Episode opens with a man cancelling on Isabel because executives arrived; she demands he come home and he promises to return. Shortly after, Mrs. Howell learns her husband Allen Howell was in a car accident. At the hospital a doctor says he swerved to avoid a young woman's electric bike, crashed into the median, and suffered a head injury with a mild concussion — he might lose his memory. In the ward he asks, "Who are you?" is told "I'm your mom," then calls his stepmom pretty. Mrs. Howell is stunned as his recognition hangs in doubt.