David Campbell is the owner of David Campbell Fashions, the top fashion design firm in Ohio. For the last five years, his star designer has been Jamie Carter. Mallory Keaton starts working for David Campbell Fashions as an apprentice. Jamie shows David some of "her" designs, which unbeknownst to David has been plagiarized from Mallory. David is highly impressed, but days later, Jamie confesses that they were plagiarized.