Masters' team remains social outcasts, regardless of his new hospital practice. Key sponsor Gene Moretti's wife, former test subject prostitute Betty DiMello, forces him to pretend giving her fertility treatment, hospital director Dr. Douglas Greathouse to to treat the Bible-obsessed rich Palmateer couple's daughter to their wishes, not hers or his own, but he still hands her a contraceptive spiral. Greathouse also forces onto Masters his clumsy confident Barbara Sanderson as secretary. William is shocked to learn his gay mentor avoids even him since a failed suicide attempt. Virginia, thus unsure of her research job, accepts assisting Dr. Ditmer in his gastro-research, but finds his questions rather pervish. William can barely stand his noisy baby boy, so he quickly swallows his objections to Libby hiring and becoming almost sisterly with ignorant, colored teen nanny Coral. Virginia realizes Depaul's symptoms worsen alarmingly and drags her to an oncologist, yet gets anything but gratitude. Austin responds to his public exposure as in-law adulterer with a party in his office, dragging Vriginia in.
—KGF Vissers