Episode Report Card Potes: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Betty's Wait Problem
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.10.2007
Fashion TV touts the Black And White Ball, while noting that Claire Meade will not be able to fulfill her hostess duties, as she is on the lam. Bradford and his "ex-fiancée" -- oh yeah, he said it! -- will carry on in her stead at the benefit for the New York Children's Hospital. The reporter wonders if there's trouble in paradise, and we cut to Wili angrily telling Marc to turn off the TV. She says, "This is so humiliating. My closest friends in the world are going to be there tonight; can you imagine how happy this is going to make them?" Whenever there is a scene in Wili's office, all I can do is covet her chaise longue. Wili worries that a postponement of the wedding will give the Meade spawn more time to talk Bradford out of it. She's ready to give up, but Marc rightly tells her that the Wilhelmina Slater he knows and occasionally wishes he were does not throw in the towel just because the old man she's scamming has suddenly gone all soft for his tramnesiac daughter. Wili didn't count on the father-daughter bonding and hates that love won out, and Marc comes up with the genius plan to remind Alexis how much she's hated the old man for the past two years. Wili asks Marc if he's good at Photoshop, and he answers in the affirmative. The scenes with these two are always so great.
Meanwhile, Claire and Yoga continue their high life in the Hamptons. But Claire is not content. She hears the news that Wili and Bradford have postponed the engagement, and realizes that she must act now. She must go to the Black And White Ball, she says. Isn't she already at the Black And White Ball, in a sense? Yoga points out that a criminal on the lam can't just turn up at a ball, and Claire says she can if she's wearing a mask. Oooh! I vote that she goes as Richard Nixon.
Back at Mode, Henry complains to Rico that Robert, the old sandwich guy, would give Betty more sun-dried tomatoes. Rico says that will ruin the flavor. But Betty wants the sun-dried tomatoes, and Rico gives her the business about being a typical Mode girl rather than Betty from the block, as he had assumed. An outraged Betty spouts off to Daniel, who tells her to cheer herself by looking at www.socuteitssick.com, her favorite website. He then picks up the phone.
At Casa de Suarez, Hilda gets a call from Ignacio. If she weren't so into her telenovela, she might realize by his voice that he has a gun to his head. She hangs up quickly to get back to her stories, and Ignacio asks his captor who he is and what he wants. Gun man says he thinks Ignacio knows his father. That father then walks in and takes off a giant face-obscuring hat. It's Rosa's first husband, Ramiro Vasquez, whom Ignacio apparently did not in fact kill all those years ago. My general rule of thumb is that if you kill someone, you really want to make sure they're dead, otherwise it might come to bite you in the ass later on.
Back at Mode, Betty is interrupted from her wheelchair-acquiring phone call by Rico, who has been fired as a result of Betty's complaint. He quite awesomely speechifies to the entire office that there is no such thing as fat-free mayo. The very mayo that he is so generous with on sandwiches. Chunks of sandwich are spit out all over the office as Amanda and Marc congratulate Betty on being one of them. She indulges in a brief fantasy sequence before leading us to commercials by frantically saying that she's not one of them.