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"The Rager" is the nineteenth episode in the second season of the Fox drama series The O.C.. The episode aired on the fourteenth of April in 2005.

Synopsis[]

On Trey's 21st birthday, Marissa, anxious to help Trey and Ryan forge a relationship, throws a birthday party for Trey at the Cooper-Nichol mansion that quickly gets out of control and leading to someone getting arrested at the end of the night. Meanwhile, Seth is left in hot water by both Summer and Zach in this new graphic novel partnership. Sandy wants to continue his friendship with Carter, leaving a confused Kirsten. A distraught Julie shares some memories with her blackmailer Lance, and in the process gains a few ideas about the future of her marriage with Caleb.

Plot[]

Sandy finds Trey packed and ready to move into his new apartment. Trey thanks Sandy for his help and he says he would do anything for Ryan. Sandy lets him know that they are there for him if he needs anything. Sandy asks him if Ryan knows he is leaving just as he walks in. Trey then thanks Ryan for helping him and Ryan says he has a funny way of showing it. Trey tries to apologize but Ryan doesn't accept it. Trey heads out the door and leaves. Marissa finds Seth and Ryan and she asks if Trey will need anything for his new apartment. Ryan says no and that he is out of their lives now. Seth and Marissa think he should forgive Trey for the auction thievery in The Risky Business but Ryan doesn't want to.

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Ryan is not ready to forgive Trey after he stole something at the auction.


Carter tells Kirsten they were just sued for a profile in the magazine. Carter asks to talk to Sandy and Kirsten somewhat agrees. Julie is on her way and Kirsten is worried about explaining to her that she is no longer on the cover of Newport Living. Julie unexpectedly walks in and Kirsten asks about Europe. Kirsten then tells her that they were at risk of getting the magazine cancelled and had to take her off the cover. Julie surprisingly says that they did the right thing which Kirsten and Carter are taken aback by. Julie tells them not to worry about it and that it is really good to see Kirsten because she missed her. Julie leaves Kirsten and Carter speechless.

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Julie is apparently not upset about being taken off of the cover of Newport Living.


Zach and Seth are going over the meeting and Zach thinks he should do the talking this time. Seth assures Zach he will be better this time and talk about the publisher they will be meeting. Summer joins them and is not interested in hearing about the graphic novel. Zach leaves them to it and Seth apologizes to her about it and that he will tell her all she needs to know. Summer thinks that Zach and Seth working together is a bad idea and doesn't want to hear anything about it. Sandy is fixing up a table when Carter walks in asking for help with their liable suit. Sandy is more than happy to help and thinks it will go well. Carter and Sandy agree to go surfing together.

Marissa gifts Trey a housewarming gift and makes up an excuse as to why Ryan didn't come. Trey invites her in and his apartment is pretty empty. Trey tells her that his birthday is coming up. Seth and Zach arrive at their meeting and find out their publisher is a woman who they thought at first was a man. Seth says that girls and comics don't mix. Reed Carlson, their publisher, introduces herself saying she has really been looking forward to their meeting. She hypes up the graphic and the business plan which Zach put together. Zach is flattered. Marissa visits Ryan and asks him if he would want to throw Trey a birthday party that she is willing to host. Marissa thinks Ryan forgot his birthday which he did and realizes Marissa went to see him. Ryan gets mad and asks why she is doing this. Marissa says that she's doing so because Trey is Ryan's brother and Ryan tells her to stop pushing it. Marissa apologizes and quickly leaves.

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Ryan yells at Marissa to stop pushing it in his relationship with his brother, Trey.


The next day, Seth teases Ryan with coffee and encourages him to get up and out of bed. Seth talks about Reed and that he is worried about Zach who seems to have a crush on her. Ryan says that he doesn't want to talk about Marissa because they got in a fight about a birthday party for Trey. Seth thinks Marissa had a good point about the party but Ryan walks away. Julie tells Marissa how much fun she had in Europe and she wonders why Julie came home early. Julie says that everything is okay and that she missed Marissa. Julie gets a phone call and leaves as she asks to have dinner with Marissa. She stops by Caleb's office and unlocks a box that encases a gun.

Carter and Sandy get back to their cars after surfing. One of Sandy's old colleagues, Erin, meets Carter who flirts with him and offers to go surfing with him. Marissa tells Summer about her fight with Ryan that she says has been building up. Marissa says that since Trey arrived, it has been really hard for Ryan. Summer says that at least Marissa tried and if Ryan doesn't want a relationship with his brother then it is his own problem. Marissa worries that Ryan will regret not having built a relationship with him to which Summer says she sounds like a girlfriend. Marissa then says if something important was happening in Seth's life, Summer would be there for him. Summer hesitates and realizes she has been lacking in that.

