I Can't Help Myself

*Series: A Girl Named Jo*

"**Runaway Girl**" is the fourth episode in the first season of *A Girl Named Jo*, and the fourth episode overall. It aired on July 24, 2018.

## Synopsis

*At the Fitzroy's annual Garden Party, secrets are revealed.*

## Plot

Russell and Virginia are getting ready for their Annual Garden Party. Meanwhile, Cathy sneaks into her father's office with Jo and begin searching for clues about the 1950 fire incident. She drops one of the files containing a letter, she picked it up, ran out of the office with Jo along with the letter and runs into her father who asks why she's in a rush, Cathy responds by saying she forgot something.

Cathy lends Jo one of her dresses to wear for the party and reads the letter she found. It was a love letter from someone with the initials FH, possibly someone that her parents knew. After she reads it, she believes that the person who wrote it mean't to give it to her mother, but she knows it's not her father because it's not his handwriting but possibly someone very close to her mother. Cathy believes that "FH" will be at the party so she and Jo come up with a plan to find him so they can investigate more about her mother. They decide to keep track of all the guests names on the list and ask everyone for their name so they can find out who "FH" is.

After a while, they went through several people but not one of then possessed the initials "FH", then Cathy finds someone on the list named Fred Holsten and believes this might be the person their looking for. Jo sees Allen Powell and asks Cathy what he's doing here, Cathy says that she invited him because she felt bad for him. Then she sees Alice and Lawrence together, Virginia goes to greet them and calls her daughter over, but she walks away, then Virginia believes that Jo Chambers is a bad influence.

Jo and Allen are sitting next to each other at a table, then Cathy calls them both over and tells them she has a plan. She tells Allen that their looking for someone named Fred Holsten, Allen finds the name tag on one of the seats. Virginia and Russell announce to the guests that they will be constructing a hotel with the DuPont Family. Then at dinner, Jo, Cathy and Allen take their plan into action. Jo asks Fred if he's from around these parts, Fred says he's not from Attaway, then Cathy asks him how long he's known her parents, he says that him and Virginia were toddlers when they met and and became good friends. He mentioned that he was her dat to the Spring Fling dance and shortly he met Abigail Holsten, the woman that he would marry. Cathy and Jo realized that Fred was not the person they were looking for, then a man named Franklin Hoover came to the party. Cathy tries to go up to them but is stopped by Alice who purposely spills water on her face to get her attention with Lawrence standing beside her. Jo steps in and tells the two of them to back off, but Lawerence taunts her and says its non of her business, then Cathy pushes him angrily. Then Russell and Virginia get up and ask her why she's acting like this, Cathy responds by saying she's fed up with the way her family is treating her and making her be someone that she isn't. Virginia slaps her across the face, then Cathy storms off and Jo follows her inside. Cathy is inside upset in her room and Jo is beside her comforting her.

Meanwhile at the Chambers', Bobby goes into Jo's room looking for her and sees a stack of photos on her bed. He looks through all of them and then comes across the photo of Frances Chambers and then starts to drift away in his mind.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Jules LeBlanc as Jo Chambers
* Addison Riecke as Cathy Fitzroy
* Reid Miller as Allen Alvarez
* Bella Shepard as Alice Hargrave
* Joseph John Schirle as Lawrence DuPont

### Recurring Cast

* Wes Armstrong as Bobby Atkins
* Jake Getman as Ray Fitzroy
* Joel Martin-Cox as Franklin Hoover
* Andrew Rush as Fred Holsten
* Kelly Frazier as Abigail Holsten
* Christie Lynn Smith as Virginia Fitzroy
* Tom Kiesche as Russell Fitzroy
* Hope Inchiostro as Mrs. Holloway