- Ba Nee's depression grows as her search for her father continues with no results. Jerrica takes matters into her own hands and does everything in her power to track down Ba Nee's long lost father.
- Ba Nee is becoming more and more depressed because she doesn't know who her father is, at one point refusing to speak with her friends among the Starlight girls, and spending a great deal of time isolating herself in her room. Even a visit from an adult friend (whom Ba Nee became convinced was her father in season 1's episodes 23 and 24, titled "The Jem Jam, part 1/2") doesn't cheer her up-- it simply reminds her that she doesn't have a father in her life.
Because Ba Nee's mother insisted before her death that Ba Nee's father was a redheaded Vietnam veteran, Jerrica Benton asks Riot to discuss the situation with his own father, who is an officer in the army and has access to military service records. They track down two men who could be Ba Nee's father. One man, Martin O'Carolan, has amnesia and remembers nothing of An Loc. He retired from the military and became a painter, consistently painting a particular Asian woman whom he claims he dreams of but doesn't actually know. The other turns out to be a con man, though he seems nice enough at first and shows much interest in Ba Nee. The man takes her on a father/daughter trip that becomes a kidnapping attempt, in which he drags Ba Nee to an abandoned zoo as he tries to bilk Jem and the Starlight Music company out of a great deal of money in exchange for Ba Nee's safe return.
As the Holograms drive Martin O'Carolan back to Starlight Mansion, he begins to have flashbacks to his time in An Loc, Vietnam, where he remembers Ba Nee's mother and her pregnancy. When he finds out where Ba Nee is, he rushes to her rescue, having flashbacks the entire time. Meanwhile, Ba Nee escapes from the con man and falls into a pit. Martin O'Carolan eventually rescues Ba Nee, resulting in the con man getting his due and a happy ending-- though a sad goodbye for the Holograms, the Stingers, and the Starlight Girls-- in which Martin O'Carolan claims Ba Nee as his own daughter and they leave for his home as a family.
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