After looking through the hut one more time, Ginger made a discovery. "I found a note," the movie star announced.

"What does it say?" Gilligan asked.

Ginger read, "Sorry, its just too painful to stay here. I'm going to the other side of the island. Please don't try to find me."

The Skipper ignored Mary Ann's request. "She'll never make it out there alone. We have to find her," the Captain announced.

Ginger said, "I'd love to help you go look, but since I have to do Mary Ann's chores as well as my own, I think I should stay here."

Mr. Howell said, "I think my and Mrs. Howell's place is guarding our jewels and money. After all, there is a notorious criminal on the island."

The Professor said, "Mary Ann is innocent until proven guilty. Skipper, why don't you and Gilligan start searching the jungle, and I'll join you as soon as I finish some important tests."

The Skipper looked frustrated and said, "It looks like it's just you and me, Little Buddy. You take the low road and I'll take the high."

After Gilligan and the Skipper left, the Professor said to the remaining castaways, "I think we may have prejudged Mary Ann."

"We did the right thing, Professor, there are a lot of valuables on this island," Mr. Howell argued.

The Professor replied, "Even if she is this pie bandit, she's only been sweet and helpful on the island. Maybe what happened on the mainland is unimportant."

"Maybe the Professor's right, what happened there stays there, and we should focus on who we are here." Ginger agreed.

Mr. Howell grunted, "Stealing two million unimportant, bite your tongue."

The Professor said, "Actually my important test involves biting something else." The professor then took a healthy slice from the pie Gilligan was eating the night before and devoured it. The Professor then charged off in the woods.

Ginger looked worried and said, "We better follow him, he might pass out."

Mrs. Howell agreed, "Good idea, we don't want to see him fall and hurt himself."

Mr. Howell just grunted, "Scientists."

Meanwhile, on the Other Side of the island….

Gilligan heard sobbing in the cave, and went in to investigate. "Mary Ann?" He asked, figuring it wasn't a crying boar.

Mary Ann shouted, "Go away!"

Gilligan said, "I'm sorry you're upset. I know you couldn't have done the things you said."

"Really?" asked Mary Ann.

"Really," said Gilligan.

Mary Ann sniffled and said, "When you fell asleep eating my pie, I figured they would blame me."

Gilligan said, "I couldn't sleep in Skippers hammock. The chair was comfortable and I just fell asleep. I don't think it was the pie."

The Professor walked up, "I don't think it was the pie either. I had about half of the coconut cream and I don't feel the least bit sleepy."

The Skipper, the Howells, and Ginger joined the other three shortly after that.

Ginger said, "Mary Ann, what happened in Kansas stays in Kansas. All that matters is who you are to us."

Mary Ann, unsure of how to answer that replied, "Thanks, I think, but I didn't do anything."

The Professor said, "Please come back Mary Ann, there will be no more hut arrest. No more suspicion."

Mary Ann said, "Thank you Professor."

With Mary Ann back in camp, doing full chores, the castaways ate well that night. They each even had two slices of pie. Mr. Howell then turned on the radio for the nightly business report.

The announcer said, "We now have a follow up story regarding the Kansas Pie Bandit. We cut now to Leavenworth, Kansas, where Special Agent Nelson Elliot of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is holding another press conference."

The Skipper said, "We don't need to hear this Howell, turn it off."

As Thurston was reaching for the knob, Mary Ann spoke up. "No, I need to hear it," she said. Mr. Howell left the radio on.

Elliot's gravel voice came on, "It would appear that when the initial interview was broadcast, inmate Bobbi Lee Gentry of the women's ward of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary started shouting 'Mary Ann doesn't make the best pies, I make the best pies.' Gentry has been serving time since 1964 for forging sleeping pill prescriptions."

Mary Ann said, "Bobbi Lee and I were always in competition at the county fair for the best pies. One year I would win, one year she would."

Elliot continued, "The case was reopened at the insistence of Summers family friend Rep. Robert Dole. Further investigation shows that the Pie Bandit crimes stopped shortly before Gentry entered prison, and that the brand of sleeping pill Gentry purchased fraudulently matched the drugs found in the pies."

Mary Ann triumphantly said, "Good ol' uncle Bob. I told you I didn't do it."

The castaways sheepishly went into a chorus of, "Sorry, Mary Ann."

Mary Ann returned to her cheerful self and said, "Lets just put this behind us and move on. We are a family, and family members sometimes jump to conclusions."

The other six castaways found that agreeable.

Mr. Howell later asked Mary Ann, "So… you know Bob Dole?"