When he offers a dinner meeting at the Rainbow Room to Quinn, Kelsey, and Lauren, he’s pretty much booed out of the room (the look he shoots Lauren after she shits all over his idea is perfect). Charles needs to find a way to get her there, now. Things are kicked up a notch when Charles gets a call from Quinn’s assistant, who tells him Quinn is supposed to be heading to her supersecret, very expensive surprise birthday party at the Rainbow Room. The book is all about not being afraid to take risks, even if you might fail, and that’s an important, accessible lesson. When Charles and Quinn meet with Kelsey and Lauren to go over the manuscript, they are not-so-begrudgingly onboard too. He loves her new book, and the two have a flirty interaction about how he’s the publisher and can do whatever he wants. She has one person on her side, though: Charles. She’s trying to make nice with the “Empirigals,” but it isn’t working. The next day, after the two surf together (Liza gets up on her board she’s a natural, apparently) she explains that she just got out of a relationship with someone and doesn’t think she should “just jump back into bed with somebody.”īut she could jump into the shower with him.īack in NYC, Quinn’s being a weirdo. For a moment, it seems like she may go back. He offers her the option in such a casual manner, mainly as a way to ease her stress. He knows a way for her to get out of her head and be more in her body. She, of course, is constantly in her head. He’s living in the present, and Liza should too. He also gets very surf-philosophical (is surfilosophical a thing?), talking about how the reason he loves to surf is exactly that it isn’t important it’s just a thing he loves. Those could be useful, but he won’t let her see them just yet. He talks about his nomadic surfing lifestyle and informs her that he has loads of journals from all of his surfing adventures. Liza needs to find something to lean on.Įveryone is fully clothed as Liza and Kai have a nice wine chat and she tries to figure out what exactly his book could be about. He waves at Liza as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. Upon getting out of her car outside Kai’s beach house, she finds Kai coming in from surfing, getting out of his wet suit, and getting completely naked right there on the beach. And Liza is headed to Montauk to find out just how nice. It’s shades of Jade Winslow all over again, isn’t it? Well, at least Kai seems much nicer to work with than Jade. Kelsey and Liza assure him they’ll have something ready ahead of his meeting, but even they are worried.
This is an issue because Kelsey and Liza spent $400,000 on the Kai Manning “book,” and now Charles needs to head to Chicago to defend that choice but no one has yet to figure out what this book is actually going to be. They’re the ones who got rid of Millennial, and now they need to approve any spending over $250,000. Liza and Kelsey have a (new) problem: Those silent Chicago investors aren’t so silent anymore.