Last week, Betty let her good and decent self help out an old enemy in need by showing her the ropes at Mode. In doing so, she made a monster out of Kimmie, who nabbed a promotion and declared ominously that she felt like her old self again.
So when
Ugly Betty opens this week, Kimmie is empowered and all the rage in the office.

Well,
it happened. The original mean girl in Betty's life, Kimmie Keegan (Lindsey Lohan), infiltrates Mode this week, throwing all kinds of office dynamics off-kilter on
Ugly Betty.
The last time we saw Kimmie, she was slinging burgers and telling Betty about how awful her life is.

After
Katie Holmes on Eli Stone and
Nicole Richie on Chuck, tonight concludes our TV cameo trifecta when Lindsay Lohan returns to
Ugly Betty.
We've seen plenty of Lohan's character, Kimmie, up till now, both as the burger boss and in flashbacks as Betty's high-school nemesis. But she's never ventured into Betty's professional world .

OK, I am such a sucker for
Ugly Betty, and I totally cried at the end of this week's episode. I blame a couple of things: First of all, anything related to bad things happening to Hilda breaks my heart, and of course a Suarez family hug will get the tears flowing. And Claire Meade protecting her children and Daniel and Alexis having a "moment" on a tarmac is exactly the kind of thing to finish me off.

The return of
Ugly Betty was one of the few season premieres last night that didn't have any extra time tacked on. But I was totally fine with that, because the Betty folks managed to deliver a fun first episode of their new season even without bonus minutes. The
last time we saw Betty, she had a big choice to make: forever with Henry or a romantic trip abroad with Gio.