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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.17.2007
Cut to Daniel at the restaurant. A waiter asks if he can take the spare place setting, but Daniel won't let him. He pathetically repeats that his date is Gisele, the supermodel. The waiter looks at him like he's a sad case. Enter Betty, who goes right over to Daniel. The waiter wonders if Daniel knows what Gisele looks like. Betty tells Daniel that Gisele isn't coming. Daniel asks why Betty didn't just call him. She says that she didn't want Daniel to have to walk out alone, and adds that, for all the photographers know, he's just having dinner with his lovely assistant. Or...assistant. Lovely on the inside, I know, I know. Or, as Betty says, dinner with his adorable witty assistant to discuss her much-deserved raise. Those things are all true. Betty smiles big for the photographers and says that this is exciting.
Meanwhile, Marc and Amanda are engaged in a photo shoot of their own. She's flipping her hair and posing like a total sex kitten on Wili's chaise. Marc hands her the Polaroid and, with a glazed and crazy look in her eye, she puts herself on the "in" side of the wall. Marc tells her that she did the right thing.
Meanwhile, in the land of cute and awesome people, Betty and Daniel run to lose the paparazzi. Daniel says that they're all following the town car into the city, so their decoy worked. The only problem: now they don't have the town car. Oh, should we all have such problems. Betty says that they'll just hail a cab, but Daniel suggests that they walk, saying that he's not in any hurry to get back to an empty apartment. Betty gets a weird look before giving a chipper "Okay!" Turns out she also stashed all of her snails from dinner in her pocket, so Daniel offers to buy her a slice. Awww! The Adventures of Daniel and Betty in Brooklyn! I mean, it's so cute.
Back at Evil HQ, the voice of Bandage Lady conferences with Wilhelmina, asking if their smelly friend brought her the evidence. Wili has it on her desk. Bandage Lady says that now, all they need is someone to deliver it to the police -- someone who's not connected to Wilhelmina. Wili's eyes head toward the In or Out wall, and immediately focus on Christina, who is tacked smack in the middle. Okay, how does someone who fundamentally works for you count as being "not connected"? I'm just saying.
Cut to Christina, still fidgeting with her design. Wilhelmina approaches and says that she assumes that Christina's designs will end up on her desk again this year. Christina says that it doesn't hurt to apply. Wilhelmina says that, as much as she'd like to help Christina, there's only room for ten up-and-coming designers in the show. She then looks at the current design and calls it "interesting." Christina is a bit flattered, and says that she tried something different this year. Wili says that, last year, the lines were a bit too bohemian (Christina reminds her that her verbatim comment was "hippie hideous"). Wili quite unsubtly tells Christina not to be afraid of office politics, and that if she does favors for the right people, she just might get rewarded in the end. Oh my God, Wili totally wants Christina to give her a beej. Christina tells Wilhelmina to stop right there. She says she knows how Wilhelmina works, and that she'd rather make it on her own. Go, Christina! Wilhelmina says that Christina's stance is admirable and stupid, then twists the evil knife further by saying that it's too bad, because those were Christina's best designs yet. And then she takes a baseball bat and jams the knife in just as far as it will go by telling Christina that she's a wonderful seamstress. Christina looks wistfully at her designs -- which are pretty kicky and drawn in a very cool manner -- and the essence of evil creeps into her head. D'oh! Commercials.