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		LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!	RATING: 7.53
		The production of "Lez Girls" finally begins and director Jenny deals with all the usual headaches of filmmaking – including a recalcitrant star and lover, Nikki; Bette and Tina struggle with their rekindled feelings; the owners of SheBar take their war against the gang to the next level.



		LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED	RATING: 7.37
		Bette's jealousy over Tina's new girlfriend is the probable cause of a surprising moment; Jenny is courted for the lead in her movie by the latest Bond girl; the gang attends the opening of a new lesbian club competing with The Planet.



		LAY DOWN THE LAW	RATING: 7.31



		LABYRINTH	RATING: 7.08
		Shane and Jenny get a new roommate. Tina temporarily moves back in to the guest room at Bette's. Shane encourages Carmen to hook up with Jenny. Alice and Dana finally do the deed amongst hundreds of Tonya and Dana's engagement party gift bags.



		LET'S DO IT	RATING: 6.94
		Jenny's life is turned upside down after she discovers she has feelings for Marina. Dana falls for the Soup Chef at her tennis club but is she gay? The girls deploy a mission to ascertain her disposition.



		LATE, LATER, LATENT	RATING: 6.93
		Bette goes with Tina to the ultrasound and they reconnect. Carmen and Shane acknowledge their 'real deal'. Jenny discovers the love confession tape. Kit gets stood up. Helena joins the board of the CAC. Dana and Alice go toy shopping.



		LIES, LIES, LIES	RATING: 6.88
		Bette secures Provocations for the CAC and Tina falls pregnant. Dana experiences female ejaculation first hand and Alice falls for Lisa, the lesbian-identified man.



		LIMB FROM LIMB	RATING: 6.88
		Shane loses Cherie. Mr Piddles dies. Dana and Tonya announce their engagement. Provocations opens and Tina confronts Bette about her relationship with Candace. Alice tells Dana that she can't marry Tonya.



		LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY	RATING: 6.75
		Bette struggles to find peace at the Buddhist retreat. Tina meets and falls for Henry. Max holds a party to raise money for his surgery. Mangus ask Kit to marry him. Helena does roleplay on camera. Carmen comes out to her family in a moment of anger. Dana takes a turn for the worse.



		LIGHT MY FIRE	RATING: 6.73
		Billie Blaikie introduces Moira to a new crowd. Alice struggles to not mention Dana on air. Helena meets the filmmaker Dylan. Angus makes moves on Kit. Alpha Bette takes it to the politicians and attracts the attentions of a Senator. Dana wins a tournament and the girls party for the opening of Shane for Wax.



		PILOT: PARTS 1 AND 2	RATING: 6.73
		Bette and Tina make plans to start a family whilst their neighbour Tim prepares for his girlfriend Jenny's arrival.



		LAND AHOY	RATING: 6.70
		Jenny confronts Mark about his violation of their lives and starts digging into her family history. Tina is acknowledged at the Community Activist Awards. Bette is distressed by her father's deteriorating condition. The girls go on the Olivia Cruise. Alice and Dana play Love Boat.



		LIFELINE	RATING: 6.67
		Dana gets bad news, but tells her friends she's going in for a little operation. Alice meets a vampirologist at bisexual speed dating. Dylan is drawn to Helena. Angus serenades Kit. Bette has a revelation. Tina admits she has feelings for men. Jenny encourages Moira to become Max. Now divorced, Cherie Jaffie shows up at Wax.



		LYNCH PIN	RATING: 6.64
		Bette goes to New York to convince Helena Peabody to continue to support the arts, while Joyce Wischnia makes an inventory of Bette and Tina's possessions. Jenny and Shane interview potential housemates. Kit attends a seminar on the Theory of Everything. Tonya sets Alice up with a guy.



		LOOKING BACK	RATING: 6.63
		The girls take a road trip to Palm Springs for the Dinah Shore weekend. Dana meets Tonya and Bette tries to ignore her growing attraction for Candace.



		L'ENNUI	RATING: 6.58
		Bette and Tina hold a baby blessing ritual. The girls conduct an intervention to stop them from becoming boring. Shane hosts the party of the year and Dana breaks up with Lara.



