While going through files and papers that could help their dad stay in the country, Betty and Hilda find a photo of their mother Rosa with part of the picture torn off but featured a hand of someone else.

After telling Hilda the consequences and later on in the evening after having a drink with Christina at the rack, Betty ponders what to do if she accepted the check, especially after arguing with her dad.

A frustrated Nico then lashes out at Wilhelmina for not knowing how to be a mother to her own daughter, in front of Daniel, Betty, Amanda and Marc.

But Ignacio decides to let his daughters know the truth about why he came to United States: the hand in the photo was that of their mother's first husband, Ramiro Vasquez, a banker that he had worked for as their cook.

He tells his daughters that if the authorities send him back to Mexico, he could face time in prison because he killed Ramiro in self-defense.

He finds out in a big way at a meeting of editor-in-chiefs in Bradford's office that this hard-to-get woman, best-selling author Sofia Reyes, is part of an upcoming new magazine that is being launched in 2007.

With Daniel now knowing her extensive background or lack of, he decides to apologize to Sofia, but the two seem to be playing hard-to-get since she is onto him but the sexual tension is obvious.

Entertainment Weekly's Allysa Lee notes "This episode of Ugly Betty was a must-see, if not for all the skeletons that emerged from the characters' closets, then for the flagrant use of the word must, as in Mode magazine's Must List for 2007.