Marina and Jenny adjourn to the office.  Jenny’s necklace (which she also wore in Episode 101/102) appears to be the Jewish symbol for Chai, or “living.”  According to a 2007 OurChart blog article by Julie Dorf, Jenny wears the necklace “backwards,” even though it is forwards here.  Jenny’s death appears to have been planned from the beginning of the narrative, based on this bit of symbolism.  Jenny wants mostly to feel “safe.”  Tim provides that safety, but Jenny’s own feelings will veer her away from that.  We will see the reversal of the symbol later this evening and at the end of this episode.

Alice and Shane are still at their table, reading either articles or want ads.  Alice sings a parody of “Mickey” by Toni Basil, inserting Gabby’s name in Mickey’s place.  What can be gleaned from the conversation here is that Gabby is a terrible human being, but amazing in moments of intimacy, which continues to hook Alice onto her, along with the possibility of Alice being in love, which would further validate Shane’s feelings against Gabby.

Alice mentions Gabby writing a “lesbian cop screenplay.”  This is noteworthy for a number of reasons.

As Alice mentions this, Jenny is elsewhere in the building trying to hold on to her safety.

Jenny will eventually let go of that safety while Alice will let go of Gabby.

Years later, Jenny is a mess while Alice is friends with Jenny.

Alice will submit her own “treatment” to Jenny which will also involve a “lesbian cop drama.”

Jenny will take that idea and sell it as her own to Tina, because she’s far past the point of the safety she wanted to hold onto in this moment.

Gabby will be none the wiser (maybe).

This also means that Alice, in an effort to get back at Gabby years later, has her plan backfire with Jenny’s treachery instead.

Back to the present.  Shane mentions having seen Gabby “all over” Nadia Miertschin on “Thursday Night” at Milk.  Okay…let’s try to rationalize this from a timeline perpsective.

Shane apparently likes to hang out at Milk.  Milk is where Carmen will see Shane in Episode 201, talking with another woman (another situation altogether, which we’ll get to then).  in Episode 103, Shane told Lisa Pantolini that she would be at Milk on Thursday.

If this is the Thursday in which Shane and Lisa meet up, only to see Gabby and Nadia, that means the timeline progressed quite a bit, despite there only being so much time to fill in between now and Episode 110 (that episode’s events can end no later than Friday, March 26th, 2004).

The nameless Country Club (possibly the Los Angeles Country Club, just East of UCLA) where Lara is hard at work as the sous chef.  Dana wanders in.  Lara is still wearing the hoop earrings.  Lara sees Dana and accidentally cuts one of her fingers.  Right away, Dana is causing Lara to feel pain.  The cut appears to be to Lara’s left thumb, which also heals up just as quickly (being a little snarky here, but maybe Lara picked up the mutant healing ability from the exposure to Lauren Lee Smith’s previous TV character, Emma DeLauro on Mutant X…granted, Emma was a tele-empath, meaning she could receive emotions of people around her…also, that character died in the series, so perhaps Dana’s death is also linked in a crazy way to the avatarish link between Dana and Emma…and…man, did it just get geekfully awkward up in here…let’s keep going shall we?).

Lara’s other finger related pains.
-Left Index Finger: 2nd degree burn from bechamel sauce (white sauce used in French cuisine)
-Left Middle Finger: “Runaway shish kabob”
-Left Ring Finger: hostile lobster attack (lobsters are bad news as we discover in Episode 303)
-Left Pinky: electric can opener

If nothing else, this proves that Lara is very much right handed.

Note Dana’s awkward expression when Lara asks about kissing her thumb to make it feel better.  Dana does score a little bit of confidence, attempting to ask Lara out which Lara interrupts by readily agreeing.  They agree to Thursday Night (February 26th, 2004) to be date night.  With the timeline lining up the way it is, they’re talking about the next day, which could just add to the goofiness of Dana and Lara together.  Dana mentions L’Orangerie, which Lara turns down as it is “too expensive” and she doesn’t want their dating relationship to start off that way.

L’Orangerie, a French cuisine restaurant (perhaps for being too expensive) would close down in 2006.  It was on North La Cienega Boulevard in 2004.  L’Orangerie was set to reopen on July 14th, 2014 (Bastille Day) at a new location on South Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles.

“There’s this little place in Koreatown that I’ve been dying to check out,” says Lara.  Dana asks about making a reservation (not bad for a little place) and Lara offers to handle that, instead hoping Dana can pick her up at 8 PM.  So, 8 PM on Thursday, February 26th, 2004 is when this proposed date will commence (also known as tomorrow, given the timeline structure).

Koreatown in located in Central Los Angeles with parts of Beverly Boulevard, West 3rd Street, and Wilshire Boulevard running through it East to West while South Wilton Place, Western Avenue, Normandie Avenue, and Vermont Avenue run North through South.  Normandie eventually becomes Irolo Street in Koreatown.  Koreatown also has part of West Olymic Boulevard and Crenshaw Avenue.  There are numerous restaurants in that area so it would probably take a local expert to determine which would be the “little place” there as of 2004.

