As the episode begins, Betty is in her bathrobe and curlers, in the Suarez kitchen, having a midnight snack.  She goes to the refrigerator for more milk, opens the door, and sees Bradford’s head behind the milk.  He says, “A box of baking soda wouldn’t hurt in here”.  Betty counts to three and reopens the door, Bradford is not there.  However, Betty turns around to see Bradford in tropical attire.  He says, “I’m not a ghost – I’m a subconscious manifestation of your guilt”.  He says of the way he’s dressed, “I didn’t pick it, you did”.

Betty denies that she’s guilty of anything.  Bradford reminds her that she promised him on his death bed she’d take care of Daniel, yet she hadn’t yet returned to Mode.  Betty says she can’t go back to Mode because it changes her too much.  She says she’ll remain Daniel’s friend though.  She promises to do this, if he’ll go away and let her go back to bed.  He says, ”You mean, eat the rest of these empanadas?” Betty says, Damn you, subconscious manifestation of my guilt!”

Later, Hilda and Ignacio are watching a telenovela, and Justin walks in with a box of Christmas ornaments.  Hilda says they won’t be trimming the tree that day, Justin reminds her that they decorate the tree that day every year.  Hilda doesn’t want to do it for Betty’s sake because Bradford’s funeral is that day.  Betty comes down the stairs and insists they should decorate the tree later that day, because it was their mother’s tradition.  Justin and Ignacio leave to set up the nativity scene.  Justin says, “Mary what happened to your hair?” Hilda asks Betty if she’s going back to Mode – Betty says no; she’d disappoint her mother.

At the funeral, Daniel and Alexis are discussing the family plot that Daniel didn’t know existed.  Betty explains to Christina that Henry is not there because the next issue of the magazine goes to print that night, and he is doing last minute work.  A police car pulls up, and Claire gets out, under guard, in full prison garb.    Daniel then gives a nice eulogy, saying that Bradford’s shoes will be hard to fill.  He asks if anyone else would like to speak.

Betty gets up and starts to say some nice things.  She says, “He was also a father, and a husband…” – at this point Wilhelmina shows up with Marc and says, “He was ALMOST my husband”. Daniel confronts her.  She mocks Claire, and as she walks past, Claire trips her; she falls into Bradford’s dug-out grave.  As she is in there, Claire proposes that Wilhelmina be fired, the two siblings agree.  She adds, “Rest in peace, bitch!”

At Mode: Later, Marc and Wilhelmina arrive at an empty Mode.  Marc says, “If I’d said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, ‘Nobody pushes Wilhelmina Slater into an open grave!’”  Wilhelmina says that she was prepared for being fired.  She dials 0 on a phone, and out of the desk rises a CD labeled “Medusa X”.  She then rips open Marc’s wallet she gave him for his birthday, pulling out and electronic key.  She uses it, getting out the CD.  Marc asks what it is; she says it’s something the Pentagon cooked up – she had dated one of the joint chiefs.  She types a password (retail) into a computer, and presses ‘Activate’.  Buzzers and alarms then start to go off, and files erased from all the computers.  Everything is replaced by a Medusa looking Wilhelmina.  Wilhelmina says, dramatically, “It is done”.

At the Suarez house:  The Suarez family is getting out Christmas decorations.  Hilda thinks it’s weird decorating the day of a funeral, but Betty insists.  They discuss the year they decorated an hour after Ignacio passed a kidney stone (which they turned into an ornament).  Hilda and Justin want to buy a ink tree, but Betty insists on tradition.  Henry then calls Betty to tell her about the disaster happening at Mode.

At Mode:  Henry tells the Meade siblings that everything in the computers is gone.  Daniel says that the issue ships in 12 hours, and that they’ll never make the deadline.  Alexis reminds him that they have to: the magazine is already in trouble.  Daniel says that he will not let Wilhelmina win.  He tells Henry to start making calls, to get everyone in to help.  Henry says they are already there – through a window you can see the whole Mode crew, and Betty stands before Daniel.  Daniel says, “You’re back?”, and Betty says, “For tonight”.

Everyone is scrambling around, trying to put together the magazine at the last minute.  They have lost the cover, and cannot get in touch with the photographer.  Wilhelmina walks in with Marc.  She then reveals the mockup for Slater magazine, and offers a 15% raise to anyone who will leave Mode to come work for her.  After adding in dental and cosmetic surgery, most of the Mode staff decide to jump ship for Slater.  They all leave together, but Amanda decides to stay with Mode because it is her mother’s magazine.

