After a public confrontation where Elly is pulled away before she can retaliate and left humiliated and without a meal, a woman named Vera (Mrs. Carter) brings Elly into her home. Vera introduces Elly to her son, Asher, and announces Elly will stay with them and enroll at Belmont Prep. Asher protests—"Mom, who is she?"—but Vera, who sits on Belmont's board, overrides him: "I'm not asking. I'm telling you." The episode ends with Elly shown to her room and Asher forced to accept a new housemate and classmate, their tense first meeting unresolved.