This episode is perfect because it highlights how trashy and tacky people act when celebrities die. Jimmy's a sleeze ball and that's pretty much how I look at people trying to score money or attention by riding the coattails of the deceased.
So our episode centers on Jimmy, a writer named Steve and Betsy. Betsy is our supposedly dead actress that Jimmy's making a name for himself on creating this whole dead campaign around. He's absolutely giddy talking up his ideas to Steve. Madame Mystery, Is Betsy Blake still alive, etc. He's proudly proclaiming the best thing she ever did was die. But Jimmy's about to get a shocker as Betsy comes in and reveals she isn't dead.
Betsy tells Steve and Jimmy about her adventures she was having while people thought she was dead. Sounded like it was a taste of freedom for her tbh. Nobody around nitpicking her. Jimmy's upset and he's even in denial.
Betsy and Jimmy go off and Jimmy's still angry. Feels like Betsy's taking everything away from him by NOT being dead. He ends up pushing Betsy and this time she does fall to her death. Jimmy goes back to Steve's and Steve ends up calling the cops on Jimmy. You'd kill your own mother to be a big man. Jimmy asks him how he knew Betsy was his mother. Episode ends.
I honestly find it refreshing this episode exists. You can't tell me you don't have real people orchestrating stuff like this if a big name dies unexpectedly. People turn it into a side show freakshow. I adore Joby Baker's performance. This is a guy you're meant to be disgusted by. Joby knocked it out of the park.