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Ugly Betty Episode 2.08 Full Recap

by Tom on November 16th, 2007

Full recap of Ugly Betty, season 2, episode 8: “I See Me, I.C.U.”

The episode begins with Suzuki St Pierre of Fashion TV reporting on the events of the wedding and the condition of Bradford Meade.  Betty is in the waiting room and asks Alexis how her dad is doing.  Alexis tells her that it was a massive heart attack.  Daniel walks, looks in Betty’s direction, and says “Hey, thanks for coming”.  As Betty starts to respond, Daniel walks past her to shake a man’s hand, a man who was standing right behind her.  Betty tells Christina, “He hates me..I really am fired!”

Betty goes to Mode to clean out her desk.  The front desk is manned by “L’Amanda” (played by comedian Mo’Nique). L’Amanda asks about Henry, who she obviously has a crush on.  Betty tells her that she is there to clean out her desk because she got fired.  L’Amanda asks if “Sugar Stick” (Henry) knows yet; Betty says no.  L’Amanda says, “I may have a chance.  Man like a girl with a job…”

As Betty is cleaning out her desk, another version of her (in poncho) appears.  It is a vision of the more naïve, sweet version of Betty from her first day at Mode.  Sweet Betty asks today’s Betty what happened – is she running the magazine now?  Betty tells herself that she had instead gotten fired.  Sweet Betty doesn’t believe it.  Then she sees that it is real.  Sweet Betty asks how this could happen.

Today’s Betty outlines all of her sins from the past several weeks.  Sweet Betty asks, “What’s happened to you?  I hardly recognize you”.  Today’s Betty tells herself, “You’re young, and naive, and it’s a lot trickier than you think”.  Sweet Betty says, “Well, if it’s so hard to be a good person in this place, maybe it’s a good thing we’re leaving”.  Christina walks in, and Sweet Betty is gone.  She pinches Christina, who pinches her back.  Betty asks her if she’s changed since she first started at Mode; Christina says it’s hard not to change.

At the hospital, Marc and Amanda are discussing Bradford.  Amanda says that Bradford is kind of attractive in a Sean Connery kind of way, and says, “Why is it always sadder when tragedy strikes hot people?” Daniel barges in, screaming at Wilhelmina to “Get the hell out of here!”  (Marc and Amanda eat popcorn and watch as if they are watching a movie).  He kicks her out because “she’s not part of the family”.  Marc very noisily leads her out.

Justin, Hilda, and Ignacio are watching the reports on FashionTV.   Betty comes home with her things.  She asks how Mr. Meade is doing – Justin says, “They still haven’t found the suit” (he arrived at the hospital minus the suit he was wearing).  Betty asks about Mr. Meade.  Justin says describes the hospital gown as if he were describing an item at a fashion show.  Hilda finally breaks in and says that he’s still unconscious.

Ignacio consoles Betty for getting fired.  He offers to tell Daniel the truth.  Hilda tells her to go to the gym and get “smoking hot”, and then Daniel will beg her to come back.  Betty tells her dad that she let Daniel down.

She goes into her room, only to find Claire and Yoga hiding.  Betty tells them they can’t be there.  Claire tells her that they are leaving the country tonight, but first she needs a favor: she needs Betty to find out if Bradford had changed the will. If Wilhelmina got the company, she just can’t leave.  She tells her it is in Bradford’s office.  Betty at first refuses, then Claire talks her into it – to help Daniel.

In a limo, Marc is talking to Wilhelmina about the unfortunate wedding events.  She says that she knew Bradford changed the will, but doesn’t know how he changed it.  For all they know, he could have left all his money  to charity.  Marc says, “They need to find this Charity person, and kill her”. 

Betty goes to Mode, but L’Amanda stops her at the front desk.  Her attitude has totally changed, she will not let Betty into Mode at all.

Amanda has a sweet conversation with Daniel about Bradford.  He tells her that he never told his father that he loved him. Amanda says, “You may never have gotten his love or approval; but at least you got his jaw line”.  She convinces him to go up and talk to his father.

L’Amanda is doing her makeup when Henry walks in.  She tells him he just missed his girlfriend.  Henry says, “That is not the way I roll’.  He starts flirting with L’Amanda, as Betty sneaks into the offices behind him.  As Betty and Henry get off the elevator to the executive suite (while kissing) , Marc and Wilhelmina are there. Wilhelmina says, “If I ate lunch, now would be the time to lose it”. 

