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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.16.2007
When we return, Betty has just left a message on Henry's cell saying that she really needs to talk to him. Diane enters and expresses disbelief. Would Reese Witherspoon leave a message on a cell? Would Drew Barrymore? Betty says that she doesn't think either Reese or Drew would be calling Henry. But if they did, divorce or no, that Phillippe character would be jealous as a magpie, and with good reason. Diane says that they're not calling, because they're already halfway to the airport to stop that plane and declare their love for their man! Yeah! She tells Betty that this is her movie, and her chance to get the happy ending she's always wanted. And not the kind you get at the twenty-four-hour "massage parlor" on North Main Street. It's the Drew Barrymore kind. She tells Betty to go home and put on a totally cute top and run a brush through her hair, or, maybe try a hat. Isn't that wasting precious minutes? Go directly to the airport! Oh, but wait. Then she wouldn't be able to partake in the more tragic of the tragedies. Betty rushes out, then comes back, saying that she has Justin's show, and she doesn't know the flight number, and what about security? Diane invokes the words that have spurred out countless generation of women -- Drew Barrymore! And Betty is off again.
Back at Mode, Wili yells to someone named Lorraine that she needs graphics. Marc pops up at her side ready to meet her request. Without looking at him, she says, "What happened to you, Lorraine, you suddenly seem more feminine?" Marc tells her that Fabia fired him with no explanation. So he's free, and ready to go back to work for her, if she'll have him. Wili says that he does already know how she likes her coffee. He adds, "Not to mention how you plotted to destroy Daniel and convinced Bradford to divorce Claire and marry you so that you could take over Meade Enterprises." "Yeah, that too," she says. Is it wrong that I want to be in the middle of a Wilhelmina/Marc sandwich at least twenty-two out of twenty-four hours of the day? Because if so, I don't want to be right.
Marc asks what's on the agenda, particularly with the wedding. Wili says that she changed the date -- she and Bradford aren't getting married until November. Marc is surprised, but then gets a knowing look. He asks if Wili traded Fabia back the 16th in exchange for him. If so, she's an Indian giver. But also not quite the cold, heartless bee-yotch we had once suspected, even if she initially sold Marc into a kind of indentured servitude. She says coolly that she just realized her colors were better suited for a fall wedding. Marc gets behind her and gives her a hug, and he wears a little hint of a smile. And soon, nothing else. Ha ha -- no, that didn't happen. But if it had, that would out-twist anything yet to come in this finale. "You did not just hug me," she says, and Marc says of course he didn't before going to unpack his stuff at his desk. Awwww. These two are more star-crossed than Betty and Henry. Or than Betty and Daniel, depending on which side you're on.