Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Elle In A Handbasket
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.08.2009
Connor tosses some of that charm at them both after the meeting, appealing in a sort-of threesome-y way that he likes their Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. Daniel says it's not a routine, it's just that he's "nice" and Wili is mean. Wili responds, and thank God for her, that you could also say she has balls Daniel is lacking, and Connor randomly goes "God, I love this woman," so you remember the other thing you need to know coming back from the break, which is that Wili has a crush on Connor and wants to exploit Daniel's crush on Connor's fiancée Molly. And that's... literally all you need to know at this point, because that's how boring this show is now. Wili shivers and giggles and Daniel's grossed out/jealous; she invites Connor to her house on Saturday for a party, and he says he's bringing Molly even though she's got something going on with her own life.
There's a never-seen Halston original that Daniel's borrowing from a collector for Keira Knightley to wear on the next cover, which will do wonders for advertising in that month's issue. Betty does a "Go Daniel, It's Your Birthday" dance and he's like, "We talked about that." (Really? Did you talk about it back in 1992, when Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell's love seemed untarnishable? Maybe next Betty can woof-woof for the boys in the Dog Pound, or show us all the meaning of twenty-three skidoo. Thank God America Forever is adorable, or I would have stopped watching right about now.) They talk about how Betty's going to be picking up the dress herself, in secret, like an international spy.
Wili snags Daniel and shows him the video of him kissing Molly in the closet; he goes, "You're awful" in this sort of wounded sad voice. She gives him the only copy, and they discuss how it needs to stay quiet, but some things are worth the risk, and then Wili sort of explains to Daniel that he is in love with her. She floats the possibility that Molly is into it, despite her protestations to the contrary, and apparently that's how dumb Daniel is now, so he's going to totally skeeve his way into Molly and Connor's impending relationship.
Marc takes a good long time figuring out how this whole scheme-that-is-not works, because he's dumb this week too. Wili protests the entire time that she only has Daniel's best interests in mind, because she's such a good person or whatever, which makes no sense because you're also totally trying to wreck somebody's relationship so obviously you have a personal stake, but eventually Marc pulls it together and realizes this is about snagging Connor.