The Box And The Bunny
Updated 2006-10-09 17:00:00
Betty, it turns out, is one of those people who decorates her work station with all kinds of charming, cutesy tchotchkes, one of which is a stuffed pink bunny that suffers all kinds of abuse at the hands of the Mode staffers. The other inanimate object that suffers this week is The Book -- the hard copy of the magazine that the EIC gets every night for notes. See, Betty takes it home for safe-keeping, and Gina The Slutty Neighbor steals it and holds it for ransom. There's a whole lot of self-blame from Betty for letting it be stolen, and from Daniel for leaving it behind at the office in the first place. They both think about quitting (he, actually, just decides to leave the country) but manage -- surprise, surprise! -- to band together as a team and come out the better for it. They get a little help from the cover girl, a teen actress who hasn't lost the weight she gained for a role, and whose unretouched photos were lost along with The Book. Instead of freaking, as anticipated, she decides to go with the pictures as they are, because she's sick of normal people being made to feel ugly by the industry. Good for her. The Book eventually turns up safe and sound (Wilhelmina's team of spies had tipped her off to its whereabouts, and she had Evil Marc take the torturous trek to Queens to fetch it), and Daniel and Betty live to work another day. In other news, Non-Dead Fey Sommers places a very mysterious call to Daniel, telling him to investigate his father a little more closely, just as Bradford breaks into Fey's old apartment and starts burning items he feels might be incriminating. It is implied that he arranged for her "death." But who hasn't done that from time to time?