Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fashion Roadkill!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.09.2008
Betty also assures Alexis that it's okay she pushed a pregnant woman down the stairs, because she's a "good person." I give up.
"Breathe" by Two Of Cups plays over the best Betty montage in quite a while. No shows do really long, satisfying montages quite like this one -- and the end of it is one of the most effective, crazy scenes maybe ever. So the song starts over that last scene, as Betty's about to leave after telling Alexis that only she can prove what a "good person" she is.
Christina wakes up in the hospital surrounded by flowers; across the room Wilhelmina is reading What To Expect. When the flashbulbs attack, she stands up and closes the curtains, annoyed, and looks down almost caringly at ... others.
Ignacio watches Hilda do her nails and hugs her or whatever because she's such a good person.
Alexis confesses to Claire and Daniel; they're totally thrown, and Daniel wanders stunned through the office until he finds DJ, and holds him tight.
Betty finds her umbrella back in the stand by her door with a note from Val Emmich: "Sorry I took your umbrella -- Jesse." She immediately high-fives herself and starts telling everybody in the entire world about how she's superior for being naïve and dumb.
Back at Mode Daniel and Betty watch Alexis work out the terms of her surrender with the cops. They commiserate about how you think you know your own sister, and then she gets written into being a sociopath. Just like that!
That song's still playing all dramatically as Alexis calls Claire over for one last bombshell: "When I was clearing out my office, I opened a piece of Daniel's mail." Claire tells her that, what with the attempted murders and shit, he'll let it slide. But Alexis shakes her head: "It was a paternity test." She leans in and whispers that Daniel isn't DJ's father -- she is. And you can't even deal with that because then it gets really sad and good-actingy and Claire just stares at her daughter and hugs her goodbye, and they handcuff her, and Alexis and her mother speak silently to each other as the elevator doors close. And once they're closed, she breaks.
That was awesome. Next week: Gio's back (boo!) and mad as hell (yay!).
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