As Betty is checking in with her family on the phone, Bradford shows up on her computer (inside SoCuteItsSick.com). He says she should go give one of her “annoying pep talks”.  He threateningly grabs one of the kittens inside the screensaver, to blackmail Betty into helping Daniel.  She goes into Daniel’s office and gives him the “pep talk”.  She reminds him of his eulogy, and tells him a story of how her family had to carry on a birthday tradition, even though her mother had died right before her dad’s birthday.  He gets inspired and goes to work.

Amanda writes the number of pages of content they have to fill on the board: 83. (She makes the 8 look like Betty).  Each person who if left is given a writing assignment (Henry becomes food editor).  Sheila says she just got off the phone with the printer, and he won’t extend the deadline.  Alexis says she knows the guy, and thinks she can charm him into extending the deadline.  She leaves to put on something seductive.

Everyone works together, and slowly they create content to fill the magazine.  Amanda gets assigned the “What’s Hot/What’s not” feature.  They discover that the cover cannot be retrieved. Betty suggests they reshoot.  Daniel tells her that the advertisers were sold on Cameron Ashlock (America’s Sweetheart), but now she’s in rehab.  Daniel decides to break her out of rehab.

Betty goes with him, but tells him she doesn’t like at, and that it was things like this that make her not want to come back to Mode.  They bribe the guard and get to Cameron’s room.  She is meditating.  She says she has now “found God”.  Betty convinces her that a good way to make amends (and please God) is to make amends – including with Mode, by shooting the cover.

Back at Mode, Cameron will not come out of the dressing room until she gets booze or drugs.  Daniel decides to take her a bottle of booze.  Unfortunately, Cameron bursts into the room and destroys the set in a temper tantrum.  She then gets dragged out. 

Betty tries to lecture Daniel – but he says he didn’t give Cameron the drink.  He says that the cover is gone; he’s no Bradford Meade.  Betty says, maybe that’s a good thing – he’s got a blank slate.  When she says this, Daniel gets an idea.

Sheila asks Amanda where her What’s Hot section was; Amanda says she’s waiting for inspiration.  At this moment, a pizza delivery guy shows up.  Amanda gets an idea when she sees him, and is excited.  Later, she announces her creation, she has a model come in wearing the pizza delivery look.  Sheila is not impressed. (It is pretty bad).  She tells her to go back to the phones.

Daniel presents his idea for the cover: a completely black cover, a foldout with “in memoriam, Bradford Meade” on the inside cover.  Everyone loves this and applauds.  Sheila says “Issue 412 is ready to ship!”  Daniel says it’s actually 001, they are going to get a fresh start.  Daniel asks Betty to come back again.  He tells her that no matter where she works, she’ll have tough choices to make.

Amanda is sulking in the sex room when Christina walks in. She says that fashion was instinct for her mother, and that she can’t live up.  Christina tells her that her mother actually worked her butt off.  She also convinces her to keep looking for her father.

As Betty stares at the pieces of the issue on the wall, Bradford appears.  She asks if he’ll show up again, he says, “That’s up to you”.

At the publisher: Alexis walks in the door, looking for the printer.  The man she was expecting to be there wasn’t there anymore; a little person named Harvey was now the printer.  He tells her he will not give Mode more time.  Alexis locks the door and says she will not let him go till he changes his mind. She holds the keys where he cannot get them.  Later, Alexis has a heart to heart conversation with Harvey.  They discover they have much in common.  He convinces her to quit trying to please her father.  She decides to let Harvey go.   He decides to give Mode the time it needs.

At Slater: Wilhelmina fires one of her new people because she doesn’t like her, then tells everyone that the magazine will commence work the next day when they get financing.  Marc asks her where the financing is coming from; she tells him The Senator (her dad).  Later, over dinner, she asks her father for the financing – he refuses.

At the Suarez House:  Hilda is putting the lights on the tree.  Justin and Ignacio are being critical of the job she’s doing; she starts to get down angrily, and accidentally pulls the tree over.  It then catches on fire.  As Betty is scrambling to get the issue together, she calls home.  Hilda says the tree is “hot – it’s smokin’!”.  Betty knows that she is lying; Hilda admits that the tree burned up, including some of Betty’s favorite ornaments.  They did save their mother’s angel, though.

