Ugly Betty season 2 episode 1
How Betty Got Her Grieve Back
The episode starts with “Las Pasiones de Betty”, a subtitled telenovela. Betty is dressed as a maid, cleaning the house. She cleans a picture of Henry and Charlie, and begins to cry. Henry barges in to find out if she’s alright. They embrace, then kiss. Charlie walks in on them, yelling “Whore!” She tells Henry, “I am having your baby! If I can’t have you anymore, no one else can!” She then points a gun, first at Henry, then at Betty. At this moment, Henry has a change of heart and tells Charlie how much he loves her (to Betty’s surprise). He then leaves with Charlie, leaving Betty in tears.
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It was a dream/nightmare. Justin wakes her. Betty is obviously struggling with keeping the household together while her father is stuck in Mexico, and Hilda doesn’t seem to be helping. Justin begs not to have to go to camp, but Betty insists he go. They both say that they miss Ignacio.
Hilda wakes; she is alone. But Santos comes walking out of the bathroom, with a bandage over his abdomen. Santos says he’s feeling much better and that he might should go back to his place. Hilda does not want him to go. She just wants stay with him and watch TV instead. They turn on the tube, and Fashion TV is on. They interview Wilhelmina, who feigns sadness at the accident that hurt Daniel and put Alexis in a coma. She announces that the wedding is still on.
Cut to Claire watching the interview from a friend’s house in the Hamptons. Yoga walks in with blueberries and a shell for Claire. Yoga is very much enjoying herself. Claire breaks down; “I want to see my children…”, she says. She says that Wilhelmina has moved in with Bradford and changed his cell phone and email.
Amanda is pigging out on something when Marc walks in. Marc confronts Amanda about the fact that she’s been overeating since she discovered that Fey Sommers was her mother. Amanda rises, revealing she is MUCH bigger than when we last saw her. So big, Wilhelmina mistakes her when she’s bent over for Betty. :0 Marc insists that Amanda must confront her parents.
Daniel is in traction in the hospital, and asks Betty to scratch his toe. He tells Betty he doesn’t want to leave the hospital yet. Alexis is still in a coma, and Daniel apparently is abusing the pain pills the hospital gives him. Daniel gives Betty his notes to give Wilhelmina about an upcoming photo shoot.
Cut to Wilhelmina, who swears she will do Daniel’s bidding. As Betty leaves, she has Marc throw them in the waste can. She discusses the upcoming Victoria’s secret spread with Sheila, a new character. They also discuss the “natural disaster” shoot. She tells Marc she is worried about Claire interfering before the wedding.
Betty discusses the upcoming shoot with Christina – apparently they are going to give makeovers to women who have lost everything in natural disasters. Christina tells Betty she is running way too fast and she needs to think about Henry. Christina suggests that maybe Charlie’s baby isn’t Henry’s. Betty refuses to think about Henry. She then runs into a glass Mode Cover mockup.
Marc and Amanda drive to Scarsdale to see her parents. ” Mother! (if that is her real name…)”, she says. He mother comes down in a bathrobe, followed by her father,also in a bathrobe. Amanda obviously interrupted something. She starts to confront her parents about the circumstances of her birth, but another couple, in bathrobes, comes down the stairs. Amanda and Marc are completely stunned that her parents are…er…swingers. Amanda starts to back out of the confrontation, but finally Marc tells them about finding Amanda’s REAL birth certificate.
Betty is given an eye-patch and told to cut her stress level. She misses her dad’s lawyer appointment. She has a phone conversation with Ignacio – he’s fine but they miss each other.
Back at Amanda’s house, her parents admit that Fey is her birth mother, and that they adopted her. Amanda is quite upset and storms out, grabbing a lot of candy on the way.
Daniel is in a wheelchair. He confronts a paparazzi who is taking pictures of Alexis. She is still in a coma. But, Daniel won’t go in to see her. He just asks for more medication.
Back at Mode, Marc and Amanda discuss the big question of just who her father is. He could be anyone. As Marc says, Fey was a “hootchie in a bob”. Bradford walks in ans Marc notices he has many of the same mannerisms as Amanda. Amanda is quite worried about this being the case: it means Daniel is her half-brother, and she slept with him. “That’s the kind of dirty that don’t wash clean”, she says. Marc suggest they get Bradford’s DNA.
The camp calls Betty and tells her that Justin ran away.
Santos and Hilda are watching telenovelas and planning the wedding. Santos doesn’t want to wait; he wants to elope. Santos asks Hilda to put on her dress.
Justin sneaks into Mode, while Amanda does everything she can to get Bradford’s DNA. Betty also notices that there are pink daisies on Amanda’s desk (Amanda overlooked them). They were from Henry, with a note “Thinking of you”.
At the natural disaster photo shoot, Sheila and Wilhelmina are fretting over every detail. In a move that qualifies as the worst taste ever, they are going to take “plain” women wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the natural disaster they have fallen prey to, and give them makeovers. Wilhelmina insist that when they do the “after” photos, they put the “skinny ones in the front”. Sheila then says, “Famine, makeup, now!” Betty gets disgusted with it all, and goes off.
Betty s trying to drown her sorrow by eating potatoes. Daniel joins her and offers to listen. Betty starts to admit that she loved Henry. Daniel suggests Betty go to the office, get some things, and go with him to “a funeral”
Back at Mode, Wilhelmina discovers Justin (calls him a little “fashion elf”), and discovers that he has “the gift”. Claire calls Wilhelmina and offers to give her Mode if she’ll leave Bradford. They arrange a meeting in Central Park.
Marc tricks Bradford into letting him trim his ear hair. It is a ploy, of course, to get his DNA. It is successful (and gross).
Yoga comes to Central Park in a nun’s outfit, but instead of seeing Wilhelmina, Marc arrives dressed as Wilhelmina. We find out later that Yoga beat him up. Meanwhile Wilhelmina is in Bradford’s office when Claire arrives, and lest her know her plan has failed. Claire takes a drink, and punches her.
Betty buries all of her mementos, and gives a eulogy for her relationship with Henry, while Santos reads his wedding vows to Hilda. This is quite touching. Daniel also decides he needs a fresh start, and buries his pills with Betty’s mementos.
Wilhelmina decides she’s going to need a bodyguard.
Daniel finally goes to see Alexis. As he is speaking to her, she wakes up. She asks him why he keeps calling her Alexis; she says “I’m Alex”.
Betty informs Justin that Daniel has agreed to let him be an intern at Mode.
Hilda is still taking in bed with Santos. Santos says, “We can’t stay in here forever. I think I’ve got to go.” Hilda says, “No, I’m not ready”. They embrace. Betty comes to the door, and we discover that Hilda is actually alone in the dark, hugging her pillow. ”He’s gone.”, Hilda finally admits.
Cut to Henry, arriving in Times Square by bus.
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