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dying alone to Alice and Shane, who set her up on a date with Golnar "Gigi" Ghorbani, the ex-wife of Alice's domestic partner. During the date, Bette appears despondent, especially when Tina and Carrie appear at the same restaurant by chance. Bette and Gigi kiss in an attempt to spite Tina, but she does not even look over at them. Gigi, however, reveals that she and Bette share a lot in common, as they are both divorced women who thought their wives would have chosen to return to them, leading them to enter a relationship, though Bette sees Gigi more as an occasional hookup than a girlfriend. Against Bette's wishes, Angie does a genealogy test and discovers that she has a half-sister, Kayla
Allenwood. Though initially angry, Bette agrees to let Angie meet Kayla. Meanwhile, Bette is offered a position as the managing director at the art gallery of Isaac Zakarian. Despite her dislike for Zakarian's conservative and racist beliefs, Bette agrees to work for him so that she can recruit and help lesser-known artists. She successfully tracks down Pippa Pascal, a famous African-American lesbian artist who was forced into seclusion, and tries to persuade her to work with her, but she turns Bette down. Angie eventually confides to Bette that she has learned that Marcus is dying, and wants to see a therapist with her, Tina and Carrie. At the therapy session with Micah Lee, Angie reveals that Marcus is dying from kidney failure and wants to see if she is a suitable donor. Despite Micah's pleas, Bette immediately flies into a rage and begins speaking over Tina and rudely dismissing Carrie to the point that Angie openly accuses Bette of only caring about her own feelings and storms out. At Micah's urging, Bette confesses that she barely knew her own mother after she abandoned the family, but when she tracked her down, she instantly regretted it. After the session, Bette contacts Gigi for sex, who turns her down, tired of being at Bette's beck and call. Later on, after speaking with Tina, Bette apologises to Angie for her actions and gives her blessing for Angie to meet Marcus. Bette later crosses paths with Pippa again and invites her to a poker game at Dana's, where she runs into Carrie, who Bette had reluctantly invited since Tina was away. At the party, Bette is approached by Carrie, who proposes that they try to be more civil to each other for Tina and Angie's sakes. Though both share stories of being marginalized in school for their homosexuality and appearance, Bette rudely rebuffs Carrie and goes with Pippa to her house where they enter a sexual relationship. Their relationship is briefly strained when Bette realizes that the Nùñez family are representing Pippa's exhibition and bluffs that she will have Pippa's art removed, angering Pippa, who believes Bette used her for self-gain, but when the CAC take Bette's threat seriously, Bette gives in and stands up for Pippa. The two reconcile and instead start protests against the Nùñez corporation, demanding that their name be removed from the exhibition, and they eventually win. Bette and Tina later take Angie to meet Marcus in the hospital, but he turns Angie away. After seeing Angie's devastation to the point that she snaps at Jordi during the pre-prom party, Bette and Tina visit Marcus, who briefly reads a list of questions Angie had for him, and agrees to meet her. Tina confronts Bette for her treatment towards Carrie and asks if she is still in love with her, but Marcus dies of cardiac arrest before Bette can answer. Pippa begins to show doubts in Bette's sincerity about their relationship with regards to Tina, despite Bette insisting that they are over. While shopping with Shane and Alice for wedding gifts for Tina, Shane goes behind Carrie's back and reveals to Bette that her actions have caused Carrie to have second thoughts about marrying Tina, and encourages her to take the chance to steal Tina back. At a celebration for Alice's new book, Bette attempts to talk to Tina, and though Tina denies that she is in love with Bette, Carrie overhears them and confronts them both, accusing Bette of trying to sabotage their marriage and Tina of not caring for her enough to stand up to Bette, and subsequently calls off the engagement over Tina's objections. Tina furiously accuses Bette of sabotaging the engagement, which Pippa witnesses. At home that night, Bette shows Angie a painting that Marcus had made for her, and her intention to do an exhibition of Marcus's work at the CAC after Pippa's. With some encouragement from Angie, Bette decides to go to the exhibition with Pippa and make amends, but as she is leaving the house, she finds Tina standing at her door, who asks if she can come in.
