Barton Scully asks Bill to supervise his electroshocks 'cure for homosexuality', but when it proves as painful as useless to save his marriage, attempts suicide by hanging. Given his infertility, Bill can't stand 'his' baby John's crying, nor his mother babysitting and meddling, so he shame-shocks her to return home, while courting Virginia, now specifically for lust. Virginia wines and kicks around on account of true or assumed inappropriate behavior since the sex research presentation gave her a whorish reputation. Bill fears he can barely hope for another hospital gynecology practice, but horny industrialist Gene Moretti's donation buys him one with research privileges in Dr. Douglas Greathouse's general hospital. Dr. Ethan Haas's patience about his wedding proposal while he prepares a better life in California is cruelly rewarded when Virginia becomes Bill's lover instead.
—KGF Vissers