Pour The Wine, It's Rom-Com Time

Hallmark's Mistletoe Murders S1 E4 - Peril of the Belles Pt. 2 (Re-Release)

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In this episode of Pour the Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry and Amy dig deeper into the chilling murder of Clara and question whether Debbie’s poisoning is more than just coincidence. As the mystery in Fletcher’s Cove thickens, Emily and Sam must race to uncover the truth before the choir faces another deadly note.

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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.

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And I'm Gary. And I'm about to pour the wine.

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Pour the wine. We're pouring a calf salve.

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As you should.

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Welcome back to Tinsel Tuesdays. Yes. Where we review All Things Christmas. Today we're reviewing episode number four of Mistletoe Murders, Peril of the Bells Part 2.

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Yes.

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It originally aired on November 21st, 2024 on Hallmark Plus. And we did not watch it then, but we are watching it now.

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Yes, we are.

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Yes, we are.

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A review.

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And hopefully it's a positive.

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Oh my gosh. Are we going to be singing all night long? Is this becoming a musical podcast?

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I think so. Maybe. Do you know what? We should do one.

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What? No, absolutely not. That's a horrible idea.

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No, it would be fun, even though I can't sing.

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I can't sing.

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So that would be a good thing.

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No, that would not be fun for me.

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Well, anyways, you can also find us on social media Facebook, Instagram, Blue Sky X, and of course Threads. There.

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Yes. Head on over to the socials and let us know your thoughts about mistletoe murders. If you've if you watched it the first go-around, or maybe you're watching it now. We have Christmas in July coming up. Maybe you want to get in the festive murderous holiday spirit. Spirit spirit. Have a sip of the ones. You can also email us and let us know your thoughts at pour the wine isromcomtime at gmail.com.

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Yes.

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Shoot us an email and maybe we'll read it on the pod.

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Yes.

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Maybe.

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We've done it once.

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We've done it before.

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Let's do it again.

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Well, we are not going to be adding any actors to this episode. Okay. We covered them in part one.

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All right. Well, you know.

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And if you want to hear the who the core actors are who are in all of the episodes, we did that during our review of the first episode.

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Yes. What's the first episode? Yes. Oh, you put me on the spot.

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I'm going to put you on the spot.

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Okay. Peril of the bells, part one.

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No, not this one. The very first episode of Mistletoe Permission. Poison in a pear tree. Poison in a pear tree.

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Part one.

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Part one. That was a trick question.

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It was, and I totally got tricked.

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All right, all right.

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Is it trivia time?

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Yes, I think so.

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Okay. Here we go. You like to hear it? Here we go. Which holiday is second most popular for Hallmark movies after Christmas?

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Halloween.

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After Christmas.

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Oh, after Christmas. Okay, sorry. I'm just um Valentine's Day.

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Valentine's You heard it right here. Valentine's. Usually it's me with the word mix-ups, but you today are on fire. I love you.

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I really, really am. Valentine's Day. Duh.

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Valentine.

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Gosh, give me some wine. I'm just gonna sit here.

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You need to take a sip. Yes, yes, yes. And it's time to drop the synops, too. And you're all like Holland time.

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Well, why don't you drop the synops? Because I need a sip of wine.

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Okay.

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I'll drop the synops.

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Emily and Sam worked together to find the choir killer. Period.

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The killer. The killer.

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That's it. That's the that's the synopsis.

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That's it. Very short and sweet. But it sums it up.

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That's what I need, these little one sentences.

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I know I know. You're fine. You're fine.

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Well, we'll probably give away some spoilers. So if you have not seen this yet, please press pause. Go watch the series.

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Yes.

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And then come back, listen to the podcast, and drop us an email. Let us know how how we did.

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Alright, so let's talk about what happened on the previous episode, episode number three. Okay. Right, where we left off?

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Yes.

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Vibe, her store key disappears. Yes. And she's freaking out a little bit. We don't know where it is. She's a teenager. Lost, air quotes.

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Lost.

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Adam thought that Clara was cheating on him.

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Yes.

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Adam is missing.

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Poor Adam. He just can't catch a break, can he?

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Debbie was poisoned.

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Yes.

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With the the spray, right? Was that the last?

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The bee honey.

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Uh or the yes, the honey. Sam has asked Emily to help keep her eyes peeled on the choir members and just keep her ears open to hear it, listen, spy. Well, her word was spy, but he didn't, he didn't like it.

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We lit the eye.

