Limping Across the Finish Line

By Montykins

First of all, Molly wasn't really dead at the end of the last episode. But it's okay, because she dies at the end of this one. That might sound hard-hearted of me, but there's a hilarious death by Rachel Dratch in the middle of the episode, so I guess this is a show where death is wacky now. I don't know. It seemed weird to me, too. The point is: Molly's definitely dead now.

In more Betty-specific news, she and Marc get to go on Y.E.T.I.-sponsored job interviews. Betty does well with the New York Review, but Jody steals the job. The moral: never trust Bernadette Peters. Marc gets offered an editing job at Vogue, which is pretty good, actually. But then Betty and Marc both want the editing job opened up by Rachel Dratch falling out a window, so there are a lot of hilarious hijinx, ending with Betty getting the job.

This thing between Claire and Wilhelmina also continues to come to a boil, with Cal keeping Wili from getting her way, even though he specifically prevented Claire from firing her a couple of episodes ago. I'm not crazy about this subplot. At the end, Wili is being pushed out somehow. So she hires a private investigator to find Connor (remember Connor?) and get back the money, no matter what happens to Connor in the process. Then she sees someone in her bedroom, but we don't know who.

Also! (It's a two-hour episode, which means it's really two episodes smushed together, which means a lot happens) Henry's back in town, which freaks Betty out, but she tells him to leave. Then Matt sees their goodbye kiss and mopes for a while before dumping Betty over it. But he doesn't just leave; he becomes Betty's new boss, because his father Cal is weird and arbitrarily vindictive.

Oh, and Justin doesn't get into the performing arts high school he applied to. That's a shame, but it leads to a nice scene between Justin and Marc.

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