What's Sofia on this week? I'm thinking pills. Also the road of revenge, now that Mia's parentage has been half-revealed. That hoodied monster at FameJunkie.com produces some random old lady who tells everybody that Sofia did not bear her daughter, which sends Robert into their offices to first buy out the website and then give Nichole (Is that her name? The awful one) the dressing-down of her life. Fired and feeling particularly bipolar, she takes a homeless man into the closed FJ.com offices, the better to fuck and do drugs and release sensitive family matters to the internet.

It all comes out in the moments before Mia's cotillion, which results in a thrillingly beautiful -- albeit befuddlingly pointless -- Cinematic Orchestra setpiece in which Mia debuts, gets the shit Nice Guy'd out of her by Carpet once again, has a grande kiki on the dancefloor, and then runs out into the flashing brilliance of the paparazzi, where her motorcycle-riding beau has arrived just in the nick. This show is retarded in a very specific, sort of loving way, and the last ten minutes are like... If you showed a person just the last ten minutes of this episode, they'd be able to make a fair judgment on whether it is the show for them. Does that make sense?

Not that it's a show for anybody, really. But it's fun. So like everybody runs around saying "Ben Preswick" -- who finally got hot, just before dying, as predicted -- about a million times, and because Tate Donovan has psychic powers or something he keeps being accidentally one-step-ahead of the FBI, taking possession of the mysterious computer files moments before Joanna is supposed to discover them, that kind of thing.

(It's one of the best parts of the episode, actually: An entire FBI team and a stolen corporate ID are all necessary in order to explain to Joanna how to navigate the Windows Explorer file organization system. "You're looking for a computer file. Do you know what that means, Joanna? A 'file'?" And she still can't find it. She's lookin' right at 'em, can't seem to see this very important and very logically titled file in this one folder. So then they fight about how maybe she should check again, and it goes on forever and ever, and frankly it's marvelous. "I see files with that name for every quarter except for the quarter that you are talking about! I think it has been deleted from the mainframe!")

The only other part that takes up this amount of unnecessary screentime is when Samantha throws the keys to Edward's Escalade off a bridge for no reason, and then they look for them for a really long time. I would estimate that the entire epic of Looking For Edward's Keys clocks in at about twenty minutes, conservatively, with the end result that Edward does a lot of running around and deleting things from the uh mainframe.

Julian, who despite his lack of charm or grace has fucked simply everybody, has fucked the consultant working to get a rival company's cancer drug to market first. I don't know what her deal is except she's easily as annoying as Julian, they are obnoxious as shit together, and at one point she excuses herself during a cotillion to vomit for no reason. My first thought is that perhaps she is taking Lyritrol and will soon perish, but with this show it's just as likely that Vivian got her pregnant somehow.

Senator Haverstock is also at the cotillion for even less of a reason, but he does awesomely snap the beak off an ice swan while smiling crazily at Joanna. So at least there was that moment. Then he drops it in his martini and swizzles it around, because he is the greatest thing besides Sofia on this entire show. Oh, and he might in fact be Mia's father, given his future-foreshadowing (but still currently meaningless) Zippo lighter. Or he might be the actual Devil. I would not be surprised either way. I just know I love him.

Anyway, Edward gets Ben out of FBI Jail -- a very real thing, it would seem -- so that he can't help Will (who, yes, still totally sucks) and Joanna (who kind of also sucks) figure out who killed Vivian, or whatever, but then just out of the blue Edward randomly spots Ben Preswick wandering around Manhattan (a city of 1.6 million people) just at the moment he is struck dead by a literal fucking bus.

Oh, did this recaplet make no sense? Guess what, it made more sense than the episode. Next week: Sofia goes ham on everybody, more flashbacks to Vivian smoking various substances, and we mourn Ben Preswick, probably by saying his name a bunch more times.