Hallmark's Mistletoe Murders - S1 E4 - Peril of the Belles Pt. 2

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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Transcript

Amy 0:08

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 0:15

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

Amy 0:18

Pour the wine we're pouring a cab Sav.

Garry 0:20

As usual.

Amy 0:21

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

Garry 0:41

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Amy 0:48

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Garry 0:54

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Amy 1:00

A review and hopefully, it's a positive. Oh my gosh.

Garry 1:04

Are we going to be singing?

Amy 1:06

all night long.

Garry 1:07

Is this becoming a musical podcast? I think so. Maybe you know what we should do one what?

Amy 1:11

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

Garry 1:14

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

Amy 1:16

I can't sing.

Garry 1:17

So that's what would make it fun?

Amy 1:19

No, that would to be fun for me.

Garry 1:21

Well, anyways, you can also find us on social media Facebook, instagram, blue Sky X and, of course, threads.

Amy 1:29

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Garry 1:49

Have a sip. Have a sip of wine, One sip.

Amy 1:51

You can also email us and let us know your thoughts at pourthewineisromcomtime at gmailcom.

Garry 1:58

Yes.

Amy 1:59

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

Garry 2:03

Yes.

Amy 2:04

Maybe We've done it once.

Garry 2:07

We've done it before, let's do it again.

Amy 2:08

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

Garry 2:30

The first episode. Yes, oh, you're putting me on the spot.

Amy 2:32

I'm going to put you on the spot.

Garry 2:33

Okay, peril of the Bells, part one.

Amy 2:37

No, not this one.

Garry 2:38

The very first episode of Mistletoe Brothers A poison in a pear tree. A poison in a pear tree, part one. Part one.

Amy 2:44

Part one. That was a trick question.

Garry 2:48

It was, and I totally got tricked.

Amy 2:51

All right, all right.

Garry 2:52

Is it trivia time?

Amy 2:54

Yes, I think so.

Garry 2:55

Okay, here we go. If you like to hear it, here we go. Which holiday is second most popular for Hallmark movies after Christmas, halloween, after Christmas Halloween. After Christmas oh, after.

Amy 3:08

Okay, sorry, I'm just Valentine's Day.

Garry 3:14

Valentine's. You heard it right here Valentine's.

Amy 3:31

Usually it's these with the word mix-ups, but you today are on fire I love it really, really. Valentine's day duh gosh, give me some wine I'm just gonna sit.

Garry 3:37

You need to take a sip. Yes, yes, yes, and it's time to drop the synopsis too, and you're all like Valentine?

Amy 3:47

Well, why don't you drop the synopsis?

Garry 3:49

because I need a sip of wine. Okay, drop the synopsis. Emily and Sam work together to find the choir killer period the killer, the killer. That's it. That's the synopsis. That's it.

Amy 4:04

Very short and sweet, but it sums it up.

Garry 4:06

They do find it in this episode. That's what I need, these little one sentences.

Amy 4:10

I know You're fine, you're fine.

Garry 4:12

Well, we'll probably give away some spoilers, so if you have not seen this yet, please press pause. Go watch the series, yes, and then come back, listen to the podcast and drop us an email. Let us know how we did.

Amy 4:27

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

Garry 4:35

Yes.

Amy 4:37

Vi, her store key disappears, yes, and she's freaking out a little bit. We don't know where it is.

Garry 4:43

She's a teenager Lost air quotes. Lost.

Amy 4:48

Adam thought that Clara was cheating on him.

Garry 4:51

Yes.

Amy 4:52

Adam is missing. Poor.

Garry 4:55

Adam, he just can't catch a break, can he?

Amy 4:58

Debbie was poisoned.

Garry 4:59

Yes.

Amy 5:00

With the spray right?

Garry 5:02

Yes, Was that the last, the bee honey.

Amy 5:05

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. Spy, spy, spy, listen, spy. Well, her word was spy, but he didn't like it so much Spy With a wee little eye. And Emily is running a program on her computer to search for any mention of the name chimera yes, right, I think I leave anything out no, you didn't okay, okay

Amy 5:32

I think that's about where we were. Yeah, 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? Yes, clara 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.

Amy 5:50

We'll give the final revelation uh, yeah, the reveal of who who killed clara and was attempting to kill debbie? Yes yes, so what did we find out in this episode? So I guess, towards the beginning, what happens.

Garry 6:07

Emily finds someone is broken into her store yes, well, she sees the guy coming up, she sees the guy right, right, right.

