Episode Report Card Potes: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Giving Up The Ghost
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.21.2007
Betty enters Daniel's office, and it's evident that Wili's words have gotten to him. Betty tells him that if he wants to keep Bradford's legacy alive, then he needs to step up. In his eulogy, he promised to fill Bradford's shoes, which both acknowledge is easy to say but hard to do. Betty offers a parallel story about how her mom was a stickler for tradition, and she had to step up to make tamales on her dad's birthday. Betty likes to think that, in some small way, that keeps her alive. Daniel complains that Wili took all of the staff, but Betty points out that they still have Sheila, a great editor; Veronica, a very good art director; Henry, a cute accountant; and seven very able assistants who can do a lot more for Daniel than get his coffee. Daniel is ready to go make tamales! I'll bet this is a much different context than when he usually says that.
Daniel -- with some cheerleading from Betty -- gives his team a pep talk. Alexis says that they've recovered most of their advertising, which means that they have eighty-three pages of content to fill before they can ship. Amanda gets the job of writing the number of pages left to fill on the board. Christina has to go home to get the bits of the Prada shoot that are left. Betty gets to write five hundred words on Snuggle Bunny, the last book she read. She points out that Henry is a good cook, and he's named the new food editor. Sheila comes in with a bit of bad news -- the latest the printer said he could push their deadline is 2 AM. He did, however, tell Sheila that she sounded like she has great boobs. Alexis says that this is Arthur Kaplan, a total dog, and that she thinks she can get him to extend the deadline. Because if anyone has persuasive boobs, it's Alexis. She says that if they can save the magazine, she might finally be able to write them off. Henry trails her, noting that this isn't a legitimate business expense. The front-of-book graphics are sketched out, and Amanda gets to take the count down by six pages. With her math skills, I don't know how they'll ever know for sure how many pages they have left to fill.
As everyone hustles and bustles, Amanda tells Daniel that she feels there's a way in which she can contribute more. She thinks that maybe she inherited some of Fey's creative instincts, and Daniel puts her in charge of the "What's Hot" section. Sheila groans and Amanda brags about her promotion. Veronica the art director comes in with some more bad news: the photographer for the cover shoot is on a sixteen-hour flight to Australia, and they can't get the negatives. ["Negatives? In 2007? The photographer doesn't use a digital camera? All right." -- Wing Chun] Betty asks why they can't do another shoot in the office, but Daniel says that they sold the advertisers on cover girl Cameron Ashlock. She has a movie, an album, and a perfume coming out. Betty asks why they can't find her and have her do another shoot. Turns out America's Sweetheart is a bit of a tippler, and she's in rehab now. Daniel says that he's going to take care of this, and confesses to Betty that they're going to break her out of rehab. Betty thinks no, no, no, as we head to commercials.
When we return, Daniel and Betty walk the twelve steps to Cameron's rehab room, which Betty files away as evidence of the kind of nefarious deeds she doesn't want to do anymore. Cameron is Eliza Dushku, Faith from Buffy! She's pleased to know that everyone knows where she is, and notes that her publicist is well worth the money, before going back to meditating.