Last night’s episode of Glee included a student council election, a new job for Kurt, a new look for Rachel, and a whole heap of set-up for what looks to be a very dramatic mini-finale next week. Also, we got our first look at Sarah Jessica Parker in her guest role on the show. Read our full Glee recap below:

Congratulations, Blaine Warbler. You may have been dominating Glee’s iTunes sales for coming up on two years, a McKinley regular for one, and the absolute, undeniable fan favorite, but to me, you’re not a real Glee lead character until you’ve had an inner monologue, and today, son, is your day. Our boy strolls through the school halls, speaking in voice-over about how it’s time for him to step forward and be involved in life at McKinley. We see him signing up for a multitude of clubs, and then we cut to the auditorium where Blaine begins to perform “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” by Tears for Fears. This song soundtracks the following scenes, as we cut between the performance and Blaine getting involved in these clubs, including the Superhero Sidekick Appreciation Society – which explains the Robin twitpic – and a live-action role playing Dungeons and Dragons group where he is the group’s wizard (oh, ha ha). The performance pauses as Blaine’s inner monologue continues. He admits that part of the reason for taking up the extracurriculars is to fill his days now that Kurt is gone – they’re in as much contact as they can be. “The only time we’re really in sync is when we’re hate-watching Treme together,” which is a scene we then witness as Blaine offers Kurt – via Skype – some of his popcorn, pretending they’re together. The number ends with all his new be-costumed club friends dancing around him on the auditorium stage, and in the hallway Blaine eyes one last sign-up sheet – the student council elections. He adds his name to the only other candidate on the list – Brittany S. Pierce.

In New York, Blaine’s worse half is prepping for an interview he’s somehow scored for an internship at Vogue.com. Kurt’s meeting is with Isabelle Wright (Sarah Jessica Parker), the new senior editor of the website and a cutting edge fashion designer in her own right. Kurt is terrified – yet very stylish – as he enters her office, but Isabelle is instantly warm and disarming to Kurt, revealing that she is from Columbus, Ohio, nearby to Lima. She is impressed with the online resume Kurt submitted, particularly the gallery of his own outfits (see www.hirehummel.com) and asks him where he got his wardrobe. Answering ten thousand nit-picking fans’ questions about how Kurt has been able to afford the things he wears, (which have been tracked down IRL and revealed to be thousands of dollars worth of designer couture), Kurt admits that he made most of them, copying designs he liked, and searched the internet for bargain pieces. Isabelle proceeds to interview Kurt about his ideas and experience, and he tells her his plans of NYADA and Broadway. Isabelle offers Kurt encouragement, saying New York is the place for people like him – dreamers starting out – and her – people needing to re-invent themselves. She hires him on the spot – “Anyone who can pull off a hippo brooch deserves to be here.” Kurt throws himself on her in a hug, and proceeds to stab his new boss with the hippo. “That should come with a warning!” she says, tapping the brooch. “Oh, it did,” Kurt replies.

Brittany approaches Artie at school and asks him to run with her as her Vice President. “Did you know that Franklin Roosevelt was part robot too, and he’s on Mount Rushmore?” “No he’s isn’t,” Artie replies, “and I’m just gonna say it again, I’m not part robot.” He’s reluctant at first, but when Brittany admits that if she wins she plans to do nothing – again – and let him make all the decisions, Artie is intrigued by this plan – because women love power, apparently, and he’d like to date someone for more than a couple of weeks. “Don’t take that personally,” he tells her. “Why would I take that personally?” “We dated.” “We did?” Oh, Glee, you are learning to play to your strengths again and make fun of the moments of your own epic fail! Well done! Artie agrees to be Brittany’s running-mate – the Cheney to her Bush, though she’d prefer to be “Landing Strip.” Thanks for that one, Glee.

In the choir room, Will announces that as the Nationals champions, McKinley will be hosting the annual Show Choir rules committee meeting. This is met with a brilliant outburst: “Please tell me you’re going to ask what ‘one-third’ vintage meant last year?” Tina asks, laughing. “Or like, why some teams could sing six songs and others only do one?” Sam demands indignantly. It seems like New Directions themselves have been just as confused and disgruntled by the bizarre competition process as fandom has been, but this is another flawless moment of Glee lampshading its own past indiscrepancies and it’s making me love the show so much right now. And shouldn’t the club already be preparing ideas for competition, Jake inquires, to which Schue gives a cagey answer about not wanting to give anything away yet. As he continues to talk to the club, his voice-over starts, admitting that he has no ideas – that he’s all tapped out with where to take the club from here. Will, it’s not that hard. Find songs, make kids sing songs, the end.

