Helen Melendy looked at Carter Quincy's repulsive face and suddenly found Olivia Smith a bit less disgusting.
This is what it means to find one less smelly pile of crap among the piles.
She thought Olivia was pitiable too, stuck with such a family, but still, pitiable people have their hateful sides; she didn't feel Olivia was forgivable.
Carter talked about how Olivia handed over the drugs to her and how she found Shirley's son, coaxing him to have Shirley place the drugs on Helen Melendy's leg.
At this point, Olivia was still denying it with desperate struggle, clinging to the idea that as long as Carter had no evidence, she'd insist it was Carter framing her.
After all, Carter's whole family stinks too, and the Smith Family might not believe her.
Even if they did believe her, if they couldn't get the evidence, there was nothing they could do to her.
