1 00:00:00,447 --> 00:00:02,889 Pushing Daisies - Season 02 Episode 02 "Circus Circus" 2 00:00:03,032 --> 00:00:04,891 Subtitle: A²S Team --==All-about-Subs.fr==-- 3 00:00:05,222 --> 00:00:09,033 It's been 76 days, 2 hours, and 37 minutes 4 00:00:09,177 --> 00:00:11,482 since young Ned's father deposited him 5 00:00:11,512 --> 00:00:13,757 at the Longborough school for boys, 6 00:00:13,787 --> 00:00:16,843 and this, young Ned felt, was long enough. 7 00:00:17,637 --> 00:00:20,358 Tired of the dark and joyless boarding school, 8 00:00:20,388 --> 00:00:22,549 young Ned and his dog, Digby, 9 00:00:22,579 --> 00:00:24,655 set out in search of a new beginning. 10 00:00:24,976 --> 00:00:27,979 Alone in the forest, they didn't know what to expect, 11 00:00:28,009 --> 00:00:32,040 and least of all they expected giant butterflies. 12 00:00:32,259 --> 00:00:34,366 Come on, everybody. Look. There's a nest! Let's go see. 13 00:00:34,396 --> 00:00:38,129 Miss Moss believed every child was a butterfly at heart, 14 00:00:38,318 --> 00:00:42,716 and her kindergartners knew that every caterpillar learns to fly. 15 00:00:43,764 --> 00:00:47,179 On this day, Miss Moss found herself just out of reach 16 00:00:47,209 --> 00:00:51,310 of an important lesson on the life cycle of the yellow canary. 17 00:00:53,781 --> 00:00:55,531 Oh, I wish I could reach! 18 00:00:55,561 --> 00:00:58,900 What do you think, there's eggs inside or do you think there's birds? 19 00:00:59,170 --> 00:01:02,360 The yellow canaries, however, believed a better lesson 20 00:01:02,390 --> 00:01:05,867 might have been the risks of environmental toxins. 21 00:01:06,183 --> 00:01:07,410 In that moment, 22 00:01:07,556 --> 00:01:11,613 young Ned decided that new beginnings were a wonderful thing. 23 00:01:12,171 --> 00:01:13,889 - How many do you think are there? - Six. 24 00:01:13,919 --> 00:01:14,719 Six? 25 00:01:19,967 --> 00:01:21,517 Aren't they beautiful? 26 00:01:23,215 --> 00:01:24,990 Would you like to see our class project? 27 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:27,317 As the once-dead yellow canaries 28 00:01:27,347 --> 00:01:30,078 had now been alive again for over a minute, 29 00:01:30,165 --> 00:01:33,006 young Ned knew that, by the rules of his gift, 30 00:01:33,036 --> 00:01:35,740 something else nearby had to die. 31 00:01:35,930 --> 00:01:38,661 We've been nursing some red-breasted woodpecker chicks back to health, 32 00:01:38,691 --> 00:01:41,131 and today... today we're gonna set them free. 33 00:01:41,192 --> 00:01:42,991 Unaware of the class project, 34 00:01:43,276 --> 00:01:46,386 the boy had thought that whatever creatures traded their lives 35 00:01:46,446 --> 00:01:48,680 would be small, random, and hidden in the woods. 36 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:51,549 Sadly, this was not the case. 37 00:01:57,998 --> 00:02:01,248 As the boy and his dog returned from whence they came, 38 00:02:01,325 --> 00:02:04,021 young Ned concluded that new beginnings 39 00:02:04,115 --> 00:02:06,375 only lead to painful ends. 40 00:02:07,568 --> 00:02:09,248 It's 20 years later, 41 00:02:09,603 --> 00:02:13,051 and the boy has become a pie maker who is in love. 42 00:02:13,574 --> 00:02:16,938 It's been 1 year, 22 weeks, and 4 days 43 00:02:16,968 --> 00:02:19,289 since he touched his childhood sweetheart 44 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:21,127 and brought her back to life, 45 00:02:21,421 --> 00:02:24,341 and 2 days, 10 hours, and 28 minutes 46 00:02:24,371 --> 00:02:27,880 since Charlotte "Chuck" Charles moved across the hall. 47 00:02:28,402 --> 00:02:30,792 Whilst Chuck had called it "apartment-sitting", 48 00:02:30,822 --> 00:02:33,509 the pie maker sensed a new beginning beginning. 49 00:02:36,856 --> 00:02:38,015 - Morning. - Morning. 50 00:02:38,768 --> 00:02:40,184 Did you sleep okay over there? 51 00:02:40,244 --> 00:02:43,201 I woke up to the smell of toast and eggs drifting through sun-dappled curtains, 52 00:02:43,231 --> 00:02:47,263 and I thought how lucky I am to be alive in a world with sun-dappled anything. 53 00:02:47,741 --> 00:02:49,582 I got so excited, I was afraid 54 00:02:49,612 --> 00:02:52,023 my smile was gonna vibrate the veneer off the cabinets. 55 00:02:52,053 --> 00:02:53,103 It was me... 56 00:02:54,095 --> 00:02:55,282 cooking toast and eggs. 57 00:02:55,903 --> 00:02:57,653 Well, thank you for that. 58 00:02:58,015 --> 00:03:01,765 Thank you for bringing me back to life. Not in that order, but... 59 00:03:02,453 --> 00:03:03,477 How did you sleep? 60 00:03:03,507 --> 00:03:06,988 The pie maker had grown accustomed to the feeling his heart made 61 00:03:07,018 --> 00:03:10,661 when it looked out his eyes and saw her sleeping in the next bed. 62 00:03:10,691 --> 00:03:11,694 He had not. 63 00:03:11,724 --> 00:03:13,413 - Slept great. - Really? 64 00:03:14,156 --> 00:03:16,637 'Cause that smile wouldn't vibrate anything off anything. 65 00:03:16,697 --> 00:03:19,747 The pie maker wondered if moving a little bit apart 66 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:22,075 hadn't moved them a little bit apart. 67 00:03:22,339 --> 00:03:23,620 A little bit to the west... 68 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:25,400 Emerson Cod. Please hold. 69 00:03:25,569 --> 00:03:27,319 Emerson Cod. Please hold. 70 00:03:28,262 --> 00:03:29,312 Please hold. 71 00:03:29,716 --> 00:03:31,711 Well known for his uncanny ability 72 00:03:31,741 --> 00:03:34,444 to solve murders and apprehend suspects, 73 00:03:34,474 --> 00:03:36,655 less so for his silent partner 74 00:03:36,685 --> 00:03:39,195 who can wake the dead and ask who did it, 75 00:03:39,225 --> 00:03:41,475 Emerson Cod's business was booming. 76 00:03:43,460 --> 00:03:44,623 You know how to knock? 77 00:03:44,683 --> 00:03:47,009 I did knock. I came in, I said to myself, 78 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:49,486 "I hope this good man can help me... knock wood", 79 00:03:49,516 --> 00:03:50,966 and then I knocked. 80 00:03:52,352 --> 00:03:53,765 My name is Georgeann Heaps. 81 00:03:53,795 --> 00:03:57,341 It's my nature to reward pushiness with inattention, Mrs. Heaps. 82 00:03:57,371 --> 00:03:59,221 However, if you'd like to make an appointment. 83 00:03:59,281 --> 00:04:01,408 For when... the 10th of never? 84 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,892 I can see your phone blinking like a casino sign. 85 00:04:04,339 --> 00:04:06,520 I'm pushy, Mr. Cod, not an idiot. 86 00:04:06,970 --> 00:04:10,825 My teenage daughter would disagree on that point if she were here, but... 87 00:04:10,855 --> 00:04:11,805 she's not. 88 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:13,986 She's disappeared. 89 00:04:14,444 --> 00:04:15,592 Missing-persons case? 90 00:04:15,622 --> 00:04:18,472 It's been three weeks since I've seen her last. 91 00:04:18,572 --> 00:04:20,322 I'm desperate to find her. 92 00:04:21,468 --> 00:04:24,150 I'm sorry. I'm not very good with emotion. 93 00:04:24,222 --> 00:04:26,206 - What emotion? - All of them. 94 00:04:27,115 --> 00:04:28,937 Police think my Nikki's just another runaway, 95 00:04:28,967 --> 00:04:30,524 so they won't look for her, 96 00:04:30,554 --> 00:04:32,304 but that's not who she is. 97 00:04:32,811 --> 00:04:34,756 She's sweet and helpful. 98 00:04:34,816 --> 00:04:36,425 Well, did you ask her friends? 99 00:04:36,485 --> 00:04:38,481 Even her best friend doesn't know where she went, 100 00:04:38,511 --> 00:04:40,361 and Nikki hates to be alone. 101 00:04:41,365 --> 00:04:43,181 I don't mean to lose control like this. 102 00:04:44,475 --> 00:04:47,269 Are you a parent or guardian, Emerson Cod? 103 00:04:47,329 --> 00:04:49,029 Unprepared for the question, 104 00:04:49,059 --> 00:04:52,066 the answer tried to hang on to the inside of his throat. 