Aphra publishes an article detrimental to her ex-husband, Professor Oliver Randall, and he confronts her about it. Did Oliver help Aphra or did he take advantage of her, as she asserts in her article? Aphra brings up the past and how a much-older Oliver manipulated her when she was his student. She accuses him of exerting his power over his female students and blurring the line between seduction and consent. Catharine, another former student of Oliver's, arrives and together the women recount how Oliver seduced his students with wine and sex games. The women warn him that they have told the college what he has done but Oliver refuses to admit his behavior was improper and he leaves. Helen, the department chair at Oliver's college, appears in Oliver's office shortly after with a plan of her own.