Pressured to remove one of the two orchestras, Dean Song eliminates both and puts her job on the line in assigning Cha Yoo-jin to assemble a new one. Seeking a fair process, she puts Professors Ahn and Do in charge of selecting members from blind auditions, upon whom the two must agree. Yoo-jin accepts the pressure that this will bear upon him, with members of both orchestras resenting him for a time - little expecting that the high level of resentment will bring about a full boycott of his auditions. (Even Yang Sun-young gets sudden cold shoulders from students just for being Yoo-jin's mom.) Meanwhile, Yoo-jin's advice for Nae-il to take/return to lessons from the severe Prof. Do force her to take solace from Yoon-hoo; and, Yoo Il-rak, caught between his ex-S Orchestra friends and his crush on Jung Shi-won, avoids rehearsals for his upcoming duet with her.
—statmanjeff