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Sandy helps his new friend, Carter, out after a morning of surfing.

Zach and Seth are talking about how much they appreciate Reed. Seth tells Zach he is not allowed to tell Summer about anything comic-related just as Summer interrupts. Zach drops the bomb on Seth in front of Summer about Reed and leaves them to it. Seth is then forced to tell Summer that she is the comic book representative but doesn't need to know. Summer then says that she does want to know. She says that she knows the comic is important to Seth so it is important to her, seems like Marissa got to her with that. Julie visits Lance and pulls out a gun once she enters his hotel room. Lance begins to explain to her what happened but Julie interrupts saying that he humiliated and ruined her reputation. Julie says that she is there to kill him and fires the gun. The gun is not loaded as Julie tells him she wanted him to feel what it was like to have your life taken from you.

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Julie threatens Lance since he took her life away from her in releasing the sex tape.

Seth asks Ryan to come with him to pick up food but Ryan is studying. Seth tries to get Ryan to see Trey but Ryan refuses. Seth eventually talks him into it and they leave. Sandy gets home and tells Kirsten about surfing with Carter. Sandy then tells Kirsten about Erin and Carter and how he saw some chemistry between them. Sandy suggests they invite them over and set them both up. Kirsten reluctantly agrees. Seth and Ryan pull up to Trey's apartment so he can wish Trey a happy birthday. Trey leaves his place before they get out and notice he is getting picked up. Seth and Ryan follow him into an alleyway and see Trey giving money to suspicious guys.

The next day, Ryan pounds on Trey's door, he barges in and pushes Trey up to a wall and asks what he bought, thinking it was drugs. Trey pushes him off as Ryan yells at him, feeling stupid for believing in Trey. Trey takes out a card from his parole officer that helped him find a friend from prison. Trey gave his friend money to help keep him out of a shelter. Before Ryan leaves, Trey says he was excited to see him because he thought he was going out with him for his birthday and slams the door in Ryan's face. Ryan goes straight to Marissa who is still cautious in speaking with him. Ryan apologizes for yelling at her previously and she says that it's his brother and she shouldn't have pushed. Ryan tells her that she didn't do anything wrong and that he was taking out his frustration on her. Ryan tells her what happened and Marissa is more than willing to help.

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Ryan asks Marissa for her help in patching things up with Trey.

Seth is in another meeting with Reed and shows her his new drawings, which she compliments. Seth talks about his partnership with Zach but is trying to get Reed to like him more than Zach by putting him down and leaving him out of the current meeting. Seth even goes as far as throwing out that Zach gives off gay vibes as he answers a phone call from Summer. She asks for his help and he agrees to meet her after his meeting. Julie signs for a package and opens it to find her sex tape and a note attached to it. Marissa drags Trey out of his apartment and back to her house where Ryan, Seth, and Summer wait for him. Seth and Summer greet him first and then Ryan does who waits for Trey to pull him into a hug. Julie is about to leave and asks Marissa if she can trust her while she is gone. Marissa tells her it will just be them and a few other friends. Julie makes a joke and heads out.

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Julie jokes with Marissa about being a "cool mom."

Carter comes to the Cohen's for the dinner Sandy and Kirsten planned. Erin arrives and Carter asks Kirsten if it is weird. Kirsten assures him it isn't and everyone introduces themselves to each other. Sandy, Carter, and Erin go out to the backyard while Kirsten takes a few sips of alcohol before things get weird. Julie arrives at a bar to meet Lance asking what he wants. Lance is offering to give her the rest of the tapes and reveals to her that Caleb did not pay him. Julie did not know that he wasn't paid and that Caleb had him beat up. Julie is shocked and Lance says he never meant to hurt her but released the tape in his anger with Caleb. Lance says he has no money and Julie asks him for a drink.

Word has definitely spread about Trey's birthday party at the Cooper-Nichol mansion as more than the number of people invited crash it, which Trey is ecstatic about. Zach walks in with Reed and Summer questions who she is. Marissa points out how much older Reed looks and Summer is in agreement. Seth takes Summer far away from them while Marissa and Ryan head back into the house where more people come through. The party progresses and Seth asks one of the water polo guys where Zach is. One of them starts making fun of Seth and starts pushing him around when Trey intervenes and defends Seth. Trey chokes out this one guy and tells him to leave. Trey makes sure Seth is okay and he thanks him as he also gets attention from a girl, Jess Sathers.

