Synopsis for
"Secret Diary of a Call Girl"
Episode #1.6 (2007)

Belle meets with the madam and the whore consortium, who are looking at something on the Internet. Belle explains that working girls are subject to reviews. An online site where johns evaluate them. One calls her frigid. And you thought your last performance review was brutal.

Later, Belle's asleep and her madam calls. It's midnight, she doesn't take clients in the middle of the night. Her madam prods her. Tells her someone in her position shouldn't be choosy. Work's been slow since the bad review.

Louis, her appointment, shows up. He;s nervous. She turns to make the "no problem" call to her madam. He asks where she's going. She says to make a call. He tells her not to. He's insistent. Belle gets uncomfortable. She tells him he should leave, tries to give him his money back. He turns very creepy, stares her down, but finally leaves. She locks all her doors, the downside of hooking.

She goes to Ben's bar. He babbles on about how the napkins are going to be shaped at his wedding. She's out of sorts. He asks what she's been up to, says she can tell him, there aren't children around. She tells him a client got weird. Her Belle phone rings. Its her madam, angry about how she treated the client. Turns out he's not new. The madam thought Belle could handle him, since she can't be choosy right now. She tells her some girls are just too sensitive for this work. "I get it, so you're just a pimp these days, well that's good to know," Belle says as she hangs up on her.

What a difference a year makes. Flashback to Belle meeting Stephanie. Stephanie promising to keep Belle safe, like a best friend who takes 40 percent and doesn't tell you her real name.

Back at the bar, Ben shows her his napkin dove.

He tells her she should take a break. Asks her to, for him. Bets her she won't miss it.

She goes to the park and watches people live mundane lives. She's not sure she likes how the other half lives.

She calls Ben to go to lunch. He can't. Desperate for entertainment, she calls her sister.

Invites her to lunch, gets an earful of kid talk.

Belle decides: she misses work.

She decides to go wedding present shopping. She flirts with the salesman. Off the clock.

She realizes if she's not working she'll have to find something else to occupy her time. More importantly, she'll have to start giving it away.

She wakes up the next morning, the salesman is still there. She says she doesn't normally do this kind of thing. He asks what she does. Night time legal secretary. He says he could lay there all day. She offers to make breakfast, but has only champagne and olives. Her one night stand checks out her loft, it's full of oils and lotions. She calls Ben, needing a way to get rid of the one night stand who's missing the "one night" part.

He confronts her in the kitchen, thinking he's found her out. Says she's not really a legal secretary, she's a masseuse. She goes with it. He still won't leave. The doorbell rings.

It's Ben. He introduces himself as Hannah's fiancé. A good friend. The salesman finally leaves. She tells Ben she can't help it, she's not someone who can do a normal job. She misses the work. He pays up the bet.

Later, her phone rings. Stephanie tells her she's getting a lot of request now that there's a glowing review about her. Stephanie asks if she's free. Belle tells her if she ever sets her up with someone like the last guy, she's leaving the agency and telling all the other girls what Stephanie did. They reach a truce. Belle says thank you. Stephanie says to thank the guy who wrote her the fantastic review. (You know where this is going, right?)

A voice over, Ben, reads his description, including a suggestion to treat her like a lady, with the respect she deserves. A good friend, indeed.

Belle goes back to work.