11. Time's Arrow

Complete story — includes the ending

Beatrice re-experiences important events of her life through disoriented, dreamlike flashbacks as BoJack drives her to the nursing home. After Honey's lobotomization, Beatrice contracts scarlet fever and Joseph burns her baby horse doll to stop the spread of infection. As a young adult, he attempts to force her into a relationship for business reasons at her debutante ball, where she meets Butterscotch Horseman, a drifter and aspiring novelist that she falls for and engages in a one night stand with. She finds that the man Joseph wanted her to be with is actually kind and intelligent, but Butterscotch has already impregnated her. Fueled by the trauma of seeing her doll burned, she refuses to abort the child, has a shotgun wedding with Butterscotch, and gives birth to BoJack. After BoJack grows up and leaves the home, Butterscotch impregnates their maid Henrietta Platchkey, and Beatrice, not wanting her to go down the same path she did, pays for her tuition to nursing school but also forces her to give her horse daughter up for adoption. In the present, she recognizes BoJack but does not understand where she is, so BoJack lies to her and claims they are at the Michigan summer house and eating ice cream with him and her family, something she was never allowed to do as a child.