The first couple are Paul (Nick Read) and Jill (Mika Simmons).  Jill went to Harvard and she is very successful in her career.  They have twin boys who are six.  Paul however is in a career which is fading and seems to resent his wife.  This resentment is taking the form of Paul wanting to be unfaithful.  Nick’s solution is for Jill and Paul get to get a divorce. 

Surgeon Barry (Kevin Shen) and his wife Mia (Rosanna Hyland) just want to buy a brownstone house in New York but Nick suggests that they should instead invest half a million dollars in his company.  Mia and Jill are sisters. Barry wants to return to the less well paid humanitarian work he did when he was younger and Mia is a photographer.  

The third couple are teacher Ben (Nathaniel Curtis) and Suzie (Debbie Korley).  Ben wants a child but Suzie does not.  Suzie is the most suspicious of Nick and his business plan and with due cause.