Episode Report Card Jessica: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fey's Sleigh Ride
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2006
Vincent comes into Daniel's office and reminds him that they still have twenty-one pounds of sand: "Maybe I should just go to the Paramus Mall and take pictures of kids with Santa." Daniel shakes himself out of his reverie and tells Vincent that he knows what to do with the sand. They start to take off to the art department, but Betty calls Daniel back to tell him that she has a meeting with Wilhelmina in five minutes: "Me and Amanda and Marc." Daniel just asks if she knows what she's doing. Betty admits that she...basically doesn't. "Be careful what you say," he tells her, and leaves.
As soon as Daniel leaves, Justin shows up with Marc, claiming that he has more work to do on his paper. But shortly thereafter, Hilda calls, and what do you know? It seems that Justin never had a paper to write at all. He's just been ditching school to hang out at Mode. Hilda doesn't know what to do with him, but he's definitely in big trouble. Marc eavesdrops as Betty hangs up and tells Justin that Mode isn't all it's cracked up to be. Marc sucks on his inhaler and looks thoughtful as Betty lectures Justin (kindly enough) on the dangers of deception in the workplace: "You're not going to get very far in life by lying. That's not who we are." Amanda comes over and fetches them for the meeting with Wilhelmina; Betty tells Justin not to move.
So the three assistants go into Wilhelmina's. "Shall I ask questions, or do you want to just tell me what you know?" she asks them. Marc begins, and tells her that they were all at The Rack, and that they all saw the same thing: "Someone talking to Carlo Medina from Isabella." And as much as it "pains him" to narc, he just has to tell Wilhelmina: it was Fat Carol. "I saw her too, Fat Carol leaked the spread," Amanda jumps in. Wilhelmina turns to Betty. Who hesitates. And...of course...says that it was her. "I told Carlo everything." Oh, Betty. Luckily, Wilhelmina doesn't believe her. She paces around them, and then tells them that they can go. They are, to a (wo)man, stunned. "Arenât you going to fire her?" Amanda asks. Wilhelmina says that if she did, she would have to can all of them. It turn out she knows exactly what went down at the Rack. The three of them all leaked parts of the spread: "But that disgusting Fat Carol slept with Carlo and spilled everything." Marc: "CARLO MEDINA IS STRAIGHT?" Amanda: "HE SLEPT WITH FAT CAROL?" This out of the way, Marc wonders what happens now. Wilhelmina tells them to consider the last two days of torture their punishment. "You were drunk," she tells Amanda, "you were horny," she tells Amanda, "and you...were naïve." Guess who that one was? "Fat Carol, on the other hand, gave it up intentionally. She gets the axe." And with that, Wilhelmina sends them out of her office.