105 00:04:53,121 --> 00:04:54,271 I used to be. 106 00:04:54,574 --> 00:04:55,657 Did you say... 107 00:04:55,903 --> 00:04:56,807 "used to be"? 108 00:04:56,837 --> 00:04:58,225 I said I'd take the case. 109 00:04:58,255 --> 00:05:00,874 The words that choked in Emerson Cod's throat 110 00:05:00,904 --> 00:05:04,367 were that he, too, was the parent of a missing daughter. 111 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:08,352 And she and Nikki Heaps were not the only missing persons that morning. 112 00:05:08,648 --> 00:05:09,998 There was another. 113 00:05:10,126 --> 00:05:14,626 After falling apart in what had come to be called a world-class tanty, 114 00:05:15,223 --> 00:05:19,121 aunt Lily, panicked that Olive might let slip some very big secrets, 115 00:05:19,151 --> 00:05:22,001 whisked Olive off to a nunnery in the country. 116 00:05:23,234 --> 00:05:26,451 Chuck's mother isn't some woman who died in childbirth. 117 00:05:26,481 --> 00:05:28,397 In fact, she's not dead at all. 118 00:05:28,657 --> 00:05:30,404 Dying, maybe, because of all the drinking, 119 00:05:30,434 --> 00:05:32,968 but alive and pretending to be her aunt Lily. 120 00:05:32,998 --> 00:05:36,032 And Lily doesn't ever want her sister Vivian to find this out 121 00:05:36,062 --> 00:05:39,034 because Vivian was engaged to Chuck's father when she got pregnant, 122 00:05:39,064 --> 00:05:41,243 and he fully admitted to having the affair, 123 00:05:41,273 --> 00:05:43,823 but told Vivian it was with someone else. 124 00:05:44,065 --> 00:05:45,515 So Vivian ended it. 125 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:47,659 Are you listening to me? 126 00:05:47,689 --> 00:05:49,860 Pigby enjoyed the warbling sounds 127 00:05:49,890 --> 00:05:52,751 that the nice-smelling thing that fed him, made. 128 00:05:53,048 --> 00:05:53,960 Sister Olive, 129 00:05:54,213 --> 00:05:57,589 it's time for middle mid-morning prayers in the chapel. 130 00:05:57,805 --> 00:05:59,455 Coming, Mother Superior. 131 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,095 As Olive set off to make the best of her new life, 132 00:06:03,310 --> 00:06:06,214 she was sorely missed in the one she left behind. 133 00:06:12,429 --> 00:06:14,379 The service here is terrible. 134 00:06:16,503 --> 00:06:19,820 No service. Service left in the middle of the night. Chuck's just filling in. 135 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,822 When does employee of the month come back? 136 00:06:21,954 --> 00:06:22,781 Don't know. 137 00:06:23,467 --> 00:06:26,482 You pretend that you don't miss Olive, but you do. 138 00:06:26,512 --> 00:06:28,662 So do I. I wish I knew where she went. 139 00:06:29,365 --> 00:06:31,540 Would you please quit looking at the door? 140 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:32,970 Every time I hear those bells, 141 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,001 I'm afraid Chuck's aunts are gonna walk in again. 142 00:06:35,062 --> 00:06:36,822 I took care of them for 20 years. 143 00:06:36,852 --> 00:06:39,756 They never even left the house. What happened was incredibly unusual. 144 00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:42,426 Please take this the right way, but so is being dead but not dead. 145 00:06:42,641 --> 00:06:43,420 Amen. 146 00:06:43,653 --> 00:06:46,998 While I'd be shocked to see your aunts, people who are dead but not dead 147 00:06:47,028 --> 00:06:50,267 traditionally come up against angry mobs with pitchforks and torches. 148 00:06:52,026 --> 00:06:52,876 Better? 149 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:55,775 - You didn't sleep well. - It was deep and perfect, 150 00:06:55,805 --> 00:06:58,483 like a nap in the backseat of a car after a day at the beach. 151 00:06:59,063 --> 00:07:01,445 Would anyone like to make some money? 152 00:07:02,938 --> 00:07:05,948 Sweet Nikki Heaps disappeared three weeks ago. 153 00:07:06,058 --> 00:07:08,952 - Who is that next to her? - That's Randi Jean, her best friend. 154 00:07:09,012 --> 00:07:11,346 I already talked to her. She doesn't know anything. 155 00:07:11,376 --> 00:07:13,126 Well, let me talk to her. 156 00:07:13,583 --> 00:07:16,140 She's not gonna tell a big PI the truth and rat out her friend. 157 00:07:16,170 --> 00:07:18,263 I'm not gonna tell you anything about Nikki, okay? 158 00:07:18,293 --> 00:07:20,255 I've made up my mind. And you should know... 159 00:07:20,315 --> 00:07:23,735 my dad says my mind is like an old refrigerator in a deserted lot... 160 00:07:23,765 --> 00:07:25,810 If a secret's out playing around and it climbs in, 161 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,805 it ain't never getting out, okay? So quit asking. 162 00:07:33,071 --> 00:07:35,519 That girl isn't gonna tell her anything. 163 00:07:35,549 --> 00:07:37,773 We need to get us some new leads and fast. 164 00:07:37,833 --> 00:07:39,441 People don't run away for no reason. 165 00:07:39,501 --> 00:07:40,443 Sure they do. 166 00:07:40,473 --> 00:07:43,144 You don't think it's curious that Olive left in the middle of the night? 167 00:07:43,174 --> 00:07:45,572 Because I'm curious. I'm very curious. 168 00:07:45,632 --> 00:07:49,184 "Curious" is tighty-whitey for "angry," and you ain't angry 'cause Olive left. 169 00:07:49,214 --> 00:07:53,476 You're angry 'cause dead girl up and moved her ass into the empty apartment. 170 00:07:53,506 --> 00:07:54,656 You're wrong. 171 00:07:54,866 --> 00:07:56,764 Person gets this little sip of a fresh start, 172 00:07:56,794 --> 00:07:58,719 they want to start drinking it from the hose. 173 00:07:58,749 --> 00:08:00,396 Today, an apartment across the hall, 174 00:08:00,426 --> 00:08:03,381 tomorrow, Paris and a croissant maker named Philippe. 175 00:08:03,676 --> 00:08:04,816 That's not who she is. 176 00:08:04,846 --> 00:08:07,345 Nikki's living with her boyfriend in a van out on Rustic Road. 177 00:08:07,375 --> 00:08:08,725 His name's Rocky. 178 00:08:09,107 --> 00:08:10,010 How'd you do? 179 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,888 The dead girl had improvised. 180 00:08:11,918 --> 00:08:13,350 Nikki's mom's really worried. 181 00:08:13,411 --> 00:08:15,661 Hello. That was kind of the point. 182 00:08:15,718 --> 00:08:17,569 Maybe her mom won't be such a medicated pad 183 00:08:17,599 --> 00:08:19,500 next time Nikki wants to go out on a weeknight. 184 00:08:19,530 --> 00:08:22,257 - Where'd she get the guts to run away? - You think it took guts? 185 00:08:22,461 --> 00:08:24,098 Most people just think it was stupid. 186 00:08:24,187 --> 00:08:26,196 I just moved out on my own, and it's kind of scary. 187 00:08:26,256 --> 00:08:28,563 Are you trying to find things in common so I'll lower my guard 188 00:08:28,593 --> 00:08:30,116 - and tell you where she is? - No. 189 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:31,952 'cause the good-cop thing won't work. 190 00:08:32,012 --> 00:08:34,579 I know. I hate it when people do that good-cop thing to me, too. 191 00:08:34,734 --> 00:08:36,790 Sometimes I want to run away just like Nikki. 192 00:08:37,006 --> 00:08:38,419 That's not why she ran away. 193 00:08:38,449 --> 00:08:41,706 Nikki wants to be a big star, but her mom wouldn't take her seriously. 194 00:08:41,736 --> 00:08:43,296 She's over being sweet little Nikki. 195 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:45,846 Shoot. 196 00:08:46,331 --> 00:08:48,895 - I didn't want to tell you that. - I didn't want you to tell me that. 197 00:08:48,925 --> 00:08:50,887 - Isn't that weird? - We are so alike. 198 00:08:50,947 --> 00:08:53,557 If we ran away together, do you think we'd end up where Nikki is? 199 00:08:53,618 --> 00:08:57,043 I wish. She moved in with a cute guy in a really tricked-out van. 200 00:08:57,073 --> 00:08:58,588 - He's in entertainment. - No way! 201 00:08:58,618 --> 00:09:01,246 Not the guy with the crazy van who has that thing with the entertainment. 