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Hallmark's Mistletoe Murders - S1 E3 - Peril of the Belles Pt. 1

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Jingle all the way… to murder? In this episode of Pour the Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, "Peril of the Bells, Pt. 1” is unwrapped! The holiday spirit takes a deadly turn when a sleigh plummets off a roof during choir practice, nearly killing Debbie. For Emily, a sharp-eyed amateur sleuth, this isn’t the first red flag. With a history of near misses, and one confirmed death, the choir’s festive façade may be hiding a killer. Join Garry & Amy as they dissect the mystery, the mayhem, and the mistletoe in a Christmas tale where every note could be your last.

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Amy:

Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's rom-com time where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom-com on the Hallmark Channel. I'm Amy.

Garry:

And I'm Gary.

Amy:

And I really think you should pour that Cabernet Sauvignon.

Garry:

And I really think you're right.

Amy:

I think you're right. It's time for some wine.

Garry:

Yes, it is.

Amy:

Welcome back to Tinsel Tuesdays, where we review all things Christmas. Today we're reviewing episode number three of Mistletoe.

Garry:

Murders, murders.

Amy:

Peril of the Bells, part one. It originally aired on Hallmark Plus on November 14th 2024. And this is our first go-around watching it. We did not catch it in November, but we are catching it now.

Garry:

Yes, we are.

Amy:

For our Tinsel Tuesdays.

Garry:

Woo-hoo. Well, we'd love it if you would click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform.

Amy:

Yes, we would.

Garry:

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Amy:

And we hope that it's a positive review.

Garry:

We have one review so far.

Amy:

We're so excited and grateful and thankful and it was a five and we would appreciate more if you listen to it to us and you like it.

Garry:

Then we'd really appreciate you leaving a review yeah, and you can also find us on social media facebook, instagram, blue sky x and, of course, threads all the socials.

Amy:

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Garry:

Yes, please do.

Amy:

You can also email us at pourthewineisromcomtime at gmailcom. Yay.

Garry:

No dashes.

Amy:

No apostrophes in the email.

Garry:

Nope.

Amy:

Just pourthewineisromcomtime.

Garry:

There you go. So are we adding any actors for this episode?

Amy:

We are. We're going to add a few because, you know, as you know, the first two episodes sort of wrapped up that murder.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

One and two, so now we have some new actors, actors, actors that are involved in the murder.

Garry:

Mm-hmm.

Amy:

A new group we have in addition to the main characters which you can go and listen to episode one.

Garry:

Yes and two.

Amy:

And two. Probably Well, I think it was episode one.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, where, if you want to hear information about the main actors in this, but in episode three they have added Raven Douda plays Debbie Branigan.

Garry:

Okay, for.

Amy:

Hallmark. She was in A Nutcracker Christmas in 2016. Some of her other work includes the Hulu series Spellbound, where she was in 39 episodes from 2023 to 2024. She was in Star Trek Discover 17 episodes from 2018 to 2024. Lifetime's yes, chef Christmas. We watched that. That was really cute 2023.

Garry:

Yep.

Amy:

She voiced the character Charisse on three episodes of the Mistletoe Murders podcast.

Garry:

Okay, in 2023.

Amy:

Four episodes of Umbrella Academy in 2020. That pops up a lot, and three episodes of Suits in 2016.

Garry:

There's that bean pie again.

Amy:

Suits comes up, huh.

Garry:

There's that bean pie again.

Amy:

That's right. Arlene Duncan plays Vera Van Dorn For Hallmark. She was in one episode of the good witch in 2018. I didn't see any other homework work for her. Okay, but she has done rom-coms for other networks. She was in a change in heart in 2025, loving every minute in 2023 and the great holiday bake war in 2022. Some of her other work includes Dix Town the series, 15 episodes between 2019 and 2022, two episodes of Suits in 2015, and Eloise at Christmastime in 2003.

Amy:

David Delancey Wilson plays Lance Mitford. He was in one other Hallmark production. Catch Me If you Claws, that's cute too.

Garry:

We saw it in 2023.

