After a lab confirms Celeste is his biological daughter, the boss learns that Sherly—Celeste’s mother and a Shawna heiress—has suffered since giving birth out of wedlock and angering the Jacksons, who helped drive her family toward bankruptcy. Sherly has raised Celeste alone while the child is bullied as "fatherless." When Celeste cries, "Daddy, help me!" the boss orders the phone traced and finds she’s in immediate danger. Sherly begs her family to return the child, but an elder invokes the Shawna penalty—"ten beatings"—as Sherly submits, leaving Celeste's safety unresolved.