In the middle of the afternoon, Gage returns home drunk out of his mind and finds Cayden standing in the hall wearing nothing but his underwear. Thoroughly amused, Gage invites Cayden back to his place to call maintenance so that they can let him into his apartment. When maintenance doesn't respond, Gage invites Cayden to smoke some marijuana with him, but Cayden refuses. Gage tells Cayden to try asking Kathryn Hayes if she'll let him climb out on the fire escape to get back into his apartment.

Later, Gage goes over to Cayden's apartment to make sure everything is okay and Cayden enlists his help to move furniture. Gage watches as Cayden finds a loose floorboard, and underneath Cayden finds Julia Taylor's diary.

Gage gives Cayden a little advice on how to deal with Devon James. He tells Cayden that he needs to stand up to Devon and put her in her place, but Gage is ultimately dissapointed when Cayden doesn't take advantage of the opportunity to put his good advice to use.

Later, Gage invites Cayden to a party where they both get drunk. When Gage walks in on Cayden getting sexual with another man, Gage is surprised to find out that Cayden is gay, but he takes it in stride.

When Cayden convinces Gage to visit Jesse at the hospital, he reluctantly tags along. The two run into Szymon Skubisz, who is going to the hospital to visit his sick mother. When they get there, Gage decides to stay in the waiting room because he doesn't know what to say or do. He does, however, have a few choice words to Szymon Skubisz. He warns to older man not to play with Cayden's emotions because Cayden is a special kind of person.

Later, when Devon and Kathryn step into the hall and their conversation escalates into an argument, Gage is the one to steps in and intervenes, telling both women that they need to stop and put Jesse's needs above their petty differences.

It is two weeks after Thanksgiving, and as the day begins everyone is helping Mason move into his new apartment, the apartment in which a neighbor of Cayden's committed suicide. When everyone begins to get tired of cleaning the new apartment, they decide to take a break. Cayden, Devon, Gage, Jesse, and Kathryn head to the corner store to pick up some snacks. While they are there, Szymon enters the store and speaks to Cayden privately, or so they think

When Szymon tells Cayden that they are officially labeling Julia's murder as a cold case, Devon reacts strongly. When everyone finds out what Szymon told Cayden, Cayden realizes that it would be best for Szymon to leave, and he does so.

As everyone decides to pay for their snacks and leave, a man with a gun enters the corner store and tells the cashier to hand over the money. When the cashier pulls out a shotgun, things go from bad to worse. The cashier is shot and killed and another customer who tries to flee is shot as well.

Outside, Szymon hears the gunshots and orders the store robber to come out, but the man doesn't comply. He holds Cayden, Devon, Gage, Jesse and Kathryn hostage, threatening to kill them.

When Jesse sees an opportunity to tackle the gunman, he takes it, but is overpowered by the other man. In the struggle to get free, Gage is shot. When Cayden sees that, he tries to flee but is held by the gunman. In an effort to get out of the store, the gunman holds a gun to Cayden's head and threatens to shoot him. Szymon sees that and loses it. When Szymon doesn't back off, the gunman shoots Cayden on the arm.

Huddled together, Cayden and Gage start to talk and Cayden realizes that Gage is losing consciousness so he tries to get Gage to talk so that he can stay awake. As Gage drifts into unconsciousness, he tells Cayden that he had sex with Julia Taylor.

Cayden is shocked by the revelation, but quickly realizes that he has to get out of the store before he is killed. He tries to flee but if caught by the gunman and is thrown into the center of a standoff with the gunman and the police. With quick thinking, Cayden is able to briefly incapacitate the gunman, allowing Szymon a clear shot, which he takes.

When Devon catches Jesse kissing Kathryn, she explodes and everyone gets involved in an argument. When Gage tells everyone that Julia wouldn't have wanted them to argue because she was all about forgiveness, Cayden lets it slip that Gage slept with Julia and Jesse forgave her for that.

A stunned Jesse didn't know that Gage was the one Julia cheated on his with and tries to attack him. As they try to figure out how Cayden knew about the affair, Devon tells them that he has Julia's diary and she demands that Cayden give it to her because he can't be trusted.

Angry, Cayden turns on Devon and tells her that she's the one who can't be trusted because she helped Julia secretly get an abortion when she didn't know if Gage or Jesse was her baby's father.

This knews causes everyone to go into shock and leave Cayden's apartment, but not before Devon punches him on the nose.

While Cayden and Devon are heading up the stairs, they run into Gage, who tries to avoid them, but Devon stops him and tells him that they are not mad at him. After some convincing, Gage agrees to spend New Year's Eve with them.

When Cayden also convinces Jesse and Kathryn to join them, Gage feel uncomfortable and Devon tells him to give it some time. Gage understands.

As the countdown to midnight begins, everyone gathers in Cayden's living room. When the clock strikes twelve, Devon unexpectedly grabs Gage and gives him a kiss, warning him that it's nothing more than just a New Year's kiss.

When Jesse realizes that New Year's Eve is about starting over, he extends his hand to Gage and, surprised by his forwardness, Gage accepts it and they shake.

While at work, Devon gets a strange phonecall from Gage Matthews. When she wonder why Gage would be calling her, she is surprised when Gage asks her out to eat. When she asks him about his strange behavior, Gage quickly makes an excuse and hangs up the phone, leaving Devon to wonder if he was asking her out on a date.