Brittany interrupts what Will’s saying to the class in order to ask the glee club if anyone can prove that Blaine was born in the United States, and also to announce Artie as her running mate, which is met with general approval – except by her new blonde BFF Sam, who looks somewhat hurt. She points out that the election is pretty much over because between her and Artie, they will cover enough demographics to get all the votes – though she does consider the demographics to be humans and robots – and Blaine, my optimistic baby boy, objects with his fixed grin that’s more of a grimace, “Brittany, that’s not fair, it’s not a popularity contest. It’s about who’s got the best ideas, it’s about believing you can make a change… Right?” The others start to make fun of Blaine’s objection – Artie calls it ‘sour grapes,’ as class is dismissed and Sam stares poignantly and obviously after Brittany as the group leaves.

In the staff room Will is struggling to come up with a theme for Sectionals and vents his frustration to Sue. “I can’t decide between ‘Classic TV Themes’ or ‘A Salute To Autumn’.” Sue calls these out as the craptastic ideas they are, and Will shakes his head in defeat, saying he doesn’t know what happened to all his good ideas. “Don’t kid yourself, you never had any good ideas. You just didn’t notice because you were too busy chasing your bizarre childhood dream of a glee club national championship.” Preach it, Sue. She says that now Will has achieved his dream, he’s waking up to the boring monotony of being a normal high school teacher and that he should probably get out now, before becoming an alcoholic or morbidly obese, and explore other job opportunities. “Your lack of adult friends means you’re well on your way to a career as a pedophile birthday clown.” In seriousness, she does give him the advice – “You had a dream. You achieved it. Move on.” Will sighs, clearly not wanting to admit that she may be right.

Expectedly, Sam quizzes Brittany about why she didn’t pick him, her new bestie, as her running-mate. She says that she didn’t want to ruin their friendship – citing Sarah Palin and her ‘grandfather’ (John McCain) no longer being on speaking terms, but she does think Sam would make a good VP, so she ‘introduces’ Sam to Blaine (“Um, we’ve actually met.. several times…”) and offers him up as Blaine’s Vice President candidate. Blaine turns them down at first, saying he will be picking his own running-mate, but Sam sells himself to Blaine on the strength of the demographics he covers – “My family’s on food stamps, so that will get you the sympathy vote. I’m not gay, so that’ll help with the not-gay vote.” Blaine sizes Sam up, throws caution into the wind and agrees to take Sam as his running partner. Brittany is pleased by this and gives them their first order of business – she challenges the pair to a debate with herself and Artie. “What’s a debate?” the newly-stupidified Sam asks Blaine, who I’m sure is instantly regretting his decision.

In the Vogue offices, Isabelle is chairing a meeting at which Kurt serves drinks. She has voiced the idea of a feature on leather to her team, who come up with some truly excruciating ideas, though Isabelle is encouraging towards them. Every time someone pitches another awful idea, Kurt nearly physically recoils in disgust and disdain, which does not go without Isabelle’s notice. Isabelle dismisses the meeting and calls Kurt into her office, asking him what he thought of what he’d heard. He reluctantly admits that he had hated the staff’s ideas, and Isabelle wholeheartedly agrees with him, but she feels trapped into the piece due to promising the receptionist – whose cat had just died – that she would use her idea of ‘trends in animal hide,’ and now she’s stuck with this leather theme. Kurt tries to calm her, saying there are a million good ideas out there that could be used, such as a music video featuring fashion, and Isabelle admits that she’d also given the go-ahead to another staff member’s awful idea featuring “spankles” (Spanx for cankles). Isabelle begins to have a minor breakdown and admits to Kurt that – coming from being an independent creative designer – she finds the management aspect of her job difficult, she can’t say no to people. She feels like she’s lost touch with what a good idea is and what’s plain crazy, and that she’s lucked into a job she doesn’t deserve. She starts to become a little hysterical, fearing failure in this role and that she will lose the job, then her apartment, and will become homeless. Kurt comforts her. “You are not going to be homeless, alright? You can always come stay with me and my roommate in Bushwick.” Isabelle looks like she’d rather take the homelessness.