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And Emily is running a program on her computer to search for any mention of the name Chimera.

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Yes. Right?

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Did I leave anything out?

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No, you didn't.

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Okay. Okay. I think that's about where we were.

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Yeah.

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All right. So we want to talk about so the biggest revolution in this episode is we find out who killed Clara. Is it Clara?

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Yes, Clara.

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Clara. And who was attempting to kill Debbie? Right. So we have some revelations, which we will talk about in a little bit, and that'll be at the end. We'll just give the final revelation. Uh yeah, the reveal of who who killed Clara and was attempting to kill Debbie.

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Yes.

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Yes. So what did we find out in this episode? So I guess towards the beginning, what happens? Emily finds someone has broken into her store.

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Yes. Well, she sees the guy coming out.

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She sees the guy. Right, right, right. She sees the guy coming out.

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Right. And she chases him for a second, and then the next scene, she's in her store and she's just checking it out, making sure nothing is stolen.

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Right. And she has to reluctantly call the police because she doesn't want the attention on her store, but she has to.

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But you know what was cool?

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What?

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After the police left, she had this little Santa Claus. Yes, she sure did, didn't she? Sammy didn't say with the little thing. Well, he asked her. Yeah.

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Yeah. And Sam asked her if she had a camera. But go ahead, sorry.

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So she pulls out this little USB drive, or not USB, a little um SD card. She puts it in a computer and she watches the whole thing unfold where the guy comes in and she she's narrating, thinking that he picked the locks.

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Right. Because she doesn't know yet. But we know.

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We know.

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It's a key.

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It is the key, missing key. Missing key. Violet had lost.

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She lost it, but we know who found it. And I even guessed it right in the last episode, I think. Yes. That we did the review, right? Yes. Yep. So then Emily um has the idea that she wants to invite Brooke to lunch. And Brooke. Oh my goodness. Brooke is very excited, right? Brooke is like, it's about time we did lunch. And Emily's like, yay! Like real enthusiastically, sarcastically, just about. I thought that was cute.

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Well, what was so funny is um they were sitting there and Emily says, you know, are there any affairs going on in the choir? And she's like, no, I that's ridiculous. We would know. And then she goes, Well, why don't you just tell me about each one of them? I don't know anything. And that's when Brooke's eyes light up and she goes, Sue, two glasses of rose. And Sue shoots back uh screw cap, cork, or something else. And she goes, Well, something. And she goes, We'll do the cork.

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Cork, yeah, yeah. Because she because Brooke likes to chat and gossip. And then I mean, we all know people like that. And at times in my life I've been like that, like, hey, let me give you the dirt. You know what I'm saying? And Emily's got a front row seat and is faking it the whole time for this.

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She's like, oh god, what did I get myself into?

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But the nugget that we get there, the revelation is that there's no way Clara would have an affair.

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Yes. She loved it.

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She loved Adam. Adam. Right. So we do find that out. So that's one revelation that we can check off the list, right? There were one person that we can eliminate as a suspect. Killing Clara.

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Yeah.

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Was not her husband.

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Was not her husband.

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Well, her husband thought that. I'm sorry. Clara was not having an affair.

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Right.

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We'd yeah.

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But let's let's let's go ahead and jump off of that because that goes into when Emily Emily confronts Lance. Because she sees Lance and Adam having an argument.

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Right, right. That was in the last episode when she viewed the argument.

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So she saw them arguing. So in this episode, she confronts them at the choir rehearsal.

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Right.

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Right. And she's having a talk with them. And she asks him about, you know, are you having an affair with Claire?

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Well, she says there were rumors. Doesn't she say there are rumors that maybe you and Claire?

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Yeah. And then he goes, Well, she's not my type. And then Emily's like, hmm. And he goes, Well, let me put it to you this way. She is not my type. And come to find out Lance is gay.

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Right, right. So we we do find that out. Yes. His door swings a different way. So he was not having an affair.

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No, and he explains to Emily that um Adam had come over because he suspected they were having an affair with him, right? And that he was banging on the door, and Lance told him, because he was embarrassed, that she was teaching him how to write or read music. Read music. That's right.

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That's right.

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So the argument that they that she witnessed Emily witnessed was Adam asking for his forgiveness.

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Right. And that's what he said. Adam kept asking him and what what kept apologizing because Adam felt badly that he accused him of something that he was not doing with Adam's wife.

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So it was kind of, you know, it was a good little saying, and and you've that gets rid of another suspect.

