At a family gathering a woman shouts 'Let go of my husband!' when Cynthia storms in and claims to be the Holt heiress. She pressures her friend Ingrid to back her, and when relatives insist she doesn't know them, Cynthia publicly humiliates a rival and declares the Holt family's assets will be hers. Yale is introduced to his mother with Cynthia named as his fiancée; relatives accuse her of seducing him. A businessman praises her fierceness and pushes to get the marriage certificate, accompanied by a $500,000 payout—leaving the family's acceptance and Cynthia's true identity unresolved.