Gossip Girl 4x17

Chuck throws yet another party to celebrate his deal with a new financial backer, but Thorpe warns him the victory dance is premature. So, Chuck and Lily figure Ben must have spilled the beans on the affidavit. Serena has issues of her own with Ben, who doesn’t respond to her messages since they slept together. Vanessa finally tells Lily and Serena that she overheard Ben telling Damien he beat up Captain Archibald, S wants to hear none of it. But the affidavit is gone, and Ben was the only person who knew where Serena put it. Meanwhile Blair continues to plot exit strategies and plausible deniability about hanging out with Dan, and Raina is falling hard for Nate. When things come to a head at Chuck’s party, it turns out it was not Ben who handed Thorpe the affidavit, but his mother, who is determined to clear her son’s name at any cost. When Raina hears what her father is doing to Chuck and his family, she’s disgusted, but Chuck tells Thorpe that he knows where he can stick it: Lily has already called the District Attorney to come clean on the condition that Ben’s record be expunged. Then Thorpe explains why he has been so hell-bent on destroying the Bass legacy: he believes Chuck’s father had his wife killed. William van der Woodsen returns to town, with Lily’s mother Celia, to circle the wagons, much to Rufus’ chagrin. In the last scene Dan challenges Blair to kiss him so they will finally know if there really isn’t anything between them. As if we really have the patience to wait any longer for this season to be over, there’s yet another break until mid-April...