At a luxury VIP dinner, a masked, injured server—Nancy—is publicly humiliated by wealthy guests who insult her and force her to hold a hot teapot while flinging money at her. When Nancy challenges them, her father reveals he once promised his daughter to a family who saved him after a car accident and admits he had Harold fake illness to trick Nancy into the match. Grandpa explodes at the secrecy and the plan to marry his granddaughter to a fool. Nancy is stunned by the betrayal as someone calls her name, forcing an immediate confrontation.