Californication

Hank wakes up in the hospital after overdosing from being drugged by Carrie, the New York ex-girlfriend, and he starts experiencing being haunted by her in his dreams.

While in rehab, Hank adjusts well during his time there and meets many other patients. One that particularly stands out is a stunningly beautiful woman and "muse" named Faith (Maggie Grace). Meanwhile, Charlie, posing as a homosexual agent, signs an award-winning gay actor named Robbie Mac (Johann Urb) as a client. Marcy deals with the return of Stu. Karen unknowingly gets a job as an interior designer for a house belonging to the wife of rock musician Atticus Fetch.

Hank continues his time in rehab and makes a trip to the outside world when he decides to accompany Faith to a funeral of an old flame of hers who was a childhood friend of Atticus Fetch. Charlie meets up with Robbie to discuss potential film projects. Karen starts her job as an interior designer and goes to Atticus’ house where she surprisingly finds Hank, blacked out and sleeping on the floor, with several other guests from the party.

Charlie wrangles Hank into a remake of Cruising with Robbie Mac. After agreeing to the film, Hank, Charlie, Robbie Mac, and former executive on Crazy Little Thing Called Love (and now studio head) Ali Andrews go out to a gay bar. Hank, while ordering a drink, sees Richard Bates (Jason Beghe) who is working as a bartender for research for his latest book. Bates tells Hank that he and Becca talk regularly about writing; this somewhat troubles Hank as Becca has never talked to him about writing. Robbie moves the party back to Charlie’s house where Hank and Ali make good on their previous sexual tension. Robbie ends up trying to have sex with Charlie but, unfortunately, Charlie is unable to bring himself to perform oral sex on Robbie and ends up admitting that he is not gay. Robbie kisses him and fires him. A distraught Charlie then walks in on Hank and Ali and explains what has happened. In light of this, Ali tells them that the project is off and she promptly leaves. Meanwhile, Marcy becomes closer to Ophelia Roberts (Maggie Wheeler), a strong feminist and self-proclaimed man hater who is seemingly taken by the idea of swearing off men.

Hank attempts to write a new project and Charlie gets fired at his job over the mishap with Robbie Mac. Both of them meet with Atticus Fetch about continuing their partnership on the proposed musical project. Atticus decides to send both of them to retrieve a guitar that belonged to a childhood friend, the deceased rock musician from the funeral, from a drug dealer (Jorge Garcia). They meet up with Faith and she guides them to the location. Karen continues her job as the interior designer of Atticus Fetch’s house. Stu tries to reconcile with Marcy and thinks things are seemingly going well until Marcy, under the advice of Ophelia, makes Stu wear one of Ophelia’s products to which he reluctantly agrees.

Hank tries to persuade Becca not to pursue a career in writing after hearing concerns from Karen. Hank and Charlie meet up with Atticus on his private plane during a flight to New York to provide him with inspiration for creating songs for the Broadway musical project. They are joined by Atticus’ wife, the dead rock star’s widow, and Faith. During the plane’s landing, Charlie’s fear of flying makes him extremely nervous and he ends up hooking up with the widowed wife. Hank has a rendezvous with Faith.

Hank and Charlie return from their New York flight with Atticus to find that Charlie’s place is a huge mess after leaving it with Becca who decided to host a party while they were away. Hank and Karen decide to try and teach Becca a lesson about the life of a rock musician by taking her over to Atticus’ home as an example. During their visit they meet Marilyn Manson, who is enjoying illegal substances with Atticus. Hank and Karen decide to leave after observing the crazy antics of Atticus and Marilyn. The plan appears to have worked however, as Becca, who initially liked Atticus’ house and wanted to hang out with her idol Marilyn Manson, ends up leaving abruptly with her parents after witnessing the crazy antics between the two rock stars. Charlie spends time with his son Stuart and tries to rekindle his relationship with Marcy. Things do not go well after Marcy finds Charlie in a video on an adult website that is run by a parent whom Charlie met incidentally while spending time with Stuart at a kids restaurant.

Hank reviews Becca’s draft of her writing project and tries to give advice to her. Hank royally screws up and it does not go over well. Karen, after hearing what happened, tells Hank that Becca has now changed her mind about writing and is thinking of going to law school. Hank finishes the musical script for Atticus only to find that Atticus doesn’t like it, and neither does Stu nor Charlie. Hank doesn’t take the criticism well and he decides to meet up with Faith for encouragement. Meanwhile, Charlie and Stu join forces when they believe that Marcy is being brainwashed by Ophelia’s influence. The three of them meet up at a bar but things do not go well when Ophelia shows up making disparaging remarks. Things go south when Ophelia uses her taser on both Charlie and Stu, however, Marcy is put off by Ophelia’s behavior. Hank meets up with Becca again and apologizes for his earlier remarks and fully encourages her to pursue a career in writing.

Atticus, now staying with Charlie after being kicked out by his wife, decides to throw a party there even though he is only a guest. Girls for the party are supplied by Faith, The Dealer (Jorge Garcia) returns to provide the recreational substances, and Hank’s old friend Eddie Nero (Rob Lowe) provides the entertainment. Hank gets jealous when Karen attracts the attention of Eddie after she sees something going on between Hank and Faith. Atticus, newly single, turns his attention to "a fan" of his at the party. Charlie ends up reuniting with the dead rock star’s widow. Faith’s feelings for Hank start to go beyond her control.

During a family dinner, Becca tells Hank and Karen that she is deciding on going to a literary pilgrimage. Hank meets up with Faith at her place and meets Atticus’ brother there. Then later on, while they are at a bar, Faith receives a call from her mother. She reveals to Hank that she hasn’t spoken to her parents in years due to their views on her lifestyle. Hank accepts Faith’s invite on visiting her estranged parents in her hometown, including posing as her boyfriend. Hank and Faith later have dinner with the parents, Faith’s father reveals she was a former nun, then an argument ends the dinner. Hank and Faith sneak out of the house. Hank visits Karen and both agree on letting Becca go on the literary pilgrimage.

Charlie announces to Hank and Faith that Atticus is contemplating retiring from the music business including dropping out from the musical due to wanting to spend time in rehab. Hank and Faith with the help of Becca and Bates convince Atticus not to drop out - instead to even pitch it as a form of a comeback. Ophelia reveals her feelings to Marcy which Marcy does not reciprocate. This escalates to Ophelia luring Charlie to Marcy’s house and chaining both up. They realize they still love each other. Charlie and Marcy announce to Hank and Faith that they are getting re-married. Atticus invites all three on his tour, even offering to Charlie and Marcy on officiating their marriage. Hank and Karen say goodbye to Becca as she heads off to her literary pilgrimage. Karen ponders to Hank whether Becca is the reason they are still connected to each other.

Hank continues to contemplate whether to start a more serious relationship with Faith or to try and win Karen back. Meanwhile, Atticus Fetch starts his tour on bus (not having enough money to pay for his airplane expenses). On the opening gig of the tour Atticus remarries Charlie and Marcy onstage, which makes Hank fantasize about asking Karen to marry him. After the show Hank gets a call from Becca, who urges him to be happy, and he embarks on the Atticus tour with Faith the next morning. While on the road Hank dreams of losing Karen in the Hell bar, and wakes up decided to go back to her. After saying his goodbyes to Faith and Atticus, Hank gets a motorcycle lift from Krull. The episode ends with Hank having just knocked on Karen’s door, uncertain of how things will turn out.