Hallmark's Mistletoe Murders - S1 E2 - Poison in a Pear Tree Pt. 2

In this episode of Pour the Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry and Amy unwrap the second chapter of Mistletoe Murders: Poison in a Pear Tree, Part 2! Emily’s inner detective is sleighing the game as she stumbles into a blizzard of secrets, blackmail, and identity mix-ups. Can she crack the case of Marcus’s mysterious demise before someone else gets stuffed in a stocking? Tune in now as they unravel this tinsel-wrapped whodunnit!

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Transcript

Welcome to Tinsel Tuesdays

Amy 0:08

welcome to for the wine. It's rom-com time where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom-com on the homework channel. I'm amy and I'm gary and I think you should, pour the was that a little loud in the mic.

Garry 0:24

I'm sorry, let me back away from the mic. You're not supposed to kiss the mic, you're just supposed to talk into it. Oh my gosh.

Amy 0:34

All right, sorry, that took me a little by surprise. That was very aggressive.

Garry 0:38

Yes, it was, I'm sorry so. I'm going to be pouring a cab salve, a cab salve.

Amy 0:44

And while I'm doing, that?

Garry 0:46

why don't you tell the people out there in podcast land what we are going to be reviewing today?

Amy 0:52

I don't know if I have it in me right now. Welcome to Tinsel Tuesdays, where we review all things Christmas. Today we're going to be reviewing episode number two of the popular series Mistletoe Murders.

Garry 1:06

Yes, we are Ho, ho ho.

Amy 1:08

Ho, ho, ho. And you know what? What?

Garry 1:11

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Amy 1:25

And you have not had a thing to drink.

Garry 1:28

Yet right, I have not.

Amy 1:30

Oh my gosh, we are on a roll tonight, okay.

Garry 1:33

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Episode 2: Poison in a Pear Tree

Amy 1:41

Yes, go ahead and head on over there to the social media sites and let us know what you think about mistletoe murders. Maybe you watched it when it aired last fall yeah, and you already know and we're not in the know. Yeah, so we we're. We don't know what's going to happen. And boy was I surprised by this episode which we're going to talk about yes, we are.

Garry 2:02

So today we're going to be reviewing the second episode of mistletoe Murders Poison in a Pear Tree.

Amy 2:08

What is it with you?

Garry 2:10

Point two, part two. I promise we haven't had a lot to drink which, like you said, aired November 7, 2024 on Hallmark Plus.

Amy 2:22

Yes.

Garry 2:23

So are we adding anybody new to this particular episode?

Amy 2:26

We are not. You can listen to the entire cast list at the beginning of our review of episode one. But when we do meet new characters or actors along the way which maybe we will, I don't know we will definitely add them in at this point in the podcast.

Garry 2:41

Yeah, I think we hit them all last. Yeah, I think we did so. Do you want a trivia question?

Amy 2:46

Oh gosh, it's been a night already. Sure, let's go for it. Okay, let's do this.

Garry 2:52

You know this one, which Hallmark Channel series follows the life of a woman named Casey Nightingale.

Amy 3:00

Oh, that's the Good Witch. Ding ding, ding ding. I know that one is such a good series if you have never watched it.

Garry 3:08

And Bert tell her what she won. Oh my gosh, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do.

Amy 3:15

Oh boy, we are here all night, people, we're here all night.

Garry 3:19

Yes, anyhoo, you got the question right, that's good.

Amy 3:22

I assume so Wow, but Good Witch is a really good series.

Garry 3:27

Yes, it is Good Witch, good series. We enjoyed it. That's another one you got me hooked on.

Amy 3:32

Yes, it's very. If you've never seen it, you should definitely go watch it, it's on. Hallmark Plus right now. I'm not sure where else it's available, probably other places, but you can go catch. It's just good. Just good tv, just enjoyable, not too heavy, some heartfelt moments, well, lots of heartfelt moments. Really just smooth and easy and nice a little bit of magic and a little bit of magic thrown in.

Garry 3:56

Yeah, so it's good so is it time to drop this enough I would say so.

Unpacking the Tree Farm Mystery

Amy 4:01

Okay, all right. Emily continues to investigate the tree farm murder, drawing Sam's attention.

Garry 4:09

Is that it?