Amy:

Some of his other work includes Murdoch Mysteries. He was in one other Hallmark production Catch Me If you Claws. That's cute too. That's funny. We saw it in 2023. Some of his other work includes Murdoch Mysteries one episode in 2025, good Sam one episode in 2023, and the Handmaid's Tale.

Garry:

Ooh the Handmaid's Tale. He was in one episode in 2018. There's a new one.

Amy:

Jamie Spilchuck plays Adam Jameson. Some of his Hallmark work includes one episode of when hope calls in 2019. Now, when hope calls was on the hallmark channel for one season, but it's now on the great american family network I guess for subsequent seasons. He was in christmas in love in 2018 and two episodes of the good witch in 2016. He also has done some rom-coms for other networks. He was in Mr Positively, perfect Positively.

Garry:

Positively.

Amy:

And the Love Issue in 2023. And Christmas Around the Corner in 2018. He, too, was in one episode of Suits in 2011. It seems like all these actors make a stop at Suits.

Amy:

Nicole Fulisteseski plays Nikki. This is her Hallmark premiere. She's been in about a dozen things and a few of them are Stealing the Sky in 2025 and one episode of Slip in 2023. Slip. Isaac Cragton plays Pete. This is his Hallmark debut. His other work includes Shore C, which is a Hulu series. He was in five episodes in 2025. The movie War with Grandpa in 2020 with Robert De Niro Okay. That's not too shabby and a series called Odd Squad. It's a kid series on PBS. He was in 35 episodes between 2016 and 2019.

Garry:

He's on.

Amy:

PBS. He was in 35 episodes between 2016 and 2019.

Garry:

Awesome.

Amy:

So these guys will be in this episode and the next episode part two Peril, that's awesome, peril of the bells. Peril of the bells oh gosh, sorry about that.

Garry:

Well.

Amy:

I don't have any trivia for you today. You don't have any no trivia. Oh sorry, I'm so bum't have any trivia for you today. You don't have any no trivia, oh sorry. Oh, I'm so bummed, I know. Look at my sad face. I know you were just. No, I do like your trivia.

Garry:

You were biting the nails and you were like where's the trivia?

Amy:

Where's the trivia? What's it going to be? What's it going to be? Well then, we can the synopsis. Drop the synopsis.

Garry:

Emily goes undercover when she suspects foul play in the local choir Dun dun dun Period.

Amy:

Period, that's it for the synopsis. That's it for the synopsis. That'll do it.

Garry:

Well, we just want to give you guys a heads up. We'll probably give away some spoilers.

Amy:

Definitely will, if you haven't watched it yet.

Garry:

Please press pause now press pause. Go watch it yep, come back, press play and afterwards drop us a review.

Amy:

Let us know, let us know how we did or go on socials and let us know what you think about mistletoe murders I'm kind of digging the two episode yes, plot lines which we didn't know when we first started I had no idea. So now we have a part one and part two of Peril of the Bells and you know you have new characters added in and some have fallen off by the wayside. For now I don't know if they appear in. You know, like the last episode.

Garry:

Well, June's still there, so that's good.

Amy:

I mean, I said some, yeah, not all.

Garry:

No, that's good. I mean I said something yeah, not all, no, I know, but yay, you're right, the unimportant ones have fallen off.

Amy:

No, that's not true.

Garry:

You know what I mean. You can't say that. You know what I mean. The episode is over. They solved the mystery. It's time to move on. He didn't mean unimportant.

Amy:

It just means that their characters are no longer in the storyline.

Garry:

That's what I'm saying the unimportant character, because it's no longer relevant to this one.

Amy:

Okay, okay.

Garry:

Okay, I'm just going to have a sip of wine. Real quick, have a sip of wine before you talk about unimportant.

Amy:

I know what you meant, but we have to let them know what you meant. They know what I meant, they know what you meant. All right, so previously, so at the end of the last episode, emily figured out who the murderer was. Yes, she did she figured out who murdered Marcus? Right, it was Rowan. Spoiler alert if you haven't watched it.

Garry:

Uh-oh.

Amy:

Well, you did say spoilers.

Garry:

I did. I gave him a warning.

