February 2021 arrives with windows STILL held in by plastic sheeting and tape, a foreman with a sledgehammer and a grudge, and a renovation project that should have wrapped weeks ago. The Castle is close - so close - but Moreno isn't done making them earn it.

What follows is a week of compounding chaos: master bedroom windows measured and cut wrong, a two-week rush order, window screens delivered pristine but found mangled the next morning, an island that arrives oversized, and exterior window frames that are visibly, nakedly crooked.

And then, into all of this chaos, walks Juan Solo.

No crew. No assistant. Just one cabinet installer who sets up his tools, tells Moreno exactly what’s what, and gets to work. In a single day, Juan Solo accomplishes more than the Side Hustle crew has in weeks. Shari names it immediately: T ...