202 00:09:01,276 --> 00:09:03,275 - I know him. - You know Rocky Baselli? 203 00:09:04,628 --> 00:09:05,485 Shoot. 204 00:09:09,649 --> 00:09:10,699 Nikki Heaps? 205 00:09:10,991 --> 00:09:12,341 Are you in there? 206 00:09:13,138 --> 00:09:13,938 Hello? 207 00:09:15,341 --> 00:09:17,391 "Mimes do it with imagination." 208 00:09:18,058 --> 00:09:19,108 That's cute. 209 00:09:26,155 --> 00:09:27,506 That thing should have said, 210 00:09:27,536 --> 00:09:30,150 "If this van's a-rockin', I'm being murdered." 211 00:09:32,698 --> 00:09:34,357 Looks like he's been dead about a week. 212 00:09:34,418 --> 00:09:35,468 One minute. 213 00:09:38,791 --> 00:09:39,913 You Rocky? 214 00:09:40,303 --> 00:09:41,753 He really is a mime. 215 00:09:43,696 --> 00:09:44,763 Hi, sweetie. 216 00:09:44,793 --> 00:09:46,305 Were you living with Nikki Heaps? 217 00:09:50,703 --> 00:09:51,852 Did she kill you? 218 00:09:53,885 --> 00:09:55,271 All right, that's enough. 219 00:09:56,151 --> 00:09:57,983 Someone poisoned my makeup. I don't know who. 220 00:09:58,045 --> 00:09:59,985 - Where's Nikki now? - She's with some clown. 221 00:10:00,089 --> 00:10:01,529 - A real clown? - Yeah. 222 00:10:01,825 --> 00:10:04,750 We met the jackass and all his jackass buddies at the disco. 223 00:10:04,780 --> 00:10:06,261 They're with the traveling circus. 224 00:10:06,291 --> 00:10:08,501 This one dude was telling her all these stories about 225 00:10:08,531 --> 00:10:10,981 their big, glamorous life on the road. 226 00:10:11,124 --> 00:10:12,996 - Next day, she took off. - Took off? 227 00:10:13,026 --> 00:10:14,976 Said she wanted a fresh start. 228 00:10:15,402 --> 00:10:16,845 That was the last I saw of her. 229 00:10:16,875 --> 00:10:19,130 - This circus got a name? - A Circus Of Fun. 230 00:10:19,625 --> 00:10:22,631 I know. It sucks. They can't have gotten that far. 231 00:10:22,661 --> 00:10:24,766 Hey, if you find Nikki, 232 00:10:24,990 --> 00:10:26,992 would you mind giving her this poem? 233 00:10:27,022 --> 00:10:28,229 Yeah, sure. 234 00:10:28,259 --> 00:10:30,975 Would you mind doing the glassbox thing? 'cause I love that. 235 00:10:35,985 --> 00:10:38,235 I'm glad we're going to the circus. 236 00:10:42,696 --> 00:10:45,377 - Can I get a menu, please? - Right over there in the pile of menus. 237 00:10:45,407 --> 00:10:46,625 What's with the attitude? 238 00:10:46,655 --> 00:10:49,011 What was with the "attitude lady" was this... 239 00:10:49,041 --> 00:10:52,037 - What do you mean I can't come? - Someone's got to run the Pie Hole. 240 00:10:52,273 --> 00:10:54,088 - The pie maker? - Emerson needs me. 241 00:10:54,118 --> 00:10:57,633 - Why? There's no dead body to wake up. - Nice. Anyone not hear that? 242 00:10:57,693 --> 00:10:59,545 Are you mad at me? Is it about something else? 243 00:10:59,607 --> 00:11:01,690 Nothing else. I promise I'll let you come next time. 244 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,229 - Thank you for the permission. - You don't need my permission. 245 00:11:04,259 --> 00:11:06,923 Thank you for the permission not to need your permission. 246 00:11:06,953 --> 00:11:08,611 It's a traveling circus, 247 00:11:08,851 --> 00:11:11,326 not a "wait around for you two to work all your junk out" circus. 248 00:11:11,356 --> 00:11:13,941 - I'll be back soon. - And I'll be here forever. 249 00:11:15,097 --> 00:11:17,014 That was curious. 250 00:11:18,016 --> 00:11:20,796 As the pie maker wondered if Chuck moving out 251 00:11:20,826 --> 00:11:24,201 was making him passive or aggressive or both, 252 00:11:24,464 --> 00:11:28,539 Olive wondered when her new beginning would feel like it had begun. 253 00:11:28,842 --> 00:11:31,375 It's time for late mid-afternoon prayer, Sister Olive. 254 00:11:31,650 --> 00:11:32,960 Excuse me, Mother Superior, 255 00:11:33,306 --> 00:11:36,172 does something ever happen where you think everything's kind of blah, 256 00:11:36,582 --> 00:11:39,994 like blah brick walls, blah faux shaker furniture, 257 00:11:40,024 --> 00:11:42,077 blah good works, and then shazam! 258 00:11:42,107 --> 00:11:44,722 All the little boring stuff suddenly becomes full of meaning? 259 00:11:44,782 --> 00:11:46,537 - Like an epiphany. - Bingo. 260 00:11:46,567 --> 00:11:47,817 Not very often. 261 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,144 It takes time to fill a life with meaning. 262 00:11:50,174 --> 00:11:52,355 Our days here are not easy, Sister Olive. 263 00:11:52,606 --> 00:11:56,782 But you will find that with hard work and personal sacrifice, 264 00:11:57,147 --> 00:12:01,238 you will strip away everything from your old life and start a new. 265 00:12:01,891 --> 00:12:03,741 - Great. - Come along soon. 266 00:12:03,886 --> 00:12:05,036 Don't be late. 267 00:12:06,803 --> 00:12:08,704 Oh, hey, Sister, want a chapel buddy? 268 00:12:10,530 --> 00:12:12,666 Lily! What are you doing here? I thought you went home. 269 00:12:12,726 --> 00:12:15,376 - Why did you come back? - I can't be seen. 270 00:12:17,876 --> 00:12:20,174 - Meet me in the chapel tonight. - When? 271 00:12:21,356 --> 00:12:23,300 Early mid-middle night prayer. 272 00:12:39,214 --> 00:12:40,764 This ain't no circus. 273 00:12:41,332 --> 00:12:44,197 A circus is supposed to smell like popcorn and cotton candy, 274 00:12:44,227 --> 00:12:46,367 not wet sawdust and underarm. 275 00:12:46,638 --> 00:12:48,035 This is a damn freak show. 276 00:12:48,095 --> 00:12:51,608 Why would sweet Nikki Heaps want to run away here? 277 00:12:52,015 --> 00:12:54,041 People decide they want to leave and start over, 278 00:12:54,315 --> 00:12:57,320 a switch flips, a fuse blows, and then everything's got to change. 279 00:12:57,350 --> 00:12:59,700 You can't just have half a revolution. 280 00:13:00,149 --> 00:13:03,091 And don't be looking at me with them psycho-babbly eyes 281 00:13:03,121 --> 00:13:05,078 like this case is personal to me or something. 282 00:13:05,108 --> 00:13:06,546 No eyes. Just looking. 283 00:13:08,185 --> 00:13:09,557 You are not allowed back here. 284 00:13:09,623 --> 00:13:11,600 We don't allow any stubs snooping around. 285 00:13:12,093 --> 00:13:12,893 Stubs? 286 00:13:12,942 --> 00:13:15,001 There are two kinds of people in this world... 287 00:13:15,031 --> 00:13:17,951 The ones that take the risks and make you feel something 288 00:13:17,981 --> 00:13:20,631 besides the dull thudding of your own heart 289 00:13:20,963 --> 00:13:22,913 and those that pay to watch... 290 00:13:23,564 --> 00:13:25,781 - with a ticket stub in the pocket. - I got it. 291 00:13:26,550 --> 00:13:28,831 We're investigating the disappearance of a young girl 292 00:13:28,861 --> 00:13:30,320 and the murder of her boyfriend. 293 00:13:30,350 --> 00:13:31,538 Sorry, I can't help you. 294 00:13:31,568 --> 00:13:34,506 Have you seen the separate police lockup they have for cocky young acrobats? 295 00:13:34,536 --> 00:13:35,559 'cause I haven't. 296 00:13:35,589 --> 00:13:37,626 I'm upside down, mon ami. I'm not foolish. 297 00:13:37,886 --> 00:13:39,879 So, Nikki was last seen with the clowns. 298 00:13:40,322 --> 00:13:43,322 Talk to senor Arnaud in the office trailer. 299 00:13:43,667 --> 00:13:45,593 He's in charge of the Circus Of Fun. 300 00:13:45,887 --> 00:13:47,338 - Thank you. - But remember... 301 00:13:47,494 --> 00:13:50,338 There are two things clowns make around here... 302 00:13:50,368 --> 00:13:52,976 Balloon animals and enemies. 303 00:14:00,922 --> 00:14:02,232 I don't know her. 304 00:14:02,262 --> 00:14:05,529 We get a lot of people passing through. Hard to keep track of everybody. 