Nancy Botwin

Nancy's two children, Silas and Shane Botwin, prove to be handfuls as Silas is dating Quinn Hodes (daughter of Celia and Dean) and Megan 'the deaf chick' while Shane is having obvious troubles coping with his father's death and acting out.  Nancy is often not around her children and has a live-in maid, Lupita, there to care for them.  Within a matter of weeks, Andy Botwin takes refuge with the family after supposedly fleeing from Alaska and a crazed ex-girlfriend, further complicating Nancy's drug life as she attempts to keep it a secret from her own family.

Throughout the course of season 1, Nancy is shown to be taken under the wings of Heylia and Conrad as she begins to expand and grow within the drug market.  Her actions even gain her notice from local Mexican thugs led by the enigmatic Alejandro.  All the while this is occurring, Nancy is dealing with her own grief issues, running a 'fakery' (a faux-bakery that is a front for her business), and blossoming romances with Conrad and Peter Scottson, a local man that Nancy met at Shane's karate tournament.  The season closes with Nancy becoming a big player within Agrestic as she establishes her own crew consisting of Doug, Dean, Alejandro, Conrad, and Sanjay and discovering that Peter is actually a D.E.A. agent!