Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lose The Boss?
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.22.2006
In Queens, Daniel and the Suarezes are still trimming the tree. Daniel asks where one of the ornaments goes, and Justin tells him to put it near the top: "That's where we hang all of our stocking ones. We each have one. This one will be yours." Daniel is really touched and almost starts to cry. Justin goes off to the kitchen to get the gingerbread, and Daniel apologizes to Ignacio for possibly stepping on anyone's toes earlier. "Please, Daniel, I'm thankful you were here," says Ignacio kindly. "You'll make a great father someday." Daniel almost cries again. A hangover will do that to you.
So, Betty finally gets Daniel on the phone, and runs her Garden of Eden idea past him. He likes it, and thinks it's clever...but he also thinks they're overthinking it. Looking at the Christmas tree, he has a thought: "They're just two working-class kids who just grew up to be movie stars." What if they shoot the pictures...in a living room...around a Christmas tree...in Queens? "What if we bring them to your house?" On the other end of the phone, Betty turns to Christina: "I think he's started drinking again." "I heard that, and I haven't," says Daniel. "Get them to come here. I've got an idea." And we act-break on this moment, because for Daniel to have a good work-related idea is seriously kind of a cliffhanger.
After the ads, Betty runs into Salma in the elevator and asks if Salma can drop Betty in Queens on the way to the airport. Salma clearly doesn't believe that the Home Movie For Movie Stars Shoot is actually Daniel's idea, but agrees to give Betty a ride.
Meanwhile, Marc and Wil are in some "rundown, storefront church in the middle of Queens," hiding from the whores. Marc noses around, saying that there has to be a phone somewhere, but Wil thinks it's too late. "I've really screwed up this time," she notes. Who is picking up Baby Chutney is what I would like to know. Marc tuts that everyone knows traffic sucks on Thanksgiving weekend, and that he's sure it's all under control, anyway. Wil sighs: "I can't even do my job any more, I'm too busy trying to cover Daniel's. I'm so distracted, spending every minute trying to take over the whole company." And Marc straightens up: "You're trying to take over the whole company?" His ears are actually standing up, like a dog's. "I didn't say that," Wil tries to cover. "I would never say that. What I'm saying is, I'm not the leader I used to be." Marc shrugs, sniffing an altar candle, and reminds Wil that it has to get dark before it gets light again. With that, Marc sets down the candle, and somehow triggers a light over the altar, which illuminates the church's cash box. Which they break into, using one of Wil's fantastic white boots to open the padlock. Sadly, it's full of singles. "Poor people are so cheap," Wil notes, stuffing the money in her bodice. Once the cash box is empty, they stare into it guiltily. She takes off one of her fantastic bejeweled earrings and puts it into the box to pay back all the cheap poor people, and she and Marc hobble out.