Amy 4:10

That's it, woo. Short and sweet and to the point Wow.

Garry 4:15

We'll probably give away some spoilers, so if you haven't watched it yet, go watch it. Then come back to our review.

Amy 4:23

I am 100% certain we're going to give away spoilers in this one.

Garry 4:26

Well, we usually do.

Amy 4:28

Go watch it if you don't want to know what happens and then come back because we are going to be spilling the beans, probably in this one Spilling the beans Roll that beautiful bean footage there's not really a choice. I mean really.

Garry 4:41

No, it's not. I mean, there was a lot going on in this particular episode.

Amy 4:46

So we left off in episode one. Where did we leave off at the end? Gordon was poisoned. Yep Right. Yeah, we don't know if he survives right at the end of episode one.

Garry 4:57

No, you don't know, we don't know.

Amy 4:59

We see a flashback from four years prior of Emily running out of a building and then the building explodes.

Garry 5:04

Yeah, I'm interested to find out what that is.

Amy 5:06

Yeah, so she obviously has some sort of past that she's running from, but we don't know what Marcus was going to purchase the farm from Gordon.

Garry 5:14

Yep.

Amy 5:16

We learned that in the last episode, lizzie is pregnant, which is Marcus's ex.

Garry 5:20

Yes.

Amy 5:24

And Trent is the daddy allegedly. Yes, and Trent is the daddy allegedly yes, and we also learned that Trent used a pseudonym at the tree farm for the carriage ride.

Garry 5:31

Yes.

Amy 5:32

But he ends up not going on the carriage ride.

Garry 5:34

Correct we find out.

Amy 5:35

So I here's part of the spoiler had no idea that we were going to get the murder wrapped up in this episode. I know right, I did not know that this was a series like that.

Garry 5:47

So I guess it's a two-episode per murder mystery, yes, per murder Murder.

Amy 5:55

Yes, so after this episode, after we watched episode number two, I went and looked at the names of all the rest of the episodes and there's four more episodes, four more, yeah, so it's a rest of the episodes and there's four more episodes Four more yeah.

Amy 6:05

So it's a total of six and each one's like a part one, part two, so I guess there's a murder in each one, and then I had no idea it was like that and I guess we'll learn more about Emily's past as we go, but each murder will be different, so maybe we will be adding more actors, more characters. I don't know. We didn't listen to the Audible original series so I'm not sure how that went, if it was two episodes per murder, per murder.

Garry 6:34

Well, we're going to find out, right?

Amy 6:36

I think so.

Garry 6:37

Because I'll tell you what. What. Who doesn't love a secret pregnancy, a contested farm deed?

Amy 6:46

You're doing air quotes like people can see you. Oh, you know what. What are you doing? I don't know what's wrong with me today.

Garry 6:50

Oh Jesus, Take the wheel.

Amy 6:55

He's doing air quotes. I don't even know if those are appropriate there, supposedly a poison cookie that everyone in town thinks was used to kill Marcus. That's right, we had the poison cookie.

Garry 7:06

I mean, what damage can that do to your cookie business?

Amy 7:09

A lot, I would think, if you had a poison cookie.

Garry 7:12

But you know what's funny, I think? Every time Emily gets deeper into the case, it seems like she risks exposing the secrets from her past.

Amy 7:26

Yeah. So I think that's a pretty cool twist, right yeah that definitely is a common thread throughout both episodes so far, because I think she says something like at the beginning, like getting involved is an unforced error. Yes, and she said self-sabotage, thy name is Emily.

Garry 7:43

That was so funny. That line was so funny.

Amy 7:45

Yes, yeah, so you can see she's doing things that are going to make people think she's smarter than the average bear. She's obviously into.

Garry 7:54

Something. Something we just don't know what, and the more she picks locks and asks questions and yeah, and what's funny is that at the end of each episode she seems like she gets a gift from. Is it Ray? Who's the furniture?

Amy 8:11

owner. That's at the end of this one. Yeah, yeah.

Garry 8:12

Because at the end of the last one, doesn't she like open up her little cubby hole and breaks out the case with the laptop.

Amy 8:19

Yeah, that's right.

Garry 8:20

We learned she's got secrets, but we don't know what's in this particular case, this time Right, we have to wait she gets a case, right, right.

