Hannah hides her anxiety from her visiting parents, repeatedly doing things eight times as a symptom. Lena Dunham & Steve Rubinshteyn & Deborah Schoeneman Hannah is forced to return to New York alone and her UTI flares up again. Jessa doesn't receive the warm welcome that she had hoped for from her father and subsequently abandons Hannah. During an evening excursion, Hannah has sex with Jessa's insecure 19-year-old step-brother, Frank. Hannah accompanies Jessa to visit her estranged father, Salvatore (guest star Ben Mendelsohn), who lives in a small town in upstate New York along with his new hippy wife Petula (guest star Rosanna Arquette). Ray makes a failed attempt to return the dog and cries. They call each other at the end of the night, but act as if everything is fine for both of them. Hannah attends the party in hopes of getting over her writer's block, but ends up feeling out of place amongst Marnie's new friends. Back in Brooklyn, Marnie helps Booth Jonathan with an event after his assistant quits, but realizes that he does not believe they are dating. Meanwhile, Ray accompanies Adam to Staten Island to help him return a dog he stole and the two get into an argument about Hannah and Shoshanna. In the end, Hannah realizes just how narcissistic and self-loathing she really is, and that she actually wants to be happy in life and wants to stop living out experiences for other people.Īfter getting a deal for an e-book, Hannah has difficulty coming up with any new material when she learns that there is a one-month deadline. She goes to Joshua's fancy brownstone row house to confess but ends up having sex with him for the entire weekend. Hannah has taken pleasure in dumping the shop's trash in Joshua's trash cans. Hannah thinks she invents the word "sexit" only to be caught in the middle of an argument between Ray and a neighbor, named Joshua (guest star Patrick Wilson). Afterwards, Jessa and Thomas John get into a big argument over it, which results in their breakup. Meanwhile, Jessa meets Thomas John’s parents during a dinner outing, but her in-your-face attitude and truthful candor rubs the conservative couple the wrong way. Afterwards, Ray tells Shoshanna he loves her. Shoshanna finds out that Ray is living with her because he is currently homeless. Charlie makes a move on Marnie in private. But the party does not go well when Audrey, Charlie's new girlfriend, lets Marnie know how she feels. Hannah hosts a dinner party at her apartment to celebrate the publishing of her online article. She then goes back to her apartment building, and has sex with Laird for her article. She confronts both Marnie and Elijah, and, after fighting with Marnie, tells Elijah that she is kicking him out. She gets angry and, after finding Laird following them, goes to Booth's house. While at a nightclub, the strung-out Elijah tells Hannah that he had sex with Marnie. Meanwhile, Marnie goes to have sex with Booth Jonathan, the conceptual artist, that she meets at her new hostess job. For her first project, she procures cocaine from Laird, the ex-junkie who lives on the ground floor in her building, and takes it with Elijah which they go out on an irresponsible excursion. Hannah is hired to do freelance work at an e-Internet company for $200 an article. Elsewhere, Adam goes to worrying lengths to win Hannah back, and she goes to great lengths to keep him away by having him arrested. Meanwhile, Jessa and Thomas-John are happily settled into married life, causing Hannah to question her own relationship. After a bad job interview at another art gallery, Marnie rethinks her career options. Also, Jessa returns from her honeymoon with her new husband Thomas-John.Įlijah and his boyfriend, George, argue over the indiscretions that took place at the party. New roommates, Hannah and Elijah, throw a party in which Shoshanna and Ray reignite their former fling, and Elijah argues with his boyfriend, George, and starts to have sex with Marnie. Meanwhile, Marnie is "downsized", leaving her jobless, while her overbearing mother doesn't do much to cheer her up. Several weeks after the events of the first season's finale, Hannah is taking care of a broken-legged Adam while having a casual relationship with another guy, a Black college lawyer named Sandy.