The episode opens with Teresa unconscious as a doctor arrives and Mr. Shane is reassured she has taken an antidote and will wake up fine tomorrow. After the medical calm, Mr. Shane admits a single touch left him craving more of her. A sharp command—"Kiss me"—is delivered and labeled "an order from your master," which sends him into doubt: "Was I insane last night?" As he tries to leave under that confusion, someone calls after him, "Where are you going?" leaving his next move unresolved.
After Mr. Shane saved Teresa last night, he confronts her with a signed marriage agreement bearing her handprint and reminds her the seven-day acceptance window isn't up. Teresa refuses to become his partner and demands time; Shane grudgingly extends three more days but offers an alternative: pay $10 million in liquidated damages. She rips a copy, but he warns he can reproduce it and insists marrying him isn't as bad as she thinks. He tells her not to lose the document again and says he'll take her to work, leaving Teresa three days to decide.
Episode opens with a man admitting he gave away the prayer beads his mother left—an heirloom meant for his future wife—while a friend presses him to reveal a secret lover. At work, superiors instruct staff to prepare betrothal gifts for the Turner family and to coordinate projects. News breaks that Larson Pharmaceutical was exposed for counterfeit medical devices, wiping out billions in market value and costing orders. Teresa visits her grandmother, learns she was discharged earlier, and is told her stepmother has found "a good husband." The episode ends with Teresa blamed and facing marriage pressure and corporate fallout.
At home, a young nurse is pressured by relatives to marry Mr. Wesley, a pharmaceutical sales representative who has offered $88,000 and promised to cover Grandma's surgery and the daughter's private school. She refuses, accusing the family of favoring her daughter Joann and rejecting a match with an older man whose three previous wives died. Relatives insist this is her blessing and one threatens 'I'll kill that old hag' if she refuses. She vows to find the money herself but will not marry; someone then urgently asks where Grandma is, leaving the choice and Grandma's fate unresolved.
A wealthy man, Mr. Wesley, inspects a frail woman brought by a broker who insists she’ll bear him a healthy son and declares his client can do whatever he likes. Wesley demands to check her himself. The situation escalates as attendants seize and slap the woman while someone taunts that her mother sold her. The woman, Teresa, screams for help and calls for her grandmother; Grandma arrives amid the scuffle but the outcome stays unresolved. The episode ends with Mr. Shane stunned by news that Ms. Turner is marrying someone else, creating an immediate new complication.
A tense confrontation erupts when an aggressive man insults an older woman, boasts he kept Teresa for her beauty, and refuses her treatment while dragging people and forcing cries of “My grandma passed out!” The situation escalates into a physical struggle and a cruel remark—“let's do the wedding and funeral together.” Mr. Shane arrives, demands “How dare you touch my woman?”, orders the unconscious woman taken to the hospital, and fires an employee who protests. When another assailant admits he didn’t know Ms. Turner belonged to Shane, Shane commands, “Take him away. Do it the old way,” ending on the threat of immediate punishment.
In the hospital a doctor warns Grandma's heart surgery can't be delayed and they must raise the money immediately. Grandma wakes to a young man—Teresa's boss who rescued her—at her bedside. He tells Grandma, "Teresa and I are about to get married," claiming Teresa's family as his to comfort her. Teresa denies any real engagement, calls it a misunderstanding, and urges him to return to work. But Grandma insists she won't die until Teresa marries, and Teresa is left questioning her feelings — "Have I fallen for him?" — while the fundraising deadline remains unresolved.
Teresa Turner arrives unexpectedly at Mr. Shane's office to return an IOU after he covered her grandmother's medical bills. Shane refuses repayment and, through staff, reveals the doctor insisted on finding a 'master' for an ongoing treatment and that someone had been located. When Shane indicates he wants more than money, Teresa volunteers to sign and fulfill the master-servant agreement to aid his treatment. They agree to formalize it immediately, but an assistant warns doing this in broad daylight is inappropriate, and they leave together with the risk of public exposure unresolved.
Teresa is confronted at the registry when Mr. Shane expects her signature on a marriage certificate to fulfill his treatment agreement. She objects: she only agreed to help with his treatment, not to marry. Shane says fulfilling the agreement requires marriage and offers not to insist if she refuses. Faced with inability to pay $10 million compensation, Teresa reluctantly agrees—“Let's get married.” Shane moves her belongings, gives her a supplementary card and declares shared assets, and asks her to come home early to study. The episode ends with their marriage sealed but the terms of living together unresolved.
During a private test Teresa performs on a man, someone at the scene commands, "Now, take off your clothes." She follows instructions but the man registers no sensation. After trying alternate stimuli they conclude the method failed and worry it may be impotence. Mr. Shane suggests trying another method next time. Family pressure spikes when relatives reveal the uncle's mistress is six weeks pregnant and demand, "Take her to meet me", they insist Teresa bring the master she chose. Chastised to try harder, Teresa retreats to old materials as the family's demand for proof remains unresolved.