Episode Report Card Jessica: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fey's Sleigh Ride
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2006
Back in Queens, Marc announces that they're pinning the leak on Fat Carol. They have to blame it on someone. Betty doesn't think that's fair, since Carol hasn't done anything. "You know she calls you Fat Betty, right?" Amanda says through the last spoonful of flan. "Fat Carol hates her job -- would she eat so many grilled cheeses if she cared?" Marc says, arguing that Fat Carol probably really wants to get fired. Besides, he says, they're doing this for Betty! Look how long it took her to land this job! She can't find another one! Betty notes that she wasn't aware that keeping so many secrets was going to be a requirement. "Betty," Amanda asks very seriously, "do you have another pan of this stuff?"
In the kitchen, Papa Suarez notes that Amanda has "a healthy appetite," and whispers that Betty had best not tell her that they have ice cream. And with that out of the way, we have Fatherly Advice Time: Papa reminds Betty and us all that, sometimes, we have to keep secrets to survive. He kisses her on the forehead, she looks thoughtful, and we all get to go to commercial.
The next day at the office, Betty, Marc, and Amanda find themselves in the elevator -- where all good things happen on Thursday night on ABC -- with Fat Carol. Marc is breathing into a paper bag, and Amanda is eating a donut. Fat Carol snaps that it's really too bad about their meeting: "We'll miss you around here." She is pretty hateful. "SHUT UP CAROL," Amanda yells through a mouthful of powered sugar. "I don't know if there's rehab for...whatever this is," Fat Carol says, waving her hand at them. "But consider it before starting the job hunt. Oh, and Betty? I think I might miss you most of all. Nice having someone fatter than me." She leaves the elevator. "Fat Carol," Marc snaps, as he gets off the lift. "Fat Carol," Amanda hisses, as she follows him. Betty thinks for a split second, and then: "FAT CAROL," she yelps, so steamed.
When Betty gets to her desk, Daniel is in his office, listening to Fey's music box, which has found its way to her desk. Betty wonders: where he got that; if he's okay; and if he needs to her get him anything. Daniel blankly explains that, when he was twelve, his father gave this music box to his mother, and she loved it. But a few days later, she put it in the attic, and set fire to a thousand copies of Mode. And no one would tell him why. But this music box appeared on his desk this morning: "Apparently, my father bought two of them. One for his wife and one for..." His voice trails off. "For his mistress," Betty finishes. Daniel says that Fey posing with the box in the '86 feature spread was basically her just throwing the affair in his mother's face. Betty asks if there was anything inside the box, and lifts the top tray to find parts of a "Fey" vanity license plate, and a pair of Fey's sunglasses. Both look torched. "This woman is trying to connect your father to Fey Sommers," Betty notes, and Daniel says that she's doing more than that: she's trying to make it look like he murdered her. Do ya think?