The two main hosts, Elaine and Nick, play likeable characters on it, but are rude and snooty off-screen. The other experts on the show are old friends of Jean, though, and she is happy to re-connect with them. Jeremy and Judith have offered up their "summer home" for the shooting and are eager to pitch in and help as well when it turns out that the crew have been delayed at the airport. Jeremy takes care of the snacks...
and Judith is appointed the makeup person....
Gloria has brought in some art to have evaluated and Elaine explains that it is a lithograph worth 600 pounds! She is delighted. After the shoot, they are wrapping things up outside when they hear a scream inside. It is Gloria, who had been talking to Elaine...who suddenly collapses!
Help is called...
But it is too late, Elaine has died. Gloria is overcome and must go lie down. It is determined Elaine has been poisoned. And no one can leave until the investigation is over.
Gloria needs her medication, and enlists Jeremy and Judith to sneak off the grounds to go get it.
Meanwhile, crew and fans are being questioned. Is the killer the antique expert who had been in the running with Elaine for a spot on a new show that was in the works? He had been seen giving her a bottle of water before the show. Or is it the guy who everyone thinks is a crazed fan, whom had just happened to have given Jeremy a box of chocolates to pass along to her? When Jean watches the footage, she notices that a chocolate had been eaten...so, aha! It must've been the crazed fan! Except...
Jeremy and Judith are back and reveal that THEY had eaten all the rest of the chocolates, and have NOT been poisoned. So, the chocolate guy has been ruled out.
This was a pretty fun episode. I won't reveal who the killer winds up being or why this person did it, but it's not too hard to have figured out from the little clues along the way.
I'm trying to get through these episodes quickly before my 2 months of reduced-price Acorn subscription is up near the end of January, so enjoy this flurry of posts after such a long period of quiet, ha ha!
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