Amy 8:27

Well, she didn't get that other one as a gift.

Garry 8:28

She just opened it up from her, not a gift, but you know, it's Some mystery box, some mystery box, mystery box.

Amy 8:37

So I guess we should we keep saying murder yes and I was thinking maybe we should explain why we say it that way yeah, you explain you? You want me to explain?

Garry 8:45

yes, because you're the one that told me about it.

Amy 8:47

So there was. There was a tv series called city confidential and it ran from 1998 to 2023 actually, and it was a real-life crime story documentaries, right, mostly about murders, so the late actor Paul Winfield used to narrate it, and so it would crack me up, because every episode started like it was a small town, the kind where children played outside, people didn't lock their doors until there was a murder.

Garry 9:22

And I didn't lock their doors until there was a murder and I didn't believe you and you're like, okay, we're gonna go find one of these episodes.

Amy 9:26

I had to look it up because every episode it was like it was a smile, a small, quaint little town yes, and I rolled, laughing his voice is so perfect when he said it since 1998. That is how I've been saying murder.

Garry 9:40

So if you hear it, like that.

Amy 9:41

it's like there's a murder. Oh my goodness, All right. So, anyway, that's just a little. And he passed away, unfortunately, in 2004. So he narrated that series from 1998 till his death in 2004. And then there was another narrator, who I forget who it was, but it's never the same.

Garry 9:56

It never the same, it never the same.

Amy 9:57

He's the icon of that series. So City Confidential Go check it out.

Garry 10:02

Check it out and see what we're talking about. You will laugh.

Amy 10:05

All right, anywho, anywho, all right, let's get to.

Garry 10:08

But you know what else is funny? What's?

Amy 10:09

that.

Garry 10:10

Emily always gets caught at the scene.

Amy 10:13

Oh, you know what?

Garry 10:20

That's point. You know, sam is always catching her can you imagine being sam going?

Lizzie's Pregnancy and Blackmail Reveal

Amy 10:21

oh my god, what is with this woman? That is true because at the beginning, um you know, gordon was poisoned and we find out he survived. Yeah, and sam is like, what were you doing at the tree farm? Because she was there, right, she found, or she's the one who called, yeah, the police, right, so you're right, she is kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time often.

Garry 10:40

She is that type of person that you know she does it and then she asks for forgiveness later.

Amy 10:46

Well, maybe I don't know.

Garry 10:47

Yeah, yeah, she can't help herself, she can't get out of her own way with the investigation part.

Amy 10:54

So well, let's get into some of the big revelations of this episode.

Garry 10:58

Okay, Some big revelations, some big revelations, some big revelations.

Amy 11:00

Again if you haven't watched it. Spoiler alert push pause, go watch and come back.

Garry 11:05

Yes, please do so. We're about to play that. The first revelation is what was the first one? Gordon survives.

Amy 11:11

Gordon survived the poisoning.

Garry 11:13

He's not murder.

Amy 11:14

He's not death by cookie, yeah, that we know of.

Garry 11:18

Yet Right, right, right Okay.

Amy 11:19

So Gordon, gordon does survive. Yeah, he lives to see another day. Yay, trent, you want to talk about biggest revelations with Trent? Yes, so we find out and Emily goes to interview Trent.

Garry 11:33

Yes.

Amy 11:34

And during the course of that interview she confronts him about knowing that he used a pseudonym at the tree farm.

Garry 11:43

Yes, joey Vaughn, joey Vaughn.

Amy 11:46

Yes, so she knows about that and she basically wants to know what he was doing there. And he actually thought that Lizzie was meeting up with her ex Marcus.

Garry 11:58

Yes.

Amy 11:59

So he went to look and check it out.

Garry 12:02

Right, he made a reservation and when he? Got there, he realized that his inclinations were wrong.

Amy 12:09

Correct. Correct that it was wrong.

Garry 12:12

Right.

Amy 12:13

So he realized that he was wrong about that. So he left the tree farm Right. So that eliminates him as a suspect in the murder the murder of marcus. Yes, right because he left the tree farm he ran into. He says he ran ran into anna at the gas station right right, so um, and then that's when emily asks him about the ford, or asking if there was a withdrawal right.

