Previously: Julie was running a prostitution ring, which somehow totally slipped my mind, and Taylor and Ryan hopped a few hundred speed bumps while in their matching coma. Now, Seth's washing the windows of the Rover at a dusty roadside gas station and steadily ignoring Ryan's intense interrogation. Ryan finally takes the squeegee away and demands to know what's going on. What's going on, Seth exposits, is that it's New Year's Eve and they are going to the Vegas. Ryan offers to hit him with the squeegee if he doesn't tell him why the girls are acting so weird. In the gas station bathroom, the girls are counting down the seconds on something that is obviously a pregnancy test, but you can't really tell whose it is because they are both acting bizarre and high-tension. Outside, Seth tells Ryan to ask them himself, and Ryan asks him to exposit why Seth is even there at the roadside gas station. Which is called "Al's," by the way. That's not important... or really very interesting. Carry on. Inside the bathroom, there are eleven seconds left. Seth tells Ryan that he's there because Ryan has not killed him yet. Inside, Taylor wonders if there was enough pee. Ryan corrects Seth that he's there because Ryan saved him from the jam of having no good New Year's plans. Summer asks again how many bars they're looking for; the answer is still two. Seth whines that he promised Ryan he would pay him back, and Ryan says he's collecting. The girls jump around all crazy and we finally see the pregnancy test box in Taylor's hand. One more second...

Everything goes in reverse to SEVEN HOURS EARLIER, where Ryan is bringing Seth a cup of coffee in the comic shop. Seth jokes that it's the last cup of coffee of 2006 and threatens to keep making that joke all day long. Ryan mentions that he's taking Taylor to the Vegas for New Year's, and asks if that's too weird. Downstairs, Taylor's talking to Summer about the surprise -- which of course she already knows about, because she is Taylor -- and wondering if her gift is also a good surprise. Summer is not listening; her makeup is very vampiric in this scene. Upstairs, Seth says that it's a fine step forward: after all, the old adage that "couples that have comas together, stay together." Taylor reveals her gift for Ryan: lingerie. "Is he going to think I'm some kind of kinky sex-starved divorcee?" asks Taylor, and I have to say: that's kind of what she is. Seth foreshadows about how people who go to the Vegas often come back married, and Ryan soundly ignores this. Ryan asks if Seth has plans; Summer tells Taylor that of course Seth has no plans, which means some Korean cinema, manga, and "making new friends on MySpace." Ryan asks Seth if she'll be cool with that lack of planning; Summer wonders if she'll have to kill him.