Amy 6:14

She sees the guy coming out right and she chases him for a second.

Garry 6:19

And then the next scene she's in her store and she's just checking it out, making sure nothing is stolen right and she has to reluctantly out making sure nothing is stolen Right and she has to reluctantly call the police because she doesn't want the attention on her store, but she has to. But you know what was cool? What?

Amy 6:39

After the police left, she had this little Santa Claus sitting on the shelf. Yes, she sure did, didn't she? That was a camera with a little USB. Well, he asked her, yeah, yeah, and Sam asked her if she had a camera. But go ahead, sorry.

Garry 6:47

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

Amy 7:03

Right, because she doesn't know yet, but we know, we know it's a key.

Garry 7:07

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

Amy 7:11

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.

Garry 7:18

Yes, you did.

Amy 7:19

Yep, so. So then Emily has the idea that she wants to invite Brooke to lunch.

Garry 7:27

Oh, my goodness.

Amy 7:28

Brooke is very excited, right. Brooke is like it's about time we did lunch and Emily's like yay, yes, Like real enthusiastically, sarcastically, just about. I thought that was cute.

Garry 7:41

Well, what was so funny is they were sitting there and Emily says you know, are there any affairs going on in the choir? And she's like no, 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 rosé and. Sue shoots back a screw cap, cork or something else and she goes. Well, something and she goes, we'll do the cork.

Amy 8:18

Yeah, yeah, because Brooke likes to chat.

Garry 8:21

Yes.

Amy 8:21

And gossip. I mean, we all know people like that. 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.

Garry 8:32

Yes, the whole time Brooke is talking. Poor Emily the look on her face. It was such a cute. Yes, she loved.

Amy 8:45

She loved.

Garry 8:46

Yes.

Amy 8:47

Adam.

Garry 8:47

Adam Right.

Amy 8:48

So we do find that out. So that's one revelation that we can check off the list. Right, there are one person that we can eliminate as A suspect Killing Clara. Yeah, was not her husband.

Garry 9:01

Was not her husband.

Amy 9:02

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

Garry 9:05

Right.

Amy 9:06

Yeah.

Garry 9:07

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

Amy 9:18

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

Garry 9:24

So in this episode she confronts him at the choir rehearsal Right Right, and she's having a talk with him.

Amy 9:35

And she asks him about you know, are you having an affair with?

Garry 9:37

Claire.

Amy 9:37

Well, she says there were rumors, doesn't she say there are rumors that maybe you and Claire are a couple, and then he goes. Well, she's not my type.

Garry 9:41

And then Emma was like hmm, and he goes. Well, she's not my type. And then Emily was 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.

Amy 9:54

Right, right. So we do find that out.

Garry 9:57

His door swings a different way. So he was not having an affair, no, and he explains to Emily that Adam had come over because he suspected they were having an affair. Right 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.

Amy 10:17

Read music. That's right.

Garry 10:19

That's right so the argument that she witnessed Emilyily witnessed was adam asking for his forgiveness right, and that's what he said.

Amy 10:27

Adam kept asking him and what kept apologizing, because adam felt badly that he accused him of something that he was not doing right with adam's wife so it was kind of you know, it was a good little saying and and you and that gets rid of another suspect.

Amy 10:45

Well, right, I mean, I don't know, 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, whereas we weren't sure what was going on with Lance and Adam, if Adam was having him spy on the choir. Choir, that's what I thought at first because, he did prison time, remember. And then um emily has her, has ray, look into lance right, isn't that?

Garry 11:17

that's right, because sam tried and his uh lance's files were were sealed.

Amy 11:24

Because he was a minor right.

Garry 11:28

No, I think he made a deal with the prosecutor to get out of the mob family.

Amy 11:32

Oh, that's right, he would do the time. So then Emily's able to find out more about Lance, because she got Ray Ray. 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.

Garry 11:49

Yes.

Amy 11:49

Right, because For me at that point she finds out. Well, no, then I think for her too, because she finds out the real reason that he did change his life. He did get you know right and he was kind of on the straight and narrow so to speak.

Garry 12:06

So good for him.

Amy 12:07

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.

Garry 12:17

Yes.

Amy 12:18

And she watches a video of. 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.

Garry 12:35

Right.

Amy 12:35

Correct. Okay, I'm trying to walk through this.

Garry 12:38

But she also notices that Debbie's not there.

Amy 12:42

Correct, so what was?

Garry 12:45

Debbie doing.

Amy 12:46

Right.

