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Wilhelmina spent the weekend with Ted. He sent her shoes which Marc is admiring. She packs a care package for her daughter and smiles.

Trust, Lust, and Must

Wilhelmina is speaking to the conference room while her daughter, Nico, calls interrupting and Betty walks in late. Amanda tries to play footsies with Daniel under the desk but he pulls away. Daniel rises from the table and tells Betty that she has to hunt down a woman without a shirt who works in the building.

Wilhelmina returns home to Nico eating Cap'n Crisp and looking at brochures for NY schools. Her mother wants to send her back to a boarding school in Switzerland but she's already been expelled from most of them.

Betty and Hilda wonder why their father never applied for a green card or took amnesty in the '80's. They start to go through his things and find a photo of their mother which is torn in half. They ask him who is missing from the photo. He gets angry and leaves for a walk. Hilda says Betty has to be more sensitive, but she says she that won't let him off the hook until he tells them the truth. Hilda tries to convince Betty to sell vitamin packages to women in her office. She pins on a 'I lost 10 pounds in 10 days' button and talks her up. 'Hit 'em with the appetite suppressants before lunch.' She arrives at the office while Marc tries to escape her sales pitches as Wilhelmina calls him in and remarks that Betty's smile creeps her out because it's 'too metallic.' She quizzes him on schools near and far to displace her daughter to. He tells her that Daniel hasn't invited her to the editors meeting. She doesn't register any worry.

Wilhelmina is on the phone with her conspirator who informs her that she has plans that day for Bradford. They'll be having dinner for two. She's worried Daniel is getting entrenched. Wilhelmina says the one thing that they can exploit is the person that's been propping him up all along: Betty.

Hilda appears with a life-sized cut out and tells Betty that she better get busy. They go down to the cafeteria and set up a makeshift stall, selling handfuls of vitamin packs and protein bars to all and sundry until Wilhelmina interrupts and kicks Hilda 'Cesar Chavez in a push up bra' out.

Wilhelmina takes Betty into her office and tells her that Daniel doesn't have to know about this transgression. She tells her that 'strong people are the ones who ask for help.' They're all family now. Betty explains a bit about her situation with her father and Wilhelmina writes her a check. Betty reaches for it, asking what she wants in return. 'Is that what you ask a friend?'

In the middle of the night, Wilhelmina discovers Nico in the kitchen eating cereal. They have a conversation about fur. Wilhelmina's not impressed by her 'acting out' which pales compared to her own. She got thrown out of more than seven schools before she realized that being alone makes you strong and makes you who you are; her father taught her that. She tells her to leave by tomorrow night.

Betty is staring at the check when Wilhelmina asks her why she hasn't cashed it yet. Amanda interrupts and says Wilhelmina is needed in the lobby because Nico is down there. She's giving a 'Fur is Murder' protest to a large group of paparazzi and accusing her mother of all and sundry. Wilhelmina appears, ravishing in a fur, and apologizes fro being late for the show: It's a debate between Fashion Rights and Fur Rights. The journalists clap, convinced it was all a publicity stunt. Nico turns to her mother and says that she will go, but they're going to talk about their problems right now: She needs to start acting like a mother.

Betty tells Wilhelmina that she appreciates it, but can't cash the check. Wilhelmina sits down and tears it up before Nico appears to say goodbye. 'Contrary to what you think, I do love you and only want what's best for you.' Nico isn't convinced by this proclamation and walks away as Wilhelmina's exterior cracks a little.