Dana’s clumsiness.

Bette and Tina’s with Bette on the phone.  Getting into late afternoon/early evening.  She calls to confirm a meeting with Gina Ferrara, also returning her message about the Four Seasons being the meeting spot.  This is likely the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, which also includes dining (and drinks).  Tina arrives with dinner while Bette is still on the phone and relaying to Tina that “the Board didn’t go for it.”  Bette is on hold during this time and afterwards asks for Greg Massey.  Instead of being put on further hold, she leaves a message for Greg to call her back and hangs up.

Bette has an obvious frustration with the CAC and it’s possible that the CAC was already uncomfortable with Bette’s style after bringing in Laurie Papou (Episode 101/102).  The viewer may recall that Bette’s friend Annie was curator at the time and has apparently left back for New York City.  Annie may have found the CAC Board just as annoying, which is why she never bothers to return from New York City.

Bette informs Tina that after the Board meeting, she called Sheldon Tomlin and unbooked Impressions In Winter, in an effort to make sure of her commitment to landing Provocations.  Also, some history between Bette and Gina as they had “a run-in” over another artist, Maggie Friedman.  Maggie was a sculptor and Tina acknowledges that Bette and Maggie slept together, while competing with Gina over landing Maggie’s exhibit (for wherever Bette was working prior to getting the job at the CAC since this would have been no less than 7 or 8 years ago).  As a result, Gina doesn’t like Bette, perhaps because Bette used sex in order to snag an exhibit away from her.  Talk about a power play.

Tina’s grocery store bag is from Whole Foods Market, which erases the idea of it being any possible analog for Laurelwood Farms Market, but for the sake of argument, in this L-Universe, this Whole Foods could be located where Laurlewood Farms’ inspiration is while Laurelwood Farms is located where the Whole Foods is in real life (in order to make the map more credible).

Bette’s on her way to talk to Gina.

The Planet, on a night where Kit is DJ’ing.  It is possible that this was also Poetry Night, which like Karaoke Night (Episode 103) ended early so everyone could just party for the sake of partying.  Kit’s watch indicates that is approximately 5:45 PM, which means the watch is probably not working (or the party got started early and given it’s February, may still be possible for it it to be dark so soon since it’s Winter).  Tim is there and is on his cellphone, leaving a message for Jenny.  Bad sushi from the previous evening (Tuesday, February 24th, 2004) is to blame for the 200 Yard Free Relay team not having a good practice (“they were up all night puking”).  Trish, whose academic struggles were noted in her introduction in Episode 101/102 is now on academic probation.  Under NCAA guidelines, this would basically make Trish ineligible for competition and seeing as she is one of the stars of the CU Women’s Swim program, this is a problem.  Being fixated with Tim and knowing that Tim’s busy in a relationship probably hasn’t help matters either for Trish.  So Tim is unwinding at The Planet, which would imply that it is in the path between California University and his and Jenny’s home on North Genesee Avenue.  Also, Dos Equis is now one of the beers of choice for L-Universe characters.  The other beer shows up at Kit’s booth in just a bit.

Marina is playing pool and is apparently good enough to outplay the others already there, at least until Tim arrives.  As Tim observes Marina with his beer, we have a promotional sign on the wall for The Planet and some of their nightly entertainment.

Hip Hop Karaoke with DJ Kit (which we saw in Episode 103), from 9 PM to 2 AM.  The karaoke portion likely dies out during the final hour so everyone can socialize.  Also, advance tickets are $5.

Skin Deep with DJ Tracey and DJ Lotta, with advance tickets being $15 and also from 9 PM to 2 AM.

The Saturday event is presumably Hot Saturday, featuring DJ Kimberly, DJ Tracey (her 2nd appearance on this poster), and DJ Toni.  Advance tickets are sold out and there’s that whole fire code deal in terms of capacity.

After that is a Sunday event of some kind with DJ Kimberly and DJ Renee.  It’s possible that DJ Renee is the same Renee (Renee Moi) that Shane hooks up with in Episode 101/102 during the Radar Party.  This poster may serve as an example of Marina’s spending spree when it comes to The Planet, along with the renovation that took place from December 2003 to January 2004 (in between Episodes 101/102 and 103).  A slick poster just to update whether an event is sold out along with the changing up of the look could be examples of Francesca’s financial frustration with Marina and The Planet later in Season 1.

We do get a different view of the poster as Marina walks up to Tim, requesting for him to play pool.  The Saturday event is Red Hot Saturday and the Sunday event is Sizzling Sunday.  Advance tickets appear to be $15 with the same 9 PM to 2 AM slot.  Above the sign is “Radar” which means the Radar Party idea has expanded to being more than just women’s only (maybe that guy Marcy, Marnie, and Marti were talking to outside during the Radar Party made a formal complaint) or just on Tuesdays.  Tim doesn’t feel he’s any match for Marina.  This of course takes another meaning altogether when it comes to the plot, as opposed to what Tim actually means by it in conversation here.