After all the headache and heartache that Mlilo has gone through with his family trying to prove his innocence, the truth finall comes out. Nthabi couldn’t take her past coming back to bite her so she finally confessed to lying.

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In a very unexoectedd turn of events, Bukhosi's past in the military come back to bite him when he least expects it. While in the house minding their own business, soldiers come in numbers to kidnap Nomafu in order to get Bukhosi to cooperate and give them what they want after counting all that he did and stole.

Donald tells Mpumi that he still loves her. He tells her that he has had a hard look within, and he feels that the reason for his coldness towards her was that he was hurting. He wants to fix things, and this leaves Mpumi confused. She mulls the news over with her family, who urges her to go to New York. She later decides that she wants to live her life and will move forward with moving to New York. This news comes as a surprise to Donald as he was sure that he had his family back together again.