At a family hearing Isabel is accused of stealing and pressured to confess. Cyrus, Isabel’s brother, publicly names Flora, the family's only younger sister, as the Lopez Group's next successor, shaming Isabel. Isabel fights back, insisting Flora’s achievements came from materials she wrote—she claims she drafted Cyrus’s proposal and Quin’s novel outline—and offers to recite them to prove it. Cyrus and others move to silence her while elders and committee members leave with officials, leaving Isabel blocked from exposing the truth and the succession decision unresolved.