Amy:

Emily gives Ray a postcard that says something like here's to keeping each other's secrets. Yes, so we know her and Ray either have a past or she found out he's got something dark too and he helps her out. And Ray gave Emily a new box. Yes, but we don't know the contents.

Garry:

Nope.

Amy:

Sam starts to listen to Emily a little bit.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

He kind of eases off being upset at her. Sam and Violet, his daughter, come to an understanding and Emily definitely has a past, but we're not sure what.

Garry:

Right where we are. That's correct, which is interesting. Yeah, because I do like how they are weaving all of this together here, you know.

Amy:

Yeah I agree, so you have. So you have the common theme of her storyline and sam and violet and, like you said a little earlier, that there are characters who are going to be in all of the episodes. Right so we're going to learn more about that. It's kind of an interesting storytelling.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

I kind of I'm digging it.

Garry:

I am too. I like it.

Amy:

I like it, yeah, yeah.

Garry:

Because they also have her little side thing going on with. Like you said, Ray, yeah With With.

Amy:

like you said, rey, yeah with.

Garry:

Rey. So you got the love, you got the comedy, you got the ups and downs.

Amy:

Yeah, she has a lot of one-liners right that are really good. Yes, she is very good at doing that too. I like it. Cute and fun, I like it. So how do you want to do? You want to talk about revelations in this episode?

Garry:

Yes, let's do some revelations.

Amy:

All right, so I feel like we should have a murder board.

Garry:

We like to play the game Hunt a Killer. Yes.

Amy:

If you've never played it it's really fun Some of them are really hard. You can find them on like what, amazon, yes, target, and you can go to probably huntakillercom still. But we have played many, many of those games and we love those games, yes, so these two, these episodes kind of remind me of that. I'm looking for clues. I'm not very good at it.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

I do look for clues.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

So in this episode we're introduced to the Singing Snowbells. Yay, which I like which is the town's choir.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

I guess, and they are caroling outside.

Garry:

Yes, and they're competitive.

Amy:

And they are competitive. There's politics and choir. There's politics and choir.

Garry:

There's politics and everything.

Amy:

They sounded pretty good.

Garry:

Yes, they did.

Amy:

I wonder if some of them are real life singers.

Garry:

Oh, you know they are Probably. Pretty much. If you're on Hallmark, he's singing.

Amy:

You sing it. You sing it Well, maybe.

Garry:

You got some pipes. Most of them do.

Amy:

So they're outside singing and a sleigh falls on one of the carolers from the rooftop from the rooftop and I'm impressed on how it landed on her I know I I was like there's the murder spoiler alert debbie survives the sleigh falling on her from the rooftops yes, that was amazing.

Garry:

That's some really good it landed just right, yep right.

Amy:

So what happened to caroling? Anyway do people go caroling a lot still.

Garry:

You know, I don't know.

Amy:

I mean, like you always see it in movies and TV shows and things, but it was never really popular, Like when I was a kid we didn't go caroling with my friends down the street, you know, arm in arm. I think the last time I went when the kids were little, it was probably more than 20 years ago and one of the girls was in Girl Scouts and we walked around and that was really fun.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

But that was about it.

Garry:

I know.

Amy:

And I don't remember anybody ever coming to our door.

Garry:

I know, you know, we never had anybody come to the door.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, for caroling, so, but we do like to go to Busch Gardens, christmastown. Yes, we do, and they have Late 1800s maybe.

Garry:

I would think so. Yes, Costumes.

Amy:

And it's very cool and we always stop and listen to them.

Garry:

And they're always in character too, so that's fun.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, and there are always some character in that. Yeah, so it's pretty cool. Yeah, but yeah, so maybe small towns do it. I don't know More than Maybe we should go to a small. So then another revelation so debbie survives. Yes, she does, she does. And emily finds out that debbie almost died by food poisoning yes, a few months prior and another member, clara, was killed by hit and run yes, in a neighboring city, and of course then emily, who is some kind of background of detective work she's something yes things are adding up for her that maybe this all isn't a coincidence.

Garry:

And it's hard for her to let Sam know hey, I know there's something going on. I just can't tell you, because then you're going to start digging into my past. Right, right, we can't have it right now.

