8. All the Pretty Sources

Complete story — includes the ending

Serena is hard at work planning a dream bridal shower for Blair, but it is no surprise that Serena has to plant some false information about the shower in order to keep Blair from finding out all the details. Meanwhile, Chuck and Dan decide to spend the day together to distract themselves from the fact that they did not make the invite list for Blair's shower. Nate and Serena find a silver bullet in Diana's war against Gossip Girl when they uncover a list of all of Gossip Girl's contacts, but struggle about whether to use it or not. When the list is leaked anyway, Nate and Serena accuse each other. Nate also accuses Diana, but Blair finds out that the culprit is Louis. Elsewhere, Max confronts Ivy about her double life of impersonating Charlie. Max quickly sees through Ivy's lies and, instead of informing Lily or Serena or the authorities with what he knows, he blackmails Ivy for a large sum of money. Also, William van der Bilt forces Diana to quit as editor-in-chief of The Spectator so that Nate can take her place. Chuck tells Dan that he (Dan) is in love with Blair. The episode ends with Blair visiting Chuck at the Empire after she learns from Serena that Chuck really has changed. Title reference: The 2000 film All the Pretty Horses.