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her. Bette refuses campaign funding from Dani Nùñez, a PR executive for her father's company which invests in opioids, but Dani has a change of heart and resigns in order to work for Bette. Also seeking to sabotage Bette's campaign is Tyler Adams, as Bette once slept with his closeted lesbian ex-wife, Felicity. In response, Bette goes on Alice's new television show to tell her side of the story and arranges an interview with
Felicity, with whom she renews her affair. On Dani's advice, Bette breaks up with Felicity to avoid further controversy, and in retaliation, Felicity tips Tyler and the press off about their renewed affair, putting her campaign in jeopardy once again when Tyler confronts her and Bette is forced to punch him to protect Angelica. Bette finally reveals to the press that her reason for running for mayor is that Kit died of an opioid overdose, and enrolls Angelica in a public school when she is suspended by her racist and homophobic private school for physically defending Bette against a classmate, winning her a grant from the teachers' union. At the same time, Tina visits Bette and Angelica to offer her support. Despite their troubled past, Bette hopes to renew her relationship with Tina, but Tina privately reveals to Bette that she is marrying Carrie and they moving to Los Angeles so that they can be closer to Angelica. Ultimately, Bette loses the election to her far-right conservative rival, Jeff Milner, who had aired several campaign commercials which denounced Bette's moral values. Bette goes to grieve for Kit with Angelica where her ashes were scattered. In the process, she runs into Maya, a lesbian reporter who was covering her campaign, and accepts a dinner invitation from her.
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Tina was merely experimenting with her for eight years, Bette has her move out. Bette briefly becomes a
Buddhist and goes on a silent retreat, but leaves it. In the meantime, Tina begins a relationship with a divorced father, Henry Young. When Henry's son Mikey innocently asks Bette to take a "family picture" of himself and Henry with Tina and Angelica, and Tina tells Bette to her face that she no longer wants Bette to adopt Angelica and that she and Henry are going to start a family with the implication that Henry will adopt Angelica, Bette comes to the realization that Tina is only using Henry and Mikey so that she will get full custody of Angelica when she and Bette separate, as she is Angelica's biological mother and deliberately ingratiating herself in what Bette calls the "safety of a white heterosexual family", after which she will leave Henry. Desperate not to lose Angelica, Bette hires Joyce Wishnea, a gay civil rights lawyer, in order to file for sole custody, and warns Tina to stop her farce with Henry. This time, most of their friends rally behind Bette, seeing Tina as a traitor to the LGBT community for using her sexuality and the country's homophobic legal system against Bette. Tina, however, stands her ground and considers the possibility of losing all of her friends as the "bravest thing she has ever done".
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Bette invites Tina to her home and admits that on her retreat, she came to terms with her mother abandoning her and learned to love again. She and Tina end up making love. A few nights later, Bette meets up with Tina again at an exhibition for Marcus's work, and the two recreate their first meeting. Bette asks Tina not to return to Canada and stay with her, but Tina becomes angry and accuses Bette of demanding that she once again sacrifice her home and career for her and storms out to the airport for her flight home. Determimed not to lose Tina again, Bette heeds Shane and Alice's advice to leave Los
Angeles and pursue Tina to Canada. They give chase in Angie's car, and are stalled in traffic due to Gigi having had an accident on her way to meet Dani. Bette runs to Tina's car and begs her to take her back, claiming that she has spent a lot of time building her career, but that she loves Tina more and now wants to spend the rest of her time building a life with her. Though reluctant at first, Tina finally gives in and tells Bette to come with her. At the end of the season, Bette and Tina arrive in Los Angeles and decide to remarry.