305 00:14:05,589 --> 00:14:08,449 The girl we're looking for was hitching a ride with a mime who ended up dead. 306 00:14:08,509 --> 00:14:10,659 Guess that's one box he won't get out of. 307 00:14:12,535 --> 00:14:14,764 The clowns haze the newbies pretty bad. 308 00:14:14,794 --> 00:14:17,875 If she didn't quit, she's probably been assigned to apprentice one of them. 309 00:14:18,095 --> 00:14:22,020 - Where can we find these clowns? - Drunk in a ditch would be my guess. 310 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:24,850 They usually stumble in just before showtime, 311 00:14:25,104 --> 00:14:26,592 and they always travel in a pack. 312 00:14:26,813 --> 00:14:28,761 - Like wolves. - More like cigarettes. 313 00:14:32,990 --> 00:14:35,017 Yeah, well, thanks for your help. 314 00:14:35,294 --> 00:14:37,344 Sorry I don't remember the girl. 315 00:14:40,994 --> 00:14:44,030 You notice his secretary snort-giggled whenever he made a joke? 316 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:47,377 - But she also snort-giggled when... - When he said he didn't remember her. 317 00:14:47,407 --> 00:14:51,040 - Could've been a nervous snort-giggle. - 'cause she knew he was lying. 318 00:14:51,070 --> 00:14:52,326 She's worth a second look. 319 00:14:52,386 --> 00:14:53,792 - I'll go. - Oh, let me. 320 00:14:53,822 --> 00:14:57,362 98 bottles of beer on the wall 321 00:14:57,392 --> 00:14:59,993 98 bottles of beer, 322 00:15:00,056 --> 00:15:03,013 take one down, pass it around... 323 00:15:07,974 --> 00:15:10,449 - Did I leave my keys, Miss...? - Dijon. 324 00:15:11,045 --> 00:15:12,304 No, I don't think you did. 325 00:15:14,349 --> 00:15:15,750 Miss Dijon... 326 00:15:16,786 --> 00:15:18,477 - One more thing. - Besides the keys? 327 00:15:18,538 --> 00:15:19,304 Yes. 328 00:15:19,366 --> 00:15:21,345 Because those weren't really a thing... 329 00:15:21,375 --> 00:15:24,203 More of an excuse for you to walk to the door and then turn back 330 00:15:24,233 --> 00:15:26,582 and ask me a real question, which is coming right up. 331 00:15:26,612 --> 00:15:29,482 Is it possible your boss knew something he didn't tell about the missing girl? 332 00:15:29,574 --> 00:15:31,991 - No. - Is it possible you knew something? 333 00:15:33,886 --> 00:15:35,293 Why didn't you tell us? 334 00:15:35,323 --> 00:15:38,163 I didn't like that girl. Nobody who met her did. 335 00:15:38,602 --> 00:15:41,771 - But she was Sweet Nikki. - Not around here, she wasn't. 336 00:15:41,985 --> 00:15:43,836 I say she deserves what she gets now. 337 00:15:44,104 --> 00:15:46,005 - What does she get now? - What she deserves. 338 00:15:46,283 --> 00:15:48,507 The pie maker had gotten the information he needed, 339 00:15:49,072 --> 00:15:52,292 but not the information he wanted. 340 00:15:52,322 --> 00:15:55,342 Nikki was apprenticed to the head clown, named Jackie Johnny, 341 00:15:55,372 --> 00:15:57,850 who, according to her, was a real lousy, low-down... 342 00:16:00,730 --> 00:16:03,020 I've never heard you say those words. 343 00:16:03,651 --> 00:16:05,301 I'm just repeating them? 344 00:16:05,718 --> 00:16:07,823 She left with Jackie Johnny after the show last night. 345 00:16:07,853 --> 00:16:09,226 No one's seen them since. 346 00:16:09,256 --> 00:16:12,119 Well, we need to find this Jackie Johnny and fast. 347 00:16:17,286 --> 00:16:21,268 In less than 16 seconds, the dead girl who was not dead 348 00:16:21,298 --> 00:16:25,533 would be involved in the smallest of ironic coincidences. 349 00:16:25,841 --> 00:16:27,476 For just as she said to herself... 350 00:16:27,506 --> 00:16:29,542 I wish I were where the action were at. 351 00:16:29,696 --> 00:16:31,875 She was where it were at. 352 00:16:33,546 --> 00:16:35,696 Sorry. We're closing early today. 353 00:16:41,744 --> 00:16:44,514 Her aunt Vivian, who would have dropped dead from shock 354 00:16:44,594 --> 00:16:46,844 at seeing her niece alive again... 355 00:16:46,982 --> 00:16:47,782 Hello? 356 00:16:47,905 --> 00:16:49,255 ... arrived again. 357 00:16:52,675 --> 00:16:55,609 Upon seeing her aunt Vivian return to the Pie Hole, 358 00:16:55,676 --> 00:16:58,111 it was not just Chuck's heart that leapt. 359 00:17:02,006 --> 00:17:02,806 Hello? 360 00:17:03,904 --> 00:17:06,254 I'm an acquaintance of the pie maker. 361 00:17:06,932 --> 00:17:10,101 A triple berry, to go, if it's not that much trouble. 362 00:17:12,081 --> 00:17:13,592 You must be new here. 363 00:17:15,980 --> 00:17:18,760 Our friend Olive used to deliver them to our house. 364 00:17:19,128 --> 00:17:20,724 Always lifted the spirit. 365 00:17:21,070 --> 00:17:23,010 Has anyone heard from Olive yet? 366 00:17:25,961 --> 00:17:27,202 I suppose not. 367 00:17:29,304 --> 00:17:30,954 Quiet here without her. 368 00:17:31,948 --> 00:17:36,448 My sister left again on an overnight trip without explanation. 369 00:17:37,013 --> 00:17:41,057 The emptiness at our house was like a ringing chinese gong 370 00:17:41,554 --> 00:17:42,955 which only pie can muffle. 371 00:17:43,051 --> 00:17:45,035 For many months, Chuck had made her aunts 372 00:17:45,065 --> 00:17:46,810 the pies Olive had delivered, 373 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,496 secretly adding homeopathic antidepressants 374 00:17:49,563 --> 00:17:51,513 to aid them with their grief. 375 00:17:52,315 --> 00:17:53,965 I didn't see it arrive. 376 00:17:54,193 --> 00:17:55,599 Should I leave the money? 377 00:17:55,629 --> 00:17:56,729 But for now, 378 00:17:56,759 --> 00:18:00,392 the only mood-altering ingredients in this particular pie 379 00:18:00,654 --> 00:18:03,052 were the endorphins in Chuck's tears. 380 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:04,032 Thank you. 381 00:18:04,281 --> 00:18:06,785 You were a very kind listener. 382 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:23,268 If Miss Dijon is right, this is the road she saw them take when they left 383 00:18:23,298 --> 00:18:25,622 and they weren't running away, it dead-ends in a mile. 384 00:18:26,132 --> 00:18:27,782 I don't like this road. 385 00:18:28,322 --> 00:18:30,250 Got a... "Kick out the window and run 386 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,451 'cause they about to cap your ass" kind of feel to it. 387 00:18:33,666 --> 00:18:35,877 I just want to find this girl and get this case over with. 388 00:18:35,979 --> 00:18:39,005 You think I made Chuck stay behind cause I'm upset she moved out, but I'm not. 389 00:18:39,176 --> 00:18:41,466 I know. You're upset she's not upset she moved out. 390 00:18:41,896 --> 00:18:44,446 I want to be happy, too, but I miss her. 391 00:18:44,650 --> 00:18:48,010 It's hard enough being in a relationship where we can't touch, but... 392 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,690 we improvise, figured out ways around that. 393 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:52,435 I've even built contraptions. 394 00:18:52,555 --> 00:18:54,729 Do you understand how a head works? Do you? 395 00:18:54,789 --> 00:18:57,285 See, 'cause every time you say something, I got to think it. 396 00:18:57,315 --> 00:19:00,590 You say "Monkey in suit driving a car", I think "Monkey in suit driving a car". 397 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:02,999 - Don't tell me what y'all do together. - There's a weird mask. 398 00:19:03,029 --> 00:19:05,224 Please. Now I'm begging you to stop this. 399 00:19:05,254 --> 00:19:07,617 No, there's a weird clown mask back there in the bushes. 400 00:19:14,434 --> 00:19:16,168 There's skid marks over there. 401 00:19:16,198 --> 00:19:19,248 - Car must have gone off the road here. - Emerson. 402 00:19:21,065 --> 00:19:24,401 What you want to bet that's Jackie Johnny's clown wig? 403 00:19:24,431 --> 00:19:25,481 Poor Nikki. 404 00:19:48,387 --> 00:19:50,576 Got a male driver in a clown costume. 