The Starter Wife Episode 1.4 Mollywood

Molly's nemesis, Eve, drops by her house, gift basket in hand, to apologize for exposing her as the Hollywood Ex-Wife and invite Molly to return to her post on the school committee. Naturally, Molly is suspicious of Eve's one-eighty-degree turnaround and presses her for the real reason she's there. As it turns out, Eve's husband Ted, a powerful Hollywood agent, loves Molly's writing on Dizzy-Land and wants to have a meeting. This could be Molly's big break.

When Molly takes the meeting at UAA, Ted and his co-agents love Molly's idea about turning her life story into a television series but want her to add a Private Eye element to make the plot more exciting and saleable. Of course, Kenny urges Molly to do whatever it takes to get it made, so Molly decides to move ahead, even if Zach and the others in the workshop think she's selling out.

As she's interviewing a real P.I. for background material, Liz bursts into Molly's house with the burning suspicion that Devon is cheating on her. Liz hires the P.I. to tail Devon on the spot, with Molly and Joan riding shotgun on the stakeout. When Liz walks in on Devon, Arturo Martinez, the catcher on his team whom he hasn't been getting along with lately, and the mysterious" Jemma B.," she discovers that the other woman is actually a sports psychologist working to improve relations between Devon and his catcher. Needless to say, Devon is getting fed up with Liz's paranoia and jealousy, which makes Liz even more miserable and scared about the future of her marriage.

When Rodney finally shows Felix his redecorated bedroom, instead of celebrating the success of a job well done, they wind up in a fight because Rodney is pushing Felix on the issue of his hidden sexuality. Out of anger, Felix smashes a piece of the new modern artwork, not realizing that it's a Rodney original. A few days later, Rodney agrees to meet with Felix. Rodney's plan is to quit but Felix apologizes, trying to explain that no one wants to see a gay action hero, so he doesn't have the option of living loud and proud like Rodney. The two call a truce of sorts_for now.

After giving Pappy one last chance to stop her-which he weakly doesn't take-Joan finally follows through on her threat to begin an affair with David Shea. She sneaks him out of Destinies so that they can have their first tryst in the privacy of David's apartment_or so Joan thinks. But Kenny, who lives across the hall, spies the two canoodling in the hallway and has a sudden brainstorm: he should go after Shea to play the U.S. President in the reshoots for "Blood Canal"-especially now that he has some dirt on the actor.

To make matters worse for Molly's pitch, her agents tell her she has to turn her main character into a bounty hunter instead of a P.I. just seconds before she's about to go in to her meeting. Unable to make her new story sound remotely convincing, her idea bombs. After days of not hearing any word from Ted, she is unsurprised when he calls to tell her that every network passed on the idea but that doesn't stop her from being disappointed anyway-more so in herself than anything else.

Next time Molly attends her writing workshop, she reads from her freshly written pages based off her original idea to tell the story of a Hollywood ex-to the pleasure of her fellow writers, especially Zach. On her way out, Zach tells her that he's there for her on a purely professional basis, meaning she doesn't have to worry about him overstepping the bounds in the flirting arena. But Molly can tell by the way he shifts his eyes to the right that he doesn't mean it and finally leans in to kiss him to show him she doesn't either.