Austin gets a phone call in the middle of the night from his parents informing him that his mother is in labor. He gets Walt, the security guard, to give him a ride to the hospital. The baby is born shortly after his arrival. Austin’s father reports that it is a girl, and her name is Skylar. Austin also discovers that she is hearing. When he realizes how happy that news makes his hearing father, Austin storms out of the room.

One month into the semester, Charlie hits a wall. While she knows a great deal more than when she arrived at River Valley, it is still very hard for her to keep up with everyone’s signing. One day, frustrated that she still has so much to learn, she mouths off in Headmistress Waters’s class and gets sent to her office. February scolds her and assigns her to the stage crew for the upcoming school play.

On her way back to her door, Charlie runs into her mother, having forgotten that she has a doctor’s appointment to check up on her implant.

At the hospital, Charlie requests an interpreter. With his help, she tells the doctor that her implant is bothering her.