Part 1

The story begins with a fantasy sequence in which we see Betty taking off her braces, but in reality it was just a dream as Betty tells Hilda and Ignacio that they will be taken off in a few months. Hilda also gets a photo op for Betty and Justin to mark their move up in the world….

…But in reality, they’re about to get a lesson in reality check 101. As Betty begins her day as Features Editor, she tries to adjust to not being a assistant but this is not working out as she meets her replacement Megan and during a meeting gets ignored by Matt, who as her new boss, hands over Betty’s assignment to Megan. Betty also herself getting the cold shoulder from Marc. Betty also discovers that Amanda is taking stuff from the Closet and also gets the cold shoulder from her too. While she visits the sauna, she runs into Wilhelmina, who gives her a little advice: If she is going move up, then its time to change.

Unfortunately, that would be a lost cause. Betty tried to win over everyone at work with muffins, but no one won’t accept them. After a pep talk from Claire while looking at Daniel’s office, Betty catches up with Matt to see if he still had feelings for her because it might have been the reason he took the job as Betty’s boss, then she kisses him. Matt pushes her away and runs off. After that event, Betty gets a call from Daniel, who was being held face down at the airport as it turns out that he assaulted someone upon arrival. After she bails him out, Daniel tells him about they really felt about her at work and even has a daily blog that criticizes her. This has Betty really upset that for the past three years that everyone has made jokes and comments about her.

Betty then goes to seek out her story by visiting a woman who was showing off her insects. But as she gives the idea to Megan, Megan accuses Betty of trying to steal it. But that doesn’t stop there. As Daniel returns to work, he laid down the law at the meeting by informing Matt that as long as he is Editor-In-Chief, he has the power to make changes, so he reassigns the project back to Betty. This did not set well with Matt, Megan, or any of the co-workers, making Betty a marked Features Editor.

At high school, Justin is discovering that freshman year just got interesting when he is embarrassed by a group of bullies, leading to his shirt getting stained on. However, when he returns home he keeps mum about the incident. He then later seeks out Marc at work because he looks to him as someone who can understand him. When Hilda finds out his visit to Mode, she confronts him at home but still hid the real truth behind the visit, saying it was to replace a shirt and that Marc bought him another. The following day Hilda comes to Mode to thank him for buying him a new shirt, only to learn from Marc about what really happened, leading Hilda to lay down the law on Marc. During lunch Marc tells Justin about happened, and Justin is not happy about it.

For Wilhelmina, she is fretting about her future at Mode. That all changed after a meeting when Cal and Claire told her that they want her to stay. She then tells Marc about why they might keep her, but Marc suspect something else when Wilhelmina began to tell him that she wants privacy, and he later tells Amanda at the Closet that she might be hiding Connor. Marc then heads over to Wilhelmina’s apartment and to Wili’s shock, she sees Marc talking to Nico. Marc also learns from Wili about Connor and her plans to retreive the money he stole from Meade so she can take over the company. After Marc tells Wili not to keep anymore secrets, Wili then turns to Nico and asks her if anyone else other than Marc knew why she was at the apartment, and as we see the flashback from “The Fall Issue” where Wili dropped her glass and discovers Nico all covered in blood, its appearant to why Wili was keeping this a secret.

The Butterfly Effect Part 1 is an episode from the dramedy series Ugly Betty, which is set to air on October 16, 2009. It is the first episode from Season 4, the 66th overall, and the first of a two-part, two hour episode.

Part 2

In the wake of Daniel’s return to Mode and handing Megan’s story idea back to Betty, Betty finds herself being under attack from everyone (as evidenced by a fantasy sequence involving arrows and Wilhelmina ready to carve her up), but Hilda brings her back to reality at home. At work, she tells Daniel that she’s not ready, sort of, but at the meeting Wilhelmina challenges Betty to come up with something bolder other than the malaria concept. While looking through her notes she discovers a new and last-minute idea after she sees a piece of cloth on a photo of a model. Wili goes with the idea but causes more bad blood for Betty’s co-workers, especially for Matt and Megan, because they think Betty and Daniel are still a team.

At Daniel’s apartment that night, Daniel’s temper has Betty concerned, even as she tries to help him. He begins to lose it whenever he thinks of Molly and almost threw a object at Betty, but stops. Betty decides to stay to watch him but at the expense of her co-workers. After waking up late she arrives at the United Nations, where the chaos ensues over responsibilities, as Betty tries to please a designer, feuding models, and Matt showcasing a smiling mosquito. This leads Betty and Matt to argue and when he accuses her of sleeping with Daniel, Daniel shows up and punches Matt. The breakdown would result in Wilhelmina taking over the shoot and Betty relieving herself and Daniel from the set. As they walk away Betty and Daniel talk about what has happened between the two and should move on from boss and assistant to just being friends. Daniel also decided that it was time to seek help for his anger.

At home, and after looking at her “blog,” Betty decides to change her image, so she takes the dress suit Christina sent and wears it to work, along with the new glasses to replace the broken one. When she arrives at work everyone is surprised to see a “New Betty” although Amanda and Marc was still out of the loop somewhat. The “New Betty” also apologizes to Matt about what happened at the shoot, then told him that she won’t answer to Daniel but added that she has decided to move on from Matt. She also showed Megan her infamous pancho from her first day at work that she now has framed to hang on the wall at her office. As she walked out of the building that evening, she turned down Daniel’s offer to ride with him in favor of taking her own limo.

Meanwhile, Wilhelmina runs into a private investigator, who then proceed to tell Wili about Nico’s boyfriend. This makes Wili more concerned when she tries to convince Nico to talk about what happened that night when she was raped by Johnathan, which in turn lead to her pushing him off the yacht the night of his disappearance. Although they told the detective about the night by making up a alibi, we learned in flashbacks that they actually went to the yacht to get rid of the evidence that might tie Nico to Johnathan’s demise. The ploy works, except that a small piece of blood stain was still visible at the yacht.

At home Justin is upset over Hilda talking to Marc. This has Hilda telling Ignacio a way to help Justin, even as going far as trying to start a network social site, which Ignacio thinks as a bad idea, even after reminding her about what she did when she was a teenager with the pregnancy that resulted in Justin. When she visits Marc the next day at work, she changes her tune and allows Marc to be friends. Hilda then later talk to Justin about his situation at school and that he can turn to her if he wanted to

At Amanda’s reception desk Amanda encounters a visitor named Helen, a former receptionist who just been hired as a temp, and the two strike up a friendship. While at the desk later that evening Helen reveals to Amanda why she gave it up and when she told her about her past that seems to pararrel Amanda, Amanda begins to take a look at her own future. The following day Amanda sees Helen taking things after her temp assignment was finished, which seem to parrarel Amanda taking stuff from The Closet. Amanda then gives her the mouthpiece she uses to Helen as a reminder of their friendship.

The Butterfly Effect Part 2 is an episode from the dramedy series Ugly Betty, which is set to air on October 16, 2009. It is the second episode from Season 4, the 67th episode overall, and the conclusion to a two-part episode.

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