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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.07.2007
When we return, Wili has returned to the Mode office to get the issue completed. Marc asks her if this is so that she can make a big entrance while Daniel and Alexis are gone, and play the hero, but she says that, believe it or not, not everything is about her. She asks a crowd of people if they're all faxing résumés, and Amanda answers no as she eats a piece of paper. Wili tells everyone that it's time to stop worrying about the future, and that they need to focus on the present. She adds that Mode magazine did not become #1 by honoring people's personal lives. She hopes that everyone enjoyed the cake, because it will be their last meal until the swimsuit issue is up to the magazine's standards. Amanda gives an amen, Wilhelmina glares at her, and everyone grudgingly scurries back to work.
Back at the Suarez house, Fat Mom says that Justin started the fight by pulling Bobby's hair and scratching him. She tells Bobby to show them the marks. Bobby starts to pull up his shirt, and Santos quickly says that they don't need to see them. Hilda says that Justin wouldn't do that unless he was provoked. Fat Mom says that Bobby didn't do anything to deserve getting beaten up, and so what if he called Hilda a slut mom? D'oh! Fat Mom says that she's sure Bobby's not the first. Santos asks what kind of kid talks like that, and Fat Mom asks if you can blame him: "Look at her." It might be true that Hilda's bra is visible at all times. I'm just saying. Santos says that the boys will stay away from each other, and that's the end of the story. Fat Mom comes up to Hilda and says that she's a mother, and should start looking like it. Hilda says that Fat Mom is a woman, and should start looking like that. Justin gives a "Snap!" As they leave, Bobby can't stop looking at Hilda's rack. That kid is a dead ringer for Augustus Gloop. Justin asks if Hilda is mad at him. Santos says that he's proud of Justin for defending his mother, but that they're going to have to talk about the scratching and hair-pulling.
Meanwhile, Daniel and Alexis are bumping the hell out of each other. Daniel says that Alexis put the family through hell, and asks why she didn't tell him what she was going through. She says that she needed a new life, and that not all of them were born with the lives they were supposed to have. Daniel says that they got new lives full of grief and rehab. Alexis says that she didn't think she'd ever see them again, but then Fey died and she realized she had a chance to get back at Bradford. Daniel asks what Alexis had to get back at Bradford for: Alexis was the golden child; Bradford worshiped her. Or, him, at the time. Bradford was with Alex all the time at Boy Scouts, football games, etc. Alexis tells Daniel that Bradford figured it out, which kind of shuts Daniel up a little. He thought tossing a ball at Alex would change things. When Alex finally told Bradford what he was going to do, Bradford told him that if he went through with it, he'd lose everything -- the company, the money, and the family. And then, to make the message clear, he told Alex that he'd rather that Alex were dead. Too busy for Parenting 101, was old Bradford. Everyone looks really sad. Daniel asks why Alexis didn't tell him, and Alexis says that he's just like Bradford, and that she didn't want to be rejected twice. She leaves, and Claire says that she guesses this was a mistake. But an awfully Afterschool Special-esque one! We all have something to learn from it, don't we? Just like when that girl on the swim team started doing cocaine! Anyway. Commercials.