Episode Report Card Potes: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A League Of Their Own
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.24.2007
Back at Mode, Marc apologizes to Cliff. Cliff starts to let him off the hook, but then confronts him about the blow-off. He's totally cute the whole time, even when he's telling Marc that he's a cliché, and that Marc dating Gus -- beauty and beauty -- is not a story. But add a little beasty Cliff and you've got the goods. Cliff tells Marc that he thought there was more to him, and that it was his mistake. He gets in the elevator. The only way this can end well is with Marc getting in there with him and saying, "Going doooown?" like the beginning of "Love in an Elevator."
Meanwhile, it's Meade Family Dinner time! Wili's actually wearing an apron. Bradford lays on a line about how they have dinner every Sunday. He takes Alexis's coat, and she gets a brief flashback. The shit is going to hit Bradford's bald skull right now. But before that happens, a bullet might actually hit Wili's, as Claire is in the bushes pointing a rifle at her. I bet Claire is a good shot, too. Commercials.
When we return, Wili makes the entire family put on Santa hats and take their holiday photo. Hers is secretly a Satan hat, but nobody is astute enough to notice. Daniel says they usually take the photo under the tree, with their real mother. Mature! As Alexis has another flashback, the photo catches Daniel rolling his eyes. Outside, Yoga confronts Claire, who says that Wili did what she never could -- brought together Bradford and the kids as a family. That's all she ever wanted, she says, and she adds, "Lets go to Italy." If by "Italy" she means "inside to bitch-slap Wili," that is a good move.
Back at Casa de Suarez, there's more with Hilda and the octogenarians. Their sleepy bliss is interrupted by Hilda's friend Rita the cop bringing Justin to the house -- he crashed their car into a tree. Rita says this one's between them, but Hilda has to keep an eye on Justin, because she's seen this kind of thing spiral. The uniform must knock some sense into Hilda, because she comes to her senses and kicks the oldsters back to Shady Pines.
At the Meade Manse, Alexis starts to talk to Bradford about the magazine, but Daniel won't let her take the fall. He explains that he lost Atlantic Attire, which led to a substantial advertiser pull-out. Bradford won't let Daniel, or Alexis, explain, and starts to go on a scary bad-dad tirade about how worthless Daniel is. You know what might have been the first step in Bradford's scheme to pretend he was dad of the year? Not screaming at his kids. This leads to more flashbacks for Alexis, who remembers Bradford telling her (when she was Alex) that she's dead to him. What Claire should have learned by now is that you always stay at least for the first course, because that's when things start to get interesting.