		LOYAL	RATING: 6.57
		Jenny is silent for a day, while Alice and Dana are losing track of them. Mark tries to sell his doco. Shane goes to confession. Alice bumps into Gabby with her new love Lara and spontaneously blurts out "The Chart" for her radio audition. The girls boycott Helena's housewarming in favour of Bette.



		LESBIANS GONE WILD	RATING: 6.57



		LAWFULLY	RATING: 6.55
		Bette's father Melvin reacts badly to the announcement that she and Tina are having a baby. Shane makes out with Alice's mum Lenore and Tim catches Jenny with Marina.



		LA GRIMAS DE ORO	RATING: 6.53
		Tina beats Bette to the funding punch and meets the vivacious Helena Peabody. Kit falls into bed with the very married Benjamin Bradshaw. Bette discovers the secret Tina has been hiding from her. Alice forces Dana to call off the wedding with Tonya.



		LOST WEEKEND	RATING: 6.53
		Bette finds solace in Buddhist philosophy while Kit's son David damages her chances of adopting Angelica. Alice is in group therapy for her love addiction and Helena demands that she dismantle her shrine. Jenny and Moira defend themselves as they truck across the country and Shane does the unthinkable for Carmen.



		LOUD & PROUD	RATING: 6.51
		Tina joins Bette at Melvin's bedside as he battles prostate cancer. Shane, Jenny and Carmen deal with the aftermath of the Love Confession while Mark tries to make amends. Alice tells Dana she loves her, but Dana doesn't respond. Dana's brother Howie shows up for Mardi Gras.



		LAST DANCE	RATING: 6.50
		Dana is betrayed by her family at her funeral. Alice steals her ashes to give her the farewell she wanted and they reminisce in her honour. Max gets a job with the company that rejected Moira. Dylan delivers Helena a message. Shane propses to Carmen. Bette seeks full custody of Angelica. Lara returns and is consoled by Alice.



		LABIA MAJORA	RATING: 6.49
		Six months later, Alice is off the deep end and Dana is in Lara's arms. Bette and Tina try to reinvigorate their sex life whilst practising attachment parenting. A creative person appears in Helena's cards, Shane meets Carmen's family and Kit starts the change.



		LOSING IT	RATING: 6.48
		Tim leaves Jenny in Tahoe after their wedding night. Bette goes to New York and Tina is harrassed by their donor's angry girlfriend. Shane's roommates dream up the ultimate event "Twat the Night".



		LATECOMER	RATING: 6.48
		Carmen has a bad dream and blames Shane. Helena and Dylan finally give in to their desires. Bette asks Tina to move out. Kit overcomes fear to record her album. Dana’s hair starts to fall out. Alice and Shane help her to accept her new look. Helena flies the girls to San Jose to watch Dana’s favourite basketball team.



		L'CHAIM	RATING: 6.47
		Bette brings her dying father home to care for him, meeting with Kit's disapproval but finding support in Tina. Alice freaks out over Dana's dinner with Lara and Jenny discovers a new sense of self and power.



		LACUNA	RATING: 6.47
		Alice gets freaky jealous as Dana and Lara rekindle sparks. Peggy interferes with Helena's ugly custody battle. Jenny delves into her childhood and falls apart. Shane and Carmen finally get it together. The CAC buys out Bette's contract and Tina goes into labour.



		Liquid Heat	RATING: 6.45



		LOSING THE LIGHT	RATING: 6.44
		Alice keeps a vigil at Dana's bedside. Tina plays happy family with Henry. Jenny and Max meet up with Tim. Carmen reveals to Shane that she cheated on her. Kit worries over Angus. Peggy Peabody comes to Helena's aid. Bette deserts the Buddhist retreat and feels a sense of release. Time runs out for Dana.



		LEFT HAND OF THE GODDESS	RATING: 6.43
		Shane meets her father. Kit discovers she is pregnant. The girls go to Canada for Shane and Carmen's wedding. Jenny is drawn to "French Jenny" Claude. Alice swears off medicating herself with sex and drugs. Bette realises she has made a mistake too late and Peggy Peabody has a shock in store for her surprisingly generous daughter.



		LOCKED UP	RATING: 6.42
		Kit finds a new suitor in drag king, Ivan Aycock. Tonya is confronted by Mr Piddles. Marina goes after Jenny's new girlfriend Robyn. The girls are arrested outside the CAC and Bette finally gives in to her feelings for Candace.



