Fairgrounds

*Series: A Girl Named Jo*

"**Fairgrounds**" is the seventh episode in the third season of *A Girl Named Jo*, and the twenty-second episode overall. It aired on July 31, 2019.

## Synopsis

*Cathy dives deeper into a mystery at Crown Lake. Meanwhile, Jo enjoys a starlit night with a special someone.*

## Plot

*It’s late at night after the Crown Lake ball. Jo and Abby seem to be drifting apart from one another. Jo makes a call to contact Cathy who was waiting for midnight to strike so she can meet with Frank Hurley. Jo then gets her book with Felix's phone number written on it and makes an attempt to call him. Felix answers and Jo tells him that she’s feeling homesick and doesn’t know where to go, then he tells her to meet him at the fair entrance at 4:30 a.m. for a talk.*

*Andre is arguing with Harold who is trying to convince everyone not to get aggressive with the World’s Fair. Andre tells him they need to take drastic action on the stage known as the World’s Fair. Harold tells them it’s a bad idea and that the fair has security lurking around 24/7, then Andre tells him that he is the key of getting them in and when they do, they will take action. Harold doesn’t agree with Andre's way of thinking and decides to leave his group.*

*Cathy is holding the Crown Lake box, waiting for Hurley when he finally shows up to talk. She tells him that she needs answers for her and Jo, he asks to see the box she’s holding. Hurley says that they are both alike, considering they were both born into lives of privilege. Then he tells her his story of how he grew up in the biggest house in Crown Lake and his father was the president of the country club. He says he very lonely growing up until the summer of 1949, when a new girl named Frances Atkins came to the club to work as a waitress, and the moment he saw her, he fell in love. He explains how he didn’t have the courage to talk to her until the very last day of summer, on the night of the ball when the King and Queen of Crown Lake are chosen. He mentions that there was disapproval taking an employee to the dance, but his mother had someone else in mind for him, Olivia Cunningham. Both their families decided that they would be together because they were old money, but Hurley had told Olivia that he had feeling for someone else, then he saw Frances Atkins and asked her to dance which Olivia was not happy with. Then at the end of the night, Hurley and Olivia were both chosen to be King and Queen forcing Hurley to leave Frances. He says that he couldn’t find the courage to walk away from tradition, stand by Frances and show her that he loved her. Cathy asks him why he didn’t tell her how he felt, he responds by saying he knew he had to win her back, so he thought about giving her a grand gesture by crowning Frances as the true Queen of Crown Lake. So he stole the tiara of Crown Lake and drove to Attaway to see Frances. But when he arrived, it was already too late when Thomas Chambers had already proposed to her. He tells her that his love for Frances never faded, even when he was engaged to Jane Hovac. He explains that when Thomas went off to war, he saw her at the diner one day and struck up a conversation and they spend more and more time together. His wife Jane Hovac grew suspicious, and she found all the letters to Frances which drove her to start the fire that day killing her and Frances. He tells Cathy that she’s still young and still has a choice  and convinces her to forget the mystery and to live her life as a normal person. He then says goodbye and tells her when she sees Jo again to tell her he’s sorry for everything.*

*After a while in New York, Jo meets upon with Felix at the Underground House who has prepared a date for them both. They were having a wonderful time, Jo filled Felix in on her summer adventures and then told him about the secret she couldn’t tell anyone about the photos and the address on the letter. She tells him that Mrs. Hollingsworth isn’t her mother after all and isn’t rich. Felix tells her that she is the only girl he admires rich or not and offers her some dessert.*

*Abby heard a knock at the door. She goes to open it to see Harold outside, she brings him in for a chat. He tells Abby that she was right about Andre saying he tried to talk him out of his plan to interrogate the fair but refused to listen. Abby worries knowing that Jo and Felix are there right as they speak, so Harold decides to warn them and Abby insists she go with him to protect her friend.*

*Felix finished eating with Jo and then takes her outside the backyard to show her the night sky. They both admire the sky and each other and get lost in the afterglow. Then Abby and Harold arrive to tell them that its not safe for them to be at the fair, Felix and Jo demand to know what’s going on, but they hear security and hide in the backyard.*

## Cast

### Main cast

* Jules LeBlanc as Jo Chambers
* Addison Riecke as Cathy Firzroy
* Taylor Mosby as Abby Hughes
* Aidan Merwarth as Felix
* Cree Kawa as Harold

### Recurring Cast

* JF Davis as Thomas Chambers (flashback)
* Jay Reeves as Andre
* Ty Miller as Frank Hurley
* Alice Mackay as young Frances Chambers
* Nicholas Adam Clark as Young Hurley