Later, the Suarez family comes downstairs to see that Betty has bought and decorated the pink tree.  They put up the angel to honor their mother.  She announces that she took her job back.  The episode ends with Hilda proclaiming that the tree is ugly.

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Now, I know there’s a much more intriguing cliffhanger from the show sitting out there, and we’ll get to that soon, but for now, I’m wondering why the fact that Bradford showed up at the hospital sans suit is so important that they’d give it air time. Suzuki St. Pierre (another “St” name!) from FashionTV mentioned it twice.

Speaking of Bradford’s spiffy clothing, want to own it?  My friends at the ABC Seen On Store have some of the items Bradford was wearing when he has his unfortunate heart attack:

A Brioni Striped Tie

A Canili Dress Shirt

Ecco Arlanda Slip-On Shoes (My Favorite).

 Yes, yes, I know.  I have all the sublety of Victoria Beckham with her sports drink.  But the holidays are coming, and I’m hoping my wife happens to see this  

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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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Alan Dale’s run as Bradford Meade on Ugly Betty is coming to an end. But as the affable New Zealander put it, he has felt like a fish out of water anyway.

“Ugly Betty has changed, because originally it was to be a drama with humour, and in the end it has become an hour-long comedy,” said Dale, 60.

“So I won’t be with the show for very much longer, because my character doesn’t do comedy, really.”

Now, far be it from me to disagree with one of the founding cast members of a show, but I will anyway.  Ugly Betty was always a farce with drama advancing the storylines.  He was, indeed a “straight man” (in more ways than one) in a sea of crazy characters.

The article has much more on Dale himself, and his opinion of the show:

“They’re going to go a different way, so I’ll be moving on,” Dale said. “But it’s a fantastic show, breaking new ground, really. We’ll see what happens next pilot season, but I’m surprised there aren’t a lot more comedies just imitating it.”

About future prospects:

“I have a few jobs lined up,” Dale said. “But I’m fine, I’m an old guy, I’ve been around a while. And I’m a New Zealander, so I have a lot in common with you guys (Canadians).

“I spent a long time in Australia working there. So you know, this is my O.E., my overseas experience. I was in The O.C. before Ugly Betty, so I’m on a pretty good winning streak. I’ve been in North America only since 2000, so it’s really going great.”

About the show and America Ferrera: “You just had to know that the wedding (of Bradford and Wilhelmina) was not going to turn out like you’d expect,” Dale said. “But the success of the show starts with Betty. America (Ferrera) plays her beautifully. It’s about her and everyone else sort of zooms around that, I think.”

Now, the rest of the article is quite critical of the show this year; some of the criticisms I don’t disagree with: characters are jumping wildly in and out of their own personalities, for instance.  However, the writer of the piece, Bill Harris, overstates the “ratings trouble” her perceives Betty to be having.  The show is still a solid number 2 on Thursday nights, right behind Survivor.  It’s been averaging 10-11 million households, and more importantly, winning the key demographics.

But, I’ll join Harris in hoping that the time off the writers are having will help them to get on more solid footing as to who the characters are, and why we love them.  Forget realism – this is Ugly Betty!

Source: Toronto Sun

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• Betty’s Fired! – I didn’t even include that in the poll.  I think this is the fourth time she’s been fired or quit her job at Mode.  It’s hard to take seriously; what is she, Billy Martin?
• Betty and Henry will REALLY break up – There’s a good chance, I believe, this is going to happen.  Henry is going to Tuscon, unless some unforeseen even occurs (on Ugly Betty?  that never happens! )
• Bradford will die – Bank on it.  Why the heck else would episode 2.09 be called “Giving Up The Ghost?” 
• Amanda will find her father – This is a sweeps type thing, especially if he turns out to be William Shatner or somebody like that.  Look for that in May (or not…read on)
• Marc will break up with Cliff – This is another one you can bank on.  I think we all love Cliff (somebody give David Blue a spin-off, please!), but Marc simply can’t be Marc as long as he’s around.  Expect a slow breakup.
• Wilhelmina will start Slater Magazine – Bradford’s impending demise will play heavily into this.  I think it would be great for the show if she left Mode altogether and formed a rival magazine.  She could then truly embrace her evilness.
• The WGA strike will end – This isn’t going to happen anytime soon, IMHO.  All indications are that the producers and networks are hunkering down; the writer’s always were.  The trump card will be the actors – right now, they’re siding with the writers, but I don’t care how much you make, if you don’t work for a prolonged period of time, you feel it.  Especially up-and-coming actors like those on Ugly Betty.

