Victor finally makes peace with himself over the accident, but Rachel, fully recovered, can't make peace with the sizable scar on her face when she sees the dailies from the shooting of her new film. In the meantime, Nebraska Johnston decides to fight tooth and nail for her own stalled career. A classically trained African American actress, who's fed up with playing maids and mammies, Johnston issues an ultimatum to studio head Leo Sylver and appears to triumph- until a representative of the Hays office appears on the scene.