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Henry invites new neighbors Richard Whitney (James Staley) and his daughter Julie (Candace Cameron) over for dinner. Punky, Cherie, and Julie are making a cake for after dinner when they see Julie’s picture on the back of a milk carton, which says that her real name is Jennifer Bates, and that she went missing from Lawrence, Kansas. Jennifer runs to her apartment and shows Richard the milk carton. The next thing Richard knows, Jennifer has run away, but Richard refuses to let anyone call the cops. Punky finds Jennifer in the tree house. Jennifer’s mad at her father, but Punky tells Jennifer how lucky she is to have him. She then comes back in with Punky, and asks Richard why her picture was on the milk carton. Richard admits that after he and Jennifer’s mother Roberta got divorced, she got custody of Jennifer and had cruelly been trying to cut Richard’s visitation rights as much as possible in an effort to hurt Richard by keeping him out of Jennifer’s life, and Richard loves Jennifer too much to be kept out of her life. Richard knew that Roberta and her new husband were planning to move to the west coast, meaning he would hardly ever get to see Jennifer again, and he ran off with Jennifer so he could stay in her life. Richard decides to call Roberta and tell her where Jennifer is.
