The Strangest Dream

*Series: A Girl Named Jo*

"**The Strangest Dream**" is the seventh episode in the second season of *A Girl Named Jo*, and the fifteenth episode overall. It aired on February 19, 2019.

## Synopsis

A peaceful protest turns violent in Attaway.

## Plot

Debbie is not seen in her office, so Jo and Abby go into her office to make an announcement to the school that there will be a boycott to support people of all races at the Attaway diner. After the announcement, Jo leaves and Debbie appears behind the door hiding. Abby feels weird not telling Jo about their plan, then Debbie tells her to trust in her.

Thomas is fixing the baby's room when Bobby comes in. He apologizes for leaving again, then explains himself that its the only thing he knew how to do. He says he doesn't know why he even went back to San Francisco considering there's not much left for him there and that last year watching Jo and Junior grow up meant everything to him. He tells him not to sell the diner to Ernie Sutherland because is a deceiving racist bully, Thomas tells him that he had no other offers. Bobby tells him that he would buy the diner if the could afford it.

Allen goes up to Alice at her locker and asks if she would be interested in dating him, she tells him that she can't because it will ruin her reputation at school and tells him to have common sense. Allen, out of pitty tells her that he thought she was different but is still the same mean girl from before, then walks away before Jo sees this and pities him.

In chemistry class, Cathy asks Dwight if he's considering doing the boycott with Jo and Abby, he says that people like him have to take the highroad and not stoop to the level of racists and that Abby would never forgive him if he didn't agree. Meanwhile, Henry is at the diner and is holding the contract for the $200,000 loan. He gives the contract to Ernie who gives him the $200,000 loan in cheque from the bank.

Junior Chambers is called down to the principal's office. He walks in and sees Debbie ready to give birth, she tells him that Thomas is waiting at the hospital and asks him to take her. He says he will and drive her car to the hospital.

Jo and the people are at the diner leading the protest against Ernie Sutherland along with Abby and Cathy, Dwight and Bobby. Ernie looks out the window and is infuriated, so he calls Russell Fitzroy and tells him that there is a protest outside the diner and that his daughter Cathy is involved. Then he tells him that Henry gave him the contract and took the loan with the $200,000 from the Fitzroy's and DuPont's bank accounts. Russell is enraged at this, seeing the contract that Henry signed in order to take their money.

Ernie comes out of the diner and yells at everyone to go away for he will call the cops. Jo tells him that they have the right to be where they are. Bobby cheers with the crown in Ernie's face, Ernie pushes him away and they both go into a full on fist fight. Bobby is punched in the stomach and punches Ernie in the face knocking him to the ground. Then Ernie gets one of the signs and attempts to whack Bobby with it, he starts swinging and accidentally hits Cathy knocking her out. As she's out, she has a vision of the dream she had every night of the child calling her name, then she wakes up and tells Bobby and Jo that they have to go.

Debbie is at the hospital giving birth to her child, she gave birth to her child which happened to be a girl. Thomas and Junior are speaking with the doctor who tells them that she will stay the night and for them to go home.

Alice is at Allen's house looking for him and sees Lenny on the couch dead. The police arrive to come and take his lifeless body to the funeral home. Then Alice notices that Lenny left a letter for Allen, she gives it to him. Allen reads the letter and is in tears, then and Alice makes him a promise saying that she will be there for him.

As there walking down the woods, Cathy tells Jo and Bobby about Henry , saying that when her and Ray were little, Henry used to lock them up in places like basements, cellars and any place with a lock. Jo is creeped out at this. She then tells them that one day when Ray was barely able to walk yet, Henry locked him away in a shed deep in the woods. Three days later, they found him starved and when they found out what happened, Virginia and Russell sent henry away to Finely for seven years as punishment hoping that he will change. Then Cathy tells them she believes Lawrence is in that same shed. They find the shed, they go inside and see Lawrence beat and tied up covered in blood saying that he's been trapped in there for days. He says that Henry was forcing him to write postcards making everyone think he was on vacation with his parents while he was actually being tortured by Henry. He tells them that Henry and his girlfriend took $200,000 from their families.

Henry arrives at the hospital to see Debbie who is holding her daughter in her arms. She tells him that they need to stick to their plan and that everyone is distracted by the protest. She asks him if he got the money, he opens the bag with all the money containing the $200,000 he stole from the Fitzroy and DuPont families saying that they have enough to start a new life far away from Attaway and his family. Henry asks her what they will do with their daughter, she tells him she has a plan for that too, they share a kiss and she tells him she loves him. It is revealed that Debbie was dating Henry and was working with him the whole time.

Cathy comes home to find Henry, but is nowhere to be seen. Virginia tells her that he left and took their car and all the money in her purse. She is disappointed and tells her that there aren't always happy ending and then tells her to go to bed.

After that, the police tell the Fitzroy's that Deborah Collins was a teacher at Finley Academy and that her and Henry met, fell in love and had a child. Then they told them that Debbie and Henry were lying to them about what they told them and that they needed an excuse to stay in Attaway for the time being. Henry's excuse was to be apart of the family business tricking Russell and Lawrence in order to get a loan from the bank. Russell was very upset knowing that his own son betrayed him and disgrace his family. With Henry gone, both families owed the bank $100,000 which was too much for them to afford, so Chuck bought the Fitzroy's out of the hotel.

After the protest, Ernie Sutherland was eager to get rid of the bar so he sold it to none other than Allen Alvarez who asked and wanted to turn it into an arcade with the money his dad had saved before he passed away.

The Chambers are having dinner and are now struggling without the diner especially with Thomas heartbroken about Debbie running off and leaving him with nothing. But later that night, the door bell rings, Thomas goes to answer it and sees Henry and Debbie's newborn baby on the doorstep. Thomas decided to raise the as his own to love and care for.

As for Cathy, she started dating Dwight who has a lot in common with her.

A week after Henry and Debbie left Attaway, Jo and Abby met up at the Greyhound station in Millwood. Jo and Abby decide to leave Attaway for a while and go to New York.

## Cast

### Main cast

* Jules LeBlanc as Jo Chambers
* Addison Riecke as Cathy Firzroy
* Taylor Mosby as Abby Hughes
* Terrell Ransom Jr. as Dwight Hughes
* Reid Miller as Allen Alvarez
* Tanner Fontana as Junior Chambers
* Bella Shepard as Alice Hargrave

### Recurring Cast

* Joseph John Schirle as Lawrence DuPont
* JF Davis as Thomas Chambers
* Christie Lynn Smith as Virginia Fitzroy
* Tom Kiesche as Russell Fitzroy
* Kai Caster as Henry Fitzroy
* Agnes Albright as Debbie Collins
* Wes Armstrong as Bobby Atkins