Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love

I Want the Real Jamie! (1x37)

Air date: Sep 21, 1986

Bewildered by what she thought was the foregone conclusion of her »investigation« having backfired, Pollyanna immediately secludes herself in a desperate bid to compute how she could have gotten it wrong along with why there are such stark inequities in the world as evidenced by the engagement where she saw James eat a single doughnut as his lunch; upon detecting Pollyanna's diminished appetite as the sign of a cumbersome deviant diagnostic, Ruth is not slow in pointing out the futility of Pollyanna starving herself out of anguish or expressing that Pollyanna's emphatic entreaties further inflames her frustration at her assistance being refused. Astonished at the changes Ruth has undergone, Della is astounded when she has it explained that Ruth is summoning her for an executive engagement to express her frustration at James's current living conditions along with the lack of a conclusive apparatus to discern his identity as Jaime Kent -- a task that Della and Bridget cannot do when they accompany Ruth and Pollyanna to visit James who is recuperating alone in a much better-maintained apartment. In a bid to cheer up Ruth and place things in a healthy perspective, Della recounts Pollyanna's excitement about guiding Ruth through finding something to be glad about upon arriving in Boston before relaying Bridget's account about the prologue of Jaime's protracted absence; as such, Jaime is likely under better family government than James is at Murphy-ke and that everybody wins if Ruth houses James with her. Pollyanna and Murphy-ke are both ecstatic at Ruth's ultimate decision of concurrent residence with James; unfortunately for all relevant parties, Ruth's honesty about the anguishing absence of her nephew and her curriculum of enlightenment for James becomes of null utility when it drives home that her motives are not truly altruistic -- and that James has decided that such must never pay off for her!!!