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The Case
Original Air Date: Oct 1, 2008
Crystal - TwoCents Reviewer
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It’s nice to see Pushing Daisies back after nearly a year, sporting a fabulous new murder mystery that is quite frankly more unusual than anything. This particular murder mystery also has a nice relevance to the main characters. I will say that I could do with never having to hear another bee pun again in my life.
Our murder investigation begins when Dusty Fritz visits Emerson Cod, pleading for Emerson to find out who killed his wife Kentucky. In typical Pushing Daisies fashion, Kentucky was killed in an unusual way, a terrible bee-related accident. She was quite literally swarmed to death.
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The Case
Original Air Date: Oct 1, 2008
Crystal - TwoCents Reviewer
crystal@thetwocentscorp.com
It’s nice to see Pushing Daisies back after nearly a year, sporting a fabulous new murder mystery that is quite frankly more unusual than anything. This particular murder mystery also has a nice relevance to the main characters. I will say that I could do with never having to hear another bee pun again in my life.
Our murder investigation begins when Dusty Fritz visits Emerson Cod, pleading for Emerson to find out who killed his wife Kentucky. In typical Pushing Daisies fashion, Kentucky was killed in an unusual way, a terrible bee-related accident. She was quite literally swarmed to death.
The visit that Emerson, Ned, and Chuck take to the morgue is quite disturbing, and makes me quite thankful that I am not allergic to bees in any way. Ned revives the gruesome-looking Kentucky Fritz (she is covered head-to-toe in giant welts) and Kentucky tells the three that she wasn’t accidentally swarmed by bees; she was killed because she was sabotaging Betty’s Bees, a company based around products that come from bees and honey (think lip balm, soaps, etc). She was sitting behind the wheel of the Betty’s Bees Bee-Mobile (say that five times fast if you dare) when someone whose face she couldn’t see suddenly sent the swarm after her, noting that the unidentified person spit something at her. When asked how she was sabotaging Betty’s Bees, she manages to eek out the phrase, “with a lot of might” before she is touched again by Ned. Our last image of Kentucky is one in which bees suddenly start flying out of dead mouth. It’s quite disturbing, particularly for those of us with lingering childhood fears of giant killer bees.
Ned, Chuck, and Emerson head back to The Pie Hole to discuss the case, throwing around theories and ideas of the Bee-Man who killed Kentucky, the most outlandish and amusing of these being that someone trained bees to come together in the shape of a human. Still with very little to go on, the three decide to send Chuck into the company undercover as one of Betty’s Bee-Girls.
Chuck heads into an interview with the head of the company, Woolsey Nicholls, under the name of Kitty Pimms. From this interview we learn that Nicholls’s company recently took over Betty’s Bees, and that none other than Kentucky Fritz was set to become the new face of Betty’s Bees, a title that belonged to the original founder, Betty. Emerson and Ned listen in on this conversation with a well=placed microphone attached to a large, but appropriate bee-shaped pin.
Newly –hired Chuck wastes no time in investigating, heading into Kentucky Fritz’s old office, opening drawers and cabinets. A large key embellished with “BB” is found in a drawer, and Chuck looks around for something it could open. Opening cabinets, she is surprised to find none other than Betty contorted into a small cabinet, claiming it’s therapy for claustrophobia. Missi Pyle is simply delightful and suspicious as Betty, moving around the office jerkily, very obviously lifting the key from Kentucky’s desk and putting it in hers, and acting very bitter towards the deceased Kentucky.
At her job, Chuck learns that Nicholls’s acquisition of Betty’s Bees was hostile. Soon after, a mite infestation took over the bee colony, and finally Kentucky’s last utterance makes sense to Chuck. Betty explains that she grew up living with bees, showing an obvious love for her now-dead bees. Chuck suggests sabotage to Betty, who bristles, saying that these things just happen.
The next day, Ned surprises Chuck at Betty’s Bees as a receptionist/assistant. Betty leaves for the day, accompanied by Ned, and Chuck sneaks into Betty’s office. She manages to get the key right before we are greeted by the sight of the ominous Bee Man who killed Kentucky. He is literally a man covered in bees. Cut to commercial as Chuck screams.
Welcome back from your commercial break. Ned also returns to the main office, bringing Emerson with him. And there is our heroine, Chuck, sitting on a desk chair, covered on the bee swarm. Ned pushes the chair to the window, where Chuck spits something out of her mouth, and the bees leave her. We learn the reason for all the spit-swapping going on, and it’s due to a small case, holding a queen bee. Her swarm follows her. The Bee Man spat the case into Chuck’s open mouth while she screamed and the bees swarmed to her. The only reason she did not meet the same fate as Kentucky is because she remained calm.
The three grab the key and head to the childhood home of Betty, where they find her original swarm (presumed dead) hanging up and overtaking the house. It’s eerie and strange-looking, and I kept expecting more bodies to start falling out of the large hives. But instead, out comes Betty, and the mystery is resolved.
As it turns out, Woolsey Nicholls killed Kentucky, and Betty knew it. The sabotage of the bee hives was actually staged by Betty and Kentucky, who were actually like sisters. The two stole the bees, and made it look like a mite infestation. Woolsey discovered the infestation and killed Kentucky, as her was in love with her and felt betrayed. Betty never came forward with this information, because she knew that she would get in trouble for sabotaging his company.
But the three convince her to come forward, and they confront Woolsey, who is arrested. Overall, the basics of the story itself are not that unusual. It plays out in a typical formulaic way, as Betty looks guilty the whole time, but it was actually the only other main player in the whole thing. What makes it so unique is the additions to the story, the flair of the story, and its unusual setting. It’s simply fabulous, despite the terrible bee puns running throughout the whole story. Now, Bee gone with you!