Episode Report Card Potes: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT ...Baby One More Time
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 05.08.2008
Charlie, meanwhile, is in some pain. Amanda makes it worse by comparing the work she had done on her nose to labor. Betty hustles out the baby shower guests and hears the taxi waiting outside to take them to the hospital. Charlie says that no, she's going to a birthing center because she wants to do everything au natural. Betty says they can do that as long as Charlie can get out the door. But Charlie is in some crippling pain. And now she wants the drugs. Like Whitney in 2003, receipts and all. Betty calls 911, noting that there's a woman in labor, and she wants the drugs. Commercials.
When we return, Amanda takes off as Betty takes care of Charlie while they wait for the ambulance. Charlie asks Betty to hold her hand, and squeezes it until Betty confesses that she threw Charlie a shower because she thought if they were friendlier Charlie wouldn't be such a dick all the time. Charlie says she's sorry, and adds that it was so hard watching the guy she loved fall for someone else. That's why she cheated with Betty's orthodontist. Charlie says she never thought she'd be having a baby alone, and Betty assures her she's not alone. Just in time, the ambulance shows up.
At Mode, Claire and Alexis meet to look over some photos. Daniel walks in, looking like hell, but ready to work. And it turns out he's handy with Photoshop. And has some ideas about the magazine! Daniel says he's always looking for meaning in his life everywhere but the place where he actually can find it. He loves his job, he says. Claire hugs him, and I guess Daniel is going to keep it in his pants for a while.
And then...Charlie is really dilated and the paramedics don't recommend moving her. She is totally going to have her baby in Betty's living room! And she thought the place smelled funky before. Charlie is also too far along for drugs, so inflicts some pain on Betty by really squeezing her hand. Henry finally shows up, and takes her other hand. Betty starts to go, and both Charlie and Henry want her to stay. But she goes anyway. Maybe she suddenly got the urge to order a sandwich.
At Mode, Claire, Alexis and Daniel toast to work, to Meade Publications, and to family. Just then, they hear a loud noise. Like a heartbeat. They turn and see a big fetus projected on the wall. They wonder what it is, and Wili emerges to say it's a sonogram of her baby...and Bradford's baby. She's having Bradford's child, she says, and her only concern is protecting the baby and giving it everything it deserves. And that would be one-third of the Meade empire. Claire takes a well-deserved shot.