Garry 12:38

Right am I.

Amy 12:38

If she can see that, if she could see his account and how much was withdrawn, and that's where we find out it was forty thousand dollars forty thousand dollars but she did she.

Garry 12:52

The reason she found out he was actually there was a the coat from the Right.

Amy 12:58

She was looking at social media right.

Garry 12:59

Yeah, she was looking at the Right right, and then when she was going to see him, she was across the street and he was talking to someone else and he had the exact same coat on, and that's when she confronted him. She picked up on the clue.

Amy 13:10

She recognized the coat, not him, in the pictures of the farm that day. Yes, on social media. Social media will get you every time.

Garry 13:17

Hey.

Amy 13:18

It gives a lot of evidence. I'm telling you.

Garry 13:20

You put it up there, it stays up there, yep, yep.

Amy 13:24

So that's how she knew he was there.

Garry 13:26

For sure, right right, you're right, so that eliminates.

Amy 13:29

Trent. So that eliminates Trent. So then we have let's see Lizzie and Marcus, lizzie and Marcus. The Lizzie and Marcus, lizzie and Marcus, the Lizzie and Marcus story. Yes, so this time the mystery came to her. Lizzie went to.

Garry 13:45

Emily's shop Store.

Amy 13:47

Or store. Yeah, yeah, because she's curious about the cookie, right? I believe she's trying to figure out where it came from do you think?

Garry 13:53

Yeah, I think so.

Amy 13:54

So Lizzie goes to the store and Emily's just coming, she. So Lizzie goes to the store and Emily's just coming.

Garry 13:58

She's coming home. Home, she wants to go and relax, hug her kitties, drink some wine, take a bath. Right when she looks over and she actually sees Lizzie. So she walks up to her and says, can I help you? And Lizzie was like, yeah, I'm kind of hungry.

Amy 14:15

Craving because I'm pregnant. Blah, blah, blah, yep. So they go inside the store, right, right and that's when Emily confronts Liz about the baby.

Garry 14:27

Help me the baby, okay.

Amy 14:28

Yeah, I'm like you're looking at me like I'm like the. Are we doing charades here that no one can see too, I know?

Garry 14:34

right, you're right, I know right, you're right, so, emily.

Amy 14:37

So we find out that the baby is actually Marcus's, and Lizzie hadn't told Trent yet, because Trent thinks it's his baby.

Garry 14:46

Right.

Amy 14:47

Right, because they got together shortly after her and Marcus split up. And then we find out that Lizzie did tell Marcus.

Garry 14:56

Yes.

Amy 15:01

That he was the baby's daddy and they were trying to figure out what to do right and how they meet in, like the restaurant, in the cafe, and they, they discuss it. And marcus is, you know, he's not mad at lizzie, he's just like, we'll figure it out, we'll move forward. And in the meantime, marcus is in love with june and he's what engaged to her and all this other jazz.

Amy 15:18

And then we find out that lizzie was being blackmailed right for forty thousand dollars yes, she tells emily that she was being blackmailed and that marcus was murdered because of her, because she needed the money, and that's why marcus withdrew the cash right of $40,000 so he could give it to Lizzie to give to the blackmailers. But we don't know who the blackmailers are yet.

Garry 15:45

Did I miss anything? Both of them were at the tree farm at the same night, on the same ride.

Amy 15:53

And Marcus had said I have some business to take care of, so he was really deep down. A good guy? Yes, he was. He was trying to take care of Right, so he was really deep down a good guy?

Garry 15:58

Yes, he was. He was a really good guy. He was trying to help her out.

Amy 16:00

Yes, and then you find out that we also find out this is an aside that Marcus did tell June. Yes, june didn't know and she wasn't upset. I kind of like that you know, because Marcus and Lizzie were together and they didn't get back together after they split up. But she was pregnant and you know it happens right.

Garry 16:18

He was an open book with her.

Amy 16:19

Right, right, so June did know that. Is there anything else during that Lizzie meeting?

Garry 16:24

Well, we then find out that Marcus had given Lizzie a piece of the cookie in the woods.

Amy 16:31

Yes, that's a big part of it, thank you.

Garry 16:33

And that's when we find out that the cookie wasn't poisoned.

