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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.07.2007
Back at the office, Claire has come to see Daniel. Betty asks if she can help her, and Claire asks who she is. Betty says that she's Daniel's assistant, and Claire says that she's Daniel's mother, and therefore wins. Claire enters Daniel's office and says that she's enjoying the glorious day. Daniel notes with concern that Claire looks really happy, and asks if she's aware of what's happened to the family over the last few days. The woman's been drunk for twenty years. The probable answer to that is "No." She pulls out two dresses she bought for Alexis, one of which, she says, will really show off Alexis's boobs. Daniel asks if Claire's on pills, and if he needs to call a sponsor. He sternly comments that Bradford is in prison, and that Claire hasn't even been to see him. Now that's kind of cold. Claire says that Bradford won't be in there long, since he didn't do what he's accused of. She asks if Daniel is free, because she wants to take both of her children to lunch. Daniel tells her to stop acting like it's Easter when her family is falling apart. Claire says that her family is coming together. The child she buried and grieved over for the past two years is alive, and Claire doesn't care what he -- or she -- came back as. See, Claire is kind of awesome. She should have a deep understanding of all these issues after mothering Danny Pintauro for so many years.
Daniel tells Betty to cancel all of his appointments, because he has to take his mother to a spa; he thinks she's having a nervous breakdown. ["And what better place to go, in that case, than a facility full of pointy nail scissors and hot stones?" -- Wing Chun] Betty says that she looks fine. Daniel says that her crazy is on a time release, and that after Alex's death, Claire spent three days planning a dinner party, and then excused herself in the middle of the main course and took a whole bottle of pills. Betty spies Walter entering the building, and quickly offers to take Claire to the spa herself. She hurries Claire along and says that they can take the stairs to get out the toxins. Claire says that she likes her toxins with two olives. Judith Light rules, man. Walter just misses Betty, and then announces to Daniel that he has a coupon for the baked potato bar -- two for the price of one! Daniel lets Walter down gently by noting that he had a potato for breakfast. That, in a nutshell, is Walter's life. Commercials.
When we return, Betty and Claire are in robes at the spa. Claire says that it's ridiculous -- one DUI, a couple of OD's, and showing up naked at a garden party, and suddenly everyone treats you like a child. Betty, holding a bottle of mouthwash, says that Daniel just wanted to make sure that Claire can't hurt herself. Claire grabs the bottle and asks what Betty would do to stop her if she wanted to drink it. Betty bats the bottle to the floor. Claire: "Not bad." Betty has killer reflexes. Betty asks if Claire comes to spas a lot, and infers from Claire's casual disrobing that the answer is yes. She averts her eyes and starts talking about how she's really excited to be at the spa, and how Walter showed up at work, but that she thinks she has to break up with him, but she's not really the type because she's a green girl. Claire says that she's in the tub, so Betty can stop babbling.