It's probably all the whiskey she's been drinking, but Jackie feels like shit when she wakes up. Seeing pictures of her arguing with Ben on the front of the tabloid, with the headline 'Jackie Finds New Man!' doesn't do anything to make her feel better. Suddenly, her breakfast seems too greasy & disgusting to eat & she pushes it away. She doesn't even want to pick up the phone when it rings, but she does anyway. Of course, it's Bill Arthag. "We found your guitarist," he's says, his voice cold & leaden. "That's great, where the hell is he?" Jackie sighs with relief. At last, some good news..."Listen, Jackie," Bill continues, and Jackie's heart sinks into her already queasy stomach...Bill's voice does not sound happy at all about finding F Hole's missing guitarist, "They found him & his girlfriend..it was a total Sid & Nancy scene there....they haven't figured out yet if it was a double suicide or a murder/suicide...but they're both dead..." Oh, dear God, Jackie thinks, moaning as her half-eaten breakfast comes up on her. She barely makes it to her bathroom & vomits violently...she can still hear Bill shouting for her over the phone. "Jackie, what the hell happened? Where are you?" he's shouting "Bill, I'm here," she answers, still feeling like she could throw up again. "Listen, Jackie, we need to find you a new guitarist..I see in the tabloid you've hooked up with the Ben fellow I introduced you to..." Bill is lucky he's out of Jackie's arm reach, because right now, even feeling as sick as she does, she could punch him in the face. She just found out her guitarist is dead & probably killed his girlfriend to boot, and he wants to set her up..."Bill, let's be very clear on this: I am NOT seeing, dating, screwing or even hanging around with Ben. Ben is a jerk, and he's the last guy I'd date, ever. I was just talking to him, about Nico, and the tabloids made their own assumptions, do you understand?" "Who is Nico?" Bill asks, and Jackie sighs loudly. This is so none of Bill's business. "Nico is the 'loose cannon' you told me not to see anymore, Bill. He used to be Ben's guitarist. Because Ben can't play worth shit, and you are not going to stick him in my band. I'd date him first, which is still never. If you want to find me a guitarist, get one with talent. And don't even think of finding me a boyfriend, I don't need one!" And she hangs up angrily.

Hair of the dog, Jackie thinks as she downs a shot of whiskey. And then she spends the rest of the day crying in her hottub. She repeats this process for a couple of days, crying, drinking, throwing up. But she doesn't pick up the phone, letting Bill yell at her answering machine instead of dealing with it herself. Until he threatens to come to her place, then she picks up. Better to deal with him over the phone than to have him in her house. "Jackie, you have to do something here..the news about your guitarist has sparked a media frenzy. You and your freaking drummer aren't helping by not making appearances. Everyone thinks you're all crazy. And this Ben is starting to spread rumours that you & he are an item, which you told me you were not.." "I'm not an 'item' with Ben," Jackie insists, but really, what does she care now? Everything has turned to shit, her guitarist killed his girlfriend & blew his head off (she's seen the horrible pics on the news), her 'boyfriend' is a gigolo, she feels like crap 24/7. "Look, Jackie, I need you to come down to the studio, today....Remember, I still hold your contract & I want you down here now. I've already sent a limo....and I have a suprise for you," he adds. What the hell kind of 'suprise' could Bill have for her? Jackie'd rather not find out, but he's right about the contract, and she hasn't much choice but to get in when the limo comes for her.

When Jackie gets up to Bill's office, she finds out his suprise is Nico. Somehow, Bill got it in his head that rounding him up for her would be helpful, as though she couldn't have just called him herself. Of course, she didn't tell Bill about being pissed at Nico for being a lying jerk & a gigolo...Nico moves in to kiss right away, telling her how much he's missed her, and though Jackie has also been missing him, very very much, she's not about to fall for his bullshit again, and she pushes him away.

"Just tell Bill what I owe you for your 'services', Nico, & the studio will cut you a check," she says, smacking into a damn photographer as she tries to storm out of the office.

"Wait, Jackie," Nico pleads & despite herself, Jackie turns to hear him out. "I know I deserve that, but I never asked for your money...give me some credit..What I do, what I've done, it had nothing to do with you, with us. That Bill guy called me to audition for him, for your band, but I've already made my mind up, I'm going back to Firenze, I've had it with this place. But I came because he said I could see you & I just wanted to see you. The tabloids said you're with Ben now...Bill says that's a lie..either way Jackie, I just wanted to say goodbye." "I'm NOT with freaking BEN," Jackie stamps her foot. Damn that little jerk & his lies, she thinks. "And what do you mean Bill wanted to audition you for MY band?" Nico shrugs, "It doesn't matter, Jackie. I'm not going to be in your band, I'm not going to stay in L.A. I'm sorry, Jackie, sorry about everything. I just wanted to say, you know, I love you, Jackie, for real." Jackie comes very close to falling in his arms when he says that, says that he loves her. She misses him, she thinks about him constantly...but that doesn't mean it's true, she reminds herself. "How can I believe anything you say, Nico? You sold me out, you talked about me to magazines & TV..for all I know freaking Bill is paying you to tell me you love me, because he wants a damn photo op out of it," Jackie feels like something inside her dying & she feels an intense wave of nausea, too. It's been happening a little too frequently lately, she thinks, as she runs out of the office to throw up. Even all the whiskey shouldn't be making her this sick.....Finished, she decides to slip out of here & into her limo & go home to Malibu.