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She sits down and looks at Betty. She says, "So we should give that enchanted ploy-blend thing to your DNA lab, and when the results come back and say 'strawberry milkshake,' then what?" Betty looks uncomfortable. "Baby spit-up and milkshake are completely different colors," Willie says. How the hell would she know what either of those looked like? Apparently because Willie is a fashion expert, she notices the differences in things like this. "It's a gift and a curse," she says. I'll say.

Do you think that hair is real, and if not, do you think
she'd loan it out to me? I sorta gotta thing this weekend.

Betty does the next best thing and plays the friend with the heart of gold. "I don't have your money and I don't have your power, but I know the truth. And I will fight until it comes out," she says. How hard would this really be? Just go to the press - call Suzuki and tell him the rumor and see what he can make out of it. He would eat that up like strawberry milkshake, I tell you. The sheer pressure would cause there to be another DNA test. She tells Willie it would be easier to tell the truth now than lie the rest of her life.

The next day Willie is giving a press conference about how she discovered the DNA test was incorrect. "While I knew I'd be losing my baby, there was no way I could keep a child from his real mother," she says, on the TV while Suzuki looks on. Suzuki tells the audience that the kid is actually the offspring of "a couple of Scottish people," and he pulls up pictures of Christina and Stuart (mug shots?). When he morphs them, he gets a hideous fat ass drunk adult child. "Dear Lord!" he says.

You know this is totally what baby William is going to look like.

Getting off the elevator are Betty, Claire, and Daniel, and I was kind of hoping that maybe Daniel would say, look, stay with the company, I know you sold your fur and jewels to keep it running and we really appreciate it, so stay on. I think he may have. But Claire is all like, "Without little William's shares, she's nothing! Let me fire her!"

Walking into the conference room, there is Willie talking with Hartley. They all sit down to finish the deal and Daniel tells Hartley there is some business they need to finish before the ink is on the contract. "Wilhelmina," Daniel says as Claire cuts him off and screams "YOU'RE FIRED!" Man, that had to feel good. For that split second that it's going to last. "Your time at Meade is over," Daniel says.

"Well," Hartley says, "that is a shame." Daniel is confused, per usual. Hartley tells him that if they are going to fire Wilhelmina, he's out. Daniel reminds him he was supposed to be a silent partner and Hartley's all like, "Well..........." Crap! He tells Hartley that Willie's a shark and Hartley is like, "Sometimes you need a shark." Again, as bad as Willie is, she is a damn good editor, except for that sex issue.

"Look Daniel, you're a stand-up guy, but I can't have you popping off to your bunny hole every time a problem comes up," Hartley says. First of all, ouch. Second, why did he have to bring up Molly? "I do business in Colombia, Brazil, and India. If I had to stop doing business every time someone got kidnapped, I'd never get anything done." You know, it sucks that that statement is completely true. Business ethics is a very liquid entity once you cross borders. Or work in the U.S.

So here's the choice: Willie keeps her position and stake in the company (I'd fight the stake part - she's not related anymore), or Hartley walks. That omelet station isn't going to pay for itself. Wilhelmina wins. How did that happen? Willie stares down everyone while drinking champagne. I bet hers is laced with Claire's urine.

I have to squint because you hurt my eyes so much.

Later she walks up to Betty to "thank her." Turns out telling the truth was the best strategy. She met with Hartley last night and laid it on the line. We see a flashback where Willie tells Hartley, "I'm the type of person who stole a dead man's sperm, who falsified DNA results, who kept a mother in the dark to maintain the illusion that the baby was mine. All of this to insure my place in this company." She recommends he keep her on as someone working for him instead of an enemy working against him. Can't we all just be frenemies?

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