405 00:19:51,804 --> 00:19:53,204 That's got to be Jackie Johnny. 406 00:19:53,529 --> 00:19:56,207 Got another male passenger, clown costume. 407 00:19:57,852 --> 00:19:59,706 That's not Nikki. Thank goodness. 408 00:19:59,736 --> 00:20:01,296 Yeah, but now we got a missing girl, 409 00:20:01,326 --> 00:20:03,043 a dead mime, and two dead clowns. 410 00:20:03,073 --> 00:20:04,123 Another one! 411 00:20:05,044 --> 00:20:06,592 Dead mime and three dead clowns. 412 00:20:06,652 --> 00:20:08,245 Beelze-b! 413 00:20:08,497 --> 00:20:10,553 There's a whole bunch in the back. 414 00:20:29,534 --> 00:20:32,266 The good news is your daughter wasn't one of the 415 00:20:32,296 --> 00:20:33,936 many bodies recovered from the car. 416 00:20:34,220 --> 00:20:37,063 It seems you're no closer to finding my sweet Nikki. 417 00:20:37,224 --> 00:20:39,385 Well, we're doing all we can, Mrs. Heaps. 418 00:20:39,794 --> 00:20:42,445 The tragic death of all the circus clowns was an unexpected development. 419 00:20:42,896 --> 00:20:44,871 You need to find her, Mr. Cod. 420 00:20:45,391 --> 00:20:47,779 I don't wear my feelings like a shiny, sparkly brooch. 421 00:20:47,809 --> 00:20:51,120 But if I did, my sadness and anxiety would be mesmerizing right now. 422 00:20:51,470 --> 00:20:52,764 We're making progress. 423 00:20:52,911 --> 00:20:56,087 We know that Nikki was seen leaving late last night with Jackie Johnny, 424 00:20:56,117 --> 00:20:58,586 one of the unfortunate clowns in the car. 425 00:20:58,647 --> 00:20:59,844 What's your plan... 426 00:21:00,247 --> 00:21:02,507 To bring him back to life and ask him where she is? 427 00:21:04,115 --> 00:21:05,338 That was a joke. 428 00:21:11,281 --> 00:21:12,492 Hey, sorry. 429 00:21:13,117 --> 00:21:15,524 - Thanks for meeting me here. - That's okay. 430 00:21:16,214 --> 00:21:17,932 So, which one's Jackie Johnny? 431 00:21:17,962 --> 00:21:20,119 I'm sorry I asked you to stay at the Pie Hole. 432 00:21:20,149 --> 00:21:22,590 It was very pleasant, actually. Quiet all day. 433 00:21:25,916 --> 00:21:28,353 From now on, until Olive gets back or we hire a new waitress, 434 00:21:28,383 --> 00:21:30,441 I am closing the Pie Hole whenever we have a case. 435 00:21:30,471 --> 00:21:33,038 You can't close the Pie Hole. People depend on it. 436 00:21:33,068 --> 00:21:35,952 People can learn to live without the Pie Hole for a few hours at a time. 437 00:21:37,018 --> 00:21:38,398 No, not all people. 438 00:21:42,344 --> 00:21:44,809 Vivian stopped by. She never saw me, and then she left. 439 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:47,260 - I told you they'd come back. - I know, and you were right. 440 00:21:47,559 --> 00:21:49,664 But I took care of it myself. I can do that, you know. 441 00:21:49,694 --> 00:21:52,932 I've noticed that, from where I live, across the hall. 442 00:21:55,516 --> 00:21:56,440 Jackie Johnny? 443 00:21:57,237 --> 00:21:58,502 - You got a smoke? - No. 444 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,487 Mr. Johnny, we're looking for Nikki Heaps. 445 00:22:00,517 --> 00:22:02,086 She was last seen leaving with you, 446 00:22:02,116 --> 00:22:04,000 but she wasn't with you when we pulled you out. 447 00:22:04,062 --> 00:22:06,904 Yeah, we left together, but I sent her back in to clean up the mess. 448 00:22:06,964 --> 00:22:08,613 - What mess? - We had a little fun with 449 00:22:08,643 --> 00:22:10,993 a volunteer from the audience... maybe a little too much fun. 450 00:22:11,053 --> 00:22:12,659 Nikki's lowest on the totem pole, 451 00:22:12,689 --> 00:22:15,121 so I sent her back in to calm him down and hose him off. 452 00:22:15,182 --> 00:22:17,305 - What did you do to him? - Let's just say it involves 453 00:22:17,335 --> 00:22:21,240 Peppers the horse and a pound and a half of chocolate-flavored diarrhetic. 454 00:22:21,433 --> 00:22:24,171 It's off-putting now, but hilarious in the moment. 455 00:22:24,232 --> 00:22:25,964 After the show, you drove away... 456 00:22:25,994 --> 00:22:28,502 And another car ran us off the road. 457 00:22:28,879 --> 00:22:32,346 As a matter of fact, that guy from the audience did threaten to kill us. 458 00:22:32,407 --> 00:22:33,681 Do you remember his name? 459 00:22:34,031 --> 00:22:35,393 Bryce Von Deenis. 460 00:22:35,550 --> 00:22:37,576 I remember 'cause we made up a limerick about him 461 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:39,481 and had the whole audience sing it to him. 462 00:22:41,484 --> 00:22:43,608 So Von Deenis is the last person to be seen with Nikki. 463 00:22:43,810 --> 00:22:47,080 And he may be responsible for driving 15 clowns off the road to their death. 464 00:22:47,587 --> 00:22:49,818 There was a young man named Von Deenis... 465 00:22:49,848 --> 00:22:51,240 Who they said had a very big... 466 00:22:53,533 --> 00:22:55,755 As the private investigator laid a trap 467 00:22:55,815 --> 00:22:59,873 for the last person to be seen with missing girl sweet Nikki Heaps... 468 00:23:00,985 --> 00:23:03,740 Lily returned to the nunnery to make a confession. 469 00:23:07,571 --> 00:23:09,609 Everything I told you is a lie. 470 00:23:09,923 --> 00:23:12,470 Oh, get out. You're not Charlotte's mother? 471 00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:14,305 Okay, that part's true. 472 00:23:14,335 --> 00:23:15,968 Charlotte is my daughter, but 473 00:23:15,998 --> 00:23:19,660 I never, never slept with Charles Charles. 474 00:23:21,312 --> 00:23:25,460 He was my sister's fiance, and I would never do that. 475 00:23:25,981 --> 00:23:28,586 But Charlotte thinks Charles Charles is her real dad. 476 00:23:28,688 --> 00:23:31,464 And so did he, because I told him he was. 477 00:23:31,665 --> 00:23:32,965 See, I tricked him 478 00:23:33,026 --> 00:23:35,468 into raising Charlotte as his own. 479 00:23:35,570 --> 00:23:37,218 But you said you never slept with him. 480 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,885 I didn't... 481 00:23:39,167 --> 00:23:41,766 because I would never do that. 482 00:23:42,646 --> 00:23:43,446 But... 483 00:23:43,743 --> 00:23:46,979 why did he believe you when you told him that Charlotte was his daughter? 484 00:23:50,755 --> 00:23:51,555 Damn it. 485 00:23:52,342 --> 00:23:54,568 Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it! 486 00:24:01,152 --> 00:24:02,662 So, it's not a lie, is it? 487 00:24:03,261 --> 00:24:04,705 You just wanted to take it back. 488 00:24:10,984 --> 00:24:13,613 You hide booze in your Bible? 489 00:24:14,817 --> 00:24:16,881 Ever since I told you what I did, 490 00:24:17,246 --> 00:24:21,264 the secret's like this elephant in our parlor again. 491 00:24:21,366 --> 00:24:23,097 I can't even look Vivian in the eye. 492 00:24:23,159 --> 00:24:25,687 I was gonna wait to tell her till one of us was on our deathbed, 493 00:24:25,717 --> 00:24:27,270 but that'll be for-friggin'- ever. 494 00:24:29,188 --> 00:24:31,105 As Olive considered how the secrets 495 00:24:31,168 --> 00:24:34,442 she and aunt Lily were keeping were holding them back, 496 00:24:34,546 --> 00:24:37,811 the pie maker tried to explain his fear of letting go. 497 00:24:37,841 --> 00:24:38,869 How'd you sleep? 498 00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:40,865 I'm afraid to answer that. 499 00:24:40,969 --> 00:24:42,804 Hey, maybe this is all too fast. 500 00:24:42,834 --> 00:24:45,485 There are real risks to being on your own if people found out about you. 501 00:24:45,515 --> 00:24:47,564 If your aunts are coming in to the Pie Hole now... 502 00:24:47,594 --> 00:24:49,506 Yeah, but why are they coming to the Pie Hole? 503 00:24:49,536 --> 00:24:51,658 I mean, why is aunt Lily on an overnight trip? 504 00:24:51,688 --> 00:24:52,912 That's not who they are. 505 00:24:53,263 --> 00:24:55,965 Well, apparently it is who they are, so I don't know who they are. 506 00:24:56,526 --> 00:24:58,205 Who they were was 507 00:24:58,235 --> 00:25:01,135 brokenhearted and in mourning, which may be changing. 