Death of Finn
A lighting problem forces the opening of Funny Girl to be postponed to Saturday, the same time as Nationals.
On Saturday morning Puck wakes up groggy and fully dressed in a single bed with a still fully dressed man beside him. He feels for a pulse and screams.
Police interrogate Puck, drunk from a night of binge drinking. They couldn't go with the two girls.
The police take him in for questioning.
He can't remember any phone numbers, but they find one on a napkin in his pocket.
The girl is also very drunk and didn't like him. She hangs up.
A tv reporter flirts with the clerk and gets both names.
Carol sees the report on the news while Burt is at the garage. She faints.
One of the disgusting gay NYADA guys also sees the news.
Burt revives Carol and she tells him the story.
Burt calls the loft. Rachel is already at the theater. Santana is in the shower. Kurt takes the call. As he hangs up, sobbing Santana comes out of the bathroom in a towel, makes a bad joke then comforts him with a tight embrace. Her towel falls. Kurt doesn't react. "You really are gay" she says.
Adam spent the night after a small party for Rachel. He comes into the room in tight briefs and has an erection seeing Santana, so she learns he's not gay.
Burt calls the police chief and tells him he's a Congressman and will have him fired for leaking the names. A scrap of dialogue reveals the chief is fully corrupt. He harasses the clerk.
Santana, Kurt and Adam discuss telling Rachel. Kurt says they should, listing several performers who did great immediately after bad news.
The disgusting gay guy calls Cassandra with the same question. She gives a longer list than Kurt, including her performance after her brother killed her kittens. A flashback shows that didn't go well. She assaulted her leading man. She decides to give an ambiguous tweet.
Rachel sings in rehearsal. She sees the tweet and gets confused. She calls the loft. Santana answers and tells her about Finn and Puck.
The medical examiner confirms the death was from binge drinking. A detective however saw something suspicious in Puck's phone, so they put him in a cell.
Rachel's understudy overheard the conversation and suggests she fill in. Rachel wants to act anyway.
The understudy tells the director and sings Sadie beautifully. He agrees.
In his cell Puck sings a mournful Jewish song. His cellmate is a cantor wrongfully arrested for painting graffiti on a mosque. It becomes a duet.
At nationals, Will gets the call from Santana with the news.
New Directions sings the most cheerful song of 2013. Then Will comes in and tells them the news.
Most of them think of their favorite Finn moment.
They decide to proceed, but sing sad songs instead.
The director tells Rachel to take the night off. She insists she'll do fine. He asks her to sing. She can't finish the song. He tells her to leave.
Will tells the judges he has to change the set list. He doesn't say why. They consent.
Rachel calls the loft. Adam answers as Santana and Kurt talk on cell phones. He tells her to come home and assures her she will perform tonight. He leaves without a word to Kurt or Santana.
When Rachel gets home she is shocked to find Brody there. He assures her it is for support only. None of them know where Adam went
Just before New Directions performs, the judges learn of a national tragedy. When most of the kids cry during the songs they assume it's because of that, so they win.
Adam comes to the loft to take them to a theater he rented, where they and his singing group will perform Funny Girl. (He reveals that he's fabulously rich.)