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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.07.2007
Back at Wili's, Evelyn is sitting on the couch eating popcorn and explaining the plot on the telenovela -- the stripper used to be a nun, and now she's pregnant with the butcher's baby, but doesn't know that the butcher is her second cousin. Wili says that it's a story as old as time. She calls Marc, and says that she's in hell, asking where they are in putting the book together. Marc says that he thought she didn't care, and Wili says that was before she had to watch Mork & Mindy in Spanish. She wants to know every detail of what's going on. Marc asks why Wili doesn't just come down there, and Wili says that she made a dramatic exit and can't just come back. It's true. Once two colleagues of mine had a heated meeting and one stormed out, only to have to return to get her keys. It really takes the sting out. Wili then cryptically says that she can be there without actually being there, and instructs Marc to turn the orchid on his desk clockwise. Turns out there's a hidden camera in it. The woman thinks of everything!
Back at the dueling press conferences, Daniel says that nothing's going to change at Meade, nor at its flagship, Mode. Contrariwise, Alexis says that there will be extensive changes at both Meade and Mode. Daniel says that people who aren't in power can't make decisions, and Alexis says that people who are only playing at being in power should go back to throwing a football and whoring around. I'd play at being in power just so I could go back to that lifestyle. Daniel asks if everyone's really going to listen to someone who wet his bed until he was fifteen. He gets a shoe thrown at him, and then Alexis charges and yells at him to shut up. Daniel tells Alexis to shut up. She shoves him, and he says that's not fair because he can't hit a girl. Alexis says that in that case, he'll just have to hit himself. She grabs his hand and smacks his face with it, saying, "Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?" It's all kind of hilarious. In the nick of time, Betty comes in and tells them both to stop it. She pulls them aside, and they start doing a "He started it!" "She started it!" thing and begin pushing each other. Betty yells at them to stop it and says that this is serious: Claire is missing. There is doom-infused music and the siblings exchange serious looks as we head to commercials.
When we return, Daniel has just gotten off of the phone with Claire's psychiatrist, who hasn't seen her. Daniel says that he'll go look for her. Alexis says that she's going to go, and Daniel asks since when Alexis cares about Claire. Alexis says that she loves Claire, and that Claire is the one person Alexis actually missed. Daniel retorts that nothing says "I love you" like faking your own death. Good point, there. Betty intervenes, telling the two of them to work together. She says that, at the spa, Claire kept saying that she wanted to go back to happier times, and asks if there was anywhere special they used to go when they were younger. Both Daniel and Alexis think hard, and Daniel says that Claire used to like taking them to clothing museums when they were younger. Alexis says, "Those were stores, dumb-ass!" Maybe Alexis really should be running Meade Publications. Betty implores them to think about happy times like, say, where they used to go for their birthdays. Finally, Daniel mentions Coney Island, and the two hem and haw about it before Betty tells them that that's it, and also that they're really bad at figuring stuff out. Seriously, that's a spawn of the wealthy brain trust on par with the Hiltons.