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Right. Well, right. I mean, I don't know, does it does it get rid of Lance as a suspect? We just learn more about Adam. And he didn't have the affair. And that Clara didn't have an affair, and that Lance wasn't a person she was having an affair with. Right. Whereas we weren't sure what was going on with Lance and Adam, if Adam was like having him spy on the choir. That's what I thought at first. Oh, okay. Because he did prison time, remember? And then Emily has her, has Ray look into Lance, right? Isn't that interesting?

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That's right, because Sam tried and his uh Lance's files were were sealed.

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Because he was a minor, right?

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No, he was, I think he was in um, he made a deal with the prosecution to get out of the mob family. That's what I'm saying. Oh, that's right. He would do the time.

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Right. But so then Emily's able to find out more about Lance that even though he's yeah, right, right. Right. Because he was a suspect at first because she saw his tattoo and he was in prison. You're right. So that's the part that kind of lets him, I think, eliminates him as a suspect, right?

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Because for me at that point.

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She finds out, well, no, and then I think for her too, because she finds out the real reason that he did change his life. He did get, you know, he did do time, but he came out, he got away from the mafia, right? And he was kind of on the straight and narrow, so to speak.

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So good for him.

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Right. So we eliminate Lance, and then Emily finds out that there was a concert going on at the same time that Clara was killed.

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Yes.

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And she watches a video on social media. Brooke freezing up. I guess she never does sing, right? So Brooke was supposed to have a solo, and Brooke is on stage at the same time that Clara is hit, so it could not have been Brooke.

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Right.

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Correct?

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Okay, I'm trying to walk through this with my but she also notices that Debbie's not there.

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Correct.

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So what was Debbie doing?

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Right.

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Was she being a downer?

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Was she being a Debbie downer? I don't know. I don't know.

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Dad joke.

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Sorry.

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I had to do it.

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So then she confronts Debbie. She confronts well, she talks to her. Is that where they talk at the diner?

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Yes.

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Can we just talk about a diner for a second? I love diners. I know. This is such a sidebar.

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They're like cozy.

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I know, cozy. And I'm just like a 50 girls at heart, even though I want I want all the things that women have now only in the 50s because they didn't. But you know, that aside, I'm all about the poodle skirts, the saddle shoes, and a diner.

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Shoot box at the table.

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Yes, yes. So we're quartering there. I don't know. And these shows have a everyone has a diner, right? Like that they go to. Anywho, that was just a sidebar. All right. So so Emily is confronting Debbie. Yes. Or talking to her, not really confronting her combatively.

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Right.

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Just discussing casually.

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What was it? So what went on? And so Debbie ends up telling her what happened that night. Right. Which was she got poisoned. And she ended up food poisoning. Food poisoning. And ended up in the hospital for three hours.

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Right.

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And the hospital actually confirmed that. So we find that out.

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So we find out that Debbie is also off of the suspect list.

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Off of the suspect list. Right.

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Because she was in the hospital at the time. Yes. And she says that Vera took her to the hospital. Right. And was with her at the hospital. So you presume that Vera was there with her. Was there with her the whole time? Correct. Right.

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So then let's go back to who broke into the mistletoe store.

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The mistletoe. Yeah.

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So um so Emily's in the store with Violet.

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Under the mistletoe. I was trying, I was sitting here trying to think about it. Sorry.

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Yeah, under the mistletoe. I digress. Or does she come in with her friend?

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She comes in, she comes, she comes in with her. Violet comes in with her friend.

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And her friend has the hat hat on, right? And Emily doesn't notice until the girl pulls her down. Because Emily says, Oh, that's a cool hat. And she goes, Yeah, it's a dual hat. And she pulls it down and it's like a mask. And in Emily, you can see her and her. The wheels are turning, right?

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She was like, Yeah.

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And then it flashes back to when she sees the person break into her store and the camera catches kind of like a close-up. Well, then she then tell or uh Violet's friend tells her that's her brother's hat.

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Right. She says, I'm wearing it, he'd kill me or something. He'd kill me if you're not.

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So that starts the wheels in Emily's head.

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And this is where we find out a little bit more about Emily and what she can do. BA. She's a badass. Yes.

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Oh my goodness. So she pays a visit, does she?

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She pays a visit. She doesn't tell the police because she says she doesn't want to tell Violet. She doesn't want the police visiting him.

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Yep, but she wants to put him back on the straight and narrow.

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Right. Yes.

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Right. So what happens?

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So she waits for him in his car.

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Oh my god.

