After Roy decides to run for Nantucket city counsel, Joe is urged to throw his hat in the ring. Fay makes an appearance for Joe and ends up being endorsed by the local newspaper. Lowell takes a beauty parlor poll and finds Joe is far behind Roy in the race. Joe realizes he does not have a chance and steps down. Fay is determined to win until Roy confides in her a sad childhood school election story. During the debate the next night, the audience begins to laugh at Roy. Fay recalls Roy's tale of woe and pictures him as a sullen child standing at the podium. She decides to speak up for him and his ideas thus handing him the election. Roy happily celebrates drinking champagne, alone. In other happenings, Helen places a classified as to sell her prized cello but will only sell to someone who will take care of it, not to a child or man with a monkey.