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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.14.2007
We return to the skanky sports bar. Wili stomps over to Alexis, who is watching a basketball game with Joel, and says that their car is there. Alexis asks if Wili would hate her if she didn't go, and says that opera is totally wasted on her. Wili is pissed. She glares at Joel and leaves. Right after she does, Joel gets out a pen and slides a napkin over to Alexis. He wants her number. Alexis smiles coyly, and soft music plays as she writes down her digits. As soon as Joel has it in his hands, he yells, "Got it!" His buddies cheer him. Alexis asks what's going on, and Joel says that his friends bet him he didn't have "the stones" to get her phone number. He then says, "I don't live in a cave, dude": he knows exactly who she is, and he doesn't hit on freaks. And I mean...he lives on Staten Island -- it's either freaks or the ferry driver. Wili comes up and tells Joel to pardon her, since she was rude not to introduce herself to Joel earlier. She then punches him straight out. See, it is the evil within that truly makes Wili so awesome. Wili says that's what friends are for. She keeps smilin' and keeps shinin' as she and Alexis exit the bar.
Meanwhile, back on the subway, Justin is continuing the story of Tracy, which he calls "way satisfying." A grouchy and possibly diseased guy tells Justin that maybe everyone has had enough. He then adds, "Fairy," which causes Hilda to jump up. She's about to take him, but Santos steps up and approaches the guy. He asks if the guy has something to say to him. In real life, this is when the dude would pull a knife. However, in the land of fiction, the formerly homophobic father who has come to embrace his son's differences is king. Santos tells the guy that Justin is going to finish telling him about "the Hairspray," and when he's done, the guy is going to clap. The guy scowls, but the rest of the subway claps. Yay! Santos goes back to Justin and tells him to keep going, because he wants to find out what happens to Tracy. He tells Justin that he's right -- it's way satisfying. Just like embracing your son's differences!
From this happy scenario, we are taken to the sadness that is Wili and Alexis in a limo. Wili tells Alexis to let it go, because two weeks ago Jerry O'Connell wasn't even walking upright. Heh. Alexis says sadly that she had all kinds of ideas about what things would be like when she came back, but that people are kind of awful. Wili tells her not to forget that there are some people who have been good to her. Hmmm, I wonder who she's talking about. Maybe someone named...Philomena Blater? Alexis says that Wili has been good to her, and then pauses and adds, "And so has Daniel." Uh oh. Alexis thought that Daniel would reject her as Bradford did -- but he didn't. Wili asks if Alexis is going to fire Daniel and make her editor-in-chief. Alexis says that Daniel is her brother, and Wilhelmina says that he's the enemy. Alexis doesn't feel the same way. She says that Wilhelmina's the best creative director in the business, and that they can talk about salary. Trust me when I say that Wilhelmina doesn't want to talk about any damn salary. Wili tells the driver to stop the car, and then turns to Alexis and says that she might be new to being a woman, but that she's an old pro at being a bitch. That's no way to win friends, is it?