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And uses the seatbelt to kind of pull him back, not really strangle him, but the bejeebers. And then she, you know, like scared straight. Remember those scared straight programs? They would take kids into jails and stuff.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I never had to do that because I was a saint.

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Me too.

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Not really. But but yeah, so it reminded me of like Scared Straight, where she's like, You will never speak of this, and you will go to And you will apologize. Oh, you will apologize, yeah. And she's like this little petite woman. Like, how do you Yeah, yeah.

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Not make that woman mad voice.

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No, no, no. So she literally nearly scares him to death and scares him straight. And what does he do? He goes and returns. He doesn't apologize, but he gives the key back to Violet.

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He apologizes in that he didn't re he's sorry he didn't return the keys. Correct.

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Well, that's true. That's true. He does say, I'm sorry. I yeah.

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And it was funny because Violet was like, huh.

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She's kind of like, okay. What is that?

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And she and Emily is like, hmm, I don't know.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So that kind of eliminates that part of the story. Because you think, well, maybe this has something to do with, you know, what's going on with the murder.

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Right, right.

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Nope, it's not. So Pete's off the list, right?

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Right. So Pete. Well, yeah, he's off. I never thought he killed Emily.

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Who broke into the story.

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Oh, right, right. Because at first Emily thinks somebody's found her where she is, because she's obviously hiding from something, and she thinks initially that the break-in was somebody that found her. So then Sam calls Emily to show her that he found what he found at Adams. Yes. What was it?

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A murder board. We love a murder.

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We love a good murder board. Oh my gosh. Hunt a killer. I know we've mentioned that before, but we love the game Hunt to Killer. We put pictures up and all the evidence that's in the game and the yarn and all that. It is really fun. So yes. So there we get excited every time we see a murder board.

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And on that board, there were some junkyards. There was a picture of I think Debbie and some some other things. So they're trying to piece together what Adam was doing. And it looked like he was having his own investigation on who killed his wife.

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Who Adam. Oh, yes, he was trying to look into it. Right. Right. Right. And then Emily, well, we didn't mention before she confronts Pete, she's like, maybe it's time to stretch a few old muscles. Yeah. So then you kind of get an indication that she used to do things like that before she lived there.

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Yeah, before she showed up.

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Right. Fletcher's Grove. Before she moved to Fletcher's Grove.

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Right.

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All right.

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So where are we in the So there was a conversation? Was it I think it was with Sue. Who told Emily about Clara having the RV as a little classroom? Was that Sue? I think that was Sue.

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Maybe. Oh, maybe.

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Yeah. And then and then that's what sends um Emily back out to Sam and Clara's house because she wanted to get a look at this.

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Well, she thought maybe Adam was living in that little trailer. She went there to look the trailers on the property. Right, right. And then that's where she discovers Debbie's car.

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Right.

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It's it's under a tarp, so she has to lift the tarp up. And she really because Debbie had donated the car. Yeah. We found out in the last episode. Right. Even though Emily wasn't sure if she believed her or not, because she couldn't remember what place she donated it to or to take it away or whatever. So she opens the trunk, and there in the trunk is Adam. Adam, who is not living.

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He's dead.

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He is also dead. So now we have the first murderer we've seen. Yes. Right. The second murderer in the choir. Yes. So now the plot thickens. Oh my god, does it thicken? And Emily kind of cuts her hand a little bit on the on the car and ew, because it's probably rusty. Yeah, when she was opening the trunk. When she was opening the trunk. Right, right, right. So she has to call Sam.

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Yes.

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She's like, You're going to be mad at me.

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But I had a hunch and I went out there and button.

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And what does he say? Did you find Adam? And she's like, let's just say.

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Yeah. No, she's he said, Did you find Adam?

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Or did don't confront him?

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Don't confront him. You know, wait till we get there. And she's like, I don't think that's gonna be a problem.

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Yeah.

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Because Adam's not going anywhere. Adam be dead. Adam's not going anywhere.

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That that was funny.

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Yeah. Yeah. So that was, yeah.

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So then what happens? Then what then where we go?

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She.

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So she calls Adam.

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Calls Adam.

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And she's talking to our Adam.

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She can't call Adam. She can't call Adam. Adam said.

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God, can you put Adam on the phone real quick? No, she when she calls Sam, Sam shows up and they're sitting there talking. And she I guess the next scene, she's at the store again. Because uh Violet was like, Oh, I thought you were only gonna be gone a couple minutes. Right minutes. We were gone for three hours or something. And she had cut her hand, right? And she takes her gloves off, and Violet was like, Oh, what's going on? You know, you look like you're bleeding bad. And I think Does Violet say that? Yeah.

