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I see the other reviews here mention how Stella has a "strange fixation" and "strange relationship" with the little boy but it was revealed by her brother that she was in fact his mother and he used his money to hide it, run the father out of town and gave the boy to his employee Jesse who needed a kid.

So as emotionally unbalanced as she was, Stella was little Johnny's actual mother and it's possible that having her child taken from her made her the way she is. Or perhaps she was always unbalanced even before that. That's never made clear in this uneven episode.

In the beginning when we see Jesse getting beat up while Stella watches from her car with satisfaction, I hated her...but after things are revealed, it's perfectly understandable that she'd want to see the crap beaten out of the guy who basically stole her son away.

It seems she had a very overly protective and dominating brother who most likely had a hand in making her the emotional basket case she was. I can only imagine how he must have dominated every aspect of her life growing up and running all her other boyfriends out of town. And what's even more disturbing is that it's never explained just WHY her brother is this way with his sister.

Why run her boyfriend out of town especially if she was pregnant with his kid. And why take the kid from her and give it to someone else? None of this is ever explained and makes me wonder if there are more sinister goings on with this brother towards his sister to make him treat her this overly domineering. It's disturbing when you give it some thought, and I wound up feeling terrible for this poor woman. In the beginning, the viewer is led to believe she's some psychotic nutcase, but as the story unfolds, you realize that she was just a woman who desperately wanted Kimble's help getting her son back.

I believe the taking away her son is what caused her to have an emotional breakdown. When she tells Kimble how she sent letters and postcards to him about her situation (her son being taken away), I was confused by her words until I realized she was talking to Kimble but in her mind she was seeing Owen---the father of her son who her brother ran out of town. Of course all this is going to mess up a person and I can understand her mental break. The brother of hers is pretty evil the more I think about it.

The ending of this episode was especially sad because it showed no sign of her getting her boy back....yet the brother asks Jesse in the Epilogue if HE can visit and be part of the boy's life, but no mention of his mother ever being part of his life. What an evil monster. There's no happy ending in this one and no resolution and I believe this is the first time that Kimble couldn't fix a broken situation. I really would've liked a different ending where Stella is given her child back.

But as in life, I guess not everything can have a neat happy little ending. I think this is an episode that's worth a second viewing to really understand everything that's happening on the surface, and underneath.