Lara was Lara's attempt to resume their relationship knowing that Alice is with Dana. As a result, Alice is subsequently left devastated to the point of stalking and obsessing over Dana despite her friends' attempts to get her to move on. Alice has a brief affair with a woman named Uta, whom Alice becomes convinced is a vampire, and is slowly able to overcome her heartbreak, but Dana is later diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, and in her depression she shuns Lara, telling her to leave and find someone else, and turns to Alice for support. Alice and Dana's friends all provide her with love and friendship during her final weeks. After Dana dies Alice and the others are devastated. They attend her visitation but are treated as secondary people by not being allowed to sit near the front, which was for "close friends and relatives". During the service the minister said Dana could have found a man to care for her, which does not go over well with her friends and ends with Alice standing up and proclaiming that "Dana was Gay" and then leaving the room. The group of friends are then seen sitting in the hallway waiting for Alice who returns with a paper cup with Dana's ashes in it saying they were going to have their own service for Dana at the camp Dana had told Alice about shortly after they met. Losing Dana weighed heavily on the group of close friends but especially to Alice who said that Dana was the love of her life. Alice begins video podcasting on OurChart and discovers a woman named Papi who has the highest amount of sexual encounters on the chart. Through her, she later meets and starts dating Tasha Williams, a Captain in the Army National Guard. During a confrontation between Papi's friends in Alice's apartment, Tasha accidentally hits her in the eye while trying to break up a fight and has to take her to the hospital. While at the hospital Alice realizes Tasha's commitment to being loyal and honoring the Army's code of honor resulting in the two of them having a disagreement about the ethics of the Iraq war. Despite their differences in politics, they choose to continue their relationship. The following season, after Tasha is seen in public with Alice by one of her homophobic subordinates in the Army, Alice is drawn into