"If I had done it, I certainly wouldn't let my son take the blame," she says. Good point. Girlfriend does do her time when necessary. They do a flashback to Claire pushing over ice-sculpture Willie. Claire slipped up and took a drink to take the edge off. "I can't have just one drink," she says. Ah, the old Claire is back! Drink up. We see footage of her heading towards Christina only to fall on her and spill her drink. Christina takes her into the bathroom to help her sit down. Alexis was in the bathroom and takes over for Christina, who heads out.
Who at Mode hasn't had this job
at one time or another?
Over to Alexis, and the Mode Squad is questioning her. Alexis says she was dealing with her own problems that evening...chin hair! Oh, yes, she used to be a man, right. She had forgotten to take her estrogen (that day? Does it happen that fast? Well, something to look forward to as we slide into menopause). For the love of God, grab a pair of tweezers and be done with it.
Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin, dammit to hell!
That's when she saw Christina come in with her mother, but claims she didn't even take notice of Christina, she was too focused on her drunk mother. "The rest of the night was trying to hail a taxi and keep my mother from getting sick all over my brand new Donna Karan." She should have just had her get sick ON Donna Karan. She looks like a bag lady anyway.
"Attacked by Racoon" is soooo 2003.
Marc admits that after talking to everyone, it seems like Daniel did it. Betty says she knows Daniel is innocent and Marc says, "Maybe Wilhelmina can help us prove it?" They decide for some odd reason to throw the Wilhelmannequin down the stairs. Seems like she may miss that when it's time for the next cape fitting, but okay. Marc throws it down the stairs with a little too much gusto, and all it does is break into pieces like peanut brittle. Which I could totally go for right now.
Marc and Amanda realize they can't re-enact the crime with such skinny mannequin, they should throw Betty instead since she's more like a pregnant woman. Betty hangs on to both of them and they all fall down the stairs together. Ouch, it's like 20 stairs. They land at the bottom and are covered with the same dust that was on Daniel's raincoat!
WEEEEEEEE! I regret nothing!
Back at the hospital, Wilhelmina tells Christina that she's setting up an interview with Barbara Walters, but stops when she realizes Christina is crying. Christina tells Wilhelmina that Stuart's treatment didn't work and he's dying. She'd like to be alone. I think Stuart's "experimental treatment" was done with placebos so Christina could use the money on her vampire eyelashes!
Gives new meaning to "bat your eyelashes" when they look like fangs of a vampire!
Betty is in Daniel's office fretting over the newly dry-cleaned rain coat, and sees a videotape in Daniel's briefcase. She takes it home to watch it with Papi thinking it's a tape of Daniel pushing Christina, but luckily it's a tape of Daniel having sex with someone on the photocopier. Ah, office parties, you never fail me! Daniel just wanted to add this to the collection.
This is so unsanitary. Do you know how
many people use that copier each day?
Back at the office (my, she does flit between Queens and Manhattan a lot during one day), she confronts Daniel. Turns out I was right last week, his lawyer is a stripper! Well, sort of...he had sex with the immigration lawyer who is trying to get him custody of DJ. He didn't want the police to know because he didn't want the custody put in jeopardy. I don't think the police really care, do they? They just want to know he didn't try to kill Christina, my guess is this could be filed under "immunity." Doyee. He has the worst lawyers ever.
Betty is relieved this was just one of Daniel's sleazy affairs and not a tape of him trying to kill Christina. Daniel has to leave to pick DJ up from somewhere, and asks Betty to give the rain coat back to Alexis. She was wearing it the other night and it "looks better on her anyway." And I bet she still has huge size 11 man feet unless they cut off her toes to fit in those Christian Louboutins! Stranger things have happened for fashion, kids.
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Comments (4)
Great recap - and certainly one of the best Betty episodes yet. The paternity reveal at the end caught me totally off guard.
1 of 4 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 13, 2008 10:14 AM
Wee-hoo! Here we go... Seriously, past two episodes were like "and....annnd....?" we were going to give it one more ep before just waiting for the DVD, when BANG!!! Now That's what we're talkin about!
2 of 4 | Posted by killbondnow | Posted on October 13, 2008 2:21 PM
Yay, Gio's back! I actually liked Gio better when he was mean to Betty intially then when he liked her and was after her. They have better "hate" chemistry!
3 of 4 | Posted by blazergirl | Posted on October 13, 2008 2:51 PM
I totally died and yelled "NO!!!?" out loud at the end. I assumed that they would make Daniel not be the father eventually but ALEX!! I died. I am just...this show is the best.
4 of 4 | Posted by pixiegal262 | Posted on October 13, 2008 3:45 PM