I don’t watch the show, so how does Poughkeepsie figure into this? Don’t tell me that’s where it takes place!
Man, I must be the worst fan ever, but… how/why/when/where were Madison and Mac swapped at birth?
Could be. I only got a glance, and thought I heard Keira Knightley. But I’ll take your word for it.
Poughkeepsie figured in the story (and ep title) because the hooker’s backstory on the original date was that she was from upstate New York. The roommate’s coworker at the restaurant was from NY; that’s how the text message came from a NY area code.
Well, the “when” was…at birth.
The how/why/where was IIRC both moms were in the Neptune Hospital at the same time and the nurses mixed up the babies. The hospitals paid a million dollars to each family and the parents decided to keep the children they went home with instead of swapping back. There was an episode in the first season wherein Mac meets Madison’s mother and sister, who look like Mac, and we meet Mac’s family who are all blond and tall like Madison. In the he last few moments of the ep, Mac’s birth mother is in her car outside Mac’s house having realized who Mac is. Mac comes over to her car for a minute then goes back to her family who are preparing for a camping trip.
Although the error wasn’t caught until both girls were four years old (she added, to head off MaxTheVool’s next question, “why weren’t they just swapped back?”).