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Oh, I think so. Okay, yeah.

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Because she's talking to Violet. I'm not sure exactly what she's saying.

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Then she gets out a band-aid.

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Right. She gets out of band-aid and she puts it on. And when is it that she realizes what happened?

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I think it might be as she's putting the band-aid on, right? She remembers that Vera had a band-aid in the same exact spot, which means that Vera was at Adam's house and did something with the trunk.

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Yes. The junk in the trunk.

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The junk in the trunk.

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Yes.

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So then she gets Sam and they go to the choir practice.

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Right.

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And Sam has Vera take the band-aid off. Take the band aid off. Yes. To see, and they have identical cuts, Emily.

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Because Emily Emily takes hers off, and they're at the exact same.

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Sam takes Vera to the police station. I like it. And he has Emily, he has Vera that he's questioning, and he has Emily behind the glass. Yes. And she knocks on it and he's like, I invited you here as a courtesy, not an interactive experience. That was funny.

SPEAKER_01:

That was funny. But don't you love how she kind of manipulates Sam into doing what she needs him to do?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, a little bit, but she's starting to like him a little bit more. And so she's but now she sort of has his permission to look into stuff. And he knows she's good and inquisitive, but he doesn't really know her.

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Yeah, because she's like, play on her, play on her what um not emotions, but play on her uh God, what is the word I'm looking for? I don't know. To get her to talk. Well, anyways, he gets her to talk and to explain exactly what happened.

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What do you mean?

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Like the murder.

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You're talking about Vera. Yeah. Okay. I think we were talking about Emily. No. I'm confused. Oh, I'm sorry. I lost you for a minute. We were on Emily. Well, Emily was telling Sam to So Sam gets Vera to confess to the murder. Okay.

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You totally that's why we're both doing this podcast because you keep me on track. I keep you on track. And you know, we have volunteers and stuff like that.

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Volunte. I know. I you gotta bring that up. I gotta bring that up. Yes, I know. I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. All right. So Vera is the murderer of both Clara and Adam. The couple didn't survive.

SPEAKER_01:

But what's funny is she said Adam was an accident. She didn't kill him.

SPEAKER_00:

She wasn't gonna kill him. He just earned it. Yeah. He deserved it.

SPEAKER_01:

She had drugged it.

SPEAKER_00:

Clara was going to a different choir and she wasn't having any of that. No. Right. That was that was betrayal right there. So so Clara deserved it. But Adam, whoopsies, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

So so then going back to the murder board.

SPEAKER_00:

Murder board.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, because uh Sam also found a drawing, uh, electrical drawing, right, that had a big old triangle in the middle. Right. And Emily had asked, Well, what is a triangle? And Sam didn't know, but he said the voltage on it was way too high.

SPEAKER_00:

That's right. That's right. Right. So then Emily realizes she has to be with the choir who's at the lighting of the Christmas tree in the town. In the town center, yeah. And as she's walking up, yeah, light bulb goes on. Almost literally, right?

SPEAKER_01:

What the triangle is.

SPEAKER_00:

That the triangle is actually the tree.

SPEAKER_01:

The Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And then she puts two and two together that Debbie was trying to do it.

SPEAKER_01:

No Adam was had rigged the tree, or not the tree, but the the microphone to shock Debbie, no, kill Debbie when they lit the tree.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And is it at that moment that she realizes Adam was trying was the one who was trying to kill Debbie? Or did they already know that?

SPEAKER_01:

They didn't know that at that point.

SPEAKER_00:

It's just like she put the two and two together. Right. Brooke's trying to Right, right, right. So then she realizes that it's the microphone that's the issue, and it's not Debbie because Debbie She couldn't sing.

SPEAKER_01:

She couldn't show well, they kicked her out of their choir. They kicked her.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah. She was out of the choir and it was going to be Brooke.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. So Brooke was going to be the one singing. And then Emily tells Sam that she knows what it is. What it is.

SPEAKER_01:

And then she has to go and she runs up on the stage. Knocks Brooke down just in time before she gets shocked.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And then the the microphone catches on fire. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. And the sad thing is, is Brooke had such a great solo.

