The One Where Ross Finds Out

Thursday, 9 November 1995

Rachel leaves Ross a drunken phone message saying she is over him, and when he plays it back the two of them finally admit their feelings and then fight about them.

What happens

• Chandler comes home from a party convinced nobody finds him attractive, and Monica, out of work and bored, talks him into letting her train him.
• Phoebe tells the others that Scott still will not sleep with her, and she rejects Joey's theory that he is gay.
• Rachel spots Ross kissing Julie outside the window and announces she has given up on being jealous and has a date that night.
• Ross mentions that he and Julie are adopting a cat together, and Rachel makes a sour joke about how long it will live before walking out.
• Rachel gets drunk on her date with Michael, who tells her she needs closure, so she borrows a stranger's phone and leaves Ross a message declaring she is over him.
• Ross stops by the apartment for the cat toy the next morning, checks his machine from Rachel's phone, and hears the message.
• Rachel admits she has had feelings for him, Ross learns that Chandler told her about his own feelings while he was in China, and Ross leaves with Julie rather than deal with it.
• Phoebe takes Joey's advice, asks Scott what the problem is, and they end up sleeping together the same day.
• Ross tells Rachel at the coffee house that he did not get the cat and that she spoke up too late, they argue about the year he never said anything, and he comes back to the locked door afterwards.
• Chandler ends the training by reminding Monica of everything going wrong in her life until she is too deflated to run.