Now it’s your turn: Which of these things (minus Betty being permanently fired) do you think will happen first?

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“Wilhelmina Vivian Slater, Creative Director at MODE Magazine, will marry Bradford Emerson Meade, media mogul and chairman of Meade Publications, on Thursday, November 8 at 8pm.

To prevent the excessive press coverage, the location of the wedding is not being released, but it will be covered exclusively on the ABC Television Network.”

My goodness, that’s genius!  If only they’d done that for Luke and Laura when I was younger…

Read on for an actual scan, and more of the announcement.

The faux announcement continues:

“Ms. Slater works in New York as the Creative Director at MODE Magazine. She is a former supermodel who started in the fashion business as the assistant to former MODE editor-in-chief Fey Sommers.

Ms. Slater is the daughter of the esteemed Senator Slater. She has one daughter, 17-year old Nico Slater, who is currently attending boarding school in France.

The bride will be wearing a custom-designed Vera Wang gown for the ceremony and will be attended by close friend, global fashion icon and pop superstar Victoria Beckham.

Mr. Meade, 60, is the founder and CEO of Meade Publications. He has 2 children, eldest son-turned-daughter Alexis and New York bachelor Daniel Meade, both currently co-editors-in-chief of MODE.

Mr.Meade’s previous marriage to Claire Meade, the co-founder and co-owner of MODE Magazine ended in divorce in May 2007.

All press requests should go through Ms.Slater’s personal assistant Marc St.James.

For all the nuptials details, visit abc.com.”

Here is a scan:

The part about Marc is absolutely hilarious!  So, now we know that Bradford is 60, and Wilhelmina’s middle name is Vivian.  More fodder for Facebook trivia! 

Source: Gothmatist, Televisionista

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 Here’s what Ausiello says today:

Question: The stench of death is going to envelop someone on Ugly Betty?! Does that mean a main character’s going to die, or is it someone a main character knows? — Caitlin

Ausiello: A series regular will die before the year is out. Sorry if I was too vague last week.

Well, there you go!  Considering the fact that a funeral scene has already been filmed, we pretty much assumed it was a major character.  I have a theory:

It’s Bradford.

Here’s my thinking: The episode directly AFTER the Posh Wedding episode is entitled “I See Me, I.C.U” .  As in “Intensive Care Unit”.  In the capsule for that episode, there is this: In the wake of the disastrous Meade/Slater nuptials, Wilhelmina plots her next moves… 

Combine that with who is and who is not in the episode stills for that and later episodes, and I’m pretty convinced that something happens to Bradford in the wedding.  He hangs on for at least one episode and dies.  This, of course, will leave a lot of intrigue as to who is going to be in charge at Mode, and at Meade publications.

If I am correct, we then have to ask, what happens?  Does Claire do something to him?  Does he have a heart attack?  I guess we won’t find out until November 9th (that is, if my guess is correct at all).

Source: Ausiello

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Henry is drunk and speaking to Betty in her living room.  He calls her beautiful and scrunches her face.  He was drinking melon and apricot wine coolers (EEEWWW!)  They discuss the situation with Charlie,and the baby, and Dr. Farkas.  Betty says that they will have to wait to be together, at least until they find out if the baby is Henry’s.  Henry falls asleep.

The DNA results that Marc ordered are back in.   Daniel is with Amanda, they are discussing the possibility that they are siblings.  Or, as Amanda puts it: “Half siblings.  Which means if we did it, like, 20 times, it was only wrong 10″.  They open the envelope, and discover that Bradford is not Amanda’s father.  She jumps on Daniel in his wheelchair; they kiss, proud that they can do so.  Amanda, stops though, tells Daniel that she has unresolved issues with him, and tells him to just “squeeze a boob, because I have to go”.

Hilda makes Henry her famous hangover recipe: tomato juice, a raw egg, and bacon grease.  She asks if he’s dying to call Charlie; Henry says he’s afraid to.  He says he’s never been this mad.  He tells her a very strange allegory about female orangutans.  She offers him food, he almost throws up.

Betty tells Christina she’s going into ‘waiting’ mode with Henry, which is easy because she’s so busy planning the Black and White Ball.  Christina complains about all the costume work she’d been doing for the ball: “glitter came out in my pee yesterday”.

