Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Don't Ask, Don't Tell
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.21.2007
Betty returns home to Queens to find Marc sitting on her stoop. She apologizes for running out, and asks him how everything went. He says that things got a little messy. He tells her that he outed himself to his mother, and that she left. Betty looks sad, and says that she learned something about family tonight. They're not always the ones who love you the most; sometimes it's the family you make for yourself. Marc says that she's getting a little too "Lifetime Original Movie" for him. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Because any vehicle for the talents of Miss Tracey Gold is good enough for me. But, Marc says, he gets it. If his mother doesn't want to be a part of his life, then it's her loss. Because, he says, he's freaking fabulous. Betty agrees, and so does everyone else with a heart and eyes. Marc tells Betty that she'll always be his little chimichanga. She rolls her eyes and smiles as he says, "Doesn't mean I like you!," and walks away.
Meanwhile, Betty takes Daniel's crumpled letter out of her pocket, and we get a voice-over. It's all about Alexis. Daniel says that he didn't welcome his brother back at first, in part because he wasn't used to seeing him in a satin pump. At this, we see Bradford picking up a copy of the new issue that Alexis has left for him. But mostly, it was because when Alex went away, he broke Daniel's heart. At this, we see Alexis feeding Claire gruel in the hospital. Or at least I assume it's gruel -- isn't that what they give future inmates? Daniel continues to read that he was mad, but that once he looked past his anger -- and Alex's makeup -- he realized that he was happy to have his brother back. He says that Alexis is family, and that it's family that will keep Mode going in the midst of personal crisis. We first see the Suarez family happily playing cards, and then Daniel unhappily in bed with two models, swigging out of a bottle. He ends, "It's family that gets you through everything. So welcome back, Alexis. Thanks to you, I'm no longer alone." Or, maybe you are. I mean, it's anyone's guess, really. Alexi Murdoch's "Orange Sky" is playing the whole time. His brother and his sister standing by! All at once! Maybe the "orange" is supposed to symbolize a prison jumpsuit, in this case? Betty walks into her house and joins her family, happy to a part of this unconventional brood. The moral here? Love your slutty sister. It could be worse.