When Raina admits she shoved Thea and framed the maid Ivy, Ivy's world collapses. Raina boasts that as the family's celebrated artist she'll never face jail; Alec Inwood even gave false testimony claiming he saw Ivy push Thea, so Ivy was quickly sentenced. Taunted by the Inwoods and told she'll go to jail tomorrow, Ivy resolves to get justice on her own. She targets Leo Blythe, Baydon's most powerful man, as leverage. The episode ends with Ivy approaching Mr. Blythe, offering a 'hangover cure'—the first risky step that leaves her fate unresolved.
After a street ambush by men who claim "the Inwoods paid us to teach you a good lesson," Ivy Inkwood fights back, bites an attacker and is left bleeding. A staff member examines her and reveals she is pregnant; pregnancy could defer her sentence. Ivy insists she wants to leave and asks staff to contact the baby's father. When asked who that is, the staff names Baydon's richest man, Leo Blythe. The episode ends on the revelation: Ivy must decide whether to call Leo, an immediate, high-stakes choice with everything still unresolved.
Ms. Inkwood (Ivy) is summoned to Mr. Blythe after she says she slept with him to conceive and clear her name. When Blythe asks "Pregnant?" she answers "Yes," and he warns about his ruthless reputation, then offers to keep the baby and pay her for life while she returns to prison in a year. Ivy rejects money and instead demands Dr. Leir treat Thea, who lies in a coma after Raina pushed her — the only doctor who can wake her. Blythe agrees only if Ivy marries him, forcing her into a decisive choice.
A woman confronts Mr. Blythe after admitting, "I was drunk and merely got you knocked up," and refuses to marry an ex-con—until she proposes a bargain. She’ll take Blythe’s name for one year, then divorce. Blythe, amused, accepts and they marry. Immediately she asks him to summon Dr. Leir to treat her sworn sister; Leir is overseas treating Blythe’s grandfather. Blythe arranges Leir’s early return and tells staff the wife’s request matters. The pragmatic marriage is now sealed, but the promised one-year divorce and its fallout hang unresolved.
After ordering clothes, a dossier on Ivy is handed over. It reveals she was switched at birth, raised by an adoptive mother who worked for the Inwoods, forbidden to attend school and abused, until an artist rescued her and taught her to paint. At sixteen her adoptive father tried to sexually assault her; she fought, called police, and discovered she was an Inwood. During questioning, Mr. Blythe's drunkenness excuse collapses—he did it sober. They jump in the car for the mall, and a child shouts, "that woman looks like Ivy," forcing an immediate choice.
Ivy is released from prison after the facility calls to say she's pregnant. Back home, her mother insults and slaps her, blaming Ivy for shaming the family and admitting she paid inmates to be brutal. A woman demands Ivy paint a spectacular gift for Dad's 50th birthday and insists on 200,000 for materials, money Ivy doesn't have after just getting out. Ivy vows it will be a massive surprise despite lacking supplies. The episode ends with Ivy facing a next-day deadline under financial pressure and her mother's unresolved hostility.
Mr. Blythe appears in Mrs. Blythe’s room saying Agatha told him to sleep there, and she rails at him for trying to seduce her. She reveals she’s pregnant; he says he knows and chooses to sleep in the study. That night she wakes from a nightmare shouting “I didn't murder,” calling for Ivy and her parents and fearing prison, while Mr. Blythe stays until dawn holding her hand. In the morning expensive clothes arrive on his orders with staff saying he'll supply them monthly. Dr. Leir's return arrives as everything hangs unresolved.
At the hospital someone pays 200,000 for Thea in Room 12 after she fell three stories. Dr. Lier tells Mrs. Blythe Thea's chance of stirring is promising and vows to try everything. Mrs. Blythe is told to get a checkup and reminded, "You're a Blythe now." The scene shifts to the birthday banquet: Ivy is ordered to hide, Mr. Blythe cancels a video call, and Raina, a celebrated artist, prepares to present her new work to her father. Thea's recovery remains uncertain as the family heads into the public unveiling, leaving the night unresolved.
At her father's birthday, Raina unveils a painting she spent a month preparing. Guests admire her until the cover reveals a funeral-wreath image and shocked murmurs mention Mr. Iwood. Someone shouts that Ivy painted it, while others say the composition matches Raina's style. Accusations fly: Ivy insists Raina claimed the work, and the question is raised about a masterpiece from three years ago. The celebration collapses into doubt and confrontation, leaving authorship unresolved and Raina facing demands to prove who actually painted the piece.
At a family gathering, Ivy, claiming to be another daughter of Mr. Inwood, is publicly humiliated. The Inwoods' eldest son in a wheelchair insists Raina is his only sister and rejects Ivy; a painting is grabbed and someone offers a slap—"I'll take the slap...repayment for birthing me." Gossip says Raina is a fake; a revelation surfaces that Dad knew eight years ago, crashed while taking one child to school, and that child became disabled but was saved by Raina. The family refuses Ivy and taunts, "Do you think you can join us and live like a princess?"