Hard Headed Woman

*Series: A Girl Named Jo*

"**Hard Headed Woman**" is the seventh episode in the first season of *A Girl Named Jo*, and the seventh episode overall. It aired on August 14, 2018.

## Synopsis

*At the Homecoming basketball game Jo, Cathy, and Allen uncover a surprising new connection.*

## Plot

*Cathy arrives at school and sees Alice and Lawrence together trying to avoid them. Then runs into Principal Hurley who says that she might be in his office organizing the report cards in alphabetical order as punishment for skipping school too many times. Then Junior runs into her in the hall who asks her to the Phoenix Fest, she says that she can't knowing that her and Jo aren't on good terms. Junior tries to cheer her up saying she'll come around. Then Junior is at basketball practice preparing for the big home game with his team and Lawrence getting frustrated with jealousy as usual.*

The next day, Cathy wakes up for school and as she opens her eyes, she sees Ray holding a book with the "FH" letter inside it. He asks her what FH stands for and why their mother was hiding it, she responds by saying he's too young to understand and that people aren't always what they seem. Meanwhile, Bobby excitingly wakes up Jo telling her to get ready for the basketball game, Junior is having breakfast that Thomas brought from the diner, he sees Jo come in the kitchen and asks her if she will be attending the game, Jo says she won't. He then asks her to make up with Cathy because she won't go to the Phoenix Fest with him until she knows it's right by Jo, but Jo doesn't seem to care, then Junior says that Cathy cares about her and that it may be hard to believe, but she should just think about it and that it would really help him focus on winning the game for his team. He sees in her eyes that she wants to forgive Cathy as much as he wants her too.

Cathy and Allen are having a discussion, then Jo approaches them to apologize. The three of them make up and continue from where they left off. Meanwhile, the basketball team is getting ready for the game, Mr. Richards is giving a speech to motivate them, Lawrence is seen bribing the mascot. As they join hands and head to the gym the mascot trips Junior in favour of Lawrence, then Junior starts limping, Mr. Richards notices this and put Lawrence in his place in the starting lineup.

Jo and Cathy told each other about the things they heard regarding the 1950 fire incident from Bobby and Fiona and couldn't believe what they just heard from each other, except Allen. Then Cathy starts to remember about the records and that they date back to the year 1903, she decides to come up with a plan which involves getting the three of them in detention.

Junior is sitting on the bench disappointed for being removed from the starting lineup. Meanwhile, Cathy is discussing a plan with Jo and Allen, she mentions that earlier Principal Hurley said to her that he punishes disobedient students by alphabetizing the report cards in the secretary's office and says that there is a missing student and claims to find the person's report card, so she goes to see if anyones there. After she leaves, Jo asks Allen how Lenny got into drinking, Allen says that his father always drank just to have fun at parties, then at one point he got badly injured and tried to drink the pain away which led him to become an alcoholic and cause the fire and Allen and his mother leaving him. Then Jo claims that she has to go to Phoenix Fest for Cathy and asks Allen to be her date, Allen is shocked when Jo asks him to the dance knowing she didn't like him before, he says that he would love to. Then Cathy calls them to let them know what the coast is clear and to follow her.

Attaway High is facing off against the team from Millwood High, Lawrence manages to shoot a hoop making the score 2-0 for Attaway. Ray walks by and Thomas asks him if he's seen Jo anywhere, Ray says he hasn't seen her. Meanwhile, her Cathy and Allen are in the secretary's office looking for the report card from the much earlier years in hopes to find a student with the initials "F.H.".

Attaway high and Millwood high manage to tie up the scores, as the opposing player with the ball runs up, Lawrence shoves another opposing player out of his way causing the player to fall to the floor. The referee calls a foul, accusing Lawrence of touching another player, Lawrence gets infuriated at this and starts chirping at the ref calling him Hellen Keller, the Ref then kicks Lawrence out of the game for talking back and giving him attitude. Then Mr. Richards walks over to Junior wandering if he's good enough to play, Junior says his ankle is fine and tells throughout eons,him to put him in, so Mr. Richards puts Junior in to fill in Lawrence's shoes. Junior takes the court, starts of the play at a good pace scoring another goal for Attaway.

In the office, the gang is still trying to find the student with the initials "F.H." but had no luck. Jo suggests that maybe the person their looking for is a pen pal and didn't attend Attaway High.

Junior subs off to take a quick break when Lawrence tries to intimidate him, Junior taunts him and Lawrence gets angry and tries to fight him. Principal Hurley breaks them up and tells them to act like men. Then he sees Nurse Herbert Myers cheering on the bleachers, he asks her what she's doing here, and she says that her son play's for Millwood High. Then she says that there was a commotion that a young girl broke into one of the rooms in the hospital and can't figure out why. Hurley asks who the girl is, Herbert says that she had a fake name and was about 13-14. She then calls him by his first name and wishes him good luck. Ray overhears this finding out that Frank Hurley may be the person with the Initials "F.H.".

Cathy looks inside one of the books on the shelf and finds a letter in it. The letter reads "It seems like i've loved you forever, another time another place throughout eons, but in this time, in this place, I cannot continue to act upon those feelings, you can't act on those feelings, your getting married Frank, to Jane, and you know how she is, if she finds out, she'll kill me, I swear, she'll kill us all". Reading this, Cathy claims that she feels that her mom and Principal Hurley had an affair but was engaged to Jane Hovac. Then when Jane found out about the affair and threatened to expose Virginia, Hurley and Virginia killed her and then killed Frances Chambers by starting the fire and had Lenny Alvarez take the blame for it. But Jo and Allen don't believe her.

Meanwhile, Junior is about to score the winning point, just ten seconds left on the clock, he scores the final point and wins the game for Attaway High.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Jules LeBlanc as Jo Chambers
* Addison Riecke as Cathy Fitzroy
* Reid Miller as Allen Alvarez
* Tanner Fontana as Junior Chambers
* Joseph John Schirle as Lawrence DuPont

### Recurring Cast

* Wes Armstrong as Bobby Atkins
* Bella Shepard as Alice Hargrave
* Jake Getman as Ray Fitzroy
* JF Davis as Thomas Chambers
* Bruno Oliver as Mr. Richards
* Ty Miller as Principal Hurley