In a flashback to Gracie's childhood, we see one boy picking on another, smaller boy. Gracie comes to that boy's rescue, but then finds that both boys have bad attitudes toward her because she's a girl. The bully then tries to punch her. Although it's played for laughs, Gracie goes to the local Starbucks and uses her FBI badge to get to the front of the line to place her order for her associates. Eric pats Gracie on her butt when saying some exercises will get her in shape for the beauty pageant.
Some contestants have bad attitudes toward others in the pageant.
Kathy tells Gracie that if she gets in her way and that of the pageant, she'll kill her. She then goes on to say that her professor attacked her in college. The terrorists in the story obviously have extreme cases of bad attitudes. The gun standoff continues until Gracie disobeys orders to help one of the criminals who's choking on something. Once she performs the Heimlich maneuver on him, he grabs a dining knife and holds it to her throat.