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cheated on her and verbally and emotionally abused her whenever she questioned her power and authority, only used her position as a person of color for her own benefit, and was rarely held accountable for her actions by her friends while Tina was often ostracized from the group for similar reasons. Ten Eyck concluded that Bette was essentially written as the "man" in the relationship, comparing it to "masculinity and double standards", and used her gender and sexuality to get away with her bad behavior, and inspired fans of the series to behave the same way, while Tina was repeatedly written as "second fiddle" to Bette and never allowed to develop in her own way. Similar comments were made in 2021 following the second season of
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leads Jodi to jokingly ask if Bette is cheating on her. When Bette does not respond and Tina gets up and runs away from the group, Jodi finally realizes that Bette is cheating on her and most likely never truly loved her from the start. In private, Kit verbally blasts Bette for her actions, reminding her of Tina's callous behavior while she was with Henry, but Bette confesses that, even though Tina was ready to take their daughter away from her and destroy their family forever, she loves and has always loved Tina, and that she and Jodi "never had a shot", effectively confirming that she was merely using Jodi sexually and never loved her.
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Bette that Bette should resign instead, since she had already helped cover up a potential scandal involving Bette's brief fling with Nadia, and that any potential sexual harassment proceedings from Jodi would further endanger the university's reputation. Immediately afterwards, Phyllis makes a drunken pass at Bette at a bar, claiming she was always strongly attracted to her and can now pursue a relationship with her since Bette is no longer her employee, even if it means leaving Joyce. Finally fed up with
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Candace, Jodi and Henry will very easily convince Tina (who by now no longer trusts Bette fully) that she has cheated on her again, Bette finally approaches Jenny and threatens to kill her if she destroys what little stability remains of her family. This confrontation is held near a banister with an unfinished railing, and it is the last time Jenny is shown alive. Her body is discovered in the pool shortly afterwards. The series ends with Bette and all her friends being interrogated by police, and the truth of Jenny's death unexplained.
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a carpenter temporarily working at the CAC who makes a pass at her despite knowing of her relationship with Tina. Bette subsequently begins an affair with
Candace to fulfil her sexual desires. When Tina discovers the affair, she flies into a rage and, in the ensuing physical fight, Bette forces herself sexually on Tina, who eventually submits. Tina still leaves Bette and moves out of their house.
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begins actively involving herself in Kit's life. Eventually Tina chooses Bette over Helena, and the end of the season shows Tina asking to move back in with Bette. Tina's labor is surprisingly difficult, but their daughter
Angelica is eventually born, and the end of the season shows Bette as calm and happy in her new family.
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to his head in front of the class as a form of art. While on their Subaru Pink Ride, Jodi learns of the affair during a game of 'I Never' when Alice drunkenly begins calling Bette a "giant and 'gi-normous' cheater" for having cheated on Tina and on Alice herself when they were dating. This statement
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A year later, Bette has since gone on another Buddhist retreat, which she completed, and has repaired her friendship with Tina. At an auction, Bette decides to sell one of her old paintings from her old house with Tina, but Tina buys it, admitting that she did not want to let go of it. That night,
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Tina learns of an affair between Angus (Kit's boyfriend) and Tina's nanny, Hazel, and she informs Bette. This causes major stress to their relationship, as Bette wants to keep this information from her sister and Tina disagrees. Things become even more complicated after a disastrous dinner party,
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With her real admiration for Jodi, Bette introduces Jodi at the public exhibition of a new Jodi Lerner piece, entitled "Core". However, it instead turns out to be Jodi's spiteful revenge against Bette for using her: a series of videos of a single Bette saying "I love you", as well as things like
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are both supportive of her (mostly because both are also both promiscuous, having cheated on their lovers as well), it takes a while for Bette to feel on good terms with Alice again. After Tina begins to see Helena, however, the group appear to rally around Bette, who is now aware that Tina is
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have become more polarized over Bette's character, as well as her relationship with Tina, which fans have dubbed "TiBette". The sex scene between Bette and Tina in the season one finale of the original series has come under criticism by some viewers who interpreted it as depicting Bette
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first. Although she does not divulge any information regarding Jenny's death, Bette confesses to being secretly angry and devastated by the fact that Tina never asked her to carry their second child, though it is left unrevealed why Bette herself did not suggest in it the first place.
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