Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blondes and Bombshells
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.28.2002
Back at Chez Crew, FarsiBoy and PoorMan'sReneeZellweger are squabbling over the fact that one of PoorMan'sReneeZellweger's ex-boyfriends is coming to the wedding. FarsiBoy is offended. PoorMan'sReneeZellweger tries to assure him that since they haven't been involved for over six years, the ex-boyfriend is "more of a brother" to her. PoorMan'sCateBlanchett, who is also at the table with them, asks FarsiBoy why he's so "jealous." FarsiBoy says something sexist about how his family expects him to marry someone who has saved herself for him. PoorMan'sCateBlanchett accuses him of thinking of her sister as "damaged goods." PoorMan'sReneeZellweger stops the conflict by assuring her sister that FarsiBoy is "wrapped around [her] little finger." There's a phone call for PoorMan'sCateBlanchett. She takes it inside. It's some sort of private investigator or corporate detective, who ran a background check on FarsiBoy at PoorMan'sCateBlanchett's request and found his business dealings to be on the up and up. PoorMan'sCateBlanchett assumes that he's calling about his fee, since the investigation is now over. But no. The Whatever Investigator is concerned, because an unrelated search turned up FarsiBoy's name in conjunction with a suspected Arab terrorist moneyman named Syed Ali. FarsiBoy's business deals with Ali could still be legitimate even if Ali is not, according to the Whatever Investigator, so they shouldn't jump to any conclusions yet. But Whatever Investigator wants to investigate further. PoorMan'sCateBlanchett authorizes him to do so.
The time is 08:49:25 AM. No commercial. More bleu cheese and a round of Diet Cokes for table seventeen. Klockwise from the top left, Nina 2.0 kontinues to brief Kief, Spawn keeps JonBenet occupied while her mom gets smacked around downstairs, and PoorMan'sReneeZellweger wraps FarsiBoy around her little finger. Palmer is meeting with some suit-wearing government-y-looking guys when Lynne interrupts, asking if Palmer called a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding retaliation. Remember? The very thing he asked KreepyEric not to do? Palmer denies setting up a meeting. "That's what I thought," says Lynne, who just got off the phone with the Pentagon. "They think they're meeting with you in five minutes," she says. Palmer tells her to cancel it. He pulls KreepyEric aside and lays a Lady Mac-style smackdown on his ass for setting up the conference call with the Pentagon. "Don't second-guess me," he commands. KreepyEric is all toady and contrite, but we all just know that this isn't going to be the last time this sort of thing will happen.