5. Mixed Signals

Cooper wants to sleep with Julia, but she tells him that she is not ready because of her pregnancy scare. Julia then tries to see if she can go through with sleeping with Cooper, but she can not so they break up for good. After Bailey moves out of the house, Claudia finally takes down the camping tent in the living room where she has been sleeping for the past two years and moves into his old bedroom. Jody tells Claudia that her mother's new live-in boyfriend came into her room one night and kissed her, but Jody begs Claudia not to tell anyone because the boyfriend has been a positive influence in Jody's mother's life because she has stopped drinking, using drugs, has gotten a steady job, and so it would devastate her to learn that the boyfriend is a suspected pedophile.

Claudia invites Jody to stay for a couple of days at the Salinger household which drags on into over one week. After Charlie tells Claudia that Jody cannot sleep over anymore, she finally confides in him that Jody's mother's boyfriend is sexually abusing her. Meanwhile, Kirsten tries a new anti-depressent medication which her depression turns into compulsive cleaning and organizing, which drives her crazy and she decides to go off the medication, but she immediately becomes depressed and withdrawn more than ever. Elsewhere, Callie tells Bailey that her old boyfriend, Tom, is going to be at the art show she's appearing in to display her paintings, and asks Bailey to pretend to be her boyfriend so he will stop asking her out.

Bailey says he'll help her out, but then finds out that Tom is his art professor. Later, Jody angrily confronts Claudia for telling Charlie about her mother's boyfriend's advances and adding that Charlie told Jody's mother, who reacted by throwing her boyfriend out, and then fell off the wagon by getting drunk and is then arrested and jailed... exactly as Jody feared would happen. Social Services is sending Jody to live with her divorced father far away. After Claudia has an argument with Charlie for betraying her trust about Jody, she makes a phone call to Kirsten's parents.