It is the morning after the night before. When Maddie and David awaken in her bed, he is delighted but she is mortified. More accurately, although she admits that she did enjoy it, she believes that it was a mistake that should never have happened, and she tries to get David to agree to what she calls a "pact" – an agreement between them that it never did happen. If they agree that it never happened, she reasons, then it didn't happen, and no one else needs to know about it. Needless to say, David sees things very differently. It did happen, he insists, and it was great, and he wants there to be no secret about it.
At this point, Margaret Kendall arrives at the Blue Moon offices and asks to hire Maddie and David to prove that her fiancé loves her. Her father, she explains, is very wealthy, her fiancé is not, and her father disapproves of their marriage because he feels that the fiancé is only after his daughter's inheritance. Margaret believes that she and Robert were meant to be together, and hopes that if Maddie and David can find some proof that Robert genuinely loves her, then her father will approve.
It is not without irony that David approaches this case by talking to the fiancé, Robert Murphy, who convinces David that he and Margaret do belong together, while Maddie approaches the case by talking with Margaret's father, who convinces Maddie that their engagement is a mistake which should never have happened.
As the episode progresses, Mr. Kendall is declared dead from a gas explosion in his home. Margaret and Robert each separately give themselves up to the police and confess to the crime. But as it turns out, Mr. Kendall is not dead – he faked his death in an attempt to frame Robert and thereby protect his daughter from what he is sure is a treacherous fraud. But when he learns that both Margaret and Robert confessed to the murder in order to protect each other, he is finally convinced that they do love each other and do belong together, and he presents Maddie and David with a suicide note which proves their innocence.
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