I have my suspicions...

So, the mom is disgusting. That said, I'm pretty sure she might be secretly trying to set these two up. I might be wildly off base, but I'm thinking there is going to be a "terminally ill" story line with the mom. The way she's trying to pressure her daughter into taking more responsibility in the company, the insistence that they're all a family, and the one line about how she enjoys reuniting objects with their rightful owners... Yeah, I'm sure the mom knows what's happening under her own roof. She might even have picked him because she knows he's her daughter's type.