Starring: Sharon Au, Gof Akara, Jaymee Ong, Pamela Oei (Louise), Benjamin Heng, Alex Polstra
Guest star: David Gan

Sharon Au   Gof Akara

Episode 3

First aired: Tuesday, November 08, 2005, 8:30 pm
Episode summary by Singapore TV

The day after the disastrous re-launch, Martha is interviewed on television. She talks about her husband's death and laments the sad state of her son, Steve. She appeals to him to return to her side and she would guide him to success. Steve stalks off in a fury.

Sharon tenders her resignation to Louise, she blames herself for the debacle. Louise refuses to accept her resignation but Sharon insists and leaves the restaurant.

Sharon opens her char kway teow stall, with a heavy heart. Her brother helps her out and sees how upset she is.

Nicole returns to work and tries to write a column with a positive angle on Steve's restaurant. Her Editor tosses the story out. He's more interested in knowing what happened between Martha and Steve and the truth behind their estrangement. Martha is hot news right now. Martha actually offers Nicole the opportunity to interview her, an exclusive. Nicole's Editor wants her to get the scoop on their mother and son relationship. Nicole tries to argue against doing the piece. Her editor tells her, if she won't do it, somebody else will. She’s up for promotion; does she want to risk it? He tells her that if Steve loves her, he would understand how important her career is to her.

Nicole interviews Martha. Martha paints a sympathetic picture of her life. She tells her about her strained relationship with Steve's father, a spineless, good for nothing man. All he knew how to do was play the cello. Martha was the one who had to go find a job to support their family. She had made sacrifices for the family and unfortunately because of that she could not be by Steve's side throughout his childhood. When he was struggling to make the restaurant work, Martha tried to reach out to him but was rebuffed. Martha indicates to Nicole how heartbroken she was by Steve’s attitude towards her.

Martha also tells Nicole that she knows that she's Steve's girlfriend. She had given Nicole the exclusive because she wants Steve to know that her efforts to reconcile with Steve are sincere.

Sharon's brother asks Sharon if she's really serious about quitting her job at the restaurant. He tells her that he’s never seen her so happy as when she's working at the restaurant. He urges her to follow her dreams, she’s done enough for him and their brothers.

Sharon goes to the restaurant to pick up her things and sees Steve in the kitchen with his father's cello, looking forlorn. He reveals how close he was to his father and how his mother had behaved at his father's funeral. She had manipulated the situation, made a mockery of the occasion, and seized the opportunity to launch a new cookbook. Since then Steve has refused to cook. Cooking to him represents his mother and he doesn't want to be anything like his mother, using her ability to cook to further her ambitions and manipulate the lives of others, like she did his father. Sharon finds out significance of the brick game she had broken in the first episode.

Louise wants revenge for Martha's scathing comments about Steve and his father to the media. She goes to her office and hurls tomatoes at Martha. Nicole is present at the scene. She has no choice but to write about incident. Her Editor reminds her to be professional. Steve reads it and is furious. He storms over to Nicole's office and accuses Nicole of betraying him. Nicole defends herself, if she didn't do it, somebody else would have written it. She worked hard to build up her reputation for being professional.

Steve is utterly disappointed in her. He tells her that their relationship is over. She had picked her career over him, she had betrayed him, just like his own mother.

Sharon finds Steve at the restaurant playing his father's cello, alone. She berates him for giving up on his dreams by not cooking anymore. She tells him she’s taking back her resignation. She’s not giving it up without a fight.

by MediaCorp

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