Back at McKinley, the blondes are dealing with a bit of constructive criticism from their far more grounded running-mates. Artie admits to Brittany that a large percentage of students plan on attending the debate in order to hear her say something stupid. He struggles telling her this, not wanting to hurt her, but she still walks off, offended. Artie sweetly tells her that she’s not stupid, that she’s very creative and that her brain exists in a “magical other dimension where anything is possible.” He says it’s really amazing, but they just need to tap into that and translate it. Meanwhile, Blaine tells Sam – in his little old man voice, he hasn’t sounded so Dalton in a while as he does through this episode, which I guess is nice because it means he feels comfortable and confident – that he’s a bit worried that people will think his choosing of Sam was a desperate grab for the straight vote unless Sam gives off the appearance to be a serious candidate. “Whaddaya mean, pilgrim?” Sam intones. “Was that John Wayne?” “Yeah, I panicked.” Blaine brushes this off and asks Sam to meet him in McKinley’s costume shop (I mean.. what? Why have we never heard about this school’s award-winning drama department that can afford a costume shop?) in the next free period.

Debate prep with Artie: “Brittany S. Pierce, how do you react to the characterisation of your first term in office as one in which you didn’t do anything at all until prom?” “I would describe that as entirely accurate.” Debate prep with Blaine: “Test scores at McKinley have gone down six percent every year for the past decade, what would you do to fix the problem?” “Stop giving tests, they’re hard and there’s way too many of them.” As Artie and Blaine continue to coach their running-mates, Brittany and Sam step out of their bodies – that’s a new one, Glee – and perform Hole’s “Celebrity Skin.” If there was a list of bands I would have never expected to see covered on Glee, Hole would certainly be on that list, but I guess Courtney Love just really likes money now. Anyway, the internal ghost versions of Brittany and Sam watch their real selves getting tutored and defiantly perform the number, both cleaning up nicely into business dress in the process. In the fantasy sequence they perform some rockstar moves at opposing podiums as more color-guard performers do flag spinning around them. I’m still not 100% sure why this song was used except to possibly represent that Sam and Brittany aren’t willing to be changed for the campaign, though this never really plays out or is acknowledged.

Will is hosting the show choir committee board meeting, and we see a few familiar faces, including Mr. Rumba, the coach of the deaf choir who stole “Don’t Stop Believing” from New Directions at their first ever sectionals. As the other coaches begin to talk shop, Will tunes out, inner monologuing about how bored he is. He’s interrupted by Mr. Rumba who exclaims that the exercise is pointless as his choir’s funding has been cut – they can’t operate any more. The other coaches comfort him, and when Will asks if there’s anything they can do, Rumba tells him “you can watch your back, because you’re next. The money for the arts has dried up.” Birdie, another coach, says that what they need is representation on a blue-ribbon panel that’s taking place with the government, to talk about arts in schools. Rumba is not optimistic, saying that no one cares about show choir, that they want more glamorous participants like Meryl Streep (and Demi Lovato) but Will is inspired and says he may try to apply. The other choir directors encourage him.

In New York, Kurt and Rachel stroll along looking very gorgeous and lovely. Rachel clutches Kurt and tells him about how some snide dancers in her class – one whom she refers to as ‘the Black Swan’ – were bullying her, calling her ‘Lena Dunham’ and criticising her exercise clothes. The discussion continues over dinner in their hangar-apartment, as they eat Chinese on the floor. Rachel says that she came to New York to reinvent herself and is disappointed that her place in the world is exactly the same as it was at school. Kurt says that the reasons she feels the same is because she’s dressing the same – that life is like high school, and that style determines the pecking order. Rachel says she doesn’t know what to do, she can’t afford a whole new wardrobe – Kurt is struck with an idea. “Who says you’ll have to pay for it?” he says as he drags Rachel off into the night for a little light breaking and entering.

We then cut directly to Blaine’s response to the video – Kurt had been showing it to him over Skype – and Blaine is full of praise for Kurt’s work. Kurt goes on to describe the rest of their night with Isabelle, visiting New York staple Gray’s Papaya. “You’re hanging out with fashion goddess Isabelle Wright, I’m running for student body president… with a former stripper,” Blaine says, clearly feeling insecure and inferior about Kurt’s impressive new life. “Oh my gosh, I forgot about that!” Kurt exclaims. First warning sign – or 521st warning sign, if you’re me and have been disapproving of this dynamic since late season 2. He goes on to ask Blaine how it’s going, but when Blaine responds and tries to ask Kurt’s advice about which tie to wear to the debate, Kurt brushes off the question and brings the subject back to the Vogue video again, pointing out specific parts and continuing to talk about his experiences. Blaine concedes, going along with Kurt, as eager to please as ever, but becomes downcast, and Kurt doesn’t notice. I’m strongly reminded of the bit in that old Valentine’s Day Simpsons episode when Lisa goes out with Ralph Wiggum and rejects him on television. Bart rewinds the video and says, “You can actually pinpoint the second his heart rips in half!”

