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On the other side of the gym, Doug and Jody Watley are in the middle of another session. She only has a few days left before her big concert. Jody's hit her goal of losing 12 pounds, but Doug's thinking they should shoot for another two. Jody's working out her arms. Doug asks, “Is it too light for you?”
Jody says, “No.”
“Are you sure?” Doug asks. “You can still talk. I don't want you to be able to talk.” Can I be honest? I think Jody looks the same as she did in Episode 1.
Doug and Jody skip off to the dress fitting for her show. They arrive at a Los Angeles boutique, Mon Atelier, which is French for “My Commercial Lease.” Jody puts on a champagne-colored satin number. It's too big in the waist. Doug is so proud. “So my training wasn't all that bad, was it?” Actually, Jody's thinking her arms and tummy pooch need some last-minute work.
Two seconds later, Jody eyes some treats in a dish on a small table. “Oh wait, is that chocolate?”
Doug steers her clear: “It's not chocolate. It's a test.”
At the end of the day, Jackie's back at home. Mimi lets herself in. She's wearing that stupid white hat again. They haven't seen each other since Jackie went to Palm Springs. Standing around in the kitchen while Jackie cleans up Jesse's Big Night of Fun, Mimi asks suspiciously, “How are you?”
“I've been better,” Jackie says. “The house was a mess.”
Jackie sweeps the floor to avoid eye contact with Mimi, and as she does, she rambles: “I trained Sarah twice. Her family is wonderful — very, very sweet. Beautiful house. The weather was gorgeous.” Jackie's only marginally better at babbling under fire than Jesse. The symbolism in Jackie sweeping while downplaying her time with Sarah is even funnier than Mimi's dumb hat.
Even though Mimi acts like a 6-year-old, she's not oblivious. “I had an epiphany last night,” she says. “Jackie didn't call me from Palm Springs, and I didn't call her.” What was the epiphany? She doesn't elaborate. Maybe she thinks “epiphany” means cell phone outage?
Mimi says: “She will drill me for hours about something I did when she wasn't with me. And then, I ask her a question, and she's like [makes a dumb face] ‘uhh … blah … I did dis. I trained for two hours.'” What happens in Palm Springs stays in Palm Springs.
Mimi announces: “Mimi is dead. It's Malena from now on … I don't want to be called Mimi anymore. And for everybody that does, I'm going to pinch them.”
Their age difference is really starting to matter. Jackie tells us, “Not being able to say what you need or want, it seemed juvenile to me, and I'd had it.”
Sitting on matching chaise lounges by Jackie's pool, Malena/Mimi says: “We're just not on the same page ever, anymore. Everything I want to do, you've already done on your own.” She continues: “I'm not going to ask you ever again what you're doing, if you're going to a strip club, if you're going to train a hooker in Palm Springs. I don't care.” Jackie's wearing dark sunglasses, her head turned toward Mimi. She lies motionless in her chair. I think she fell asleep.
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