Amy:

Well doesn't she say something like it would be dangerous if I got close to him? Because she kind of likes him a little bit and so she does try to tell him. But she's not pushy and she's more open now where she tried to hide her questioning in the last what the first or second episode. She tried to and he got upset.

Garry:

But now she's like hey, this is what I found out, and just so you know, and she gets him to kind of move along with the investigation by just saying, hey, can I look at this sleigh? Something doesn't seem right.

Amy:

Yes, that's right, that's right.

Garry:

And then I think his name's Jameson or Adam Adam, yeah, yeah, he's the town.

Amy:

I guess he picks up junk and hauls it off for him yeah, I forget what the name of his company is, and he's the husband of Clara, who was like we don't know, she's murdered.

Garry:

She was killed in a hidden run murdered and he's kind of. They make it seem like he wants Sam to hurry up an investigation so he can haul off the sled like he had done something to the sled.

Amy:

But oh, that's right he did. I didn't think about it that way, but you're right, he was like I want to take it. Yeah, he kind of gets a little grumpy in that scene.

Garry:

Yeah, I didn't look at it that way but you're right, yeah, so, and then we move on to Debbie again.

Amy:

Debbie again. Third time's a charm, yeah. Not really so she sprays her mouth with her.

Garry:

Well, she tells Emily she's allergic to honeybee.

Amy:

Right, or bees honey, bee pollen or something. No, it's bees honey. Bees honey yes.

Garry:

Because she goes into the store and it's almost, I feel, like she's planting this stuff. Right, she's telling people Like leaving little nuggets, Little nuggets that hey, if this happens to me, yeah, you know, maybe, but she wanted to get some snacks for the choir prior to that night's. You know, practice Right. And that's when she tells she drops a couple nuggets there too. She talks about Clara. She talks about, does she talk?

Amy:

about.

Garry:

Adam, at this point I'm not sure.

Amy:

But anyways I don't yeah.

Garry:

That's when they go and they have practice.

Amy:

Right For the choir, for the choir For the choir. Right, right, right.

Garry:

Well, she's a trip. That girl is a trip, debbie's a trip.

Amy:

She can't find her purse. She missed, right, yeah, so they're at the choir practice and she misplaces her purse. And Lance, who's another choir member who we find out was in prison because of a tattoo on his arm that Emily recognized. That's a long segue, yeah, and he knew where her purse was, which I thought was interesting because he pointed it right out to her.

Garry:

So did, he do?

Amy:

something with her purse.

Garry:

We don't know. We don't know.

Amy:

The suspect list is growing.

Garry:

And then they start to practice and she sprays herself with her. I guess it's a throat spray because she's seeing, I don't know it's clear.

Amy:

Yeah, loosen up her throat and then she has an allergic reaction because somebody laced her spray with shocking honey, bee, honey, honey, which they don't know until later on.

Garry:

Right, right, right right.

Amy:

But so her throat starts to close up and she has an allergic reaction. They have to call 911.

Garry:

Because they can't find her EpiPen.

Amy:

Right, exactly, it's missing from her purse, which she always has with her. So the question is who did it? Who took the EpiPen. Who's trying to set her up? It's not Brooke, so then, after she her up, it's not broke. So then after she no, it's not broke. So then she this is where emily finally convinces sam yes, something's going on because this is like the third attempt on her life. Allegedly she had the.

Garry:

The food poisoning poisoning the sleigh, the sleigh, and then this, and then that.

Amy:

And then this allergic reaction.

Garry:

And why is it always happening to her?

Amy:

That's a good question. That's what we don't know.

Garry:

Because we do find out she did inherit some money. Right and she's the one that's actually funding the.

Amy:

Bells, the Bells right, right, right, yeah.

Garry:

And I guess that's why Vera lets her get away with what she lets her get away with, and Vera is the choir director Right, but Vera does it reluctantly.

Amy:

Like there's some contentious stuff going on between Brooke, Debbie and Vera.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And I think there's some point where Emily was like if I'd known the politics would be this good, I would have joined the choir a long time ago or something like that Just to enjoy it. So Emily's kind of observing everyone's interactions and everything right. So and then you find out that Adam Clara's husband believed she was murdered. Yes, he never believed it was an accident. So that kind of adds fuel to Emily's fire.