Garry 12:47

Was she being a downer?

Amy 12:48

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

Garry 12:53

Sorry, I had to do it so then, she confronts Debbie.

Amy 12:57

She confronts. Well, she talks to her. Is that where they talk at the diner? Yes, can we just talk about a diner for a second? I love diners. I know this is such a sidebar, they're like cozy I know cozy and I'm just like a 50 girls at heart even though I want happy days 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.

Garry 13:20

The jukebox at the table, the jukebox. Yes, yes, yes yes, throw a quarter in there. I don't have a share in that, and these shows have a.

Amy 13:26

Everyone has a diner right. Yes, that they go to. Yes, anywho, that was just a sidebar, all yes. Or talking to her, not really confronting her combatively, right, just discussing casually what went on?

Garry 13:42

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, right, and the hospital actually confirmed that. So we find that out.

Amy 14:02

So we find out that Debbie is also off of the suspect list. Off of the suspect list Right because she was in the hospital at this time.

Garry 14:10

And.

Amy 14:11

She says that Vera took her to the hospital.

Garry 14:13

Right.

Amy 14:14

And was with her at the hospital. So you presume that, vera.

Garry 14:17

Was there with her, too, was there with her the whole time right right so then let's go back to who broke into the the mistletoe store the mistletoe yeah, so um so emily's in the store with violet under the mistletoe.

Amy 14:35

I was trying. I was sitting here trying to think about it, sorry under the mistletoe I digress or does she come in with her friend?

Garry 14:42

she comes in she comes, she comes in with violet comes in with her friend her friend has the 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 in her the wheels are turning Right.

Amy 15:03

She was like yeah.

Garry 15:04

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

Amy 15:18

She says he'd kill me or something. And he'd kill me if he knew I was wearing it. So that starts the wheels in Emily's head, and this is where we find out a little bit more about Emily, emily's a BA and what she could do.

Garry 15:31

She's a badass, yes, oh, my goodness. So she pays a visit to Pete.

Amy 15:36

She pays a visit.

Garry 15:39

She doesn goodness, so she pays a visit, she pays a visit.

Amy 15:40

She doesn't tell the police because she says she doesn't want.

Garry 15:43

She doesn't want the police visiting him, yep, but she wants to put him back on the straight and narrow right yes, right, so what happens?

Amy 15:49

so she she waits for him in his car oh my goodness and uses the seat belt to kind of pull him back, not really strangle him, but scares, the bejeebers, and then she you know, like scared straight. Remember those scared straight programs. They would take kids into jails and stuff yeah I mean, I never had to do that because I was a saint.

Garry 16:09

But me too, not really but but yeah.

Amy 16:12

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, yeah, and return the key and she's like you will never speak of this and you will go to and you will apologize.

Garry 16:20

Oh, you will apologize, yeah, yeah, and return the key and she's like this little petite woman, Like how do you? Yeah, yeah, do not make that woman mad. No, no, no.

Amy 16:29

So she literally nearly scares him to death and scares him straight. And what does he do? He goes and Returns straight.

Garry 16:37

And what does he do?

Amy 16:37

He goes and returns. He doesn't apologize, but he gives the key back to Violet.

Garry 16:41

He apologizes in that he didn't. He's sorry he didn't return the key sooner.

Amy 16:45

Correct. Well, that's true, that's true. He does say I'm sorry. Yeah, and it was funny because Violet was like huh. She's kind of like, okay, what was that?

Garry 16:53

And Emily is like I don't know.

Amy 16:56

Yeah.

Garry 16:57

Yeah, 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.

Amy 17:05

Right, right.

Garry 17:06

No, it's not so. Pete's off the list, right.

Amy 17:09

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

Garry 17:12

Claire, I never did either, but you didn't know. It was him who broke into the store.

Amy 17:19

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? A murder board.

Garry 17:43

We love a murder board.

Amy 17:44

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 a 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 we get excited every time we see a murder board.

Garry 18:05

And on that board there were some junkyards.

Amy 18:09

There was a picture of.

Garry 18:10

I think Debbie and 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, because who?

Amy 18:22

adam? Oh yes, he was trying to look into it. Right, right, right. And then emily. We didn't mention before um, before she confronts pete, she's like it? Maybe it's time to stretch a few old muscles yes, so then you kind of get an indication that she used to do things like that before she lived there.

Garry 18:43

Yeah, before she showed it.

Amy 18:44

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

Garry 18:47

Right.

Amy 18:48

All right.

