Ugly Betty Episode 3.12 Full Recap

Here is the full recap for Ugly Betty episode 3.12, Sisters on the verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

The episode begins with a montage of the empty Suarez house, Ignacio waking up in the hospital and seeing his family, Daniel and Molly on vacation at the beach, Wilhelmina and Connor getting it on in a hot tub, and finally, a weakened Ignacio coming home.

He coughs, and the family comes running to help him. They worry because he just had a quadruple bypass. They are trying to keep him away from all stress. Betty and Hilda argue about his care, but not in front of him.

They are worried about paying bills and taking care of Papi. Betty makes a list for Hilda to follow while Betty is at work. She also left post – it notes everywhere. Hilda tells her she can handle it, and sends her out.

Betty stops by her apartment and sees that Amanda has let it become an absolute mess. Amanda hugs her, mistakenly thinking that Betty was the one who had a heart attack. Betty corrects her and wonders why Amanda had not done any cleaning (no answer). Betty looks at a large stack of bills she has to pay. Amanda tells Betty they have cockroaches, and that she has started naming them.

Daniel and Molly are looking over their vacation pictures on Daniel’s Blackberry. They talk about how they ran into “Heidi and Spencer” everywhere they went. Daniel shows her a slide show, and a pic of Daniel and Connor comes up, causing them both an uncomfortable moment. They discuss how they will eventually let Connor know about “them”.

More recap after the jump!

Betty comes back to work, which has really piled up. Daniel gives her a cd with his vacation photos on it and asks her to take them to the lab. They are interrupted by Wilhelmina, who gives her an envelope containing the cover photos of the Halston dress, asking her to leak them to the press.

Daniel notices Wilhelmina’s “goggle tan” and guesses she had been skiing. Wilhelmina notices Daniel’s tan and guesses he went to the beach. Connor then walks up with an identical goggle-tan.

Wilhelmina goes to speak to Connor about some ad meetings, but of course, they start kissing heavily. She tells him that they have to control themselves. She gives him something to conceal his tan (made of panda-something), and then notices she’s in the men’s room with him. Marc sees them leaving the men’s room together. He zips up her dress (which she didn’t know was unzipped).

Betty is on the phone with Justin, asking if Hilda had taken Papi to see “Dr. Steve”. Justin tells her that Hilda had landed a big haircutting job to cut a lot of teeneage girl’s hair; this upsets Betty. As she is talking (now to Hilda), Betty is putting things into envelopes without looking.

She looks and sees Claire holding Daniel’s vacation pics CD, and grabs it from her. She then puts it in one of the envelopes. Claire tells her about her vacation to France, spending time with Alexis and DJ. She also offers to set up Ignacio with one of the best cardiologists in the city, free of charge.

Betty comes home to tell the family the good news. Hilda says that she talked to Dr Steve on the phone, who said Papi just had a cold. Betty insists that Ignacio go see Claire’s doctor. They go to another room to argue of Ignacio’s care. Hilda calls her “Betty Bossy Pants”. Betty tells her she will take Ignacio to the doctor herself.

Betty takes Ignacio to Dr. Farber’s very COLD office. He orders a bunch of tests for Papi. He then rushes out to see the next patient.

Connor congratulates Wilhelmina on her keen negotiating skills with their latest client, getting a bigger ad buy. She challenges him to do the same with the next clients. They then get excited and go at it again.

Marc walks by the elevator and sees that the next client has arrived (early). They demand to see Wilhelmina. Marc takes them there, but notices when he looks in the porthole of her door that she and Connor are…indisposed. He tries to distract them.

Amanda calls Betty (who is still at the hospital with her dad) and tells her that the photo lab guy called and said she sent her phone bill to him. This is when Betty realizes that she sent Daniel’s photos to Suzuki St. Pierre. Betty asks Amanda to track down the letters.

Wilhelmina approaches Marc and tells him to throw whoever is in the conference room out so she can have her meeting with the clients. Marc informs her that they had already come and gone. He explained that he couldn’t have just interrupted her while she was “snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef”. Wilhelmina says all she will have to do is get on the phone with them and everything will be OK.

Daniel finds out about his pictures and totally freaks out. He then reveals his secret about Molly. He tells her she HAS to get the photos back NOW. She tries to tell her dad that she has to leave, but the nurse won’t let her go in, and says he’ll be in there another 4 hours. So, Betty leaves.

She goes to see Suzuki, who absolutely refuses to help her, because it is such a sexy story.

Amanda goes through the Closet, stealing clothes, when Marc grabs her, covering her mouth, and pulls her away quickly. We then see she almost ran right into Connor and Wilhelmina, going at it again! Amanda puts 2 and 2 together, but Marc makes her swear not to say anything to anyone.

Betty runs in and asks for their help. She wants to bribe Suzuki, but Marc and Amanda say that blackmail will be much more effective. They say his “ex” works at Meade. Later, they catch him on the street, but he doesn’t want to talk. Amanda threatens to tell everyone he has “ambiguous genetalia”. He writes down an address in New Jersey, but will say nothing more.

Daniel and Betty go to Jersey, and Betty lies to Hilda on the phone, telling her that she’s still at the hospital. Daniel notices the mail in the mailbox is for “Byron Woo”. As they are standing in front of the fine suburban home, a minivan pulls up. Out walks a mom, 2 kids, and Byron Woo, who is really Suzuki, looking quite the straight suburbanite.

He explains, while grilling brats, that he became Suzuki because he couldn’t get a hard-hitting jounalist job, but could get a lot more interest in a “fabulous, bitchy queen”. They convince him to return the photos (but Betty swears it isn’t blackmail)

As tehy are readying for their meeting with the clients, Wilhelmina asks Connor to flirt with the female they will be seeing. As they talk about this, they get “that look” and leave to go at it AGAIN. Marc is in the conference room with the clients, waiting for Connor and Wilhelmina. They are growing impatient, so Marc takes matters into his own hands and starts making the pitch himself. They are impressed with him.

Betty returns to the hospital, only to find that her father has already left. She calls Hilda about this, and they both freak out.

Connor and Wilhelmina walk into the meeting where Marc is making his brilliant pitch, and she calls him out for not coming to get her. She threatens to fire him, and sends him away.

Betty and Hilda are frantically looking for Papi, and they run into Dr. Farbner, who tells this that Ignacio’s tests came back normal. Now, they just have to find him.

Hilda finally blows up at Betty (because the Dr visit was needless). They argue over their division of care, the fact that Betty tries to control everything, and the fact that Betty wasn’t there when Ignacio had his heart attack. They end the conversation in tears, and Justin calls to tell thim that Ignacio is at home.

Later, Ignacio tells the girls that he’s onto them, and that he’s decided to hire a nurse.

Late at night, Betty walks in as Hilda is cleaning her shop, and they make up while Hilda trims her hair.

Wilhelmina congratulates Marc on his work with the client, and gives him an expensive gift. Marc tells her that she had treated him awfully and humiliated him. Wilhelmina reminds him that getting thrown under the bus to make her look good is part of his job. He walks away, beaten down.

Daniel sees Molly on the street, who points out to him that she was accidentally caught in the background of a tabloid photo on their vacation. She is holding hands with an unseen man in the photo. In the next scene Connor sees this.

Wilhelmina sends Marc to an ad meeting in her place as a peace offering.

At her apartment, Betty looks out the window as Amanda goes through all the bills they have to pay. Betty tells Amanda that she has to tell her something. Amanda guesses that Betty is going to move back home, because her family needs her, and she’s “good like that”.