Gio the sandwich guy is serving the people at Mode (things like chicken and cheese baguette, no chicken, no cheese, no baguette). Betty orders her sandwich; Gio is excited: “I knew you were an eater”.   Daniel rolls up and asks Betty to procure an “iBot 4000″, a really top of the line wheelchair, for the benefit.  Betty reminds him he should be walking by now.  Daniel says he’s still in a lot of pain.  He also asks her to make sure the check for the charity is big,(but not so big his head looks small), and blue or green.

The fashion TV reporter talks about the upcoming ball,and the fact that Bradford Meade postponed his wedding.  Wilhelmina sees this and is distraught. She is worried that Bradford’s children will “get to him” and permanently drive a wedge between Bradford and her.  She gives up. Mark shakes her in a “get hold of yourself” moment.  Wilhelmina says “you’re touching me!”.  “It was a risk”, he says.  He gives her the idea to “help” Alexis remember that she hates her father.  She asks him to do something with Photoshop.

Claire and Yoga hatch a plan to go to the ball in costume.

Betty confronts Gio – her sandwich didn’t have as many sun-dried tomatoes as she used to get from the past sandwich guy.  He will not fix it for her, though.  He says it will ruin the sandwich.  Betty insists.  He still refuses.  He calls her a “spoiled Mode girl”.

Betty has a tantrum about this to Daniel.  He tells her to go to the website that always cheers her up: So Cute It’s Sick.com. [writer's note: Disney owns this domain.  Interesting].  She tells Daniel Gio’s name; as she leaves, Daniel picks up the phone.

Hilda is watching a telenovela, a gangster is pointing a gun at a man.  At the same time she’s on the phone with Ignacio, who has a gun pointing at his head as well.  He tells Hilda to tel the family he loves them, then Hilda hangs up.  At this point, Ramiro Vasquez (the man Ignacio ‘killed’ walks in the door). 

Betty is on the phone arranging to get the wheelchair.  Gio lets Betty know that he was just fired because of her.  He makes an announcement to the office that there is no such thing as fat-free mayo, that each tablespoon has 125 calories of fat,  and he puts two tablespoons in each sandwich.  At this point the entire office recoils in horror, and spits out their lunch.  He once again calls Betty “Mode girl”.  Marc and Amanda applaud, and tell Betty she’s now”one of us”.  A dream sequence follows, with Betty being showered by confetti, holding flowers and being congratulated by Marc and Amanda.  Back in reality, she says, “No, no I’m not like you”, in horror.

Alexis is being made over at Wilhelmina’s expense.  She tells Alexis that they were best friends.  Wilhelmina shows Alexis a photo album of the tow of them together, with some incongruous scenes of them square dancing, and marching for gay rights.  Wilhelmina says Bradford has been bedridden with greif since he postponed the wedding.  She tells he that they (Bradford and Wilhelmina) were going to get married, but that Bradford postponed it out of concern for Alexis.  Wilhelmina convinces her to endorse the wedding.

Amanda and Marc hatch a plot for Amanda to ‘come out’ as Fey’s daughter at the Black and White ball.  They look forward to all the invitations and swag they’ll get once Amanda is discovered.  Marc tells Amanda that Fey always arrived in a fabulous red dress and said the words “Black and white ball?  I guess I didn’t get the memo…”

Henry is looking at So cute It’s sick .com to calm down.  Amanda and Marc barge in demanding their paychecks early so they can buy a dress.  They butcher his name and tease him, and Henry goes off.  He tells them he’s proud of his name, that in Dutch it means “he who gives the fairest price for his bricks”.  As they are leaving, Marc and Amanda comment on how “hot” Henry is when he’s angry.  Henry calls and leaves a message for Charlie.

Justin asks Daniel to help him learn to play basketball. 

Betty stops Gio as he’s loading his van, and lets him know that she just finished talking to his boss and got him un-fired.  He says it’s just as well – he has a 5-year plan to get his own sandwich place: “Gio’s Sandwich Depot”, which will have every condiment known to man.  She asks him if in the meantime he will drive her to New Jersey to pick up Daniel’s wheelchair, since he has a van.  She offers to pay.  He says OK.

Back in Mexico, Vasquez has Ignacio tied up.  He tells him that he had barely survived the beating Ignacio gave him, but the only thing that kept him going all those years was the thought of revenge.  He then, out of nowhere, demands Ignacio make him flan.  “Sometime’s I wake up and I miss my wife. Sometimes I miss my flan”.

