Cindy faces a crisis when a torn check destroys the last payment for her mother's urgent surgery. Desperate, she pleads with the hospital director for two more days and offers the last money she has. The director refuses to give up and reveals a hospital subsidy for low income families, saying she has already filed the application. All surgery fees can be waived, but only if the hospital chairman signs. Cindy learns the chairman is Yale, CEO of Bacon Group; the episode ends with her needing Yale's signature to save her mother, an urgent, unresolved task.