Perry becomes frantic upon hearing that Nicole, his hairdresser, no longer works at the salon he used to go to. Josh recommends Perry just use his hairdresser instead. Perry reluctantly does, but delusionally believes that Josh's guy botched him. Veronica is annoyed with Alec for failing to call her while he was on vacation in Japan. When he returns, Ronnie cancels their date to attend a charity ball together, claiming that she made arrangements with somebody better. Alec sees her story for the crock it is and says he plans to go stag, just in case Veronica gets ""stood up"" and needs a backup. Alec follows through and is mortified to see Ronnie at the ball with a real date, Justin. Ronnie manipulates her handsome escort to make Alec jealous, but Alec thinks that's all it is - a charade to make him jealous. With a little detective work, Leo is able to track down Nicole's home address. Perry rushes right over to her place to have her cut his hair for him, but begins to have second thought
