When Hilda wonders why Betty isn't at work on a Monday, Betty explains that she's going to call in sick. She's been hurt by Christina, Daniel and Henry, and that's just too much hurt to take. Hilda tells her to be an adult and go into work - "A job isn't about making friends. It's about making money. And stealing office supplies." She forget it's also about surfing the internet and stealing other people's food out of the office fridge.

Meanwhile, Wil and Bradford wake up in bed together. He wishes he didn't have to leave to meet with Alexis. She encourages him to open up about his problems. But the only thing that Bradford wants to open up is his pants, so he pulls out his bottle of Viagra. I suppose we should commend Ugly Betty for it's willingness to show that older gentlemen like Bradford can still get some... but if I wanted to see old folks action, I'd be watching Hugh Heffner on The Girls Next Door.

Back at Mode, Lena is threatening Daniel - either he puts Petra on the cover of Mode, or she talks to the police. He tries to pay them off with a check for $75,000 and an offer to put her in the photo shoot for Mode Brazil that day. But apparently that's insulting to the "next Kate Moss." Proving yet again that I am in the wrong industry. I think I'm going to become a supermodel. And by super, I mean, "short, too heavy person who will do anything for more money." Look for me next season with Tyra.

After Lena and Petra leave, Betty gathers herself and goes in to see Daniel. He wants to talk about Friday night, but she's all business. As she goes downstairs to buy a bagel for Daniel, Amanda tries to give her messages for Christina, but Betty tells her to throw them away. Wow - Buttinsky Betty really is gone.

Wil wants Marc to replace Bradford's Viagra with something else. It seems Wil is exhausted by seeing to Bradford's sexual needs. Marc thinks that the affair might not be worth it, but Wil sees marrying Bradford as her only way to run Mode. She may be right - actually doing your job seems to have little importance at Mode. But Marc tells her that if she wants to be more than a mistress, she has to make herself indispensable to him. I'm assuming he means indispensable for things other than fulfilling his foot fetish needs.

Bradford meets with Alexis and offers her $10 million to resign from Mode and disappear. Bradford says that he has one child now, Daniel, and he wants him in charge of Mode. Alexis gets upset. She throws the check back at him and tells him that she isn't going to leave until she makes him pay. Not to question Alexis's logic, but wasn't that what the $10 million was doing? And with $10 million couldn't you start a really awesome magazine of your own, without interference from your nasty father?

While Betty is outside getting Daniel a bagel, she passes Petra who gets carded while trying to buy cigarettes. Then she runs into Charlie and Henry, who are fighting. Charlie thinks that Henry should come home from the office earlier, but Henry thinks she shouldn't rely on him for everything. Does it make me a bad person that I'm glad they're fighting? And also that I want Henry to break up with Charlie, and then have Charlie turn into a crazy stalker? Because you can totally see that Charlie has crazy stalker inside her, and I think this show could use a crazy stalker.

In fact, every show could use a crazy stalker. Imagine how great that would make House.

Betty gets the bagel and returns to Mode. But back in the office, Christina, Daniel and Henry are all waiting for her. And then it becomes a weird flashback scene that involves pilgrim costumes and animals.

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Posted in Ugly Betty by Awesomeness at 8:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)
Last Comment: Awesomeness on May 1, 2007 12:18 PM.

Comments (4)

mythopoeic :

Alexis is not a transvestite, Awesomeness. She's a transexual. There's a difference.

1 of 4 | Posted by mythopoeic | Posted on May 1, 2007 10:54 AM

Phil :

They pulled the same statutory rape/blackmail for a cover story on "Dirt" a couple of months ago and it ended the same way, as a scam with the girl being quite legal. Lame and unoriginal, Ugly Betty.

2 of 4 | Posted by Phil | Posted on May 1, 2007 11:23 AM

JBJS :

Phil, I wrote the same thing in the comments for last week's recap. It really bugged me too.

3 of 4 | Posted by JBJS | Posted on May 1, 2007 11:42 AM

Awesomeness :

Mythopoeic, You're right. Missed that on the last page, but I did get it right earlier in the recap!

I agree on the lameness of the statutory rape and blackmail storyline. But at least it's over now, and hopefully next week we can move on to more important things. Like Betty going to Make Out City with Henry!

4 of 4 | Posted by Awesomeness | Posted on May 1, 2007 12:18 PM

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