Amy 16:37

It was not murder by cookie it was not, you're right.

Garry 16:42

And she's telling Emily this in the store, right. And then Emily is like wait a minute, you had a piece of the cookie. And she was like yes, and she goes. Well, then the cookie wasn't poisoned, right. And then that's when she asked Lizzie to do one more favor for her, and that was to go to the police to get June off of the Well to tell them to tell them that Marcus was tell them the whole story.

Amy 17:07

Right, right and then that, yeah, then they realized that June didn't do it by cookie.

Garry 17:13

Yes, by cookie Right.

Amy 17:15

So that the cookie wasn't wasn't Poison, because the cookie wasn't there.

Garry 17:21

Right, right, it was gone. It was gone. Just the wrapper was there. It wasn't on the scene.

Amy 17:24

It wasn't on the scene anymore. The actual cookie.

The Cookie Wasn't Poisoned

Garry 17:27

Right, so that's okay. So that covers Lizzie and Marcus and Marcus. So let's move on to Anna.

Amy 17:34

Oh wait June.

Garry 17:35

Oh, june, june is released, june is.

Amy 17:37

And she goes and meets Emily at the cafe.

Garry 17:41

Correct.

Amy 17:42

And that's where Emily has another. Oh my gosh.

Garry 17:46

Oh, my gosh moment.

Amy 17:47

Oh my gosh moment. And she goes to the tree farm.

Garry 17:50

Yes.

Amy 17:51

To confront dun dun dun Anna. So now we're thinking maybe Anna did it.

Garry 17:58

Right.

Amy 17:58

Maybe Anna killed Marcus Because she doesn't know, we don't know. We don't know what's going on, so she is looking for the cash at the tree farm.

Garry 18:08

Anna's not there yet Emily is, and Anna's not there and Anna catches her. Digging behind the counter.

Amy 18:12

Digging behind the counter and looking for a bag of cash right.

Garry 18:16

And then she wanted to know what are you doing here? And then that's when Anna did.

Amy 18:20

Anna, what are you doing here? And then that's what.

Garry 18:21

Anna did, and I wanted to know what Emily goes into. I know you saw Trent at the gas station. He told me that he told you about the $40,000. What I'm confused about is and she lifts up the duffel bag, here's the duffel bag, but there's no $40,000. So what did you do with it? Right, and at first she, anna tried to say it wasn't her, maybe it was her dad, but Emily wasn't having any of it.

Garry 18:45

So, anna, finally confessed that when she was at school, the gamblers that or that the people that he owned, that Gordon, her dad owed money to from gambling debts, had come to school and told her if you don't get us $40,000, we're going to kill your dad Right Right. So Anna comes up with this idea that she's going to text Lizzie saying I know that that's Marcus' baby and if you don't give me $40,000.

Garry 19:19

Yeah, I mean it's really complex All these storylines going together and we still don't know who did it right at that point, right right so and emily figures that part out because she knows that gordon is not a tech guy, so she knows right, he couldn't have sent the text message lizzie, because lizzie says she got a text message right and so she knows yeah, emily knows that gordon doesn't even have a cell phone right or or has a flip phone or whatever that he would not be doing the texting.

Amy 19:48

And that's when Anna fesses up.

Garry 19:50

Yes.

Amy 19:50

That she was the one blackmailing Lizzie and she gave the money to the Gamblers or the people he. I guess they're probably not gamblers, but yeah, whatever, I don't know.

Garry 20:01

Whatever they are, they're the mafia, mafia.

Amy 20:04

And that's who you see in the first episode that comes out of the bar.

Garry 20:07

Yes, yes, because they have a duffel bag and they're getting in the car and taking off, so that solves that particular mystery.

Amy 20:18

So then we have the biggest reveal of the episode, which is who did it, who did the murder. So Emily's in the barn, right, she's go ahead.

Garry 20:29

So, after talking with Anna and telling her she needs to clean up her own mess, she leaves the store and as she's walking down the steps she hears the horse in the barn. Oh, right, and you know the horse sounds startled, so you know Emily being the detective that she is. She goes over to the barn and she's like hello is there anybody in here? And the thing that catches her eye is a ladder that's coming down from the second floor to the first floor.

