Rabbit Test (Ugly Betty)

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"Rabbit Test" is the 20th episode in the third season, the 61st episode overall, of the American dramedy series Ugly Betty, which aired on April 30, 2009.

Plot[]

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After Betty gets the limo treatment to work by Matt, she discovers that everything at Mode is being repossessed and it is even freaking out Amanda and Marc. After she reaches her desk, she signs a letter from a courier, who then asks for her fingerprints. It turns out that Betty and her family have been invited to the Calvin Hartley Foundation's annual Easter Egg hunt.

Calvin Hartley is of course Matt's father. While Betty sees this as a chance to get closer to Matt, Daniel seizes the opportunity to get Mode a bailout, after Betty makes a suggestion that Daniel later ponders, and the following day takes up the offer. After spending an evening with the family and Matt, who then tells her about how he feels about his father, Betty has second thoughts over making that offer to Daniel and the next day tries to talk him out of it since she is worried about doing it behind Matt's back. This comes to a head when Matt stops by Mode to see her, and the two men are upset with Betty over the scheme because Matt wants to stay as far away from his family life as possible and Daniel knows that Betty was not as truthful to him about trying to set up the meeting.

Daniel and Wilhelmina are forced to hand out pink slips to employees, prompting Betty to go to Daniel and get him an invitation to the event. At the event, the Suarezes meet Cal, who seems to like Betty after what she told his ex-wife Victoria. While the family, especially Hilda, search for eggs, Betty manages to sneak Daniel in while disguised as a busboy, only to get thrown out by Matt, who then changes his mind after Betty told him about what happened at work. Matt later has a change of heart and tells Betty that he believes she was doing the right thing and forgives her as the two make up. However, he warns her that Cal can be extremely controlling to his business partners, and that he wanted to keep his father away from his own career in the publishing industry as well as Betty's.

Daniel is given the chance to talk to Cal, who is frustrated that the person dressed as Easter Bunny failed to show up and is thus in no mood to talk business. Daniel takes the hint, dressing up as the Easter Bunny, successfully piquing Cal's interest, and Cal agrees to help save the company. Betty is remorseful for the humiliation that Cal put Daniel through, but Daniel says it was worth the embarrassment if allowing Cal to act like a "big man" makes him willing to invest in the company. The following day, Betty walks in and sees all the employees being reinstated and everything else returning to the 28th floor, along with a gift basket courtesy of Cal on Betty's desk. The gift basket contains large bunches of carrots that are clearly a message for Daniel hinting that Cal will not let Daniel, or his son's girlfriend, forget that they owe him, just as Matt warned Betty earlier.

During a photo shoot, a photographer compliments Wilhelmina on William, but after Wilhelmina hands him over to Christina, the photographer notes how much the baby looks like Christina. As she and Marc take a look at the photos, Marc points out that William does look like Christina, prompting her to talk to a doctor, who suggests that Christina might have had sexual intercourse before she was injected with the sperm. This puts doubts into Wilhelmina, as she could lose her stake in Meade Publications if she is not William's mother. After Christina becomes suspicious of Marc being chummy during lunch, she and Stuart begin to catch on about William, since they did indeed have sex two days earlier. Both Christina and Wilhelmina decide to do a DNA test to discover who is William's natural mother. After receiving a letter from the lab, Wilhelmina asks Christina to read the results, and it turns out that Wilhelmina is the mother of William. This news devastates Christina in a big way, particularly after Wilhelmina informs her that under the circumstances it is no longer appropriate for her to serve as William's nanny.

Ratings[]

The return of Ugly Betty after a shortened five-week break was welcomed with a respectable 4.7/9 rating, a 2.0 among 18-49s and 6.8 million viewers in the United States, down 10 percent from its last fresh outing, which was enough to take the third place spot but nevertheless helped ABC winning a crucial Thursday night victory over CBS.^[1][2]

Also starring[]

• Daniel Eric Gold as Matt Hartley

Guest starring[]

• David Rasche as Calvin Hartley

See also[]

• Ugly Betty
• Ugly Betty (season 3)

References[]