Back on set, Wendy continues chatting amiably with the group as a picture-in-picture box shows Ashley corralling Taylor, apparently outside his hotel, and walking him back to the set.

He complains about feeling badgered. Ashley says he has to advocate for himself if these attacks really happened as he claims. This logic apparently gets through to Taylor, who appears to realize that running away would likely raise more suspicion. When he and Ashley take their seats again, the hour is nearly up. He meekly states that the others don’t know what it feels like to be attacked for their beliefs and therefore they should not judge him; cue yet another shot of Chase rolling his eyes.

All of that drama was packed into the final 15 minutes, which was preceded by some fairly tame business peppered with a few moments of hilarity. During the regular season, the show’s producers concocted a storyline for James, with a conclusion suggesting he had given up his partying ways to move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career with a newly found maturity and sense of purpose. (Can The A List: WeHo be far off?)

Flash forward a few months: James notes that he is auditioning, that he still loves Dallas and that his drinking is under control.

No one believes him.

The situation between Ashley and James is still tense. And although Wendy agrees that Ashley is too caught up in her friend’s drama, she flatly calls out James for being self-centered and unappreciative of Ashley’s efforts to steer him away from a life of drunken iniquity.

James also casually reveals that he and Levi hooked up over the summer.

Everyone is taken aback by the news. Levi flatly denies it, saying they got schnockered one night and that James slept over, but nothing happened. Chase is shocked; Taylor is agog. Wendy keeps prodding and in the span of about a minute, Levi changes his tune and owns up to letting James fuck him.

That’s our Levi, conflict-avoidant to a fault.