Will visits Emma in her office, and asks to speak to her as a guidance counselor, not as his fiancee. He tells her about the opportunity to apply for the blue-ribbon panel, and how, when all he’s ever wanted to do is make a difference and improve other people’s lives, this was a chance to do that on a whole new level. If he got the position, he would need to leave McKinley and Ohio for several months to take part. Emma looks over the application papers and admits that it looks amazing, and that with all they say to the kids about following their dreams, they need to follow the advice as well. She insists that Will sends in the application, and when he expresses fear that if he goes it may damage their relationship, she assures him that it won’t change a thing.

As Sue addresses the ‘minuscule amount’ of the student body who turned out for the presidential debate, the candidates prepare backstage. As Blaine is fixing his outfit, Sam comes over to him and says – since Blaine made him over, is it okay if he offers Blaine some advice. Blaine says of course, and Sam (and the entire fandom) tells him to lose the bowtie. “It makes you look like a young Orville Redenbacher,” Sam tells him, and as Blaine takes off the tie and examines himself, shirt collar opened, looking more mature and less uptight, he realizes Sam is right. He says as much and thanks Sam for the advice.

Back on Sue: “There are two new utterly disheartening wrinkles to this year’s absolutely pointless contest. First, the horrifying fact that this year’s slate of candidates consists entirely of glee club members, and secondly, the inexplicable introduction of a vice-presidential field for no discernible reason whatsoever.” “SEPARATION OF POWERS! Wooo!” contributes New Fave, Brett the Stoner, helpfully. Sue introduces the VP candidates – “You know them as the pimp and the gimp,” and Sam and Artie take the stage. Artie gives an impassioned, yet dry speech about all the serious things he plans to achieve. It lasts over half an hour and when Sam is given the chance to respond, he looks overwhelmed and pretty much replies, “yeah, what Artie said, I’ll do that too.” Removing the bow tie may make Blaine appear less uptight, but it will take more than that to feed that kid a chill pill, as he flails off-stage, mouthing ‘What are you DOING?’ to his running-mate. Sam then gets a question from ‘the twitter’ – @hungrysouthmouth asks, “Sam Evans, rumor has it you were a stripper, aren’t you ashamed?” Hedging bets on @hungrysouthmouth being Santana, attempting to help Brittany’s campaign. Sam sighs, resigned and clearly sick of dealing with that part of his past, but strongly says, “No, I’m not” as Blaine nods on encouragingly in the wings. He’s a little less pleased when Sam decides to basically stick it to The Man by beginning to strip on-stage. The crowd goes wild and Blaine hangs his head in horror.

The actual presidential debate fares a little better. Blaine has his points prepared and expresses them simply and clearly, and formally, citing Brittany’s failure to do anything at all as president apart from organising a dinosaur-themed prom. Our Blaine is sometimes a little prone to histrionics when emotional, and he does get a little caught up in himself recounting his disgust at Brittany’s hair gel ban. “Ladies and gentlemen, telling anyone what they can or cannot put into their hair is disgusting. It’s the first step towards tyranny, my friends. Next thing you know, they’ll start burning books. And then they’ll probably start burning people, too.” Yeah, babe. Probably. They probably will. “That’s a lie,” Brittany sensibly states, but people seem genuinely amused and approving of Blaine’s speech. When it’s Brittany’s turn to respond, she opens with “I love you.” She then goes on to express how deeply she loves McKinley, and how she feels that everyone should love the school as much as she does. In fact, if elected, she plans to outlaw vacations, so that everyone can be at school all of the time. I mean, at this point, it’s very clear Blaine is going to win, but what’s not clear is whether Brittany has done this on purpose – that she’s decided she wants Blaine (or Sam) to win and so is saying things she knows people will hate, or if she simply took some advice from Artie about showing school pride way too far.

