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Cut to the Senator's office. Kitty walks into staffer Noreen's office and asks for a copy of the new polling data. Noreen looks nervous.

Noreen: Which poll are you talking about?

Kitty clarifies—she wants the polling data on the new campaign slogans. In my fevered imagination here's what I think it looks like:

Select your choice from the following slogans:

•  We're making a Better America

•  We're making a Bitter America

•  Vote for Ole' Blue Eyes – he's prettier than Hillary

•  I'm so nothing like an actual Republican, it's hilarious

But I digress. Kitty clearly picks up on the fact that there may be other polling data to which she has not been privy. Kudos to her for finally recognizing how out of the loop she is! She tells Noreen to cc: her with the results of any future polls.

Suddenly another staffer, Gary, wanders up with his head buried in a folder. He doesn't notice that Kitty is standing there.

Gary: These polling numbers are giving me heartburn.

Noreen would kick him under the table only there doesn't seem to be a table. She just shoots him a glance to shut up, but it's too late. Kitty has overheard.

Kitty: What are those numbers?

Gary and Noreen have nothing to say so Kitty grabs the polling data out of Gary's hand. It turns out to be a poll asking the public their opinion on Kitty Walker! And the public response to her seems to be less than favorable. It seems they liked her better on Ally McBeal. Oh, wait—those are ABC's polling numbers.

Cut to later at an outdoor Pancake Breakfast. It's a photo op for the Senator. It is also, apparently, an attempt to make Kitty seem all warm and fuzzy for popular consumption. She should take lessons from Barbara Bush. That woman's tongue could cut glass, but everybody thought she was just a cuddly grandmother.

Afterwards, Kitty grills the Senator about the poll they conducted on her. She's upset, and wants to know if the poll was his idea. He blames it on Noreen

McAllister: It was a misguided attempt by a well-meaning staffer.

Yeah, right. I think we're going to find out somewhere down the road that the poll was McAllister's idea. But for now Kitty is convinced that Noreen was at fault. McAllister offers her a ride but Kitty tells him she's going to ride with Gary. As they head for the car Gary lets slip that her public approval rating is in the low to mid-thirties. When it comes to the public they don't like you, Kitty. They really, really don't like you.

Cut to Tommy's office at Ojai Foods. Tommy has called Uncle Saul in to ask him if what Holly said last week was true: Did Bill Walker really want to buy the winery so he could run it? Saul tells him that he doesn't believe that Holly would lie about something like that.

Saul: But look Tommy, you have to move on.

Tommy: No. If my Dad died before he had the chance to believe in me, in my abilities, I have to know.

Saul: Why would you even doubt that?

Oh, let's see, because he called in older sister Sarah as a pinch hitter for the president position and left poor Tommy working out on the loading dock?

We cut to another of Tommy's flashbacks. In it we see Sarah, recently installed as Ojai Foods President lording it over poor Tommy. In walks father Bill Walker who lets it slip that Sarah is staying on permanently as President. Before, Tommy thought it was just an interim position.

Bill: Tommy, you listen to your sister now. She knows her stuff.

Tommy: I know, Dad

Listen to your sister? That's what you say when she is thirteen and you're ten and your parents are going out to dinner. Bill might as well have neutered Tommy then and there.

Bill Walker leaves. Tommy looks like he's just been sucker-punched. With Sarah permanently installed it looks like he's never going to get to run the show.

Tommy: Look, I've spent twelve years learning this business. In a matter of weeks you've turned me into a junior partner!

Sarah tells him if he's going to be mad at anyone its Papa Bill. She only came on board because their father wanted her to. Way to get things off on the right foot, Sarah!

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