- Emily Baldwin: Mamie is missing. I looked all over for her. I looked all over the house, all over the grounds, under the furniture, up the chimney...
- Ike Godsey: I give up. I don't know where she is. I guess we'd better call the sheriff.
- Emily Baldwin: And the FBI.
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The end of World War Two brought a period of readjustment for the men who had served in the armed forces. Restless soldiers returned home to towns that looked smaller than they remembered. And families found their sons to be different from the boys who had marched off to war. Some of them were eager to assume the responsibilities of life, while others floundered, determined to make up for the years they had lost.