An urgent demand—'You have 30 minutes to arrive at the Lambert family's ancestral hall'—starts the episode as a bystander pleads to spare someone and someone rushes to warn others. Clare Lambert, leader of Lambert Trading and thirteenth family head, orders the ancestral hall opened at noon to welcome the new family head and insists she'll soon be the rightful heir. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson report they've brought Ms. Lambert and Miles to the hall instead of the warehouse. The ticking deadline and unexpected arrivals leave the succession unresolved as the noon ceremony nears.