We don’t yet know who the father is on How I Met Your Father, but after season 2, we’re one step closer to knowing who it isn’t, and who it could be.
When How I Met Your Father season 2, part 1 ended, Sophie (Hilary Duff) met Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), who reprised his role from How I Met Your Mother. Their candid conversation led her to come to a huge decision: she wanted to find her biological father. This was resolved quickly in the first episode of the second half of season 2 when she tracked him down as a man named Nick (Clark Gregg).
The story continued to divert from there because, like the adult Ted (Josh Radnor) in How I Met Your Mother, the adult Sophie (Kim Cattrall) continuously went off topic through her story. But the wild ride is all part of the show’s charm.How we met Sophie’s father
After narrowing down the search to three men based on a unique tattoo spotted in a photo, Sophie figures out which one is her dad. Nick owns and runs a hot dog shop, so she visits with the gang to scope him out. They put him through a variety of secret tests to make sure he’s a good guy and he passes with flying colors. But Sophie chickens out and doesn’t reveal herself to him.
However, he follows her to the bar and reveals himself instead. It turns out he has security cameras outside the store and saw her psyching herself up to meet him and put two-and-two together. The pair begin to bond, resolving one missing piece in Sophie’s life.
Eventually, while trying to bring her parents back together in hopes of finally having the happy family she longed for all her life, Sophie discovers that they have already reconnected. In fact, they have been seeing one another for a few months. That settles that…for now, at least.Sophie’s journey of love
Now that Sophie is happy to have found her father and is starting to build a foundation with him, it’s back to focusing on her personal life. She gets a job as an in-house photographer at Goliath National Bank where Ellen (Tien Tran) works (and where Barney once worked, and potentially still does) finally leaving her sporadic freelance days behind her.
On the love front, she still has feelings for Jesse (Christopher Lowell), but it’s complicated, especially when he starts seeing someone else. She runs into her old flame Ian (Daniel Augustin) at a party, too, and he’s also happily with another woman.
