Betty tells freeloading Amanda she needs to chip in her share of the rent but, typically, she's just spent all her money on clothes. Betty is desperate to drum up some cash, but Mode has just eliminated overtime, due to budget cuts. They are, however, accepting pitches for Mode's new web site.
Betty suggests a list of things to do in the city for free, but everyone considers museums and squirrel-feeding a snooze. When Amanda comments that she hasn't paid for a drink in years, Daniel and Willy want her -- and Betty -- to write about that. Betty is upset that Amanda's hijacked her innocent idea into a way to scam $10,000 worth of free stuff, but after a few hours, Amanda convinces her to slide down the slippery slope with her by buying a designer scarf that she'll end up returning.
Amanda drags Betty to an art opening for the free drinks and food and then sees the chance for a free dinner when two art patrons hit on them. Betty says no, but Amanda telling her that if they're going to write the article, they have to "live it" and Betty agrees. At dinner, she calls Hilda, saying she is having a "crisis of conscience." Hilda tells her she's being silly and that she deserves to live for once.
Betty admits to Amanda that it's all turned out great -- until the two guys stick them with the bill. "We can't pay this," Betty says, aghast." "At least we hit our target number," Amanda shrugs, suggesting that they dine and dash. Instead, Betty summons the manager and tells her that they'll be featuring the restaurant "prominently" this month on the Mode web site. Fortunately, the manager decides to comp them.
Wilhelmina is desperate to avoid running into Connor after he rejected her advances. She shows no interest in going with Christina for her seven-month checkup, until Connor wants her to accompany him to a meeting. At the doctor's, she doesn't want to know the baby's sex, however and Christina asks if she even wants the baby. Daniel keeps asking for her at the office, so Willy spends the day with Christina, who astutely asks, "What's going on with you two? You babble like an idiot around him," correctly concluding, "You like him!"
"I'm resigning myself to never having any men around," Willy sighs. "Too bad, because you're having a boy," Christina informs her. Wilhelmina vows to do a better job of parenting this time around.
Molly asks Daniel to help out a charity event at her school because Connor can't make it and he eagerly accepts. Claire slaps Daniel when she finds out and warns him, "Stay away. Just write her a check."
Betty and Amanda congratulate themselves on pulling off the perfect evening, until Amanda realizes that the guys who dodged the bill also stole her purse -- and she had all of Betty's rent money with her! "You don't take responsibility for anything do you, not when you let your dog pee on my clothes or you eat all my food," Betty yells at her. Amanda tries to blame "Bad Ronald," an old man she says lives in the walls, but Betty says, "There is no Bad Ronald. Amanda, it's you. Bad Amanda!"
There's a silver lining, because Daniel loves the article and suggests they make it a weekly feature. He knows she has issues with Amanda, but he offers to float her an advance.
Betty is flabbergasted when Amanda gets a second job to pay for her share of the rent. "You're right, I should care more, like paying my half of the rent," she admits. And Betty admits, "You forced me to go out and have fun."
Betty has dinner waiting for Amanda when she comes home, as well as the gift of a new wallet.
Daniel dutifully cancels on Molly. She turns up in person to collect his check before the event, however, and in doing so, gets her dress dirty. He generously lets her pick out a dress from the Mode closet. He needs Christina's password to get into it, though, so she tells a very intrigued Wilhelmina that Daniel is with Molly tonight and that Connor is not.
As Daniel helps Molly get dressed, they nearly kiss, but she tells him she has to go. Their tender moment has been captured on a security camera, however, which Marc eagerly shows Wilhelmina.
"You see the way Daniel looks at her? Like Betty looks at a cheeseburger?" she says triumphantly. "I've been looking for a wedge to drive between Connor and that sweet little schoolmarm and Daniel has just given it to me."