508 00:25:01,768 --> 00:25:03,632 So they're allowed to move on and start over, 509 00:25:03,662 --> 00:25:05,556 but you don't want me to move across the hall? 510 00:25:05,785 --> 00:25:06,934 Excuse me. 511 00:25:07,482 --> 00:25:11,230 I got this coupon for a dozen free pies from the Pie Hole. 512 00:25:11,718 --> 00:25:13,244 Congratulations. Take a seat. 513 00:25:13,274 --> 00:25:14,274 Thank you. 514 00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:18,481 You win some pies, Mr. Von Deenis? 515 00:25:18,930 --> 00:25:20,228 How do you know my name? 516 00:25:20,488 --> 00:25:22,449 Everybody knows it. It's just one of those places. 517 00:25:22,479 --> 00:25:25,036 We're looking for a girl you met at the circus the other night. 518 00:25:25,096 --> 00:25:26,885 A teenager named Nikki, a clown in training. 519 00:25:26,915 --> 00:25:29,425 You were the last person to be seen with her before she disappeared. 520 00:25:29,855 --> 00:25:31,638 Yeah, I remember her. 521 00:25:32,205 --> 00:25:34,274 She was mad because 522 00:25:34,304 --> 00:25:37,338 the other clowns made her stay late to clean me up. 523 00:25:37,368 --> 00:25:39,257 There's witnesses say you threatened them. 524 00:25:39,402 --> 00:25:43,153 They stripped me down to my underwear, marched me to the center ring, 525 00:25:43,281 --> 00:25:45,798 where half the audience threw chocolate pies at me 526 00:25:45,828 --> 00:25:49,692 while they sang this "oh, so funny" rhyming song about my name... 527 00:25:50,551 --> 00:25:52,080 So I thought they were done. 528 00:25:52,334 --> 00:25:53,152 But, no... 529 00:25:53,182 --> 00:25:56,836 They said I needed a shower, but there was no shower, 530 00:25:57,239 --> 00:25:59,445 just some horse named Peppers. 531 00:25:59,684 --> 00:26:00,558 Oh, my god. 532 00:26:00,588 --> 00:26:02,904 Somebody did that to me, I'd want to kill them twice. 533 00:26:02,934 --> 00:26:04,652 And I didn't even see it coming. 534 00:26:04,682 --> 00:26:07,364 They made me wear some clown mask. 535 00:26:07,933 --> 00:26:09,271 So when Nikki came back, 536 00:26:09,301 --> 00:26:11,735 you grabbed her, followed the other, then ran them into the pond. 537 00:26:11,765 --> 00:26:14,726 When you saw what happened, you dropped your mask in the bushes. 538 00:26:14,886 --> 00:26:17,120 - Where's Nikki, Von Deenis? - I don't know! 539 00:26:17,313 --> 00:26:19,548 I never chased after them. Nikki did. 540 00:26:19,651 --> 00:26:20,663 - Nikki? - Yeah. 541 00:26:20,693 --> 00:26:22,676 I gave her back the clown mask, 542 00:26:22,779 --> 00:26:25,016 then she hopped in one of the clown cars 543 00:26:25,046 --> 00:26:27,091 and chased after them to catch up. 544 00:26:27,121 --> 00:26:29,177 And you can prove it wasn't you that went after them? 545 00:26:29,207 --> 00:26:31,862 My kids wouldn't even get into the car with me. 546 00:26:31,998 --> 00:26:36,023 They made me play games in the midway until my clothes dried off. 547 00:26:37,293 --> 00:26:40,027 The trail of Nikki Heaps seemed to go cold. 548 00:26:41,571 --> 00:26:44,073 The pie maker returned to his apartment 549 00:26:44,175 --> 00:26:46,945 and pondered what the temperature of his relationship 550 00:26:46,975 --> 00:26:49,327 with the girl across the hall was. 551 00:26:50,057 --> 00:26:51,057 Chuck? 552 00:26:54,936 --> 00:26:56,653 I talked to that ring-toss guy. 553 00:26:56,683 --> 00:26:58,711 He confirmed Von Deenis didn't leave the circus till 554 00:26:58,741 --> 00:27:01,710 after them clowns would have gone into the pond, so he didn't do it. 555 00:27:01,872 --> 00:27:03,232 It's really late. 556 00:27:03,807 --> 00:27:04,807 You got any tea? 557 00:27:09,790 --> 00:27:12,672 If Bryce was telling the truth about her and she was the one who went after them, 558 00:27:12,702 --> 00:27:14,681 then that puts Nikki at the scene of the murders. 559 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,754 - And he said she was angry. - Nikki didn't run 560 00:27:16,784 --> 00:27:18,714 them clowns off the road. That ain't who she is. 561 00:27:18,744 --> 00:27:20,794 I don't know. I think you're right about people. 562 00:27:20,824 --> 00:27:23,778 They decide they want a fresh start, and everything about them ends up changing. 563 00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:25,979 I didn't come here to talk about dead girl. 564 00:27:26,838 --> 00:27:28,387 Why the change of heart about Nikki? 565 00:27:28,417 --> 00:27:30,578 I guess my glass is half full on this one. 566 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,466 I would say you don't even have a glass. 567 00:27:32,496 --> 00:27:34,926 You just have a wet ring on the table where the glass used to be. 568 00:27:35,963 --> 00:27:37,629 We're talking about a lost little girl. 569 00:27:38,071 --> 00:27:40,167 Now, maybe she is a little pissant pain in the ass, 570 00:27:40,197 --> 00:27:41,851 but I don't think she's a murderer. 571 00:27:47,138 --> 00:27:48,552 Why did you take this case? 572 00:27:48,582 --> 00:27:51,394 Nikki's mother asked me if I knew what it was like to lose a daughter. 573 00:27:54,544 --> 00:27:55,950 Did your daughter run away? 574 00:27:58,073 --> 00:28:00,274 Wife ran away... took her with seven years ago. 575 00:28:01,122 --> 00:28:02,733 - Does anyone... - No one knows. 576 00:28:03,426 --> 00:28:05,053 - I know. - Wish you didn't. 577 00:28:06,550 --> 00:28:07,760 I got to go. 578 00:28:10,283 --> 00:28:11,785 Would you still recognize her? 579 00:28:17,497 --> 00:28:19,196 She was a stubborn little thing. 580 00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:22,129 I'd recognize that. 581 00:28:23,012 --> 00:28:24,673 At least some things never change. 582 00:28:25,629 --> 00:28:27,925 Why are you smiling? This is all very weepy stuff. 583 00:28:28,635 --> 00:28:31,889 Nikki's mother told me the thing Nikki hated the most was being alone. 584 00:28:32,162 --> 00:28:34,110 She left home with a mime, then with the clowns. 585 00:28:34,140 --> 00:28:35,897 I bet she never even left the circus. 586 00:28:36,293 --> 00:28:39,103 - I bet she's too scared to go very far. - How can you be sure? 587 00:28:40,383 --> 00:28:41,607 Wishful thinking. 588 00:28:44,835 --> 00:28:46,360 I'm gonna find this girl. 589 00:28:51,990 --> 00:28:53,362 All right, we'll split up. 590 00:28:53,744 --> 00:28:56,060 You two take the midway, I'll go around back to the big top. 591 00:28:56,090 --> 00:28:57,495 What if we can't find her? 592 00:28:57,664 --> 00:29:00,351 Well, that means I'm wrong about her, and we're back to square one. 593 00:29:00,381 --> 00:29:04,564 As the private investigators set out once again to hunt for the missing girl, 594 00:29:04,936 --> 00:29:07,422 Olive and Lily ate the morning porridge 595 00:29:07,452 --> 00:29:10,217 and wondered if the truffle-hunting pig might be retrained 596 00:29:10,310 --> 00:29:12,803 to hunt for a packet of sugar. 597 00:29:12,906 --> 00:29:16,516 I'd forgotten how much I hated this morning porridge when I was here. 598 00:29:16,851 --> 00:29:19,415 I could throw up in my mouth a little and not even know the difference. 599 00:29:19,445 --> 00:29:22,608 This is a terrible thing to say, but I thought that when Charlotte died... 600 00:29:23,741 --> 00:29:26,424 My guilt over what I did to Vivian might die, too. 601 00:29:27,047 --> 00:29:28,188 But it didn't. 602 00:29:28,218 --> 00:29:29,445 It lived on. 603 00:29:29,716 --> 00:29:32,574 It was then that Olive realized she would now have 604 00:29:32,635 --> 00:29:35,534 to keep an even bigger secret from Lily, that Chuck 605 00:29:35,897 --> 00:29:37,135 was still alive. 