A visit from Charles Ponzi brings an exciting business opportunity. Meanwhile, Bellacourt Manor battens down the hatches for Lillian's annual birthday meltdown; Hortense suspects she's expecting; and Peepers gets sick.

The Commodore invites the Roosevelts to Bellacourt Manor and tries to convince Teddy to pick Frederick as his vice president; Lillian sets her sights on FDR; Beatrice makes a connection with Eleanor; Peepers contends with a servants' strike.

Dodo returns to Bellacourt after being served with divorce papers and challenges Chair to a duel; Lillian starts drinking, much to a newly-baptized Beatrice's dismay.

Hortense and Bertram's happiness turns out to be short-lived, as does Commodore and Chair's; Beatrice turns to religion when her bar fight with Lillian has deadly consequences; Blanche gives birth downstairs.

Lillian and Beatrice take up Hortense's mantle to begin fighting for women's rights; Peepers bristles at Father Black Donahue's new role at the manor.

Beatrice has an existential crisis; Lillian tries to scheme her way into landing a plot at an exclusive cemetery; Frederick runs for president.