Amy:

Suspicion, Suspicion, yeah when she's trying to figure stuff out. You talked about Debbie funding. Emily and Sam go to talk to Adam.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And they oh wait, maybe we want to go back to that in a minute.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Violet's key to the store goes missing.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Violet has. Emily gives her a key to lock up and trust her. And all of a sudden, violet, who's a good kid responsible, can't find her a key. Well, I suspect it's.

Garry:

Who do you suspect?

Amy:

The boy who picked her up.

Garry:

Oh, you think so? Yeah, I think Pete. Is that his name? Pete, pete, was it Pete? Yeah, I think it's Pete.

Amy:

Yes, it's Pete. So Violet's leaving the store one night and her friend, or her friend Nikki, and I guess it's her brother. Pete. He's mad because he's got to go pick her up and she gets in the back and I suspect the key might be in the back of his car.

Amy:

OK, and he probably finds it, and I think we're going to find out, obviously in part two, but that's what I think. So the key is missing and she's stressed out as a teen would be because Emily trusts her. She's lost the key. Her dad knows something's up with her, but she hasn't told her dad yet.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

So she's a little bit freaking out. Yeah, a little bit.

Garry:

You know what's funny about that? Because it reminds me when you first get that key to close up a shop for the first time when you have a job. Yeah, how many raise your hand?

Amy:

Yeah, I got my hand raised. How many of?

Garry:

you sat there, locked it, unlocked it locked it again shook the handle. Made sure everything was locked up, made sure the lights were off.

Amy:

And that's kind of what she does. She only has her to make sure she can lock the door. And she locks it like three times and pulls on the door. It is because it's so much responsibility, you know. I thought that, yeah, I remember that too.

Garry:

Oh, I had a few keys. Yeah, me too, and it was very nerve-wracking yes, it was but fun yeah. So her key um what else, what else, what else but you're going back to adam, when he was talking to emily, he also because he suspect she. He told her she was murdered and that they drove the bells, drove her away. Yes, but he told her why he suspected because she was going to do an audition, um, with a state.

Amy:

Uh, champion, champion choir, who won a lot of awards, the only person she told was Debbie. Right. But then the twist is we find out from Debbie that Adam had come to her house drunk, asking her who his wife was having an affair with.

Garry:

Yes, another nugget.

Amy:

If we believe that, If we believe that, but so that's what Debbie tells Emily.

Garry:

Mm-hmm.

Amy:

Because, oh, and we forgot about Sam, talked to the other town and found they suspected Debbie.

Garry:

Yes, they have a file, so.

Amy:

Emily confronts and doesn't confront her but has an opportunity to ask her some questions about her car.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And where her car was. And then that's when she tells her about Adam.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Coming to her house drunk.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Accusing his wife of having an affair and Debbie says something like if it was with a bell.

Garry:

she basically is like we would know if it was a bell and she was not having an affair with anyone, because you can't keep secrets in a quiet. Yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, so that was a pretty good yeah.

Garry:

But see, emily tried to get some info from her because she was like so what towing service did you use? Yeah, Because you know, I have a friend whose car is broken down. They want to get rid of it and she kind of oh I just left it down at the end of the driveway, but that was after.

Amy:

Debbie said she just got rid of her car a couple months.

Garry:

Right, she just got rid of it Because it was too expensive and cars are expensive and the upkeep, and she just didn't you know care how. So you see how All these little things are pointing in her direction. You think it's?

Amy:

her. It's not her, is it her?

Garry:

I don't know.

Amy:

Would she set herself up to have an allergic reaction?

Garry:

Well, what did Sam say? You would do it to get the cops off your train.

Amy:

Yeah, I mean I guess you would, but that's pretty serious to do.

Garry:

To have a slay drop on you, yeah, yeah. You got to be in the right time.

