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
Queens. As Betty and Salma sit in her town car in front of the Suarez house, Betty finally admits that she lied to get the ride with Salma. She really doesn't want to have to tell Daniel that Salma is getting married: "You have to tell him that yourself." And I know this is a soap, and therefore what I am about to say is absurd, but Betty could just mind her own business. Salma sighs and sprays her mouth with Binaca. Then makes a face. "That was perfume," she announces. That line was very well-delivered.
The Suarez house is full of people, including Amanda, who is styling the shoot. Daniel watches for Salma out the window, Ignacio peering over his shoulder. Now that he's gotten a look at her, Ignacio knows what Daniel is so broken up about. Daniel asks Ignacio to tell him how to say "I love you and I can't live without you" en Español. Ignacio does, but I suspect that it will not take. "Good luck. That's English," adds Ignacio, patting Daniel on the back.
Outside, Salma announces that she thinks Betty is wasting her time at Mode. I have to say, Salma Hayek looks GORGEOUS in this scene. She must have slipped the makeup girl an extra fifty. She compliments Betty on the great job she did today, and offers her a job at NYW. Betty doesn't know what to do -- you know, because of how Daniel literally can not get dressed without her -- but Salma asks her to consider it, and points out that the NYW job has a real future. Which...is true. All things considered, NYW is a better fit for Betty's sensibilities, and it'll be interesting to see how the show handles this. ["This being a soap, my guess is that Salma ends up having been secretly evil this whole time, somehow, or dies, taking the magazine with her to the grave." -- Wing Chun]
Daniel greets Betty at the door, and asks her to go supervise Justin, who's trying hats on Baby Chutney. She asks him to go talk to Salma before Salma goes to meet Hunter.
And so Daniel goes outside and very romantically informs Salma that he's been thinking about what she said about wanting to get married, and that while he came from a really screwed-up family, not every family is his family, "thank God." And he says he loves her. And that he can't live without his camera. Salma cracks up at his mangled Spanish, and then he takes a homemade ornament out of his pocket and gives it to her. He wants her to help him pick out a tree to hang it on. Snow falls gently on them both as she thinks about it, and then nods. They kiss. Aw. I don't really see a lot of chemistry between Eric Mabius and Salma Hayek, but that scene was really nice.