Isabelle calls Kurt into her office and asks him to brace himself. He thinks that he’s getting fired, but in fact, Isabelle forwarded the video they made to Anna (as in Wintour) and she responded saying “great,” – the highest praise Isabelle has gotten from Anna so far. They plan to use the concept and re-shoot the video professionally, giving Kurt full credit for the idea. Kurt is thrilled and thankful, and expresses his delight, as well as thanking Isabelle for helping Rachel and waxing lyrical about how much image change can affect the mental state. Isabelle enjoys Kurt’s passion as he babbles freely, and says she hopes he never loses the quality. They cement their friendship with one another, and Isabelle offers Kurt some advice – to be open to the idea of dreams changing, because she knows he wanted NYADA but she can tell how naturally attuned he is to the fashion industry and she foresees a day when every A-Lister in town would be fighting for his designs. Kurt looks struck by the prospect. One of Isabelle’s underlings interrupts them, asking which of the bad leather pitches they were going with, and Isabelle, filled with confidence and purpose, takes control and says they’re dropping that. She calls another pitch meeting for later that day and informs the staff that Kurt will be joining them, as an active participant.

The newly made-over Rachel is working out in the dance studio. I’m not sure exactly how different she looks apart from the fact she’s dancing with her hair out and she has on a baggy tshirt instead of a leotard, but this is enough to make Brody comment on how incredible she looks when he finds her there. He shares his own New York makeover story – as allegedly you’re not really settled into NYC until you’ve had one, and that some seniors helped him out when he came to town, scrawny with bad hair and a unibrow. He was introduced to waxing and the gym, and it changed his life. Just before this takes a turn for the way-too-shallow, Rachel comments that when you change the outside, the inside follows, and Brody rebuts this, saying he believes it to be the opposite, that Rachel’s outside has caught up to how she feels about herself inside, which is a much nicer sentiment. Talk turns to actual study, and Rachel tells Brody she’s working on a song and dance number – she likes to prepare something new every day in order to keep everything in working order. He admits to being the same and Rachel asks if Brody would like to perform with her. They sing and dance intensely together to Sheryl Crow’s “A Change Would Do You Good” and the scene cuts to a montage of the pair running around the streets of the West Village and onto the Chelsea High Line. Once they’re on the street, Rachel is wearing an outfit pretty much exactly similar to the outfit she was wearing with Kurt pre-makeover, except she’s swapped the skirt for some very cool houndstooth shorts. I’m still not seeing the total makeover, is it just the tousled hair? I have that makeover every day, it’s called getting out of bed. Anyway, they finish the number in the dance studio, both panting and staring like they’ve been doing something… else. Brody contributes to that imagery by saying, “That was amazing. You’re amazing.” Rachel, seeming surprised at herself, asks Brody over to the apartment so that she can cook him dinner.

At school, Sue reveals the winner of the “record low” election voting, and unsurprisingly, the winner is Anderson/Evans, or, as the banner celebrating their win at Breadstix states, Blam. Much confetti is thrown and many high fives are given. Artie congratulates Blaine, calling his removal of the bow ties a game-changer, and Blaine offers him a position on the administration. Artie declines, saying he got what he needed – Sugar asked him out on a date – horse riding. “I’m just hoping it doesn’t involve being towed,” Artie says off-handedly and it’s one of the funnier lines of the night. Artie then asks what Kurt’s reaction was, and our boy puts on a brave face and lies his gelled little head off. “Ah, yeah, yeah. He was super proud of me, he’s really excited, he’s already planning a whole inaugural ball.” Artie’s pretty much like “cool story, bro,” and rolls away, as Blaine pulls out his phone for what is obviously not the first time this evening and tries to call his terrible, terrible boyfriend. We see Kurt in the Vogue offices gossiping with Isabelle and the staff – not a meeting, just hanging out and drinking. It isn’t that Kurt misses Blaine’s call – he sees it, considers picking up, puts the phone down, considers it again, and then eventually presses decline, going back to the conversation where Isabelle is talking movies and teasing Kurt about how young he is.

