Intrigue

The gang throws Rachel a goodbye party, during which she says goodbye to everybody individually.

As Rachel prepares to move to Paris, Monica throws a going-away party for her. Rachel privately talks to everyone during the party except for Ross. Ross gets upset, and tells her that he at least deserves a goodbye because of their history. Rachel goes over his apartment, and tells him the reason she did not say goodbye was because it was too hard. That he was more important to her than the others. Then they share a romantic kiss. Meanwhile, Joey and Chandler are putting packing around their head, and hitting each other. Chandler finds handcuffs in the guest room, and assumes they are Monica's, Phoebe's, or Rachel's. They turn out to be Monica and Ross's grandma's handcuffs.—Anonymous

As Rachel prepares to move to Paris (her stuff is packed, some boxes she is having shipped, and her travel documents are all organized. Monica is proud that she has nothing left to teach her), Monica and Chandler are preparing for the birth of their child in a few weeks as well as moving to their new home. Erica has arrived to stay in New York until the birth, but is being put up in a hotel since Monica and Chandler are now packing stuff away for their new home. Monice offers the apartment to Ross, since the lease is still in Nana's name. But Ross declines, saying that this will always be Monica's apartment.

Chandler, Joey and Ross are having fun with bubble-wrap in Monica's guest room, by tying the bubble wrap around Joey's head so that if one were to punch it he wouldn't feel a thing. They find a set of black handcuffs which Chandler thinks belong to Monica during her time with Richard. After she denies this, and Rachel and Phoebe also deny it being theirs, Chandler finds out that they were her grandmother's (he finds pics in the closet of the handcuff being used by Monica's grandmother).

However, they find the time to throw a going-away party for Rachel. She decides to privately talk to her friends during the party. Each and every speech ends in a very touching moment for them: Phoebe (who tries to give her a swab of Phoebe's saliva to clone her with), Monica (to whom Rachel notes that none of what has happened to her over the show would have been possible without her, and with each noting that they feel like sisters, they end up breaking down and talking in-distinctively), Chandler (who tells her he loves her, and is so torn that he ends up telling jokes again, ruining the moment), and Joey (where it is unknown what exactly she tells him, but it is so unbearable that he attempts to jump off the balcony, but is stopped by Rachel). However, when it comes to Ross, who has been anxious about his goodbye the entire time, Rachel completely blows him off without a goodbye speech and leaves, baffling everyone else.

Ross is so upset about this that he forgets his pride and confronts her at Joey's apartment, expressing disappointment that after everything they have been through, he can't believe she wants to leave things between them on nothing. He then storms off to his place. Not long after, Erica comes over to the apartment, where she has contraction pains. Monica and Chandler take her to the hospital for the birth of their child.

At Ross' apartment, Rachel comes storming in, slamming the door. She angrily explains to him that the reason she didn't give him a goodbye is not because he means less to her than everyone else, but because he means more, and that the mere thought of not seeing him every day makes her not want to go, making it too hard to bid him goodbye. Ross, overwhelmed, tries to retort but ends up grabbing Rachel and kissing her. Ross and Rachel suddenly pull away to ponder the situation, and then continue to make out.