The character of Olive Snook reminds me of myself more with every episode. For instance, I am happily married to an awesome guy, but in my teen years, it seemed I always wanted someone who was unavailable. This week we learn that at a young age Olive asked for an Arabian Stallion – when her parents said no, she found a way to make it happen. She was incapable of accepting negative statements, and she didn’t mind digging a little to get what she wanted. Yup, sounds like me.
This episode was particularly interesting and actually kept me guessing all the way to the reveal of the killer. I had no idea who it was, and was shocked to find out that it wasn’t really anyone. But, Sister Larue did not commit suicide. Crazy!
Anyway, we get to see a lot of Olive tonight, and I love that. I adore Miss Kristen, and have been slightly bummed that she hasn’t been around much. The short story is that Olive and her pet pig Pigby were great truffle hunters, and she made fast friends with the soon to be deceased Sister Larue. When the aforementioned Sister ran off to “polish the bells” (which is not an innuendo) she ended up on the ground from the top of the tower. Olive believes she was pushed, but the nuns maintain it was a suicide. Since Olive can’t accept a negative statement like her friend being in Hell, she hires Emerson Codd to investigate.
Mr. Codd has always reminded me of someone, and since I’ve seen the actor in other things, I just assumed that was all it was. But, when he sees Olive in her habit tonight, it clicked. The Assistant Chief at my dad’s old Fire Department – John Frye. If you ever read this, John, please take this as a compliment. I’ve never seen anyone so bristly and arrogant and lovable all at the same time, except for you and now Emerson Codd. It seems I’m making all kinds of personal connections with this show tonight!
Oh yeah, Ned and Chuck are in the show too, and basically Ned is upset because Chuck is digging into her past. She found an old family tree that is blank prior to her mom and dad (dad is correct, mom is not…) Ned needs to come to terms with his abandonment issues, and by the end of the show, Ned is getting there, and Chuck knows Lily is her momma.
Emerson and Ned snoop around and eventually find a secret door to the love shack of Sister Larue and the Swiss Chef from the neighboring restaurant. Okay, it’s just his kitchen. She used the chef to smuggle goods to the other nuns, and as far as we know just gave him some truffles and booty in exchange.
So, the lover didn’t do it, it wasn’t a suicide (as confirmed by the dead nun), and we are still confused. Olive and Ned have a little conversation about their relationship that isn’t, and Olive gives him hell for not getting messy. She says she wants to get over him, and she wants to do it in a place where she doesn’t have to see his face every day. Then she slips that she has a secret from Chuck. With an old pic of the nunnery, they play charades to get the secret out without Olive saying it. Ned’s pretty thick, so it takes awhile.
The nuns catch on to the fact that these people aren’t really from the Vatican. Wow. I can’t believe it took them this long to figure that out. You’d think they would have questioned from the beginning. After a few close calls for Chuck and Olive, we get the whole scoop.
Turns out that Sister Larue was a nun only to capitalize on the truffles that grew so prolifically around the convent. She was a scientist who was contracted to grow Italian White Truffles in a test tube, but it didn’t work out. She moved to the convent and secretly grew truffles in a lab located in the bell tower. Mother Superior caught Sister Larue in one of her booty calls to the neighbor chef, and included their priest in the confrontation. He realized Sister Larue was not the nun type and asked her to leave the convent. As she was gathering her “diamonds” to do so, Pigby and her truffle hunting nose came running up behind her knocking her out the window. Thus, she did not commit suicide, but no one killed her. Fabulous!
