Alex's rather pointed attempts at trying to cheer Claire up worked, even if he nearly did burn the kitchen down in the process. He was doing his best and she got a good laugh out of it, which helped her push the car bomb incident out of her head.
When she got home from work the next day she felt ready to keep looking into whoever might be after her. They got back to tearing her mother's closet apart looking for clues. They didn't find anything that gave a hint to her father's identity but they found a bunch of other random items.
Claire ended up wearing most of them. Thirty minutes into their venture she was wearing a vintage mink coat that may have been her grandmother's, a long curly brown wig, a pair of gigantic red plastic sunglasses, and some sort of red, white, and blue headband made out of pipe cleaners and sparkly pom poms from a long forgotten Fourth of July.