SPEAKER_00:

I know. She finally got a solo and she can sing. What happened? So Emily saves Emily saves Brooke. Yes. And um I think maybe it's going to bring Brooke and Emily closer. Brooke Brooke will probably want to get closer to Emily now, and Emily won't have a choice after that moment.

SPEAKER_01:

Which is hilarious.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. So this episode, pretty much, there were a couple things different going on, right? We find out who was doing the murders.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Or who did the murders, I'm sorry. And separately who was poisoning Debbie. Yeah. Right. So we had that going on. So right. So after after the chaos of the tree lighting ceremony, Sam walks Emily home right to her store. And they have this moment where, you know, he kind of admits that he has feelings for her. And she's like, oh, sorry. And he gets put in the friend zone for like a second. Right. And you feel badly for him. He's like, oh, it's okay. And then and then she does start to open up about her past. Right. And because he starts to walk away. And I thought that was a really cool scene, you know, because he starts to walk away and she, and she, you know, I think she wants to get close to him, but she is scared or because of her past doesn't want to for whatever reason, which we'll find out eventually. She's worried about getting close to him, but doesn't want him to be hurt. So she starts to express why she has a Christmas store. Because he had asked her that at one point, right? Not at that point, but um, he had asked her why why Christmas. And then she said her parents were killed on New Year's Eve, and the last, the happiest they ever were was that Christmas before. Right. And she's been chasing that ever since they were killed.

SPEAKER_01:

She thinks she's found it in the town.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. Right. So yeah. And we're not done.

SPEAKER_01:

Not done yet.

SPEAKER_00:

Right, right. Then we have one final scene.

SPEAKER_01:

And the final scene is the laptop.

SPEAKER_00:

The laptop.

SPEAKER_01:

And I think Emily's past gets a little bit closer because on the laptop. And it always happens to hackers and TV series. They think they're all getting into it and everything, and all of a sudden somebody takes over the machine, and what comes up on the screen? I know you're there. And I will find you. How ominous is that?

SPEAKER_00:

That's like taken, right?

SPEAKER_01:

That's like, yes.

SPEAKER_00:

I will find you and I will kill you. Isn't that untaking?

SPEAKER_01:

That is scary.

SPEAKER_00:

It also reminds me of um uh war games. Yeah. Do you want to play a game?

SPEAKER_01:

I know. We're dating ourselves there.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that was AI back then. Yeah, it was really, really crazy. But yeah, so she gets this ominous message, she immediately closes her computer, right? And she realizes that would freak me out.

SPEAKER_01:

It would freak me out. I was running.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know if I could live like that, always looking over my shoulder. You think you're in a small town, but are you? And in today's day and age of social media and videos and pictures and all that stuff on the internet, one wrong picture.

SPEAKER_01:

It would be so hard to hide. Yeah, it would be.

SPEAKER_00:

It'd be really hard to hide, I would think. Not that I'm promoting hiding, but you know, suggesting people go and hide.

SPEAKER_01:

So that was all the revelations, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I think I think we walked through that episode, and that wraps up Peril of the Bells, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but did you have any tinsel top moments?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh, it would be the end, like we talked about. Yeah. Like we just talked about. I thought that was a really good scene. I thought it showed that she has a past and she's just itching to get close to someone, and she really, you know, does like him and there's potential, but she can't. Right. And she doesn't want to hurt him. So I thought all of that wrapped up in that scene. That would be my tinsel topped moment. How about you?

SPEAKER_01:

I I still like the scene with Brooke and Emily in the dining room. Yes, it was so fine.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, and Emily was so good too, because she's like, Yay! Let's get closer. You know, she really doesn't want to. And Brooke's like, okay. You know, and just as giddy to gossip and everything. Yeah, that scene, that's your tinsel top moment. That was mine. All right, cool. Well, how many ornaments would you hang out of five?

SPEAKER_01:

I'm gonna give this one a strong four. Same. I really enjoyed it. Same. And I can't wait for the next two.

SPEAKER_00:

Four ornaments for me too. And I will be curious what the next mystery is. I know. I have no idea, but I'm really digging the two episode like a start and a finish, you know. I mean, I guess like murder she wrote used to wrap it up in one episode, but this is kind of cool. Yeah. I like the two episode.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like a it's like a Hallmark two-hour movie split up, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I guess yeah. I mean, I guess.

SPEAKER_01:

Because they in the movies they have the beginning, middle, and end.

SPEAKER_00:

You are correct. You are correct.

SPEAKER_01:

So is that a wrap?

SPEAKER_00:

That is a wrap.

SPEAKER_01:

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