Previously: Mia dated a brain surgeon. Juliet was working with a sexy European hotelier. Zoë quit her job because Clayton got credit for her work.
Mia and Jason are jogging together in a park when they get all competitive and start racing. Mia is wearing fur. It's wrong and amazing. If this show were this level of ridiculous all of the time, I bet I could find a way to like it. After their run, Jason and Mia try to make plans to meet for a meal that day, but Jason's too busy. It is decided that he will pay Mia a pre-planned booty call come midnight.
Zoë is talking to Juliet on the phone, while in bed and wearing pajamas. For the first time ever. Eric thinks a headhunter is calling Zoë, but she explains that some guy named Len Dinerstein (most unfortunate name) is a corporate raider and is going after Juliet's company. Eric recommends that Zoë make up for all the sleep she has missed out on over the years, but it doesn't look like she's going to take his advice. Zoë tries to get all Type-A regarding mommy tasks, but Eric tells her that everything is taken care of. One might argue that, were a person even remotely interested in the minutiae of her children's lives (see: "Luke's Spanish workbook"), she'd be aware that someone else in her house took care of those details every day that she's not thinking about them. But to argue with this show is futile.
Later, Juliet and Zoë are leaving a café. Juliet is on the phone telling some reporter that she can't comment on Len Dinerstein except to compliment him on his business savvy for investing in her company. Zoë offers Juliet part of some confection that is hidden in a paper bag, and tells her that Len Dinerstein's buying five million shares of her company is "him wanting to take a closer look." She likens it to the company being a mail-order bride whose airfare has just been paid. Another b-school beatitude? Classy. Juliet refuses Zoë's treat, then asks for a little bit, then takes the whole thing. Meanwhile, Zoë goes on this weird industrial film-like explanation of ways companies can avoid hostile takeovers. Zoë warns Juliet that Len is going to want to check out his bride. Gross.
At the Lily Parish offices, Lily herself (again played by Christine Ebersole, who I just recently saw in Applause. She was terrific!) comes into Caitlin's office screaming that Zac Posen has dropped them from his show. He is going with an Icelandic company called Fase. Lily says that this is Caitlin's fault (no reason given). Caitlin says that it's an "Icelandic Hostile Makeover." Lily tells her to fix it; then she's out of there.