Shane ”Yeah.  …Yeah, how well?  How well did you bond?  Why is it you’re so focused on her when we’re all together somewhere?  At a restaurant?  At The Planet?”

Carmen ”Fuck you, Shane!  How fucking dare you!  You go out and fuck that Hollywood Princess bitch!!!  And you’re the one accusing me of shit!  Fuck you.  Don’t fucking talk to me.”

Shane ”Carmen, hold on…”

Carmen ”No, Shane.”

Shane grabs a hold of Carmen, leading to a struggle.

Shane ”I’m sorry, okay?”

Carmen wrestles herself free of Shane, both feeling very emotional.

Carmen ”I said no!  Don’t touch me.  Don’t fucking touch me.  Don’t fucking talk to me.  That girl is scared of what might be happening to Dana.  She loves her!  And it’s not so much you wanna throw this shit at me, but you’re doing it to her as well.  You’re doing that Dana’s girlfriend.  What the fuck, Shane?  You don’t even know what the fuck’s going on anymore!  You don’t bother to think.  You don’t bother to fucking care!”

Shane ”…I do care.  It hurts to.  I don’t know how to handle it at this level.  I don’t!  That’s the fucking truth, I swear!  I don’t know…how to handle this!”

Carmen ”You fucked Cherie, because you’re jealous?  Of my friendship with Lara?  You’ve been friends with Alice and Dana and Bette and Tina and Kit and on and on for so long?  And you’re the one who gets to be jealous of a friend?”

Shane ”…”

There is silence between the two.  Alice eventually drops by, breaking the silence and mentioning Uta’s bite on her neck.  There is also Sleater-Kinney later in the night at The Planet.

California Hospital Medical Center.

The three of them are together in Dana’s room.  Dana, in her hospital bed.  Lara standing on one side of the bed.  Alice on the other side of the bed.  Whatever indiscretions.  Whatever the drama.  Whatever the insecurities.  None of that matters here.  Alice and Lara want each other to be there for Dana.  All three want to be there for each other.  Earlier, Lara had made the call to Alice.  Whatever has been going on or possibly going on, Lara can only think of Dana.  She knows Dana misses her best friend.  In this moment, that best friend is there.