Garry 21:00

Right and she's like huh, that wasn't here before, that wasn't here before and Gordon had said it wasn't.

Amy 21:02

sturdy up there Right and she's like huh, that wasn't here before. That wasn't here before and Gordon had said it wasn't sturdy up there.

Garry 21:06

Right, it's not safe to go up there. Not safe to go up there, and what does she do?

Amy 21:10

She goes up there. Yeah, would I go up there.

Garry 21:12

No, no, hell, no, I'd be like Anna.

Amy 21:15

Do you know what kind of have you ever?

Garry 21:19

been in a barn.

Amy 21:20

My grandma had a barn.

Garry 21:21

My grandpa built a nice barn. They had some critters, huh.

Amy 21:23

Well, I'm just saying, going up in the loft area was scarce, scarce.

Garry 21:28

Yeah, I bet it was Especially as a little kid right?

The Real Culprit Revealed

Amy 21:29

Yeah, I wouldn't do it as an adult Are you kidding me as little as I like bugs and there's no lighting, that's true. No, thank you. Now, the horses are great on the lower level, but going up, nope, no, thank you, but anywho, emily goes up there. Yeah, because she is.

Garry 21:48

Like a cray-cray.

Amy 21:49

Like a cray-cray, because she is a detective and she wants to know what's going on.

Garry 21:54

Yes.

Amy 21:54

So she goes up and she discovers that Rowan yes. Rowan's stuff is up there.

Garry 22:01

Yeah, like he's been staying there.

Amy 22:02

And Rowan's stuff is up there, yeah, like he's been staying there and she sees his backpack.

Garry 22:05

Right, right, which she goes through, she dumps out onto the blanket.

Amy 22:09

And what dumps out.

Garry 22:12

It's the. Let me see if I can pronounce this Pentobarbital.

Amy 22:17

Yes, yes, so it's the anesthesia for animals, right, but that's what was used to kill Marcus.

Garry 22:25

By accident. Well, that's what they found in his system Right. That's what killed him.

Amy 22:30

Right Was this pentobarbital?

Garry 22:33

Right, and when she actually finds it, rowan appears behind her with a pitchfork Right. And Emily gets up to walk away and, as she does, she steps on a board and falls right through it falls through the floor right to the bottom floor, just like gordon said, it wasn't safe up there right, but she didn't listen there, but she didn't listen so right, so she gets knocked out. She's knocked out and when she comes to she's tied up, and she notices that across from her anna's also tied up. Right gordon's daughter's there?

Amy 23:03

yeah, she's, she's tied up and she notices that across from her anna's also tied up, right gordon's daughter's there yeah she's, she's tied up and and um rowan gosh, his name just escaped me for a second.

Garry 23:11

I thought we just said it um.

Amy 23:13

So he's, he's basically prepping the right to murder them the pentobarbital right, yeah however you say it, he's prepping that because he's going to murder them and he's going to set it up like Anna killed her.

Garry 23:29

Right.

Amy 23:30

And then killed herself.

Garry 23:31

I guess Because she couldn't take the fact that she killed Emily.

Amy 23:36

Right, right it was. Yeah, it was a little convoluted, but in that talk with Emily, you know, and Emily is trying to figure out what to do, like she's evaluating the situation. She's biding time. She's trying to figure out how they're going to get out of that situation. Right, you can see it in her look.

Garry 23:53

Right.

Amy 23:54

She's looking around, she's trying not to and she's keeping him engaged in conversation Things that I've learned by watching detective movies. Things that I've learned by watching detective movies Detective Detective, right. So yeah, so she's. So in the course of those conversations, you find out that Rowan had lost his home, or he.

Garry 24:12

I forget that part where yeah, he was staying there because he didn't have anywhere to stay.

Amy 24:16

Right, so basically, yeah, he didn't have anywhere to stay and he was upset at the fact that Gordon was going to sell the farm.

Garry 24:25

Right. Or sell the yeah, yeah, the tree farm, the tree farm yeah.

Amy 24:29

And so he put the poison in a flask. Right and because Gordon is an alcoholic. He was supposed to drink it, but who picked it up instead?

Garry 24:38

Marcus.

