When a disabled woman arrives as the Monroe bride accompanied by VV — a robot someone says their father built and that once attacked Isabelle to protect another — the groom's household explodes. Relatives jeer, call her a 'cripple' and accuse the Monroes of sending a substitute to fulfill the marriage contract while the younger daughter stays in school. One family member insists she remains a Monroe, but accusations that Leander and Noah abandoned an engagement to curry favor escalate. The episode ends with Leander ordered to send Ms. Monroe back, his decision left hanging.