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
The three of them regroup as Betty explodes with amazement that people have lives and things that happen to them even when she's not around. Amanda gets very nervous when Betty mentions her credit problems, pointing at Marc, and it's sweet. Marc worries because it really is starting to look like Daniel did it: "And I am genuinely surprised." Betty protests that, again, all three of them know better, and there's another amazing, bizarre conversation between Marc and Amanda where he suggests that Wili can help "prove it," and Amanda's like, "Prove what?" and Marc goes, "Prove that Daniel's innocent," and without even pausing or looking at him, Amanda just goes, "Oh. I didn't understand that part." So fantastic, and it goes on: Marc pushes the Wili doll down the stairs. It's kind of dark how the limbs go, like, this way and that. Marc and Amanda agree that the mannequin is way too skinny, and they need something grossly fat that could make a convincing pregnant woman. AWESOME. They are totally going to throw Betty down the stairs to solve a mystery! For science!
Betty can't even believe it, which makes it all the more amazing when they grab her from either side like Lord Of The Flies, and then all three of them go down together, landing in the dust that was all over Daniel's raincoat. OMG. Except for how he owns one-of-a-kind shoes whose distinctive tread was already found at the scene, so like...
Wili's haranguing Christina about Barbara Walters appearances and the like when Christina starts weeping and explains about how Sick Boy showed up and mumbled some garbled nonsense that she was somehow able to understand, and is dying. I would love if Christina were like, "So can I have my soul back now?" But Wili's face is a war between Botox and sadness, so that wouldn't be appropriate. She offers that experimental treatments are often tricky that way, but the sadness and respect in her face are pretty touching. I always thought she loved Bradford, and he's dead. You know? Christina rolls over to cry some more after asking Wili to give her a minute alone, and Wili sighs and feels bad for her. Aww.
Betty hangs out at Daniel's desk, looking for more ways to "accidentally" destroy his life, and finds the security tape in his briefcase, then must back away all awkwardly and weird as Daniel finds her going through his shit and acts in no way menacing toward her, regardless of her Chihuahua-like shivering and tics. He thanks her for her faith in him, and doesn't seem to notice the W hump under her top as she's leaving for home, so that she and Ignacio can talk about Hilda's grotesque life choices and Betty can strain something trying to get the focus back on her by comparing the two unrelated situations. See, the parallel is that they thought they knew Hilda -- the original real one, who is neither an idiot nor selfish to the point of negligent malice -- and found out she's just trash after all; meanwhile over here, Betty thought she knew Daniel -- the real one, who doesn't push people down stairs -- only to possibly find out that she was right, but possibly not.