Amy:

I mean. So Emily and Sam go to talk to Adam after they find out the information about him being drunk and suspecting her, because that gives Adam motive now because he thought his wife was having an affair. So they go to talk to him. He's not home. And then they leave and they find his truck off the road.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Basically, and my question is when they were going to Adam's house they didn't see the truck.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Or the stuff on the road. So did they go back a different way, or are we?

Garry:

supposed to believe that that?

Amy:

happened in between.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

I don't know. I thought that was a weird.

Garry:

Yeah, that was kind of a weird thing, because they would see it going.

Amy:

But are we supposed to think then that maybe he was leaving or something happened while they were at his house? Right they kind of crossed paths, I don't know right. Right, I just thought that was.

Garry:

I thought he was going to be jumping out a window, getting in a car and taking off. That's what I had in mind but yeah, because they were driving down the road because he wasn't home and they saw boxes in the, in the in the street, which were the boxes that emily had given to Adam earlier on that day to get rid of. So, yes, his car was off in a ditch off to the side, his phone was on the seat front seat and there was blood. So we're not sure what's going on there, right.

Amy:

We don't know where he is.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

He's not there. We don't know if he's still alive.

Garry:

I presume he probably is Right.

Amy:

So that's a little bit of a mystery.

Garry:

A mystery. Hence the mistletoe murders, murders.

Amy:

We find out, you know, I guess, a few last things. We find out a little more about Emily, right. She can program she runs the program. She's a hacker, so the flash drive that she used.

Garry:

That was given to her by Ray?

Amy:

Was that in the box?

Garry:

then, ray, that's what was in the box. It was in the box.

Amy:

It was a flash drive that she could use so that she could search the internet and not be traced.

Garry:

Right. She developed a program. It was an encrypted USB drive that allowed her to search in the shadows.

Amy:

In the shadows Without being caught On the dark web or whatever it in the shadows. In the shadows Without being caught On the dark web or whatever. It's kind of like a VPN. Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

They won't know where you're at.

Amy:

Where you're at, because you're using it through something else. Right, right, right. So she says the name Kimara.

Garry:

Kimara, I wrote that down.

Amy:

Still makes the hair on the back of her neck stand up. So we don't know, I assume that's the name of a company, not a person, camira.

Garry:

Camira, maybe Something like that, yeah.

Amy:

She says something to June about grief. Grief never really disappears. It just becomes an ache you learn to live with. So you've got to wonder what that's about. Who did she lose? Is she talking about her parents? A significant other?

Garry:

Well, she had that picture of I'm assuming it was her with her parents, her family, right, right.

Amy:

And then she references the prison tattoo on Lance. He's a member of the choir and she says something like and I would know not that.

Garry:

I'm sharing that story.

Amy:

So we get all these little tidbits and we just still don't know her story, which is great because it can still build and develop over the next two episodes and next season, I guess. So, yeah, it's kind of it's kind of interesting because you know you mentioned she.

Garry:

We find out that she's a programmer, she's this hacker, she's got all these passports and money and stuff and she's got this like tough book. The laptop is a tough book, right, which I wish I could get that battery pack, because that thing is never plugged in and it stays on all the time she was running that program in the background, went and had a day. Came back it was still going, so I'd love to have that battery.

Garry:

But I also find interesting that Ray kind of reminds me like Inspector Gadget. Well, you know how they get their gadgets before they get he's the gadget guy.

Amy:

Yeah, he's the gadget guy. He gets her the stuff, yeah.

Garry:

It'd be cool if he gives her something else later on in another episode.

Amy:

That'd be pretty cool he probably does for her to use. I liked I mean she had we talked about it earlier her one-liners in this one. Oh my goodness, like when she joins the choir, she's talking to Sam and he's like did you join the choir because you know, just to prove me wrong or whatever? And she's like would I lie to an officer of the law?

Garry:

I know, you know it's so funny.

Amy:

I mean she just, and the way she delivers them is so good. The way Sarah Drew, the actor, delivers them is so good. And we talked about the politics. If I knew choir politics were this entertaining, I would have joined a long time ago. Yes, I know and then when she said Glee meets, Mean Girls meets Friday the 13th with that crew about the choir. I thought, that was so good. I'm telling you. That was a perfect explanation of choir. And that's just girls in general, I think Anytime you get more than two, there's trouble.