		LIFESIZE	RATING: 6.42
		Carmen deals with Shane's betrayal. Bette tells Tina to explore her feelings for men. Jenny gets published. Dylan rejects Helena, then comes back for more. Alice declares herself over Dana. Bette and Tina catch Angus and Kit in the act. Dana goes in for her operation and Lara turns to Alice for help.



		LONGING	RATING: 6.41
		Dana finally asks Lara out but has a dilemma over what to wear. One of Shane's conquests turns stalker and Alice finally tells the philandering Gabby to "step off bitch"! Bette meets the eccentric patron of the arts, Peggy Peabody.



		LUCK, NEXT TIME	RATING: 6.39
		Alice extracts herself from the suffocating relationship with Lisa. Shane meets Cherie Jaffie and leaves a lasting impression. Jenny faces off with Marina's girlfriend Francesca over dinner. Kit appears in a music video.



		LIBERALLY	RATING: 6.33
		Tina struggles to cope after losing the baby. Shane and Cherie start something. Jenny and Dana take awkward to a whole new level. Bette agrees to a televised debate against religious zealot, Faye Buckley.



		LUMINOUS	RATING: 6.32
		Alice and Dana let their friends in on their relationship. Tina is affronted by Helena's children's healthy attitude towards sex. Carmen confronts Shane, sending her over the edge. Mark's obsession with Shane grows. Bette gets meat-tagged.



		LISTEN UP	RATING: 6.29
		Bette and Tina join group therapy. Jenny's college friend arrives to offer moral support and Dana's Subaru campaign forces her to come out to her parents with disasterous results.



		LOBSTERS	RATING: 6.29
		Helena convinces Tina to work at her movie studio. Bette is forced to get real about their finances. Kit meets Mangus. Shane is invited to join Wax. Alice talks psychotropic drugs. Dana gets a lump in her breast checked out. The girls celebrate Jenny's return and Moira struggles to fit in.



		LAP DANCE	RATING: 6.28
		Tina hooks up with attorney-at-large, Joyce Wishnia. Kit asks Ivan and Bette to invest so she can buy The Planet. Dana's parents finally come to terms with her wedding to Tonya. Jenny breaks up with Robin. Bette starts drinking more and more.



		LITERARY LICENSE TO KILL	RATING: 6.23
		Papi has an unnerving experience. Jenny's book has Bette seeing red. Max loses a big account and quits. Kit hears a blast of honesty from Angus. Shane plans a surprise for Paige. Flashbacks to her duty in lraq haunt Tasha's and Alice's heads. And Bette learns that Jodi may be leaving.



		LIFE, LOSS, LEAVING	RATING: 6.22
		Bette finishes with Candace and Marina has a nervous breakdown. Gene breaks up with Jenny, declaring her to be a girl loving, full on lesbian. Alice and Dana fight their growing attraction for one another. Tim leaves LA for good and Shane meets Carmen.



		LONESTAR	RATING: 6.16
		Dana asks the tough questions. Max starts to transition. Jenny meets her editor. Shane and Carmen get matching tattoos. Kit goes head to head with Billie. Tina goes to sleep with Josh. Dylan pursues Helena, who won’t share her with another. Dana pushes Lara away and turns to Alice.



		LEXINGTON & CONCORD	RATING: 6.14
		Helena gets back into the high life. Jodi interrupts a tender moment between Bette and Tina. Alice and Tasha clash over their views on the war in Iraq. Kit lets it rip on stage. Shane and Paige become more to each other. And Alice grows concerned that Helena is being pimped out at the poker table.



		LOOK OUT, HERE THEY COME!	RATING: 6.12
		Tina's obvious, lingering affection for Bette affects her dating prospects; Shane's last-minute gig styling hair at a wedding results in a comic series of erotic encounters; Tasha reveals her reason for not shipping out to Iraq: she's being investigated for homosexual conduct.



		Loyal And True	RATING: 6.10



		LASSOED	RATING: 5.96
		Tina and Henry decide to throw a mixer for all of their friends, gay and straight. An obsessed Jenny tries to destroy a journalist's credibility. Angus' band gets signed. Shane offers Helena a job. And Phyllis is convinced Alice is giving her signals.