Daniel is trying to show Justin how to play basketball.  He is terrible.  As he flails away, the background music is “Get In the Game” from “High School Musical”.  Gotta love Disney.  Daniel finally gets frustrated, gets out of his chair, and makes a perfect drive to the basket.  Justin is amazed that Daniel can walk. Daniel explains that he’s trying to impress his physical therapist.  He says she’s very “smart”, and once he has “one really smart conversation” with her, he will have a total recovery.

Gio is singing along with the car radio, badly.  He asks Betty to sing.  After a bar or two, he turns off the radio.  They talk about what she does at Mode, he dreams, how she is a “writer”.  He asks her what she’s written lately (she hasn’t).  He mocks her for not following her dream. He starts singing again.

The wheel chair guy at first tries to give Betty the “Tulip” model instead of the iBot 4000.  He says Nick Lachey twisted his ankle and reserved the iBot.  Betty at first accepts, this, but Gio convinces her to make up a good story to get him to change his mind, since she’s “such a good writer”.  Se invents a story about Daniel being with the CIA. It worked.  As they are driving back, Gio says, “maybe you are a writer after all”. 

Marc tells Wilhelmina that Alexis “just called Bradford to her bedside” to bless the wedding.  She slaps Marc for including “square dancing” in the photo album.

Vasquez eats the flan, and tells Hector to kill Ignacio anyway.

Justin shows Hilda pictures from his cell phone of him attempting to play basketball.  She sees a photo of Daniel standing and walking, and is appalled.  She calls Betty.  Betty is appalled as well.

Gio makes fun of Betty because of all the silly, menial tasks she has to do that keep her from her writing.  She tells him that shealso can’t write because she’s going through som bad family problems.  He “quacks” at her.  He says that every time she gives an excuse, he’ll quack.  She retaliates by “woof”-ing every time he mentions his 5-year plan.  They get in a quacking and woofing contest.  This is when Betty gets the call about Daniel being able to walk.

The guests are arriving at the ball.  Marc bursts into the fashion TV broadcast and says, “Look is that Fey Sommer’s illegitimate daughter?”.  Amanda arrives in a beautiful red dress, holding Halston the dog.  She says Fey’s famous catch-phrase.  Nobody notices her. (They all see Zac Ephron – Disney again!).   Marc asks her,”Does Paris Hilton have everything handed to her? Well, yes she does, but that celebutard works hard to stay in the news.”  The decide they need to do something outrageous. 

He says, “Oh, my God!  Is that Josh Duhamel? ”  Amanda gets excited and goes looking for him.  As she does, Marc steps on her dress.  She is totally naked in front of the press.  As they finally start to notice her, she starts posing.

Inside the ball, Bradford tells Wilhelmina that Alexis is on board with the wedding.  Claire arrives with Yoga (who is dressed as a man).  Daniel loses control of his wheelchair, and has to jump out. Betty confronts him about his faking injury.  She wasted her entire day getting the wheelchair so Daniel ould play grab-ass.  She goes on a rant about how she could have been writing, and hasn’t written since she had a crush on Lance Bass.

Ignacio tries to convince Hector not to kill him.  At this point, we find out that Hector was Rosa’s little brother.  He was beaten himself as a child.  Vasquez walks in and scolds Hector for not killing Ignacio.  Cut to the outside of the house, we hear a gun shot.

Daniel introduces Kenneth Cole (who asks, “what is this for, again?”).  Claire sneaks up behind Bradford and tries to convince him to leave Wilhelmina.  Wilhelmina decides that the best thing to do is to show Claire that in no uncertain terms, she has won.  She interrupts a sick child who is making a speech to announce that the wedding is back on.  Bradford tells Claire “it’s over” and walks up to join Wilhelmina.

Daniel apologizes to Betty (and gives her a partially eaten bagel).  Betty asks Daniel if she can take a writing class during her lunch hour.

The office is buzzing about Amanda’s stunt.  (The swag? Melissa Etheridge buying me a domestic beer?)  She shows a softer side and says she is sad that she doesn’t know who her father is.

Gio has left Betty a “present” sandwich, just as she likes it.  Henry tells her he talked to Charlie, and that there will be a paternity test.  He asks her to lunch, she can’t go.

Betty and Hilda are discussing the creative writing class Betty as signed up for, and Ignacio walks in the door.  He hugs the entire family.

