- Ross is guilt-ridden after sleeping with Chloe and desperately tries to stop Rachel from finding out and when she does, the rest of the gang listen to them argue and end up trapped in Monica's room for the rest of the night.
- The morning after Rachel declared they needed a break, she wakes up ready to work on getting back together - and Ross is drunk in bed with Chloe, the copy girl; Joey and Chandler warn him word will follow 'the trail' of women blabbering to Rachel, and at every step he's too late to stop it. Whe she storms in for an endless session of denial there's still love between them, whatever he tries, the other friends don't dare to leave the bedroom where Monica and Phoebe had been waxing.—KGF Vissers
- The morning after Ross and Rachel take a break from their relationship, Ross wakes up in his apartment to Chloe (Angela Featherstone) walking out of his bathroom, insinuating that they spent the night together. Hurriedly, checking his answering machine for messages, Ross realizes that Rachel had left a message apologizing, saying that she loved him, and that she was going to drop by his apartment. Unable to get rid of Chloe in time, he hides her behind the door as Rachel comes by to try things again. Ross quickly agrees and becomes her boyfriend again.
Not wasting any time, Ross goes over to Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler's (Matthew Perry) apartment to confess what he did. While Ross believes that he should tell Rachel everything, Joey and Chandler urge him not to. After reluctantly agreeing, the guys then try to figure out a way so that Rachel does not find out about Ross and Chloe on her own. Joey then tells Ross that he needs to think about 'the trail', which is the list of people between the girl he slept with, and the girl he does not want to find out what happened. Chandler traces the trail from Chloe to her coworker Isaac, who has a sister Jasmine, who works with Phoebe, who is best friends with Rachel.
As Ross goes down 'the trail' to prevent the news from getting to Rachel, he finds out that Chloe had already told Isaac (her co-worker at the copier place), who had already told his sister Jasmine. While talking to Jasmine, he manages to get her to promise to not say anything to Phoebe. But, she mentions that he should talk to her roommate that she told, because her roommate knows Rachel, too. Who just so happens to be none other than Gunther (James Michael Tyler). Ross rushes to Central Perk to try to keep Gunther quiet, only to find out that Gunther had already told Rachel everything.
Meanwhile, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) are back in Monica's bedroom trying a new waxing product they purchased called Waxine, but the pain is too great. Hearing the screams from across the hall, Joey and Chandler rush to their rescue. But, before they can leave the room, an angry Rachel storms into the apartment, followed by Ross. Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, and Joey stay in the bedroom, unbeknownst to Ross and Rachel.
The fight between Ross and Rachel is even worse than the night before when they took a break from their relationship. Rachel gets even angrier with Ross as he tries to talk to her and settle things between the two of them. She is upset that she had to hear everything that happened between Ross and Chloe from Gunther, and she gets furious when Ross accidentally lets slip out that Chloe was still in his apartment when Rachel had come over to get back together earlier that morning. Rachel then tries to make Ross see her perspective by mocking him and creating a scenario where she sleeps with another man. Chandler and Joey want to leave, but Ross tells Rachel he was planning on tell her everything but Chandler and Joey told him not to. Humiliated, the boys decide not to leave the bedroom, but the four friends get so hungry that they eat the Waxine, which happens to be organic, but not edible.
At 3:00 a.m., Ross is still trying to get Rachel to forgive him. Just as it seems as though Rachel might forgive him, Ross starts touching her and kissing her, but she stands up and slaps his hands away, telling him to go home. Suddenly, Ross walks over to her and tries again to tell her that they can work past this. He then tells her that he cannot imagine his life without her. Both start to cry as Ross gets down on his knees and begs for forgiveness. Rachel refuses, telling him that she cannot forgive him because she cannot stop picturing Ross with Chloe and that there is nothing he can say or do, because it has changed everything between them forever. The two sadly part, which Rachel wonders "Then how come it is?"
The episode ends with the other four finally being able to get out of the bedroom and find Rachel on the couch, and Ross nowhere to be seen. Monica wraps a blanket over Rachel as the other three quietly cross the room to go to their respective homes.
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