Please! Don't hit me! opens the episode as a man pleads and vows to change after repeated threats, but Doris and Annie refuse to trust him. Neighbors turn the confrontation toward a larger crime: they accuse the original guy of selling three older daughters—Wendy, Zoey and Hailey—to a brothel. The brothel owner declares that the girls now belong to the Jade Boudoir after taking them for 30 taels. Shocked relatives call him a bastard; one person resolves to retrieve the sisters and, remembering a contract, prepares to act—leaving rescue plans unresolved.