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More and more people slowly start to arrive to Trey's birthday party.

Seth eventually finds Zach and asks him to explain himself for bringing Reed. Zach gets mad that he didn't invite him to the meeting and for calling him gay. Jess takes Trey into a bedroom where she asks about his life. Jess asks why he is at a Newport rager and Trey says that it is his birthday party. Jess and Trey kiss and then sleep together. Julie and Lance are enjoying themselves, catching up, and getting drunk. Here I Go Again by Whitesnake plays in the bar and Julie and Lance laugh about the time they went to see them in concert. Summer makes her way through the party and eventually finds the bathroom where she runs into Reed. Summer asks her about Zach and Reed says that he is very sweet. Reed brings up characters from their comic book and Summer questions how she knows. Reed reveals to Summer that she is the publicist working with Zach and Seth. Summer finds Seth and yells at him about Reed. Summer asks him not to pretend that he wasn't lying. She asks Zach for a ride as Seth is going after him to explain.

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Summer calls Seth out for lying to her about Reed.

Julie and Lance are now dancing to Every Rose Has It's Thorn by Poison and continuing to drink more and more. Lance says it's time to get her home and Julie reveals how she feels like Caleb is going to divorce her and that things aren't going well with him, which is why she came home from Europe early. Lance says how he feels like his life stopped when Julie left him all those years ago and takes the blame for everything bad going on in her life currently. Lance then says if getting rid of Caleb will solve things, he offers to kill Caleb for Julie.

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Julie and Lance dance together and he offers to do something extreme to make her happy.

The Rager is now truly out of control as people continue to arrive and make an even bigger mess. Marissa is drinking water and not drinking with everyone else (YAY GO MARISSA). Ryan finds her and she has had about enough of it and they head to her room to get away. Marissa and Ryan walk into her room to find a threesome going on and tells them to get out. Ryan and Marissa laugh it off and Ryan thanks her for everything she has done to help him with Trey and says she has been amazing. Marissa understands and Ryan can't take his eyes off her. They nearly kiss until they hear a scream coming from the backyard. Ryan and Marissa see a girl face down in the pool. Seth fishes her out and the girl happens to be Jess.

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Ryan thanks Marissa for all she has done and they nearly kiss.

Sandy, Kirsten, Carter, and Erin seem to be enjoying their dinner and Erin really likes Carter. Sandy gets a call and tells them about the party the kids through that Sandy leaves to go to. Erin and Kirsten talk about Carter and Kirsten warns her to be careful with him since he is going through a divorce. Erin doesn't like that and assumes he isn't over his ex-wife. Erin thanks Kirsten and rushes out. Jess is taken away by ambulance on a stretcher and Trey finally comes out to see it all happen. Ryan asks him where he has been and notices that Trey knows Jess. Sandy arrives and makes sure everyone is okay. The police ask Sandy if he lives there and then asks who of the kids lives there. Marissa confesses and they ask where her parents are. Julie is still out and the police decide to put Marissa under arrest since a bag of drugs were found so he is arresting the owner of the house until the supplier confesses. As Marissa is put in cuffs, Trey says that he brought the drugs and gave them to Jess. Trey is then put under arrest and taken to jail.

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One of these four, Ryan, Marissa, Seth, or Trey, will be arrested after Jess' OD.

Cast[]

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Music[]

Quotes[]

  • Lance: What the hell is that?
  • Julie: It's a gun genius. You use it to shoot people you wanna kill.
  • Lance: Alright Jules. Here's what happened...
  • Julie: What happened is that you humiliated me in front of my friends and family. I've been kicked out of every organization and club I belong to, my own magazine has taken me off the cover, and at home I have a teenage daughter who sooner or later will find out that her mother was a pornographer.
  • Lance: Let's just be reasonable here, Jules.
  • Julie: I am being reasonable. In one night, you destroyed a life I spent almost twenty years building. So I am here to kill you.
  • Lance: WAIT...
  • Ryan: Hey listen, thank you for everything you have done for Trey. If it wasn't for you...[shrugs]. You've been amazing.
  • Marissa: I know what it's like to have someone believe in you but no one else does.

Trivia[]

  • The building used for the exterior shot of the Newport Group's building is the same one that serves as the CSI Lab and Offices on CSI: Miami (2002).

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