606 00:29:37,165 --> 00:29:39,934 Maybe there's some sort of cosmic reason it didn't die. 607 00:29:40,789 --> 00:29:43,292 Your guilt... not Charlotte, of course. 608 00:29:43,395 --> 00:29:45,100 I just can't seem to put it behind me. 609 00:29:46,388 --> 00:29:49,090 The truth is, I haven't really put Charlotte behind me, either. 610 00:29:49,665 --> 00:29:51,409 Suddenly, without warning, 611 00:29:51,439 --> 00:29:54,572 Olive Snook had a tiny, yet very real, epiphany. 612 00:29:54,602 --> 00:29:56,515 Maybe you shouldn't put Charlotte behind you. 613 00:29:56,866 --> 00:29:59,072 Maybe you should put her in front of you. 614 00:29:59,162 --> 00:30:01,185 Don't completely let her go. Cling a little. 615 00:30:01,288 --> 00:30:02,687 What about a fresh start? 616 00:30:02,789 --> 00:30:04,355 It's too soon. You need to go home. 617 00:30:04,457 --> 00:30:07,782 Your sister needs you. She's lost her niece. She can't lose you, too. 618 00:30:07,812 --> 00:30:09,902 I can't make you stay in this place forever. 619 00:30:10,005 --> 00:30:13,998 I came here to keep your secret, but I'm staying to keep one of my own, 620 00:30:14,028 --> 00:30:15,382 one that I could never, 621 00:30:16,097 --> 00:30:17,087 ever, 622 00:30:18,263 --> 00:30:19,013 ever... 623 00:30:19,668 --> 00:30:21,498 - tell you. - Tell me. 624 00:30:21,698 --> 00:30:23,898 I still love the pie maker, and he loves someone else. 625 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,306 Damn it. 626 00:30:26,657 --> 00:30:27,917 Forgive me. 627 00:30:36,185 --> 00:30:38,075 Can I say I know you can take care of yourself? 628 00:30:38,105 --> 00:30:40,976 When you moved out, I panicked because I thought everything was changing and... 629 00:30:41,078 --> 00:30:42,575 Everything is changing. 630 00:30:42,605 --> 00:30:44,763 Way to ruin a good apology. 631 00:30:44,793 --> 00:30:47,482 What is so terrible about starting fresh? 632 00:30:47,543 --> 00:30:49,943 Because "starting fresh" means something else is ending stale. 633 00:30:51,689 --> 00:30:52,878 You're Chuck, 634 00:30:53,499 --> 00:30:56,700 who I destroyed play-doh cities with, Chuck, my best friend, my first kiss. 635 00:30:58,708 --> 00:31:00,831 - I don't want that to change. - Yeah. 636 00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:03,230 And I'm also Chuck who went on a pleasure cruise 637 00:31:03,260 --> 00:31:05,000 and got a plastic bag put over her head. 638 00:31:05,171 --> 00:31:07,586 - That's not as much fun to remember. - But it happened. 639 00:31:07,967 --> 00:31:09,946 And when it was happening, I was thinking... 640 00:31:09,976 --> 00:31:13,090 I was thinking, "Son of a bitch, why'd I have to go get ice for my ginger ale?" 641 00:31:13,296 --> 00:31:14,593 But really I was thinking, 642 00:31:14,653 --> 00:31:16,886 "I finally get to live my own life, and it's already over." 643 00:31:18,239 --> 00:31:19,178 And then you... 644 00:31:21,122 --> 00:31:23,267 you came and you gave me another chance. 645 00:31:23,329 --> 00:31:24,448 So it's my fault. 646 00:31:24,478 --> 00:31:26,691 My first time around, I was terrified of change, 647 00:31:26,721 --> 00:31:29,148 and I'm not gonna make that mistake again. I can't. 648 00:31:29,367 --> 00:31:32,319 But how can you start again with someone who only knows who you were before? 649 00:31:32,379 --> 00:31:33,570 How do we make it work? 650 00:31:33,856 --> 00:31:37,587 I knew the caterpillar, but maybe it's time for you to become the butterfly. 651 00:31:38,297 --> 00:31:39,826 You did not just say that. 652 00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:41,578 Did not know you were there. 653 00:31:42,886 --> 00:31:45,081 Truckload of mimes just pulled up, and they ain't talking. 654 00:31:46,421 --> 00:31:48,025 I mean, they can talk. 655 00:31:48,315 --> 00:31:49,736 They just aren't saying anything 656 00:31:49,766 --> 00:31:52,347 except they knew there'd be jobs opening up at the circus. 657 00:31:52,632 --> 00:31:55,050 Word must have spread about the clowns needing to be replaced. 658 00:31:55,571 --> 00:31:58,260 Wait a minute. Rocky was looking for a job, too... Look. 659 00:31:58,467 --> 00:32:02,706 "Mimes, jugglers are invited to fill positions available immediately." 660 00:32:02,736 --> 00:32:04,546 There's no name, but... 661 00:32:05,870 --> 00:32:06,811 same number. 662 00:32:06,872 --> 00:32:08,768 We found Rocky three days ago. 663 00:32:08,798 --> 00:32:11,579 Before they disappeared. So how did the circus management 664 00:32:11,609 --> 00:32:14,393 know they need to replace the clowns before they even knew they were dead? 665 00:32:14,423 --> 00:32:16,592 Unless someone knew they were gonna be dead. 666 00:32:17,283 --> 00:32:18,131 Arnaud. 667 00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:20,952 It was a union dispute. 668 00:32:21,052 --> 00:32:21,924 Union? 669 00:32:21,954 --> 00:32:23,760 The clowns would pretend to go drinking, 670 00:32:23,790 --> 00:32:26,408 but I knew they were having secret meetings, trying to organize. 671 00:32:26,838 --> 00:32:28,397 They wanted health care, more money. 672 00:32:28,608 --> 00:32:30,126 I was gonna fire 'em, not kill 'em. 673 00:32:30,187 --> 00:32:32,044 How'd you know about these secret meetings? 674 00:32:32,147 --> 00:32:33,845 Nikki was my spy on the inside. 675 00:32:34,315 --> 00:32:36,336 The other clowns had no idea. 676 00:32:36,675 --> 00:32:38,742 She left here to follow them to a meeting the night 677 00:32:38,772 --> 00:32:41,896 they got run into the lake. I swear, it was the last time I saw her. 678 00:32:41,990 --> 00:32:44,605 - Why didn't you tell us? - 'cause I know I'd look guilty. 679 00:32:44,925 --> 00:32:47,060 When she disappeared and you all came looking for her, 680 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:48,562 I got scared I'd get put away. 681 00:32:48,663 --> 00:32:50,271 Why would Nikki want to be your spy? 682 00:32:50,373 --> 00:32:52,314 Said everyone thought she was a wallflower, 683 00:32:52,344 --> 00:32:54,662 so she was gonna start over and be a star. 684 00:32:55,301 --> 00:32:56,583 Yeah. Yeah. 685 00:32:56,613 --> 00:32:59,614 She didn't like having to pay her dues with the other clowns so we made a deal. 686 00:32:59,674 --> 00:33:01,690 She'd spy on the clowns' union activities... 687 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,335 In return, you'd put her in the show. 688 00:33:03,428 --> 00:33:06,272 She said she'd do anything not to go back to who she was. 689 00:33:06,415 --> 00:33:08,623 I just didn't think she was capable of murder. 690 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:10,041 What was that? 691 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,213 Oh, hell no! 692 00:33:17,610 --> 00:33:18,842 Get down! 693 00:33:29,613 --> 00:33:31,484 I think the human cannonball was meant for us. 694 00:33:33,381 --> 00:33:35,651 Well aware that the range of a human cannonball is less 695 00:33:35,681 --> 00:33:38,813 than the diameter of a low-rent traveling circus... 696 00:33:38,923 --> 00:33:40,590 Was that Nikki? Did she shoot at us? 697 00:33:40,620 --> 00:33:41,500 No. 698 00:33:42,108 --> 00:33:43,556 But I think I know who did, 699 00:33:43,586 --> 00:33:46,096 and if Nikki is still here, we better find her before they do. 700 00:33:46,126 --> 00:33:47,578 The private investigator felt 701 00:33:47,608 --> 00:33:50,351 he was closing in on the answers to the mystery. 702 00:33:57,354 --> 00:33:58,424 Hey, listen. 703 00:34:12,705 --> 00:34:13,916 I know you're in here. 704 00:34:18,366 --> 00:34:20,006 We know you were spying on the clowns. 705 00:34:21,343 --> 00:34:22,826 You saw them get run off the road. 706 00:34:22,856 --> 00:34:25,726 We know that 'cause we found the mask that Bryce gave back to you. 707 00:34:26,970 --> 00:34:29,921 You didn't run them off the road, Nikki, but you saw who did. 708 00:34:31,363 --> 00:34:33,345 And now you're scared. Am I right, honey? 