Episode Report Card Potes: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Icing On The Cake
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.14.2007
Cut to "anywhere," a suite at the Grand Regent. Daniel has taken Claire there, despite her protestations that this is kidnapping. Claire would totally be the Patty Hearst kind of kidnapping victim, whom you'd see looking jolly in a beret while holding an Uzi a few weeks later. Claire says that her room doesn't even have a park view, and that she might as well be tied to a chair having her ear sliced off. Daniel says that Claire can't talk to Grace, because Claire tends to get drunk and say "stupid things." Claire notes that he means she confesses things. Daniel tells Claire that she's not confessing anything, and she asks if they can at least tell Alexis the truth -- that Bradford is not a murderer. Daniel says that it doesn't matter, because Alexis hates Bradford, and the whole reason she came back was to put Bradford away. Daniel adds that he and Alexis are getting along, but that Alexis would turn on him in a second if she found out that he'd hired Grace Chin to defend Bradford. Claire says that this is some family. Perhaps what she needs is a hunky housekeeper from Brooklyn to manage the household for her and drop clever bon mots like "A-Oh, Oh-A" from time to time. Daniel tells Claire not to talk to or call anyone: officially, Claire Meade has disappeared. I already feel sympathy for her room's mini-bar. Daniel says that he's going to change her name at the front desk. Way to think of that now, Charlie Chan. Claire tells him to use the name "Brandy Shaloo," which has come in handy before. At least it's less obvious than "Brandy Alexander." Or "Bloody Mary."
Meanwhile, back at Mode, Betty runs into Henry and Charlie. She asks how their weekend was, and Charlie says that it was great. They ordered in and watched a bunch of movies. And had hot monkey-love sex, is the subtext. Betty says that she got a new shower curtain. Which, hey -- I love a good new shower curtain. Betty compliments Charlie on her new "New York" haircut, which makes her look about 1/16 less of a simpering imp. She says that she didn't take off much, because Henry likes it long, and then embraces him for the second time in twelve seconds. After a bit of hemming and hawing, Henry invites Betty to a birthday party they're throwing for Charlie. He says that he knows it's last-minute, but that they would love it if she could come. This would be the perfect time to put the pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey poster right in front of a screenless, open window. Charlie says that Betty has to come, because so far the only invitees are Henry's dorky accounting friends, and all they do is get drunk and talk about W-2s. Betty defensively says that it is tax season. Henry smiles. Charlie jets off, and once she's gone, Henry tells Betty that she doesn't have to come if it's weird. Betty lies that it won't be weird; she says it sounds fun, and that she needs tax advice anyway. Henry tells her to bring her receipts, and the two share a momentary look of thwarted dork love.