looks bad, but Nathan continues denying anything happened. Of course, Hailey believes him because Nathan is a good man. But none of this means that his public image will not change if this news becomes public. The woman tells Clay she wants $200,000 and she will then sign a confidentiality agreement to stay away from Nathan and keep the secret. Clay points out that there are career implications to this problem too since until now he has been seen as a good guy in the media. But Nathan says that he thinks paying her is essentially admitting he did it. When Nathan tells Hailey that Clay suggested they just pay her, Hailey freaks, but not on Nathan, instead on Clay. She yells at him and blames him for all the partying he promotes. Hailey, later and after confiding in Brooke and Quinn, says she knows the confidentiality agreement would not stop this woman from going public after they give her the money, but she also admits that this is Nathan's decision to make. So Hailey gives Nathan permission to pay her off, mostly because she is thinking that they need to protect Jamie from finding out. But in the end, Clay shows up at a restaurant to give her their agreed upon amount, but pushes an empty envelope to her. They have decided not to pay because they don't believe her. They all know that from here it is going to get worse, so as the episode ended we saw Nathan going to sit with Jamie on the swings to tell him.