When new artists start to outshine him like the infuriatingly good DC, whose San Franciscan art is infiltrating LA magazines and galleries, Chris flees to the little Pacific coastal town Cambria to get his art together. A year after he settles in, he is approached to work on a charity mural for the new headquarters of a local addiction rehabilitation center. It's not until too late that he finds his new boss Cory Monteith has secured another well-known painter to be his collaborative partner for the job-- DC himself.