Garry 18:49

So where are we in the so there was a conversation, 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.

Amy 19:03

Maybe, oh maybe.

Garry 19:04

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

Amy 19:18

Well, she thought maybe Adam was living in that little trailer. She went there to look the trailer's on the property.

Garry 19:25

Right, right right.

Amy 19:27

And then that's where she discovers Debbie's car Right. It's under a tarp so she has to lift the tarp up Because Debbie had donated the car 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.

Amy 19:58

Who is not living, he's dead, he is also dead. So now we have the first murder we've seen, right. Yes, the second murder 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 car, and ew, because it's probably rusty and whatnot. Yeah, when she was opening the trunk, when she was opening the trunk Right right, right, so she has to call Sam.

Garry 20:24

Yes.

Amy 20:25

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

Garry 20:26

But, but I had a hunch and I went out there and blah.

Amy 20:31

And what does he say? Did you find Adam? And she's like let's just say yeah, no.

Garry 20:36

He said did you find Adam? Or don't confront him. Don't confront him, you know, wait till we get there, and she's like I don't think that's going to be a problem.

Amy 20:43

Yeah, because Adam's not going anywhere.

Garry 20:46

Adam be dead. Adam's not going anywhere. That was funny. Yeah, yeah, so, that was yeah. So. So then what happens Then? Where do we go? So then what happens Then?

Amy 20:57

where do we go she?

Garry 21:00

So she calls, adam Calls, and she's talking to Adam.

Amy 21:05

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

Garry 21:07

Adam's dead God can you put Adam on the phone real quick? No, 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, cause Violet was like oh, I thought you were only going to be gone a couple of minutes, you were gone for three hours or something. And she had cut her hand Right and she takes her gloves off. And Violet was like ooh, what's going on?

Amy 21:33

You know you look like you're bleeding bad and I think Does Violet say that yeah, oh, I don't yeah, oh, I think so, okay, yeah, because she's talking to violet.

Garry 21:41

I'm not sure exactly what she said she gets out a band-aid right, she gets out a band-aid and she puts it on. And when is it that she realizes what happened?

Amy 21:51

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

Garry 22:06

Yes, the junk in the trunk.

Amy 22:08

The junk in the trunk. Yes, so then she gets Sam.

Garry 22:13

Yes.

Amy 22:14

And they go to the choir practice.

Garry 22:15

Right.

Amy 22:16

And Sam has Vera take the. Band-aid off.

Garry 22:21

Yes to see, and they have identical cuts emily, because emily takes hers off and right there, and then sam takes vera to the police station and I like it.

Amy 22:31

And he has emily. He has vera that he's questioning and he has emily behind the glass and she knocks on it and he he's like. I invited you here as a courtesy, not an interactive experience.

Garry 22:41

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

Amy 22:48

Yeah, a little bit, but she's starting to like him a little bit more. 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?

Garry 22:59

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?

Amy 23:08

I don't know to get her to talk.

Garry 23:09

Well, anyways, he gets her to talk and to explain exactly what happened. What do you mean like the murder?

Amy 23:18

You're talking about Vera. Yeah, okay, I think we're talking about Emily.

Garry 23:21

No, I'm confused. I lost you for a minute.

Amy 23:23

We were on Emily.

Garry 23:25

Well, Emily was telling Sam to I thought you were talking about-.

Amy 23:28

So Sam gets Vera to confess to the murder.

Garry 23:31

Yes, that you totally-. I don't know where that went. That's why we're both doing this podcast.

Amy 23:35

I don't know where that went.

Garry 23:36

Because you, you keep me on track, I keep you on track and you know we have Voluntiles Day and stuff like that.

Amy 23:43

Voluntiles. I know You've got to bring that up. You've got to bring that up? Yes, I know, I don't even know what.

Garry 23:50

I'm saying anymore.

Amy 23:52

All right, so Vera is the murderer of both Clara and. Adam. The couple didn't survive.

Garry 24:01

But what's funny is she said Adam was an accident, she wasn't going to kill him.

Amy 24:05

She wasn't going to kill him. He just earned it, yeah.

Garry 24:08

He deserved it.

Amy 24:09

She had drugged him, clara was going to a different choir and she wasn't having any of that.

Garry 24:13

Nope Right, that was betrayal right there.

Amy 24:16

So Clara deserved it, but Adam whoopsies, you know so, but Adam whoopsies, you know.

Garry 24:20

So then, going back to the murder board Murder board Right, because Sam also found a drawing, 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.

