Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Odor In The Court
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.16.2008
In the Secret Sex Dungeon, Amanda shares Fey's newfound diary pages with Marc. To recap: Fey poisoned the perfume, and Bradford didn't know, so gave it to Claire as a gift. But the plan backfired -- instead of dying, Claire just went nuts and ended up killing Fey. As Halston watches, Marc says that these pages would exonerate Claire and make her look like the victim. Amanda grabs the pages and prepares to light them aflame, saying she won't let her dead mother look like some psycho. Halston runs off, and Amanda follows him, leaving the burning to a conflicted-looking Marc. Disco inferno he can do, but obstruction of justice inferno might be a different story.
At Casa de Suarez, Betty rocks out to a Kiss song, Amanda will be happy to know, and prattles on to her family at breakfast. Turns out she didn't sleep at all, but feels great, if itchy and tingly and dry-mouthed. She insults Ignacio's huevos rancheros and downs some whipped cream from the can before rushing off while scratching her neck. Ignacio wonders what the hell is wrong with her. Justin doesn't know but, like me, he's enjoying her sassiness.
Back at court, Daniel is on the stand. He argues that Claire obviously wasn't all there and was terribly upset at the time of the murder. The night before Fey's accident, says Daniel, he and his mother went to Orso's before the theater. She was paranoid, behaving irrationally, and seeing things that weren't even there. Lawyer Dr. Romano notes that Claire went to the theater hours after she had Fey's brakes cut, and asks Daniel if that seems insane to him, or if it's cold, calculating and premeditated. Claire's lawyer stands up to make an objection, and Judge Biotch shoots him down with a look. Suzuki St. Pierre tells us via Fashion TV what a disaster the day in court was, and not just in terms of Daniel's wardrobe.
At her desk, Betty gazes at Henry's photo and hopes that he'll call. Upset that her phone has no messages, she treats herself to another spritz of poisoned perfume. Gio arrives to tell Betty that he's sorry for the implications about Henry's time in Tucson, and is even going to stop calling Henry "Egg Salad." Betty, maniacally sharpening pencils, gives a curt, "Good." Gio asks if Henry has called, and Betty is forced to say he hasn't. She breaks a pencil in two and fans herself, then goes nuts on Gio's ass, yelling that she's sick of him coming up to torture her. She tells him to go, and not come back. I think she's past the fun stage of being poisoned already. She spritzes herself again, and we are left to worry.