Garry:

Yep, there's always trouble. There's always trouble with girls Double the trouble yeah.

Amy:

Who do you think did it? What do you think?

Garry:

Well, everything's pointing to Debbie, you know.

Amy:

I know, but I don't want to. I'm thinking no, for some reason. I'm going to say if I had to choose anybody.

Garry:

But again you get that they're showing you who the murderer is and you're still not believing, or is it too obvious because they're making it too obvious? So I would say I don't think it could be Adam.

Amy:

I don't think it's. I don't believe it's Adam.

Garry:

I don't believe Adam ran his wife over and the only other person to me in the choir would be Vera, because I don't think the other ones. Yeah, vera might be the only other one, I just don't see anybody that sticks out.

Amy:

And why is Lance there? We find out that Adam and Lance they have a little argument. And if he was in prison, was Adam in prison at one time? Because I'm thinking maybe Adam hired him to go and try to find who the murderer was. That's what I think, but I don't know. I mean, yeah, signs sort of point to Debbie, but is it too obvious? Or is it obvious and they're showing you? I mean I don't know my brain is all over the place.

Garry:

That's why I just don't know. Those would be my two yeah, would be well, actually three Vera, adam and Debbie. Two would be yeah, would be well, actually three vera, adam and and yeah, because there's no other character?

Amy:

well, obviously, yeah, I don't think it's going to be somebody we didn't. Just, you know that they're not focusing on. I mean, maybe it could be, but what do I know? I'm terrible at this. I I'm terrible at the hunter killer games.

Garry:

I like playing them, I like trying to figure it out, but I am not although it could be, it might be vera it might be vera because when that sled fell she kind of backed up a little bit and then debbie came out now debbie doing that solo.

Amy:

Oh my gosh oh yeah, that head shaking and because when it's like if I because I can't sing, and that's what I do I'll shake my head, like I'm getting the words out by shaking my head. And there's Brooke who wants a solo and she can't get one. So there's that you know you think? They're fighting over the solos, and Clara was their main soloist. Yes, the one who got hit by a car.

Garry:

the hit and run so there's that angle too, yeah too, yeah, so and vera is worried about the christmas tree not lighting up right and adam's the one that's doing the tree, so well, that's yeah, so we got a lot of things going on.

Amy:

Do you think that?

Garry:

tree is gonna fall on somebody I hope not.

Amy:

I don't know, we'll find out.

Garry:

Maybe, maybe I don't know it could be the final, the final act, yeah I didn't think about that, but maybe we'll go, we're gonna find out, stay tuned stay tuned.

Amy:

What was your tinsel topped moment?

Garry:

of this episode. I when emily broke out that usb she put that in and the narration of what she was doing, I was like, oh my god look at this.

Amy:

That was pretty good. This is my kind of person. I know the hacker that she is.

Garry:

I was like yes, yep, what about you? What was your?

Amy:

mine was. There's a scene where emily and sam are in the car and sam reluctantly asks her to help oh, because he's like could you just? And she's like, do you need my help, do you need to be a spy? And he's like no, not a spy, just if you could, you know. And she's like yes, and then she goes anyone in particular, and then she says something like please say Brooke, it would. It would explain so much.

Amy:

You know, I think that's part of the narration. I just thought that scene was so cute and so fun Cause you know, she's like dying. She's already doing the legwork and he doesn't know that, but she's dying to do it where he knows. So to do it where he knows, so they can talk about it and she can get information from him. So it was just I that's my tinsel top moment for the episode. That's awesome. I thought that was cute.

Garry:

Yep, yep so, out of five ornaments, how many would you give it?

Amy:

I'd give it a solid four. I'd I'd hang four on the tree from this. Yeah, what about you?

Garry:

two, four, yep yeah, I really enjoyed this one yeah, I'm actually liking this one. I think a little bit better than the first one, oh okay, the first murder. The first murder, murder. Yeah, I can't wait to see the part two.

Amy:

All right, cool yeah.

Garry:

All right, so is that a wrap that?

Amy:

is a wrap.

Garry:

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Amy:

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Amy:

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