Starvation and ration shortages force Lena to threaten selling her children; Justin overhears and flees with siblings Zack and Yara. The episode jumps ten years: Justin becomes a general, Henry an academician, Zack a one‑eyed medical elite, and Yara an entertainment diva—while original Lena lied to the general and kept her title. A court sentences criminal Lena to death for abandoning war heroes' children. The narrator, now in Lena's place, resolves to change how the children see her. She wakes them saying, "I'll cook something good," determined to earn their trust before execution.