The Season 5 premiere actually opened on another domestic scene of Conrad trying to get GiGi ready to go to the hospital daycare with Nic nowhere to be seen, only for her to call and Emily VanCamp to make a surprise voice cameo.
Nic was in the car on the way to a “spa retreat,” according to Conrad, but already missing GiGi and ready to turn back.
Conrad told her not to, that he has everything handled, and to enjoy her retreat.
Honestly, if not for the news of VanCamp’s departure, I wouldn’t have thought anything was weird about it, but Conrad’s mention of not letting Nic talk to GiGi because she was driving immediately left me concerned that a car crash was imminent.