Amy 24:39

Because Marcus is a good guy and he didn't want Gordon drinking Right While he was driving the carriage around with people in the back or in general, right, yes, so we find out that Marcus actually took the flask.

Garry 24:51

Right and While he was waiting for whoever was blackmailing Lizzie Right.

Amy 24:59

He took a sip and Emily says it was because he probably needed courage to face these guys who were blackmailing, not Emily Lizzie.

Garry 25:05

Lizzie, Lizzie right.

Amy 25:08

And so you find out that you know, okay, Marcus's murder was a mistake, but he was still going to murder somebody.

Garry 25:15

Right right, he was going to murder Gordon.

Amy 25:17

He was going to murder Gordon. So in the meantime, Emily's trying. Did I forget any other revelations?

Garry 25:23

during that Well, that's when she was like. Well, the flask wasn't on his person when the cops found him and he told her or Rowan told her that they had a search party and he was the first one that found Marcus laying on the ground. Oh, that's right. And he saw the flask and he picked the flask up.

Amy 25:41

Because he realized Marcus had drank from the flask that he had put poison in. Right, okay, that's right, that's right. So then Emily is trying to get her hands on. They're really taped together, right? So she's trying to get them loose. Yeah, cut and cut the tape. And in the meantime she kind of motions for anna to make some noise right while rowan is in the horse stall yeah, right with the.

Amy 26:09

I can't remember the name of the horse oh, I don't either, but so then anna makes no she she pushes like a shovel over or something which hits a pail. Yeah, and it makes a loud noise and it startles the horse and the horse ends up knocking Rowan out. Yay, giving them time to get away.

Garry 26:26

Yes.

Amy 26:27

And for her to call 911 and you see, sam is trying to call her anyway. Yes, yes. So that was the big revelation it was Of all of that, so that was. That's the big revelation of all of that, and Emily was involved in every bit of every storyline.

Amy 26:41

Yes, she was that she investigated and she found some things out. You know, because you know the well, I guess the blackmail was part of it, but it was also like a side story, right, right and the Trent thing. That was like a side story where you kind of think maybe he did it maybe he didn't.

Amy 26:58

It a side story where you kind of think maybe he did it, maybe he didn't, it's almost like everybody did it. But no, she eliminates everybody, right, so then? So then, at the end rowan or rowan rowan gets arrested right for murder for murder, yeah right and.

Garry 27:10

And then sam is sitting there talking to emily as they're watching lizzie give or Anna give. You know the cops, whatever.

Amy 27:19

Right Information.

Garry 27:20

Right and he kind of hints to Emily that he's glad that she's okay.

Amy 27:27

Okay, yeah, you know.

Garry 27:28

And cause she was like so are you mad at me for you know not calling you? And he's like no, we'll say that for another day.

Amy 27:35

Right, not calling you, and he's like, no, we'll say that for another day, right, right, and you kind of get the feeling that he's starting to have feelings for her Right, right you?

Amy 27:41

can see that kind of developing a little bit. I mean, it's kind of you know, that's the big reveal and we haven't really talked about. You know, emily and Sam throughout the whole thing kind of have a good banter too. She's got a lot of good one-liners, like when we have the Lizzie revelation and she has Lizzie go to the police station, right, and he's like of course you were Sam's, like of course you were involved, and she's like you're not going to give me credit for this, are you?

Amy 28:06

Yeah, you know, you're not even going to give me this one and he's like no, no, I'm not. No, it was really cute. And then we also had, you know, sam and his daughter growing closer and, yeah, we had some cool scenes with them and his daughter's growing up. And she understands now that her dad is even though he you know they, he needed to be divorced from her mom that he's kind of missing the old life too, their old traditions and she's like let's start new ones.

Amy 28:35

You know, let's. So it was really cool to see a teenager kind of yeah, see that and her dad and so not, there's just a lot going on, yeah yeah, yeah, she's, and I like that. They made her a good kid too. Yeah, you know, I mean she's gonna do kid things, but they kind of made she's got a good head on her shoulders.

Garry 28:52

She's kind to her dad, you know, so it's kind of cool yeah, it was kind of funny where at the beginning she didn't want to do the karaoke. Right, but in the end when she tells her dad that it's okay, we don't have to do the family traditions, we can make our own. And as she's walking out of his office, she turns around and goes but we can do the karaoke.

