The episode opens with a Dear White People parody called Dear Black People. It purports to be Chapter 1 of a new show. It sticks with the alternate take for about 6 minutes before resuming the regular version of the show.
Brooke continues to try and get Muffy's story. Muffy won't talk to her.
Troy and Abigail hire Al to work on Fried Chicanery, the magazine they are starting. They try to recruit Lionel but he isn't eager to join them. Troy turns to James for funding and talks him into it until he sees what they've got planned.
Brooke asks Muffy about what she overheard. Brooke thinks that Muffy should go public with her allegations against Professor Moses Brown. Muffy doesn't want to, Brooke turns to Coco for information. Coco won't help her but unlike the conversation Brooke had with Muffy this one happens with others nearby. Sam, Reggie, Joelle, Troy, and Al soon learn about what Brooke overheard.
Lionel's stories, which he writes under the name Chester, have become very popular. He wants to write more but he also wants to experience more. He goes to a BDSM party with D'Unte. Lionel gets bored and winds up chatting with Michael, a friend of D'Unte.
Reggie finds problems with Professor's Brown's ap. He stays up all night fixing it. He tells Brown about it, which gets him promoted to lead the team that's developing the ap.
Coco tries to get a recommendation from a prestigious professor but he isn't receptive and gives her a hard time. She has an anxiety attack in the middle of class. She starts hallucinating. She sees the daughter she thought she would have had if she had not had an abortion in last season.
Troy's article makes the front cover of Pastiche. He's happy until he finds out, after the fact, that Kurt edited it to the point that it completely changed the message. He confronts Kurt, in front of all the writers on staff.
Reggie pressures Joelle to make a public statement about their relationship. She does and then he proceeds to avoid her for a couple days. He hibernates in his room and plays video games. She needs his help working on the by-laws for the Black Caucus but he stays away until it is too late to help out.
Rikki Carter is coming to Winchester. Her imminent arrival is causing quite a stir. CORE, under Coco's leadership, is planning to do something about it. She cuts a deal with the devil, Kurt, to help CORE achieve their goal.
Sam goes home for her father's funeral. Coco and Joelle go with her. Sam has some trouble coming to terms with the way she finds things when she gets there. She gets angry when she finds out that her mother didn't tell her that her father was in the hospital for a second time. Sam isn't sure what to say at her father's funeral until she finds a letter he left her in the pages of The Godfather. She also finds a book on secret societies on her father's desk.
Gabe interviews Sam for his documentary. The interview takes place in the sound booth from which Sam usually broadcasts her radio program, Dear White People. She turns on the recording equipment in the studio so that she will have a copy of everything that is said, in case he quotes her out of context.
Troy goes on a quest to figure out who he is. He has spent his life trying to please his father, until he got arrested. Since then he has been wandering a bit, without purpose. He tries stand up comedy at the beginning of this episode without much success. He asks Kurt about his performance on stage. Kurt turns around and asks him about his inner self, his comedy self.
Lionel wants to restart the school newspaper. He puts a little effort into turning his room into the new headquarters for the paper. He invites Silvio to show him what he did but Silvio is dismissive of his ideas for a headline article. Lionel ends working with Brooke on one of his story ideas, finding out who is behind the @AltIvyW twitter account.
Joelle's life feels off. She is Sam's sidekick. She's sneaking around helping Gabe with his documentary. Things start to look up when she meets Trevor, a guy in one of her classes, who doesn't live in Armstrong-Parker. He takes her to the food lab. She shows him the underground railroad station beneath A-P. She has a hard time talking him into seeing what she loves about A-P. She finally convinces him to come and watch TV in the common room at A-P but very quickly she starts to see through him.
Coco is having fun doing her thing but when she feels that James, one of the other members of CORE, is trying to take over she decides that it is time to make her move. Her only problem is that she has another problem: she's pregnant. Kelsey, her roommate since things got crowded in Armstong-Parker, figures it out and then tries to console her. She urges Coco to tell Troy.
Lionel goes to some parties with Silvio on Pride Night. Lionel hopes for more than he gets from Silvio. He feels awkward and out of place at the parties. He tries to make conversation but gets brushed off at most of the parties. Lionel decides after the third party that he's had enough of Silvio, who has spent the night looking for a set of keys that he left somewhere, and takes off.
Reggie is still dealing with trauma from the incident in 1.05. He doesn't know how to deal with it. He sometimes thinks he sees the security officer that pulled a gun on him but usually it's just his imagination. He goes on a bender with Troy and Kurt. They drink and get high together. He goes on a sexual bender without them after that. Troy's been getting a lot of sympathy sex since he got out of lock up and encourages Reggie to do it.
Two weeks have passed since the town hall meeting. There was a fire at Davis Hall after the meeting but no one has officially been blamed or taken responsibility for it. The displaced residents of Davis have been moved to Armstrong-Parker.