| The Ugly Betty Pilot - Part 2 |
The Ugly Betty Pilot - Part 2
Cut to Philip setting up for the shoot, as Daniel walks over to tell him it looks like Betty finally quit. Daniel doesn’t look happy about it. The camera pans back to take in surprised faces on Philip and Amanda, along with other extra’s, as Betty walks in dressed in the costume – a black and red pleather hot pant set, with thigh high silver boots. The outfit looks uncomfortably tight. Daniel is surprised to see Betty, and doesn’t look happy about what is happening.
Betty takes a breath to compose herself, and asks where Philip wants her. He places her in between two tall, thin models, and starts shooting, getting the girls to pose. Betty does her best to emulate the sexy poses, but achieves nothing accept the mocking laughter of the people around her. Daniel stands there looking appalled, and eventually walks over to Philip, telling him to stop the shoot. Betty walks out, straight past Philip and Daniel, and walks onto the street, still wearing the costume. Daniel chases after her, asking her to wait. Betty cuts him off, telling him he got what he wanted. He humiliated her until she quit.
“God Forbid you had to work with the ugly girl your Dad forced you to hire.”
Daniel watches her leave, looking very upset.
Cut to street scene in Queens, and then to Betty’s front steps. Justin brings her out a cup of camomile tea. They have a conversation about her job not working out, and that Hilda wishes Betty would be more realistic, as jobs like that don’t happen “for people like us”. Justin disagrees.
Veronica then hears noises from Gina’s house, Betty looks over to see Gina making out with someone through the window. Betty marches over to her neighbour’s house nd storms in through the front door. She complains to Gina about it being unfair, as she lives two doors down, as Gina pulls back we can see that this man isn’t Walter. Gina tells Betty that she isn’t seeing Walter anymore, and in fact only used him to get 30 percent off a plasma screen TV. As Betty leaves, she slams the door, causing the Plasma to fall to the floor.
Cut to Fabia in the meeting room at Mode, kissing a small dog. Philip, Wilhelmina, Mar and Daniel are in the meeting room with her. Daniel shows Fabia the pictures that were taken at the photo shoot. Bright images of crashed cars,, models posing as dead bodies, along with police and emergency services all dressed in tight pleather bondage style clothing. Fabia eventually stops the slideshow by asking if this is a joke. She shouts that the photos are “Stupido” and after throwing a handful of sweets at Daniel walks out of the meeting extremely angry. Daniel asks what happened, and Marc explains that Fabia backed her car into 12 people about a month ago. Daniel complains that no-one told him about this, and Wilhelmina points out that he didn’t include anyone else in the concept, so none of them could warn him about it.
Cut to Daniel talking with Bradford, while Bradford exercises. Bradford tells Daniel that Fabia intends to cancel all advertising from all Meade publications. Daniel tries to explain the reason he didn’t consult anyone else was because he thought Wilhelmina was trying to sabotage him. Daniel asks to be given another chance to come up with something else by the following morning.
Cut to Wilhelmina on a mobile, talking to Marc. Marc tells Wilhelmina that Daniel is trying to contact her. Wilhelmina points out she is still unavailable, as the camera pans out to see that she is in bed, with Philip. Wilhelmina tells Philip that Daniel should have come to her earlier, but she would have still attempted to sabotage him. Philip was also in on the sabotage attempt. They toast and then kiss.
Daniel is in the office, trying to come up with a concept for Fabia. The desk and floor are strewn with photos. Eventually he moves a large binder aside, and spots Betty’s concept lying neatly underneath it all. He starts to flick through the pictures.
Back to Betty’s house, and another shot of the telenovela. We hear Betty on the phone pleading with someone to pay for her fathers prescription, as he has a heart condition, and needs the pills. Betty hangs up the phone as they put her on hold again. Betty’s father thanks her for helping him out. We hear a knock at the door, and we cut to see Walter standing there. Walter apologises for dumping her, and tries to win her back. He’s quickly cut off by Daniel arriving. Walter accuses Betty of seeing Daniel, which she ignores, and asks him to leave, so that she can talk to Daniel.
Daniel tells her he wants to talk. Daniel apologises to Betty about the way she was treated, and says it’s all his fault. Betty appreciates the apology, but points out that she is still out of work, and having to face various problems that he never will have to deal with. Daniel confides in Betty that he lost his brother a while back, and he feels he’ll never measure up to what his brother was.
Daniel then continues by telling Betty that he saw her layout, and thought it was smart and beautiful. He asks to take the idea to Fabia, giving Betty credit, and giving Betty her old job back. He promises that things will change. Betty decides that she’ll have to think about his offer. He tells her not to wait too long, as he’ll probably be out of the job himself by the morning. Daniel leaves. Betty’s father comes in through the doorway, saying he heard every word.
Cut to Fabia in meeting room at mode, waiting for Daniel. Bradford and Wilhelmina are in the room aswell. Wilhelmina gets up, apologising to Fabia, and starts to present her own idea, but gets cut off by Daniel and Betty’s entrance.
Daniel apologises for being late, and starts his presentation, saying that this is a rough idea, as there has been no time for a new photo shoot. Betty sets up the laptop, and accidentally clicks on the wrong photo presenting a picture of her and Walter eating hotdogs, which amuses Wilhelmina and Marc.
Daniel then starts his presentation, talking about the concept of Mothers and Daughters as a selection of pictures are shown of Betty as a child with her own mother. The pictures show typical childhood scenes of riding bikes, cooking, pinning clothes – the small special moments that are usually taken for granted. The final image is of Betty trying on lipstick in the mirror while her mother watches.
Fabia asks why this would appeal to her customers, and Betty talks about the statistics, and analytical data. Fabia agrees to the layout.
Bradford congratulations Daniel, and when he tries to give credit to Betty, she jumps in saying the idea was his best one. Wilhelmina also congratulates him.
Cut to Wilhelmina in darkly lit room, with a strange woman lying on a dental chair, her face and body covered with cloth. Only her eyes are visible. She expresses that she is unhappy, but Wilhelmina says it’s a setback, but soon enough the company will be theirs for the taking. The woman tells Wilhelmina to keep an eye on the assistant.
We scroll through a quick montage of people saying Betty’s name, starting with Wilhelmina, then Gina, then Amanda, the Walter, and finally ending with Daniel as he calls her over to the car he is standing beside. Betty is standing outside the building with Christina, and as she leaves she thanks Christina.
Daniel tells Betty that she should have let him say it was her idea, and she responds by saying that she will let him next time. She starts to discuss tomorrows appointments with him, but he cuts her off by saying it can wait until tomorrow. After getting a pointed cough from the car behind him, Daniel says goodbye to Betty, watching as she crosses the road in front of him, smiling as she trips before continuing across the road with a big smile on her face.