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Wilhelmina is speaking before an All Hands meeting.  She is running the meeting as acting editor.  She reads her “Letter From the Editor”, while Betty attempts to grab a bagel.  She slips, falling down and causing a huge ruckus and mess.  Marc “whispers” loudly, “Don’t worry, no one noticed”.  Wilhemina continues.  Betty asks why Daniel isn’t writing the Letter From the Editor.  Wilhelmina calls her, “Pie Eyed, Pie eating Betty”  She then proceeds to ignore Betty.

Back at the hospital, Daniel and Betty are watching Alexis.  Daniel explains that Alexis doesn’t remember anything after their mom’s birthday party, two years previous.  Alexis grabs her breasts (which she’d been doing a lot of), and gives an approving thumbs-up to Daniel and Betty.  Alexis doesn’t know about the divorce, or Claire’s imprisonment and escape, or Bradford’s impending marriage.   Betty begs Daniel to come back to work, but he refuses.  He does ask her to get The Book, though.  Alexis sees a story about her mother’s escape on Fashion TV.

Marc mails off the DNA samples to the lab (not his first time, he says).  Amanda expresses a wish to have known Fey better.  She dreams of getting a big Fey Sommers estate, says she’s waiting to hear from the probate judge.  She shares a silly giggle with Marc about “probate”.

Hilda has gathered all of Santos’ stuff into their apartment  Boxes are everywhere.  Hilda gives Justin a sack lunch, to which he says, “You want me to bring my lunch?  Mom!  The famous Mode cafeteria, where Naomi Campbell has a tuna melt and an meltdown; they now have it on the menu: the Naomi Campbell Tuna Melt Meltdown” (that’s funny!)

Marc, walking behind Wilhelmina, sees Dwayne, Wilhelmina’s new bodyguard.  He is scared witless.  Wilhemina says she hired him to protect her from Claire.  As Betty is walking into the room, Marc yells, “OMG! Its Claire Meade charging for us!”  Dwayne picks her up in a choke hold, until Wilhemina calls him off.  Marc is pleased with himself.  Betty asks for The Book; Wilhelmina refuses.  Betty sees Marc getting a set of Wilhemina’s house keys from his desk for Dwayne (there are more in the desk).  He tells her that The Book is at Wilhelmina’s apartment.

After Marc leaves, she takes a key from Marc’s desk, and turns to see Henry standing before her.

Henry tells Betty that he’ll be going back to Tuscon; he’s just at mode for the job and the insurance.  He’s looking forward to becoming a father. He asks Betty if that’s OK (that he’s there).  She says yes, but she’s obviously thinking No.  “We were young and innocent then. Ah, youth!”  She says they can be buddies.

Cut to Betty telling  Christina that it’s NOT OK.  She says she won’t tell Henry about the doubt surrounding Charlie’s baby.  They turn and go into Wilhemina’s apartment (which Christina didn’t now they were going to do).

Justin arrives at Mode.  Marc immediately tests him with menial tasks. He has Justin update Wilhemina’s contacts in her Blackberry.  A lawyer arrives at the front desk; Amanda is excited to think she might be receiveing a fortune. Unfortunately, all of Fey’s assets were sold off and the money given to charity-except for a Chinese Crested (very ugly dog)  named Halston.  Amanda gets him, and a thousand dollar a week allowance, so Amanda takes him.

As she and Betty are going through Wilhemlina’s apartment, Christina says, “I can’t believe we’re in Lucifer’s chamber…Beelzebub’s lair…the devil’s rumpus room…Oh, look!  A picture of Wilhelmina with Dick Cheney!” (Hilarious – risky, but hilarious).  Also: “Ten bucks says there’s a coat in there made of dalmation puppies”.  They find The Book, but the Wilhelmina appears for a tryst with Dwayne.  Betty and Christina hide under the bed.  Afterward, they escape, but Betty leaves behind an earring.

Bradford has a change of heart and starts to bond with his now more boyish daughter.  He doesn’t tell her about Wilheina.

Ignacio speaks to Hilda over the phone, and convinces her to get rid of all of Santos’ things, but one thing to hold onto (this is what he did with his wife’s things when she died).  Ignacio hatches a plan to cross the border into the US illegaly (again).

Wilhemina finds Betty’s earring and says, “I smell a burrito”.

Marc has a tirade toward all the interns; he is not happy with the way they prepared for Shakira’s photo shoot.  He dismisses them all except Justin, with whom he is pleased.  Wilhemina calls and tells him to get dirt on Betty.  Marc looks at Justin and say, “I hear you loud and clear”  He asks Justin about hs family.

