Season 4 Episode 1 includes Seth working at a comic book store somewhere in Newport. Kirsten drops by the store to ask Seth if he wants to add anything to a care package they are sending Ryan. It seems Ryan does not live at the Cohen house anymore. Later in the episode Seth meets up with Ryan and tries to talk him into coming to dinner at the Cohen’s house which Ryan declines because he says he works nights. In another scene Summer is at college in her dorm room with a friend name Che (guy) and they are tyring to rally students for some sort of a protest.