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A surrogate mother turns up dead at the beginning of this episode, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, as they say. It seems that the mother was working in the office of the father - a very unusual instance, because typically surrogates are not known to the biological parents. In this case, however, the surrogate was apparently very close to the actual parents and wanted to do all that she could to help them have a child. Apparently it didn't work out quite as expected.

It only gets better.

At first glance, it seems like perhaps the surrogate was simply jealous. She had, after all, carried the baby for nine months, and now it seemed like she was being shut out of its life. That's an understandable feeling, so you can feel for her. As the proverbial onion is peeled back, it seems that there might be a bit more to the story.

The natural mother of the child insists that the surrogate was actually extorting the family for money, and she had managed to funnel some thirty thousand dollars to her over the last few months. Frankly, I want to know what her husband does that she can have that sort of petty cash fund lying around, where he won't notice that thirty grand is missing. But I digress.

Of course, if this was all there was to the story, then it would be a half-hour show, not an hour one, and as the core of the onion gets closer, it seems that the surrogate actually had nothing but love for both the baby and for the family. It was, in fact, the biological mother who was a bit twisted, for it turns out that she was having an affair was the lawyer who helped set up the whole surrogate deal.

Oh, and did I neglect to mention that the surrogate found out about it? Apparently that is when the mother went to visit, along with her "special friend", and that's when things went South, as they say. The rest is history. In good news, the surrogate's mother will be able to see her grandchild.