Amy 24:40

That's right, that's right, yes, 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.

Garry 24:52

Yeah, light bulb goes off. She realizes almost literally right what the triangle is.

Amy 24:56

That the triangle is actually.

Garry 24:59

The tree, the tree Christmas tree.

Amy 25:00

Right is actually the tree, the tree right. And then she puts two and two together. That adam debbie was trying.

Garry 25:08

No well, adam was had rigged the tree, or not the tree, but the the microphone to shock debbie.

Amy 25:15

You know, kill debbie right when they lit the tree 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.

Garry 25:25

They didn't know that at that point.

Amy 25:26

It's just like she put the two and two together. Right Just trying to Right, right, right. So then she realizes that it's the microphone that's the issue.

Garry 25:34

And it's not Debbie Right, because Debbie she couldn't sing, she she couldn't sing. She couldn't show up. Well, they kicked her out of the choir.

Amy 25:40

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

Garry 25:43

Right.

Amy 25:43

Right, so Brooke was going to be the one singing, and then Emily tells Sam that she knows what it is. What it is, and then she has to go and she runs up on the stage.

Garry 25:56

She runs up on the stage, knocks Brooke down just in time before she gets shocked and then the microphone catches on fire. Right, right.

Amy 26:09

And the sad thing is, is Brooke had such a great solo I know she finally got a solo and she can sing.

Garry 26:14

What happened so?

Amy 26:15

Emily saves Brooke.

Garry 26:17

Yes.

Amy 26:17

And I think maybe it's going to bring Brooke and Emily closer. Brooke will probably want to get closer to Emily now and Emily won't have a choice after that moment, which is hilarious, right. So this episode pretty much. There were a couple of things different going on, right.

Amy 26:33

We find out who was doing the murders? Yes, or who did the murders, I'm sorry, and separately, who was poisoning Debbie? Yeah, right, so we had that going on, right? So after the chaos of the tree lighting ceremony, sam walks Emily home, right 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, 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.

Amy 27:29

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.

Garry 27:54

She thinks she's found it and she's in the town right, right, so yeah there was a lot upstairs and we're goes upstairs and we're not done. Not done yet.

Amy 28:04

Right, right. Then we have one final scene.

Garry 28:06

And the final scene is the laptop, the laptop. And I think Emily's past gets a little bit closer, because on the laptop Catches up to her and it always happens to hackers in 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?

Amy 28:35

That's like Taken right. That's like yes, I will find you and I will kill you. Isn't that untaken? That is scary it also reminds me of war games. Yeah, do you want to play a game?

Garry 28:48

I know we're dating ourselves there. Yeah, that was.

Amy 28:51

AI back then. Yeah, it was really really crazy.

Garry 28:53

I know.

Amy 28:55

But yeah, so she gets this ominous message, she immediately closes her computer, right.

Garry 28:58

Yeah.

Amy 28:59

And she realizes that would freak me out.

Garry 29:01

It would freak me out If I was running.

Amy 29:03

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?

Garry 29:14

on the internet. One wrong picture and you're out there. It would be so hard to hide. Yeah, it would be.

Amy 29:27

It'd be really hard to hide, I would think. Not that I'm promoting hiding, but you know so suggesting people go and hide. So that was all the revelations, right? Yeah?

Garry 29:30

I think, I think we walked through that episode and that wraps up peril of the bells. Right, yeah, but did you have any tinsel top moments?

Amy 29:35

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?

Garry 30:00

I still like the scene with Brooke and and emily in the diner.

Amy 30:02

Yes, it was so cute, 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. Yeah, that was mine. All right, cool. Well, how many ornaments would you hang out of five?

Garry 30:24

I'm going to give this one a strong four. Same. I really enjoyed it, same, and I can't wait for the next two.

Amy 30:32

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.

Garry 30:40

Yes.

Amy 30:40

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 you know it's like a Hallmark two-hour movie split up you know. Well, I guess. Yeah, I mean I guess Because in the movies they have the beginning, middle and end you are correct. You are correct.

Garry 31:00

So is that a wrap?

Amy 31:01

That is a wrap.

Garry 31:02

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Garry 31:38

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Amy 31:42

Be sure to join us next Tuesday when we review episode number five Death of a Humbug, part one. You can catch the entire season of Mistletoe Murders on Hallmark Plus right now. So no matter what time of year it is, go check it out and then come on back for our weekly reviews.

Garry 32:00

Yes.

Amy 32:01

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