Ugly Betty - "Trust Lust and Must"

Last night's episode of Ugly Betty answered a lot of questions to why Betty ( America Ferrera) and Hilda (Ana Ortiz)'s dad Ignacio (Tony Plana) never applied for a green card and was in the US illegally. Betty had found a picture of their mother, who was wearing a wedding ring.. and the person next to her was obviously not their father. Apparently, Ignacio worked as a chef for his mother's former husband (who beat her), and he was secretly in love with her, always hoping that she would look up and notice him. Well, one day she did, and they fell in love. One night as Ignacio listened to her husband beat her and she was screaming and sobbing, he decided to do something. As he stepped in, the ex-husband pulled a knife on him, and Ignacio hit him and hit him and hit him. He and their mother ran away together, never to look back... because Ignacio was a murderer. He never applied for a green card because he didn't want to be sent back.

*sniff*