Nadia opens the episode pleading for guidance: her father is dying and his last wish is to see her settled. He left a paper listing the two men he trusted most and she must choose a husband. One name is Jake Mayer, her father's right-hand man, eight years older; flashbacks show they met when she was sixteen, she fell in love by eighteen, and he once told her, "If that's what you want, I'm yours." Their secret romance stretched into ten years of waiting. Facing her father's deadline and the unnamed other candidate, Nadia still can't decide.