A jubilant Sam catches Blaine just as Blaine finishes attempting the call, but his cheer turns to mild concern when he sees the look on Blaine’s face. He asks if Blaine’s alright, and the tightly wound coil inside Blaine snaps, as it does every so often. “You know, it didn’t hit me until right now. I came to McKinley for Kurt. That’s it. And now he’s gone, and even with glee club, it just.. I feel really, really alone.” Sam blearily narrows his eyes – if this was a college show, I’d say he was drunk – and says Blaine is kind of killing his party buzz. Blaine apologises, but continues to rant, saying he did all this for Kurt – he repeats this point outright angrily, with a fair amount of distress – and that now Kurt’s not even there, it feels like none of it matters. Excuse me while I’m over in the corner punching the air about how validated I feel in regards to the subtle, ongoing problems with this couple being outright addressed. Sam assures Blaine that it does matter – that Blaine is the school’s first ‘gay-guy’ president, and while Sam liked Kurt a lot, he couldn’t relate to him. He wisely points out that he and Blaine being proper friends – Blaine being his ‘gay bro,’ like Wolverine and Cyclops – and showing people that they’re cool with each other, that’s what matters. Blaine is mildly consoled and quite touched by this, and then naturally, these two nerds start bickering over who gets to be Wolverine.

As Blaine leaves the booth where Sam has parked himself, he passes Brittany, who congratulates him and he thanks her curtly. Am I the only one getting the impression that Blaine doesn’t have a lot of time for Brittany – not because of the election, but that he resents her behaviour in general? Because I’m pretty sure that’s a thing. He’s constantly calling her out and is very impatient – for him – about doing so. Anyway, Britt passes him to sit with Sam, and he admits that he voted for her and consoles her about losing. They begin to cuddle and alarm bells start going off in my head about the worst and most disappointing upcoming ship Glee could potentially create. Please no, please no, please no.

Will visits Sue in her office as she works out the elliptical, and tells her that he’s taking her advice to get out of McKinley. He explains that he’s mailed the application for the government panel, but that he needs a written letter of recommendation from a colleague, and he’d like her to do it. Sue has already prepared such a letter in anticipation, filled with glowing untruths, such as Will being descended from Harriet Tubman and that he delivered Sue’s baby with his bare hands. “What can I say, William. I want you out of here, and for the first time, I think I mean that in a good way.”

At the Bushwick apartment, Rachel is nervously laying out clothing choices and attempting to cook. Naturally, she almost sets the whole kitchen on fire and throws wine on it to try and put it out. At this ideal moment, Brody rings the doorbell. “Wow, you’re smoking,” he says, taking in Rachel. “It’s the duck,” she replies miserably. I’d find this a lot funnier if it wasn’t already canon that Rachel was a vegan. Brody actually meant it in the sexy complimentary way, and the pair end up on the floor eating pizza in a relaxed fashion as the late, great Andy Williams’ “Moon River” plays in the background. Brody admits that no one has ever tried to cook him dinner before, and Rachel laughs and tells him she doesn’t believe him. He insists that it’s true, and she says she’s never done it before either, but that it’s all part of the new Rachel, trying new things. She tells him she was never the ‘cook a guy dinner’ type, but more the ‘annoy a guy for a year until he finally gives in’ type. Brody asks to know more about this old Rachel, and they begin to exchange secrets, things they’ve never told anyone before. Brody admits that as a kid he was a fan of Ace of Base. Rachel teases him about this, and then reveals that when she was eight, she got her first childhood love letter from a very sweet boy and she corrected the spelling and grammatical errors and handed it back to him. (A generation of Fall Out Boy fans all start screaming “I GOT YOUR LOVE LETTERS/CORRECTED THE GRAMMAR/AND SENT THEM BACK” at the screen). She laughs at the memory and talks freely, saying she’s never told anyone that before, not even Finn – and saying his name pulls her back into reality and awkwardness. They stare at each other and Brody reminds Rachel that, no matter how lovely this all is, that he’s hands-off – they’re just friends. His eyes say something very different, and he’s basically waiting for Rachel’s permission. She gives it, with her body language, and they begin to kiss, leaning back into the cushions. They’re getting into it when the doorbell rings, and they break apart, laughing happily. Rachel, all smiles, says not to worry, it’s Kurt, as he always forgets his keys. She opens the door and it’s obviously not Kurt. It’s Finn. Rachel looks stricken, and Finn goes from one of his two main facial expressions – Labrador puppy – to his other main one, confusion, as he sees Rachel’s shock and sees Brody pull himself up from the cushions in the background.

Make sure to tune in next week for the ominous “Break-Up,” which Ryan Murphy claims is the best episode they’ve ever done. Who do you think will actually break up? Who will be resolved by the end of the episode? Who won’t? What do you want to happen?