At Yale's birthday gathering, James suddenly hits Mr. Grant and refuses to kneel when his parents demand an apology. Family members plead for calm and warn he'll be cast out, but James erupts, revealing he was kidnapped, spent ten years in an orphanage, and then served a decade in prison after the family let him take the blame. He rejects their apologies, says jail taught him dignity and not to be bullied, and vows to humiliate them as they did to him. As tensions boil over, Yale snaps 'You asked for it,' leaving the confrontation unresolved.