OMG Alice is a complete idiot. She honestly thinks she will manipulate Dupee 'into her corner'. Dupee doesn't care that Ioan left Alice, she cares about the effect the divorce has had on the two children and which of the parents has not, and are not behaving collaboratively, and why the children are so badly alienated despite previously good relationships with their father. She will be interested in how the parents have conducted themselves prior to and after the breakup, and the effect on the children.
In sad news, the BBQ with the film peeps was a total bust. No-one this time had worked on TVD or The Originals and no-one knew who Alice was, although two had heard of Ioan and had only heard positive things (one of them had a friend who started out on Hornblower). Very sad. But still a good evening. And I did get some good gossip on an old TV series called Lipstick Jungle.