Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Brothers
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.07.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Papa Meade is in jail, and Alex/is is at Mode. Daniel tries to go about business as usual, but Alex/is pulls out a charter stating that if Bradford dies or became incapacitated (or incarcerated, as it were), Alex is in charge. Alex/is immediately names Wilhelmina Editor-in-Chief and fires Daniel. Daniel, however, gets an injunction that halts the takeover for a week or so. A pissed Wili storms out. She attempts to bond with her cleaning lady, but really can't stand being away from the office, so she spies via Mark and a hidden-camera orchid. Eventually, she just can't overcome her sense of professional responsibility. And really, at least someone at that magazine has one. Claire, meanwhile, is extremely excited about having both of her children back. Daniel thinks she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown and has Betty take her to a spa for the day. The two bond, hatching a plan to get Daniel and Alex/is -- who argue publicly and pettily at a press conference -- to reunite. It involves Coney Island and bumper cars. The two brothers bump and argue and bump and argue, and Alex/is finally tells Daniel that their father said that if he went through with the sex change, he'd lose everything, and that Bradford would rather he be dead. Alex/is thinks Daniel is just like their father, and Alex/is didn't want to be rejected twice. It's sad. The two eventually decide to try to work together, much to Wilhelmina's chagrin. In other news, Henry asks Betty to see Wicked, and they agree to go as friends. Just in time, however, Betty and Walter break up (with Walter getting a job transfer to boot). Just when it seems that these star-crossed lovers will finally get their day, Henry's ex-girlfriend shows up so the two can try to reconcile. Betty is sad, but not as sad as when she drops off a credit card to a wasted Claire at her hotel room, and finds out that it was Claire who killed Fey Sommers. Good times! Also, a kid at Justin's calls Hilda a slut, and Justin shows that you don't mess with a queen. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously: Betty had sushi with Henry, which Walter discovered and was upset about. Wilhelmina prepared, through the culmination of her schemes with the Bandage Lady (who turned out to be Daniel's brother, Alex Meade, with a sex change), to become Editor-in-Chief of Mode and fire a whole bunch of people. Daniel asked Claire if she thought Bradford was capable of murder, and she said that he was capable of anything. And the aforementioned sex-changed Alex/Alexis announced her arrival quite splashily on the runway at Fashion Week, just before Bradford was hauled off to the big house.
Tim Gunn is on Fashion TV, pronouncing, "Scandal and sex change and murder, oh my!" For some reason, those words sound really natural coming out of his mouth in that formation. Tim explains that Alex Meade, long thought dead, reappeared at Mode's Top Ten To Watch fashion show...as a she. Before we see footage of Rebecca Romijn's Alexis, we see a family portrait that includes the previously Y-chromosome carrying Alex. The best thing about the portrait is that Daniel looks like such a tool. I think he might be wearing a sweater vest. No wonder people doubt his ability to run a fashion magazine. The Suarez family is watching all of this on TV, and Betty says that she can't believe this is happening to people she knows. Hilda says she heard a rumor that they keep "it" in a jar. That would be some kind of weird tchotchke for your mantle, I'll tell you that much. Tim Gunn adds that nobody was more surprised to see the alive and gender-reassigned Alexis Meade -- "looking stunning in a fabulous leather and organza gown," ha! -- than Papa Meade. I can't believe this is the second Tim Gunn cameo and there still was no "Where's Andrae?" or "Carry on." I feel cheated. Ignacio says that he wants to get the whole situation straight, and asks Betty if her boss's brother wears women's clothes. Betty says that no, that's a transvestite, whereas Alexis is a transsexual. She pulls out a pamphlet from, like, the Human Rights Campaign or something, and reads: "Transsexuals have surgery to reassign themselves to the opposite sex." Ignacio replies, "Ouch." Seriously, though, this show kind of rules. How often do you see transsexuals anywhere? And no, Top Model doesn't count. Tim Gunn says that Papa Meade was carted off to the big house for the murder of Fey Sommers, who looked an awful lot like Anna Wintour. Ignacio comments that Alexis's hands are too small to belong to a man, and Hilda instructs Betty to find out where she gets her nails done. I'm guessing not the Giant Man Claw Salon, where Hilda has all her beauty needs met. Betty says that she's not even sure what she's supposed to be doing, and that she assumes that you still go to work when the president of your company is arrested for murder. I'd actually like to try that scenario out. Anyone want to volunteer to drop off a mysterious package to the police for me? Betty tries to go out the door, and who should be standing there but Walter, with a donut. Like, put that shit in a bag, sticky hands. Betty says that it's not a good time. Walter goes in for a kiss, and Betty totally gives him the cheek. That's how it all started with Reese and Ryan. Walter says that he has some other news, but Betty just brushes him off. Ignacio -- perhaps the only member of the family aside from Justin in possession of some manners -- consoles Walter by telling him that Betty has a lot going on. On TV, Tim Gunn goes on to say there's speculation that it was none other than Alexis Meade who provided the evidence to put Bradford away, and...