Amy 29:12

Well, she sees that he's a little bit sad Right, like he's kind of looking like oh, and then she says, hey, I know what we can do, and it just makes him brighten up, which is really cool. It's really cool.

Garry 29:23

Yeah.

Amy 29:24

And then I think I don't know if we mentioned this or not how Emily gives Ray who owns? The furniture store, ray is like her partner in crime.

Garry 29:34

Yes, that's going to be interesting to find out what's going on there.

Amy 29:36

And at the end they're exchanging gifts right, yes. And that's where she gives him a postcard that says something like here's to keeping each other's secrets. So he's got some secrets that he's hiding. Yes, and he gives her a new box, so we're waiting to see what's in that box. I mean, there's a lot going on even though a murder was solved.

Garry 29:55

Right.

Amy 29:56

So we still have more to go.

Garry 29:57

Yes.

Amy 29:58

And I'm just I don't know. I think it's kind of a cool way to storytell.

Garry 30:01

Yeah, it is In two-part episodes like that. I'm enjoying it actually.

Amy 30:03

It's kind of like Murder. She Wrote, only they're taking two episodes instead of one.

Garry 30:07

Right, right, and then Murder, she Wr.

Amy 30:11

we'll see what happens yeah.

Garry 30:14

I think we will yeah, so yeah Out of five.

Amy 30:18

Before we do that, what was your tinsel, did you?

Garry 30:22

have a tinsel topped moment. I. I actually when they when she figured out that Anna was the one that said who Emily? Emily found out that Anna was the one that text.

Amy 30:33

Oh yeah.

Garry 30:37

Because Gordon couldn't. Oh yeah, yeah, because Gordon couldn't text. Oh yeah, that was kind of. I thought that was a pretty good catch. Yeah, and I didn't catch it. Yeah, neither did I, so I thought that was my tinsel top moment. What about you, your tinsel?

Amy 30:45

top moment. Well, we just talked about it. In fact, you brought in this episode and but I just really liked that moment. And then she's like, hey, I have an idea we can go, let's go to karaoke night. And he's like, okay, and they're just, I just thought that, that I really liked that. I thought that was yeah they did. So I thought that was cool. That was cool. And then you know, we're left with the mystery. We don't know what's in the box and we don't know what's going to happen next.

Garry 31:20

No, we don't. So you got to stay tuned for season one, episode three.

Amy 31:25

That's right. That's right. Out of five ornaments, how many would you hang on your tree for this one?

Garry 31:39

I'm going to give this a three and a half.

Final Thoughts and Rating

Amy 31:40

Oh okay, what about you? I'm gonna give it a four, okay, okay. No, I thought it was good. No, I thought it was really good. I I was not expecting to wrap up the murder, this episode at all.

Garry 31:45

I had no idea we were gonna find out, and then I was like oh crap, we just found out who did it yeah, we did we found out why.

Amy 31:52

We found out all the information. What is?

Garry 31:54

happening. What are they gonna do now? What are they gonna next? But they're setting up for another murder.

Amy 32:00

So yeah, I think it's kind of cool.

Garry 32:02

Okay, but is that a wrap?

Amy 32:03

That's a wrap.

Garry 32:04

All right, well, thanks for listening. Be sure to follow the podcast wherever you listen so you don't miss one. Also, follow us on social media. If show and are listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, we would really really appreciate your positive review. And if you didn't really really like the show, we still appreciate your positive review.

Amy 32:24

We would. We would really appreciate it. It would help us so much if you would take the time to leave a review and comment. Go on our social media and comment and we'll talk back. Yes, we'll comment back when we can.

Garry 32:36

Yes. We do have full-time jobs outside of this, so I do comment when we can.

Amy 32:42

But yeah, that's right, very cool. Join us next tinsel tuesday when we review episode number three, peril of the bells, part one, which I'm sure will be followed by episode four, peril of the bells, part two. You can catch the entire season of mistletoe murders on Hallmark plus, so go check it out and then come back for our weekly reviews. You can also tune in on Wednesdays for our Hallmark movie reviews yes, Until then, fill up your glasses and push play. Thanks for listening.

Garry 33:12

Cheers.