Abbey and Jed are leaving the reception for new Kennedy Center board members. Abbey must have been in the bathroom when we saw the reception in the last episode. Yeah, that's the ticket. Jed tells Abbey that he has to call the Israeli PM, and Abbey points out that she doesn't blame him for not wanting to go to Farad's funeral: "I wish you didn't have to go. Isn't that what vice-presidents are for?" Jed: "No." Abbey: "Then what good are they?" Well, I hear they can be nice to look at. At least, that's been the case for Jed's two vice-presidents. Abbey reminds Jed that "Ellie and Vic are coming by." Isn't it kind of late for a visit? Jed calls Vic "the fruit fly guy," and reveals that Ellie is engaged to him. Abbey corrects Jed, noting that Vic is a research scientist. They walk outside, and Abbey starts telling Jed about the mating and reproductive habits of fruit flies. Apparently, they are quite fecund. And then Jed and Abbey move on to a fairly odd conversation. Abbey asks, "Are you...?" Jed is, a little. Abbey tells him that she's "astonished, actually." They each ask if the other ever discussed some unnamed subject with Ellie. I hope it's not the facts of life they're talking about. I suspect she learned about that pretty early on in med school. Although if she didn't, that might explain something we learn later in the episode. And then Abbey clues us in: "She is one's daughter, and one wants her to be happy in whatever..." Jed: "Of course, true to herself." Abbey: "But God Herself strike me dead, it is not to be denied that I am not unhappy that my daughter is straight, after all." Jed points out that Ellie's at least straight enough to marry the fruit fly guy. (I know some people found this to be homophobic, and I'm always happy to join the Queer Nation picket line, but this just didn't bother me.)