		LAYUP	RATING: 5.89
		Jenny becomes increasingly duplicitous when trying to get revenge. Papi calls out the girls to a basketball game for West Hollywood rights. Shane reluctantly models men's underwear for a huge Hugo Boss campaign. Tina is rejected as a lesbian. Phyllis decides to throw a big fundraising bash and hires Helena as the caterer.



		LUCK BE A LADY	RATING: 5.81
		Papi shows up with her crew to teach Helena, Alice and Shane poker. Papi's friend Tasha punches Alice unintentionally. Just as Alice warms up to Tasha, a heartbroken and relentless Phyllis shows up on her doorstep. Bette approaches Jodi and loses herself in a new experience.



		LONELIEST NUMBER	RATING: 5.73
		Bette begs Tina's forgiveness as things begin to spiral around her. Carmen tries to pry personal details from Shane. Tonya plans her and Dana's celebrity lesbian wedding. Kit's dream of opening a live music club comes true with the revamped Planet. Carmen and Jenny kiss.



		LESSON NUMBER ONE	RATING: 5.65
		Tasha's flashback to her tour in lraq exposes her vulnerable side. Jenny uses art as her excuse to write about the personal lives of her friends. Bette and Jodi rush to Phyllis's side as she gets over her first lesbian crush. Shane and Paige address parents at Shay's school about the virtues of tolerance and acceptance.



		LITTLE BOY BLUE	RATING: 5.64
		Tasha realizes who the object of Papi's affection is. Kit binge drinks while Angus desperately tries to make her see how sorry he is. Jenny and Tina finally find the perfect director. Bette's Type-A personality rears its ugly head, much to Jodi's disgust.



		Lifecycle	RATING: 5.63



		LGB TEASE	RATING: 5.62
		The fifth season opens with Shane derailing plans to move in with Paige, then suffering the consequences, while Jenny returns from a Mexican vacation with a billionaire movie financier in tow; Phyllis has sudden doubts about the exclusivity of her romance with Joyce; Helena gets tossed into jail for ripping off Catherine and Bette's welcome-home gesture to Jodi backfires.



		LACY LILTING LYRICS	RATING: 5.60
		Kit breaks through Papi's wall around her heart. Helena, Tasha, Papi and Alice try to impart words of wisdom to ease Phyllis' husband's broken heart. Shay is taken away by his dad and Shane's world is pulled out from under her feet. Bette's emotions cloud her judgment and Max gets the cold shoulder at work.



		Lunar Cycle	RATING: 5.55



		LOOKIN' AT YOU KID	RATING: 5.51
		Jenny throws a bash to introduce her friends to the actresses playing them in "Lez Girls," provoking both delight and distress; Bette and Tina try to deal with what is obviously a rekindled spark; Alice angrily outs a secretly gay sports star after he utters a homophobic slur, sparking a media firestorm.



		LIVIN' LA VIDA LOCA	RATING: 5.47
		Shane tries to find Shay's parents. Jenny lets down her guard with a journalist who writes a scathing review of her book. Bette has her hands full dealing with her formidable new boss. Alice takes in Helena as a roommate.



		LADY OF THE LAKE	RATING: 5.36
		Shane swears off sex and reaps the health benefits with new energy and focus; Tina's dating woes finally improve; Max ponders a mutual same-sex attraction to Jodi's interpreter; The Planet is burglarized and Kit attacked after hours.



		LONG TIME COMING	RATING: 5.34
		Bette turns to Tina for advice and gets a dose of honesty. Tina returns to the lesbian fold. Helena seizes an opportunity and Shane considers a more permanent solution for life with Paige. And Alice feels beytrayed as Tasha heads back to Iraq.



		LEZ GIRLS	RATING: 5.17
		Angus gets drawn into more than he bargained for with Tina's hot German au pair. Jodi's hearing impairment doesn't stop her from knowing exactly what's going on. Jenny's published new story entitled 'Lez Girls' in The New Yorker spawns anger from the girls. And Alice breaks it off with Phyllis after meeting her husband.



		LEGEND IN THE MAKING	RATING: 4.98
		The girls rally together to prevent Tina from having Bette arrested. Shane gets reeled back in by Cherie Jaffe. Jenny's book signing party is interrupted by Marina. Alice attempts to help Helena live within a budget.


If you could have a character's life, whose would you choose?


	Alice

	Bette

	Carmen

	Dana

	Helena

	Jenny

	Kit

	Lara

	Marina

	Shane

	Tina


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