Amanda’s dog apparently emits quite an odor.  Halston then faints. 

Wilhemina has Marc tell Betty to meet her on the roof, immediately.  She goes there; it is filled with mannequins, and Wilhelmina is there.  She holds up the earring and says “I believe you lost something”.  We then hear thunder; Betty looks to the perfectly blue sky and then turns to see Marc wiggling a piece of sheet metal to make the thunder sound!  Brlliant!  Wilhemina tells Betty that if she stays quiet, The Senator can help Ignacio get his visa.

Neither Daniel nor Bradford can tell Alexis about Wilhelmina.

Marc gives Justin a pass to the Shakira shoot.  At this time, Justin finally remembers that his father is gone, and Marc lends a sympathetic ear, if only for a moment.  He also plots with Amanda to get rid of the dog.

Betty has a dream sequence with her dad, telling her to take Wilhelmina’s side so he can get home.

Henry talks to Christina, who finally decides to tell him about the possibility of the baby not being his.

Amanda and Marc take Halston to the animal shelter, but when the person at the front desk tells them that no one will adopt him because he’s so ugly,Amanda has a change of heart.  She decides to keep him.

Justin goes into a market to get rice cakes for Shakira, and discovers its the market where his father got shot.  The owner tells him that Santos was a hero.  He says, “I’ll bet you’re just like him. Justin replies, “No, I’m not”.

Daniel comes back to Mode.  Betty starts to tell him about Wilhelmina (to incriminate her), but Ignacio calls and tells Betty about his plan to cross the border.  Betty tells him not to do anything yet. 

She makes the deal with Wilhelmina.

Hilda and Justin decide to keep just one thing from Santos.  Justin chooses a basketball.

Daniel puts Wilhelmina in her place, but she doesn’t put up a fight.  She passive-aggressively reminds Betty about their deal.

Bradford tells Wilhemina that he’s like to postpone the wedding.  As she pretends like everything’s OK with that decision, the flames rise in the fireplace to illustrate her anger.  She goes to the roof and starts destroying mannequins with a baseball bat.

Hilda tells Betty that Ignacio is coming home (Betty already knows), but Betty is quite distracted with the deal she’s made. 

A man shows up at Ingacio’s house in Mexico and points a gun at him.  It must be the hit-man. 

Henry then shows up at Betty’s door, drunk.  He tells Betty he knows the baby may not be his.  He knows Charlie cheated on him.  He says that he wants to be with Betty.  Fade to black.

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In honor of this great launch, and my love of the NFL, I offer you this list:

Which Quarterback Is Your Favorite Ugly Betty Character?

• Wilhelmina: Tom Brady.  She is very, very good at what she does.  She’s not above cheating (or acting all innocent when she gets caught).

• Daniel: Eli Manning.  He’s in his current position because his father pulled a few strings, and he has a ‘brother’ whose reputation he can never live up to.

• Bradford Meade: Brett Favre.  He’s a hundred years old, always takes the perfect slant, and is still good with his feet.

• Amanda Tanen (Tie): David Carr.  Spent most of her career on her back.  Also – Jared Lorenzen (NY Giants backup).  She (right now) weighs over 250, and nobody ever sees her doing anything.  She was once a big star in a small-time gig.

• Ignacio: Donovan McNabb.  He’s stuck in a godforsaken place, and people are trying to kill him.

• Marc: (Tie) Rex Grossman.  Much maligned, but always willing (if not able) do do what is necessary to accomplish what’s asked of him.  Not afraid to do the dirty work.  Was benched for a while.  Also: Tony Romo.  I mean, is he not the prettiest man you’ve ever seen?

• Claire: Joey Harrington.  They sent her to prison, er Atlanta, but every time she’s written off, she comes back.

• Alexis: Peyton Manning.  Because everybody knows he’s really a girl.

• Christina: Drew Brees.  She’s very, very good, but stuck in the basement.  Last year, for a short time, she had her moment to shine, but it came at a horrible cost.

• Henry:Matt Leinart.  He probably wanted to go somewhere else, but ended up in Arizona.  He’s always having to struggle with another guy for playing time.  You can tell he’s going to be very, very good one day.

• Betty: Vince Young.  She’s there because the owner insisted she be hired (and by doing so, saved a lot of jobs).  She never gets points on style, but somehow she always comes out on top.  We can’t help but cheer for her.

Well, that’s my list.  Feel free to suggest your own additions or subtractions.

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