Later, Gage is talking to Mason about his feelings and when Cayden shows up, he pulls Cayden into his apartment to confess the fact that he has feelings for Devon. Cayden laughs and tells him that he either needs to own up to his feelings and tell Devon, or he can ignore them and hope that they go away.

At work, Devon spots Gage at the store where she works, she gets angry and pulls him into a dressing room where she confronts him about his behavior. Gage responds by kissing her. When Devon slaps him and asks him what he's doing, he makes an excuse about her kissing him at New Year's Eve. The two decide that they are not interested in one another, and vow to avoid one another, but temptation takes control of them and they end up having sex in the fitting room.

It is the night of Jesse's big art show and Cayden gives Gage advice about Devon. He tells him to talk to her and see where things go.

As she is looking at the paintings, Devon is approached by Gage and the two share a conversation about art in which Devon makes an observation that Gage's appreciation of art mirrors his appreciation of women. He is more interested in art (and women) that are purely visual and don't have much substance.

Cayden is frantic when he loses the ring tht Szymon gave him while throwing out the trash. He begs Devon and Elijah for their help in searching for it and the three go down to the incinerator to wade through trash bags. As the search becomes futile, Cayden discovers a trash bag filled with pictures of Julia Taylor. They find Julia's diary that was stolen from Cayden's apartment. The three soon realize that they just dug through the trash of Julia's killer. They take the trash bag with them as they scurry to leave, Cayden finds the ring at the last moment.

Back in Cayden's apartment, he gathers everyone and tells them about the findings. Cayden calls Szymona d asks him to get there right away. As Jesse steps forward the grab the bag, Kathryn blocks him and grabs it. Devon is furious that Kathryn continues to further contaminate the evidence. Cayden tries to bring everyone back to their senses and they agree to go through the bad while wearing latex gloves.

As Jesse Martinez searched through the bag of evidence, he is shocked to find that in every picture of Julia Taylor, someone cut out her eyes. When Gage tries to help, Jesse goes off on him, blaming him for preventing him from spending precious time with Julia before she died. Kathryn does her best to stop the two men from fighting and Jesse becomes frustrated that he can't find anything in the bag.

When Cecilia Nakamura and Szymon Skubisz arrive to pick up the bag of evidence left by Julia's killer, they are shocked that everyone rifled through the bag. As Cecilia goes through the evidence, she notes that someone took photographs of Julia inside of her apartment from the fire escape. Cecilia finds a picture in the bag that is different from the rest. Cayden is present in the photograph, which means that it was taken after Julia died, and furthermore, Jesse Martinez is cut out of the picture. Cayden admits that he took the picture at Christmas and made a copy for all of his friends.

When Mason enters Cayden's apartment, Sarah follows him. The two of them find out about the bag in the incinerator and Sarah makes a few catty remarks that get Devon's blood boiling and Devon attacks her. Their fight spills out into the corridor, but it is eventually broken up by the men and Mrs. Mulberry.

As Gage decides to go downstairs to get the power back on, he used the staircase, but trips over something in the darkness. He soon realizes that it is Sarah Mulberry. A confused Sarah discovers that her leg is broken. She informs Gage that someone pushed her and she identifies Devon James as her attacker. A confused Gage promises to get help for Sarah and runs off to find Devon.

When Gage Matthews arrives in the basement, he is shocked to find Szymon weilding a gun on Devon as Cayden stands by and watches. Gage shields Devon from Szymon's gun and the four invidiuals find themselves in a standoff. Cayden accuses Devon of killing Mason and Gage denies that she had anything to do with it. Devon continues to try to get Cayden to listen to her words. Gage is ultimately successful in retrieving the knife from Devon, but Devon pushes forward and reaches into her jacket for something.

Szymon is poised to shoot, but Cayden stops him by telling everyone that Devon is pregnant. When Devon pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to Cayden, he is confused at first until he realizes that it is the picture he gave her. She still had it. Devon collapses to the ground and everyone realizes that she has been stabbed in the back.

When Elijah returns to Cayden's apartment, he is shocked to find Mason's dead body. As he stumbles out of the bedroom, he runs into Kathryn and she tells him that Devon murdered Cayden and she saw the whole thing from where she was hiding in the bathroom. She tells him that when Devon left, she crawled out of the bathroom and checked to make sure that Cayden was okay but that when she checked his pulse he was dead. Realizing that something it wrong, Elijah tells Kathryn that it isn't Cayden who's dead, it's Mason. Elijah suddenly realizes that Kathryn is lying and tries to flee, but Kathryn prevents him from doing so by knocking him to the ground. She grabs Cayden's DVD player and slams it down on Elijah's head just as Gage arrives to watch the brutal attack.

Before Gage could get the upper hand on Kathryn, she incapaciates him by throwing the dvd player this head with full force. Gage crashes to the ground unconscious.

Szymon kicks the door to Cayden's apartment down and finds Jesse standing there, holding the gun to his head. With the help of Cayden, Gage and Devon, Szymon is successful in getting Jesse to drop the gun. A defeated Jesse falls to the floor, a sobbing mess.

Outside of the building, Gage and Devon are being taken care of by the medica and they talk about her pregnancy. They decide that if they are having a baby girl, they will name her Julia.