We're at the fashion show. Dinah, all tarted up, patrols the room. Barbara directs her to check out some visible minority, like, nice racial profiling there. And we see Quinzel enjoying a drink at the bar. And I guess by "undercover," Barbara meant Helena would be walking the runway herself, because there she is stuffed into some boob-popping dress while Helena Kyle's Hair Explosion plays some dirty blues on her head. She wonders how she's supposed to kick ass in that get-up. "You'll figure something out," says Barbara, and asks if she sees anything unusual backstage, but Helena doesn't. Maybe if she weren't so busy checking herself out, she'd notice Chris, who's laughably hiding and skulking behind a rack of clothes. All we need is a little pizzicato violin while he creeps on his tiptoes.
Helena walks the catwalk, which is actually around this fountain thing in the middle of the room, and she tries to look all demure or something while we get shots of the men in the audience checking her out, as does Barbara, who says, "Looking good, Huntress," and Helena is proud that she's managed not to trip, like we're supposed to think she's clumsy or something. And through a single joystick mounted on her wheelchair, Barbara is moving four different cameras in all different directions, simultaneously. And after some more shots of Helena walking around, she just up and strolls off the stage, where she gets hit on by Reese, who basically talks to her breasts for the entire scene. And he's so busy smiling that I think he's drunk, and Helena thought he was supposed to be "checking the perimeter" and he says "oh, I was" to her breasts, and he keeps telling her she looks good. And he suggests that once this is all over, they should go on that first date they've been talking about, only Helena says -- and I guess that maybe she was looking preoccupied rather than demure earlier -- that once this is all over and she does what she needs to do, she doesn't think Reese will want to see her anymore, which confuses him. And I guess Helena's microphone was off because Barbara doesn't say anything about that; she just tells Helena to join Dinah backstage, so Helena scoots off.









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