At a family gathering, I watch my distant father brighten when his first love returns and even hold me for the first time. I hope he finally accepts me, but he forbids me to call him 'Dad' and mistakes me for the other woman's child. The mood collapses when his error is exposed and he again says, "Don't call me Dad." My mother urges giving him one more chance. The episode ends with my birthday approaching and me pleading to celebrate it with him, leaving their fragile reconciliation unresolved.
After noticing Dad seemed upset yesterday, a child asks if he will come home and decides to cook as an apology; her mother agrees to help and they go buy groceries. She hopes the meal will mend things. Back home, the child reassures her mother that Dad will forgive her. Suddenly Dad returns. Moments later an outsider speaks to Mr. Chandler claiming control, and Fletcher demands, 'Who are they?' The episode ends with the family confronting unexplained visitors, leaving the planned apology and Dad's reception unsettled.
Yvette arrives at Mr. Chandler’s home with her son and a home-cooked dish to thank him for caring for her mother. At the table, a boy named Richard rejects the meal as “terrible” and demands sweet-and-sour pork. Mr. Chandler tells the maid to prepare it while adults excuse the boys and try to clean stained clothes. Yvette’s mother, who usually does the cooking, begins to serve. Then another boy, Simon, knocks over a plate and spills the dish, apologizing. The offering is ruined, leaving Yvette’s thanks undone and the household bracing for Mr. Chandler’s response.
At home a young boy, Richard, accidentally spills the family's sweet-and-sour pork. His mother calms him, offers to remake it and instead takes him to the mall to pick toys. At the toy store he tries on hero costumes and picks Superman for a class party, but another child taunts him about his absent father and Richard says his dad is too busy with work. The mood shifts when his father suddenly appears and says, "Sweetheart, you look so dashing," leaving whether the father will actually spend time with him unresolved as the episode ends.
At a neighborhood gathering, a boy named Richard discovers his limited-edition car model smashed and accuses another boy, Simon. Simon denies the charge while adults — Mr. Chandler, Fletcher and Rebecca (who brought Simon) — confront both children. Accusations escalate into shouting as Mr. Chandler demands an apology and Fletcher threatens to teach Simon a lesson. Simon refuses to admit guilt, insists he didn’t break the toy, and is ordered to go home. He leaves shouting "I didn't break it!", leaving the broken collectible and the accusation unresolved.
In the hospital, young Simon lies unconscious after being left alone on the road during a trip his father took to buy toys. A doctor angrily confronts the father for abandoning the child while the mother apologizes and blames herself. Flashing between Simon's cries of 'Dad, don't leave me' and the tense bedside scene, the father, Richard, faces guilt and the child's refusal to call him Dad. Under pressure, Richard reluctantly agrees to attend Simon's upcoming birthday. The episode ends with Simon still unconscious and Richard's promise hanging over whether Simon will accept him.
A boy is told his hospitalized father agreed to attend his birthday once discharged, so he gleefully plans to invite classmates while hiding that he lacks a father. His mother reassures him the gift will be liked and someone will check the discharge timing. He imagines showing classmates his dad's strength. Later, Fletcher confronts someone for repeatedly hurting Simon, saying, 'If you didn't plan to come, you should have refused Simon.' The accusation abruptly undermines the planned celebration and leaves the father's promise and Simon's safety unresolved.
Simon's birthday starts badly when every classmate cancels and joins Richard's family for a feast. At home his mother promises to celebrate and waits for his father, but the dishes go cold and Dad is absent. At Richard's the children toast; then Dad finally appears. Feeling betrayed, Simon tells his mother, 'he is no longer my father,' and cries out, 'Dad, it hurts.' Later an adult admits they almost forgot the party and rushes in. The episode ends with someone calling, 'Simon! Let's go,' leaving Simon's decision unresolved.
When Simon is born from Fletcher's drunken one-night stand, he meets Fletcher's coldness and blatant favoritism toward Richard, the son of Fletcher's first love. The household becomes a daily wound. Yvette endures until she can no longer shield her son and leaves with Simon. Outside that fractured home they find Matthew, Simon's cello teacher, who gives the steady, fatherly care Simon never knew. Under Matthew's quiet devotion, Simon begins to thrive and Yvette finds fragile peace. Fletcher, belatedly aware of the harm he caused, can only watch from afar. Haunted by remorse, he must face the consequences of choices that cost him the family he ignored.
When Simon is born from Fletcher's drunken one-night stand, he meets Fletcher's coldness and blatant favoritism toward Richard, the son of Fletcher's first love. The household becomes a daily wound. Yvette endures until she can no longer shield her son and leaves with Simon. Outside that fractured home they find Matthew, Simon's cello teacher, who gives the steady, fatherly care Simon never knew. Under Matthew's quiet devotion, Simon begins to thrive and Yvette finds fragile peace. Fletcher, belatedly aware of the harm he caused, can only watch from afar. Haunted by remorse, he must face the consequences of choices that cost him the family he ignored.