Betty gets up extra early, so she can run into musician neighbor Jesse as he's coming home from a night out. She arrives at work before anyone else and is shocked to see Amanda there -- in the nude! Amanda has been crashing at Mode since she got evicted from her apartment. Betty suggests she move in with a friend, but Amanda says she's fine where she is. "Please stop care-taking," she lectures Betty. "You're pathetic!"
Wilhelmina smells a rat when Connor keeps taking Daniel's side in every discussion, and Daniel admits, "You've been played." She can't get rid of Connor without a huge pay out, however, so she asks Marc to dig up whatever dirt he can on the Aussie womanizer. "I will not be continually overruled by two silly white boys," she fumes.
Betty invites Jesse over, but her plans for a romantic evening are derailed when Amanda shows up and announces that she's moving in! Amanda noses out that Betty has a crush and advises her to invite the guy to the big Mode party. But when Betty invites Jesse, he misunderstands and thinks she wants his band to play the high-profile event. Daniel's already got Mariah Carey booked, so Amanda suggests that Jesse play the "after-party," on their roof, where she plans to charge admission. She also comes up with an enigmatic flier, making the party the talk of the town.
Daniel happily lets Connor call the shots on the budget, but Claire advises Daniel, "Be careful. When you admire someone, you tend to give your power away, just like you did with your brother." Daniel insists that he can trust Connor but Claire asks whether he knows that Connor is meeting alone with Wilhelmina tonight.
Betty freaks out when her party list grows to 300 and wants to cancel because she can't afford it. "I read in Vanity Fair that cheap is the new chic," Justin says, suggesting a "South of the Border" theme. "Tacky Mexican stuff is so kitschy!"
In her meeting with Connor, Wilhelmina suddenly begins to fantasize that she's passionately kissing him and, claiming a dinner engagement, runs out.
When Wilhelmina chastises Marc for being a "nosy parker" for asking about her meeting with Connor, he gasps, "Oh my god, you like Connor!" Wilhelmina vows that she's had a "momentary lapse" but will use the blackmail file. "The party's going to bet a lot more interesting," she promises.
Daniel hears, via a gossip show, that Meade is selling off publications, which was what Wilhelmina had wanted. Feeling betrayed, Daniel heads to the after-party.
Jesse has stage fright and Betty gives him a pep talk, "As soon as you get up there and start playing, everyone else is going to see what I do," she encourages him. "God, Betty, you're so beautiful," he says. He hits the stage and the band is a hit. He dedicates a song to "someone special,"and Betty realizes that the girl who's a "snowy day," must be her. Hilda encourages her to ask Jesse out but when Betty finds him, he's kissing Amanda! Betty tearfully orders Amanda to be out by the next morning, and only then does Amanda realize that Betty's crush is Jesse.
A heartbroken Betty tells Daniel she should have realized that Jesse meant she was "only beautiful on the inside," and Daniel swears to her that she is beautiful. Trying to cheer Betty up, Amanda gives her all the money from the party and tells her, "When someone falls in love you with it's real. I've never had that because I'm so pretty."
Wilhelmina and Daniel accuse Connor of betraying them. He offers to quit and says, "If you want me to take sides, I won't. I'm nobody's bitch." Wilhelmina apologizes saying, "I always blackmail people when I'm nervous." She's crushed when he excuses himself to take a call from his fiancee.
Marc had a meltdown when his boyfriend, Cliff, asks him to move in. Thinking Cliff has broken up with him, he hooks up with a hottie at the party. But when Cliff shows up to offer his apology, Marc unexpectedly asks Cliff to marry him!