What if Regina had told the hospital about the switch when she discovered it years ago? And what if both girls had been raised in the privileged Kennish household from age three? In "Ecce Mono", this alternate reality is revealed: Daphne has a cochlear implant, and doesn't know American Sign Language. Having been spoiled by her parents to make up for the switch, she's manipulative and not the best student. Bay, on the other hand, is a straight-A student, often trying to compensate for being the Kennishes' non-biological daughter. In addition, Kathryn is a successful author of bodice-ripping novels and, while still married to State Senator John Kennish, their marriage is far from perfect.
s02e01 - The Door to Freedom
s02e02 - The Awakening Conscience
s02e03 - Duel of Two Women
s02e04 - Dressing For A Charade
s02e05 - The Acquired Inability to Escape
s02e06 - Human/Need/Desire
s02e07 - Drive in the Knife
s02e08 - Tight Rope Walker
s02e09 - Uprising
s02e10 - Introducing the Miracle
s02e11 - Mother and Daughter Divided
s02e12 - Distorted House
s02e13 - The Good Samaritan
s02e14 - He Did What He Wanted
s02e15 - Ecce Mono
s02e16 - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
s02e17 - Prudence, Avarice, Lust, Justice, Anger
s02e18 - As the Shadows Deepen
s02e19 - What Goes Up Must Come Down
s02e20 - The Merrymakers
s02e21 - Departure of Summer
Switched at Birth tells the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a poor neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.