Shake, Rattle, and Roll

*Series: A Girl Named Jo*

"**Shake, Rattle, and Roll**" is the eighth episode in the first season of *A Girl Named Jo*, and the eighth episode overall. It aired on August 21, 2018.

## Synopsis

The truth about the fire comes out at Phoenix Fest.

## Plot

Ms. Gardener runs into the classroom saying that there was terrible news. She turns on the radio, everyone comes to listen saying that there was a shooting in Dallas, Texas. Hearing this, the committee thought about canceling Phoenix Fest, but Principal Hurley decided against the idea saying that it's all about coming together and feeling safe.

It's the night of the Phoenix fest, and at the Fitzroy's, Cathy and Jo are getting ready. Cathy has Jo try on a bunch of differ ent dresses. Ten minutes later, Junior and Allen arrive at the front waiting for them. Jo comes outside with Cathy wearing a beautiful white dress, Allen and Junior are amazed by their beauty, they both deeply complement Cathy and Jo and they all head off to the Phoenix Fest.

They finally arrive, everyone was present including Cathy's parents. Junior sees Principal Hurley, he tries to get his attention but Cathy, Jo and Allen shush him. He wonders if something is up with the three of them, then Cathy brings him to the lunch table to get his mind of it.

Ray is then seen walking down the school hall holding a xerox until he's pushed against the lockers by the two bullies that took his signed baseball from before. They started teasing him and wouldn't let him go, until Mr. Richards sees them, he gets their attention and threatens them telling the two to leave him alone.

Ray arrives at the Phoenix fest with the xerox that Cathy told him to make. Jo takes the xerox and Allen tells Ray to keep them safe until Hurley gets on stage then they will begin their plan to expose Hurley and Virginia.

Then all the students start dancing on the dance floor and as Jo and Allen are dancing together, they look over each other's shoulders to keep an eye on Hurley, then Allen pulls her in closer. Meanwhile, Junior is happily dancing with Cathy knowing all the stress is off his shoulders. But wonders why her and Jo weren't at the game, he asks her this and tries to distract him toward Jo and Allen, he looks over at them and then looks away.

Lawrence and Alice are dancing together looking miserable, Alice mentions that everything they need is riding on winning phoenix court and that all that matters to them. Then all the students form a line and start dancing down two by two, Cathy and Jo then Junior and Allen. Meanwhile, Ms. Jenkins and Hurley are seen having a conversation, Jo notices this and approaches him, Hurley greets her complementing her dress without stains. Jo then tries to expose him as "F.H." and he says that he doesn't know what she's talking about and walks away.

Then Hurley makes an announcement on stage, Allen claims that he is clear on their plan and that Ray will meet him back where they stand after the phoenix court is announced. As Hurley is talking on stage, he mentions that Jane Hovac was his fiancé. Then Cathy approaches her mother and asks to speak with her but is cut off. She then shows her the letters that she found from Hurley and tells her dad that she was cheating on him with Frank Hurley and killed Jane Hovac in the fire and says that she will inform the police about it. Jo tells them that they have proof and Virginia tears the letters up, but Cathy tells her that they made copies so its pointless, then Virginia gets up and brings her and Jo aside to speak with them.

Cathy ashamed at her father for not doing anything about Hurley and his wife, Virginia claims that she did not have an affair with Hurley but instead, Frances Chambers did. Cathy didn't believe this and said that she was lying.

Virginia says that she's been trying to keep this a secret for Frances because they were friends. She explains that Thomas Chambers went away to Korea, enlisted in the army and didn't tell her. Then when he got deployed, she became angry and lonely, stuck raising two Jo and Junior on her own. She then says that Frances and Hurley were old friends from school and reunited and went to the diner to reconnect. She then says that Jo's mother never knew her father until he came back home, and then she broke off the affair with Frank right away but it was too late when Jane Hovac found out about the affair when she read the letters from Frank to Frances. She showed up at the factory that same day to confront Frances, she held a pistol against her and attempted to kill her, but missed and hit a gas line which caused a fire in the factory. Russell mentions that he managed to get Jo's Frances out of the building saying that she was stubborn like Jo and went back inside to save Jane and were both killed in the fire.

At the party, Principal Hurley is about to announce the winners of the Phoenix court and that's when Allen and Ray take their plan into action. Meanwhile, Cathy asks her parents how Lenny Alvarez was involved in the incident, Russell explains that he was drunk and that he had to lay him off because he was in no condition to operate anything or supervise anyone saying that it wasn't safe at all. So they made an arrangement that Lenny would take the fall and Russell would pay him off so he wouldn't tell anyone. He also explains that they bribed the DA to reduce Lenny's sentence by one year and that he's been on monthly expense ever since. Jo asks then why they covered up the truth in the first place considering it was Jane's fault all along. Virginia explains that they were worried that a scandal would terrorize their family because her and Frances were friends and that they did it for the safety of Cathy and Ray.

Principal Hurley is announcing the king and queen of Phoenix Fest and Allen is hending out letters about the fake affair of Frank Hurley and Virginia Fitzroy. Hurley announces the king and queen who are Junior Chambers and Alice Hargrave. Then everyone starts reading the letters and are not happy with what it says, then Thomas arrives and him and Junior are infuriated at Jo for spreading lies about her and Cathy's family. Then Lenny comes through the door totally drunk, Allen is shocked to see him, then Lenny says that they are all liars and that it's best if he moved back in with his mother, and then shames everyone in the room for celebrating the day his life was ruined. Then he sees Russell, the man who supposedly ruined his life, pulls out a pistol from his pocket and attempts to shoot him, pulling the trigger.

## Cast

### Main cast

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

### Recurring Cast

* Christie Lynn Smith as Virginia Fitzroy
* Tom Kiesche as Russell Fitzroy
* Wes Armstrong as Bobby Atkins
* Jake Getman as Ray Fitzroy
* John Charles Meyer as Lenny Alvarez
* JF Davis as Thomas Chambers
* Bruno Oliver as Mr. Richards
* Ty Miller as Principal Hurley
* Rebecca Klingler as Ms. Gardener