Everybody arrives at Sotheby's while the Lissy Trullie cover of "Ready For The Floor" plays. I haven't heard this version. Operative lyrics, as Nate and Bree -- needless to say, looking like hell -- showily kiss for the paparazzi and the rest of the characters arrive and have their pictures taken:

I am ready, I am ready for a fall

I can't hear your voice, do I have a choice?
You're sinking below, I'm using my force

You're my number one guy

Serena appears in a truly fucking insane dress -- lovely dark red in color, boob-caged like a Mondrian -- and asks B to exposit why she is there, so she does, hysterically, and then S apologizes to B for not listening to her about Carter. "It's for the best, S. Most guys just are who they are." Chuck appears in a cloud of smoke and Blair physically jumps behind big old gigantic Serena to get away from him, because he's pissed about the stolen shoes, and she tells him they are POWs and aren't going anywhere until she gets the photograph. "And don't think you can distract me with another ounce of Dom," she CLUES, and Serena giggles as she runs off. Chuck mentions that Carter's not there, and she starts to get suspicious. "Probably best. This place doesn't accept IOUs. Some guys just are..." Serena pulls a CLUE literally out of her ass: "Who they are? That's exactly what Blair just said." Chuck walks away and the camera lingers on her thinky face for a million years, hoping you'll buy that she just figured out something.

Vanessa walks Scott into Sotheby's like a dog trainer in a hideous effing giant turquoise ring, and Scott literally walks up to Rufus and goes, "Remember when I told you there was something I wanted to talk to you about today? That's why I'm here." Without pretext, rude as all get out: vintage Humphrey. They come on the PA and say the auction is starting, so Rufus -- even with that very key, very hyped-up statement still hanging in the air -- blows them off to go check on some Lily thing. Vanessa grabs his arm and commences comforting the shit out of him, but right then his tragic mother appears across the crowd and he wigs out. There is not a moment in this whole scene where Vanessa isn't rubbing, smacking or otherwise attempting to comfort his right arm; it's awesome. So he makes all kinds of faces and heads over to talk to his tragic mother.