Each “side” tells the other that they are there looking for a memento of Bradford.  All of them slowly search the office, suspiciously keeping an eye on each other.  As they move in unison, tango music plays in the background. Wilhelmina says, “Let’s end this.  We’re all here for the will.  Why don’t we agree to find it, read it, shake hands, wash our hands, and go on with our lives?”  Betty then goes to the wall safe, and tells Wilhelmina she has the combination.  Betty opens the safe, but it is empty.  At this time, Marc and Betty simultaneously remember Fey’s love dungeon.  Marc throws Betty’s glasses to the gound; she gest down to find them. He then pushes Henry over her, in a classic Three Stooges maneuver.  He races out of the room with Wilhelmina, and locks Betty and Henry inside.

L’Amanda is not answering her phone, so she can’t come and let Betty and Henry out of the office.  Henry suggests they crawl through the air ducts.  As they crawl through the ducts, Henry is having a great time, Betty is miserable.  Henry tells her to embrace her inner action hero; Betty says “Mexicans don’t have action heroes, we have a speedy little mouse”.  Henry finds what he thinks is the vent above the sex room, he falls through it, right down where L’Amanda is.

L’Amanda thinks he’s there for HER, and Henry plays along.  He goes so far as to kiss her, as Betty climbs down and makes her escape.  Henry then “breaks it off” with L’Amanda and gets out the door himself.

At the Suarez house, Ignacio hears something upstairs.  He sees Yoga in Betty’s room and asks who she is.  Yoga says, “cable company”.  Claire then proceeds to argue with her about how stupid that sounds. As Ignacio is telling Claire how he doesn’t like Betty helping her (which she has gone to do), Hilda walk in.  She sees the hiding Yoga, who says she is the “exterminator”.  Claire says, “Unbelievable.  You are the worst fugitive in the world.”   

Hilda and Ignacio look at their fake passport photos and realize that Claire will never pass for the person on the passport.  Hilda offers to give her a makeover.  Later, they reveal Claire after makeover – she looks kind of like a sixty year old Rita Moreno.  Yoga tells Hilda, “You could do a lot of business in the escapee community…”

In the sex room, Wilhelmina looks around in amazement.  She grabs a whip, and cracks it (we hear a lion sound).  Marc finds the will – it says that Wilhelmina will share his estate…once they are legally married.  Wilhelmina has an idea…  After they have left, Betty and Henry come to the sex room, and find the will.  Betty calls Claire and tells her what’s in it.  As they are leaving, Betty leaves a “strongly worded note” for Marc (including the classic line:”In conclusion, you are a weenie”).  She tapes it to Marc’s computer, which goes off of screen saver and shows the website where he just obtained his “ordination” to perform weddings.

Claire starts to leave to go to Italy, but as Justin almost recognizes her, she changes her mind.  She wants to go to the hospital to see her children one more time. She tells yoga that if she doesn’t return by 8, to go without her.

At the hospital, Alexis is at Bradford’s side, “lovingly” telling him to “go to the light”.  Daniel says “No!  Don’t go to the light!  Light bad!”  As they argue, Bradford wakes and tells them to stop fighting.

Later, Daniel is alone with Bradford, they have a heart to heart, but instead of telling his dad he loves him, he says, “You’re going to be OK”.  After  he leaves the room, Bradford says, “I love you too, son”.

Many things now happen at once.

Ignacio comes to the hospital, telling Daniel he must speak to him about his mother.  As they go to speak, Marc and Wilhelmina sneak in.  They grab a “witness”; as this happens, Claire talks with her children in the elevator, telling them her plans.  Claire then tells Daniel why Betty didn’t tell him about Wilhelmina’s affair.

Marc starts the “ceremony”, but Bradford tells Wilhelmina that he now believes his son; He kicks her out of the room.  Betty rushes into the room.  He tells Betty “The only person that ever loved me was my wife”.  Betty calls Claire to tell her that Bradford wants to talk to her.  Claire then goes out of costume, and marches toward Bradford’s room with the paparazzi flashing away.  She comes to his room, they quietly profess their love, Bradford apologizes.  They kiss.

Outside, Daniel tells Betty that he now understands why she did what she did.  He offers her job back.  She refuses, seeing her Sweet self standing in the corner.  She says that the job is making her into someone she doesn’t want to be.  Daniel says he understands.  Sweet Betty gives Today Betty the thumbs up.  As he walks away, the police drag Claire away.  Daniel and Alex go with her, and Daniel asks Betty to stay with his dad.

Betty walks into Bradford’s room.  He tells her to promise she’ll take care of Daniel, that he is lost without her.  Betty promises –then goes to get him some water.  When she returns, he has died.

At the Suarez house, we learn from news reports that Claire told the police that Yoga was dead.  We see Justin and Hilda sitting there shocked, then see the front door left open - Yoga had left .

At the hospital, Betty holds Daniel’s hand to console him.

As the show fades to black, we see Wilhelmina speaking to a doctor in front of what we assume is Bradford’s covered body.  She says she has a proposition for the young, indebted doctor.  He looks receptive, and then there is a real fade to black.

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