709 00:34:38,030 --> 00:34:38,934 You're right. 710 00:34:41,005 --> 00:34:42,886 Why would you stay here in the circus? 711 00:34:42,916 --> 00:34:45,916 I was too scared to leave, and I couldn't go home. 712 00:34:46,529 --> 00:34:48,924 - My mom's gonna kill me. - Did you know we were looking for you? 713 00:34:49,005 --> 00:34:51,042 Well, yeah, but I figured you thought 714 00:34:51,072 --> 00:34:53,402 I had run the clowns off the road, so I hid. 715 00:34:53,432 --> 00:34:54,655 I don't understand... 716 00:34:54,685 --> 00:34:57,675 The only other person you told about the clowns' secret meeting was Mr. Arnaud. 717 00:34:57,893 --> 00:35:00,097 Well, he didn't kill them. 718 00:35:00,127 --> 00:35:02,019 How could anyone else have known? 719 00:35:02,049 --> 00:35:04,918 Arnaud was the only one she told, but he wasn't the only one who was listening. 720 00:35:05,446 --> 00:35:07,690 Ain't that right, Nikki? Nikki! 721 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:09,046 The facts were these... 722 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,886 Nikki Heaps had come to snitch. 723 00:35:11,916 --> 00:35:15,636 Reporting to management that the clowns were planning their secret meeting, 724 00:35:15,806 --> 00:35:17,430 she was sent back out to spy. 725 00:35:18,128 --> 00:35:20,215 But someone else was spying on her. 726 00:35:20,245 --> 00:35:23,256 Wanting to keep the budding clown union from blooming, 727 00:35:23,286 --> 00:35:24,756 the acrobat leapt. 728 00:35:24,964 --> 00:35:27,511 The clowns drove off to meet secretly in the woods, 729 00:35:27,541 --> 00:35:29,836 hoping to officially form their union 730 00:35:30,003 --> 00:35:32,283 and plan their stand against circus management, 731 00:35:32,313 --> 00:35:34,556 leaving Nikki behind on cleanup. 732 00:35:35,391 --> 00:35:37,993 The acrobat followed the clowns into the darkness, 733 00:35:38,054 --> 00:35:41,621 unaware that the left-behind Nikki was done with her duty 734 00:35:41,681 --> 00:35:43,384 and was now quickly catching up. 735 00:35:54,928 --> 00:35:58,178 The acrobat would make sure that the only labor movement 736 00:35:58,208 --> 00:36:01,300 that night was a sudden movement off the road 737 00:36:01,330 --> 00:36:03,440 and into cold, murky water. 738 00:36:05,896 --> 00:36:08,064 And as he would catch sight of young Nikki 739 00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:10,679 witnessing his terrible clownicide... 740 00:36:12,458 --> 00:36:14,779 The snitch would need to be snatched. 741 00:36:15,108 --> 00:36:16,087 Look! 742 00:36:19,094 --> 00:36:21,682 That union would have put us all out of business! 743 00:36:22,048 --> 00:36:25,148 Who ever heard of a circus with a fair and safe workplace? 744 00:36:25,605 --> 00:36:26,458 You fools! 745 00:36:26,727 --> 00:36:28,667 I only wished to scare the clowns! 746 00:36:28,729 --> 00:36:31,504 Yeah, well, what about Rocky the mime? Were you just trying to scare him, too? 747 00:36:31,564 --> 00:36:33,535 No, I wanted it to look like the clowns did it 748 00:36:33,565 --> 00:36:35,387 to scare off the mimes from taking the jobs. 749 00:36:35,609 --> 00:36:37,996 You see, I just wanted everything to stay the same. 750 00:36:38,375 --> 00:36:39,495 Is that so terrible? 751 00:36:39,525 --> 00:36:42,557 Pierre, est-ce que je peux avoir un minute avec Nikki, s'il vous plaît? 752 00:36:42,823 --> 00:36:43,933 Oui, one minute. 753 00:36:43,994 --> 00:36:46,061 Nikki, Rocky wrote you a poem. 754 00:36:46,522 --> 00:36:48,729 Oh, he did? He was always so nice. 755 00:36:48,791 --> 00:36:51,548 "No matter where you go or what you do, 756 00:36:51,939 --> 00:36:53,859 you'll always be my sweet Nikki Heaps." 757 00:36:54,235 --> 00:36:55,245 Thank you. 758 00:36:55,444 --> 00:36:56,738 That's beautiful. 759 00:36:57,399 --> 00:36:58,693 My demands are simple! 760 00:36:59,383 --> 00:37:02,370 - First, in return for the girl's life, - Hand me one of them things. 761 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,607 I demand safe passage across the border. 762 00:37:04,867 --> 00:37:05,831 Secondly... 763 00:37:15,864 --> 00:37:17,194 You won me a prize. 764 00:37:17,464 --> 00:37:21,346 The Circus Of Fun acrobat set about serving 25 to life. 765 00:37:21,963 --> 00:37:26,262 Olive, realizing that a new leaf might take some time to turn over, 766 00:37:26,464 --> 00:37:29,314 braced herself for a longer stay at the nunnery. 767 00:37:33,363 --> 00:37:36,923 Chuck and the pie maker set about serving pies once again. 768 00:37:45,501 --> 00:37:46,921 Aunts Vivian and Lily 769 00:37:46,951 --> 00:37:51,011 returned to their old habits of eating pie and keeping secrets, respectively, 770 00:37:51,624 --> 00:37:54,390 but did not return to being shut in. 771 00:37:55,368 --> 00:37:57,067 And a mile to the west, 772 00:37:57,263 --> 00:38:00,093 Emerson Cod gave the gift of a new beginning 773 00:38:00,123 --> 00:38:03,322 to others while he still could not give it to himself. 774 00:38:03,352 --> 00:38:05,056 I still can't believe you did this to me. 775 00:38:05,292 --> 00:38:07,392 Do you know how much trouble you've caused? 776 00:38:07,621 --> 00:38:08,613 You know what? 777 00:38:08,745 --> 00:38:10,904 24 hours ago, you was all like, 778 00:38:11,569 --> 00:38:12,887 "Find my daughter. 779 00:38:13,722 --> 00:38:15,135 Find my daughter." 780 00:38:15,378 --> 00:38:16,735 Well, I found your daughter. 781 00:38:16,991 --> 00:38:18,727 I don't know who she is anymore. 782 00:38:18,879 --> 00:38:20,947 She's completely changed. 783 00:38:21,204 --> 00:38:22,741 Love what's there. 784 00:38:23,886 --> 00:38:25,201 Love it. 785 00:38:30,998 --> 00:38:32,238 Love it. 786 00:38:49,592 --> 00:38:53,680 As mother and daughter finally discovered what they were looking for, 787 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,232 the private investigator wondered if what he was looking for 788 00:38:57,375 --> 00:38:59,828 had changed too much to ever be found. 789 00:39:03,105 --> 00:39:06,114 It's been 5 days, 10 hours, and 28 minutes 790 00:39:06,144 --> 00:39:10,152 since the pie maker's childhood sweetheart moved out of his apartment. 791 00:39:10,856 --> 00:39:14,070 And the pie maker had embraced a fresh start. 792 00:39:15,035 --> 00:39:16,209 My name is Ned. 793 00:39:17,135 --> 00:39:19,868 I live a simple life. I wake pies and make the dead. 794 00:39:20,313 --> 00:39:21,487 That was creepy. 795 00:39:21,681 --> 00:39:23,833 I make pies and wake the dead. 796 00:39:25,632 --> 00:39:26,672 I live alone. 797 00:39:27,735 --> 00:39:31,138 And this empty bed next to me has never been slept in by anyone 798 00:39:31,673 --> 00:39:32,560 at any time. 799 00:39:32,817 --> 00:39:33,661 I'm Chuck, 800 00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:37,346 a single girl who recently moved into her own apartment in a big city, 801 00:39:37,385 --> 00:39:40,766 raised in a small town by two unmarried sisters I call my aunts. 802 00:39:40,796 --> 00:39:44,444 I have unexciting, yet realistic, hopes for my life. 803 00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:46,893 I'm yet to meet anyone new here, 804 00:39:46,923 --> 00:39:50,244 and today is just another day in which I fully expect nothing special... 805 00:39:50,305 --> 00:39:51,921 - Or exciting... - To happen. 806 00:39:56,546 --> 00:39:58,502 You must be the new girl in 44. 807 00:39:58,862 --> 00:39:59,629 I'm Ned. 808 00:39:59,734 --> 00:40:01,756 I'm Charlotte, but you can call me Chuck. 809 00:40:07,297 --> 00:40:09,180 I really want to kiss you now. 810 00:40:09,567 --> 00:40:12,192 But we've only just met. We're two strangers in a big city. 811 00:40:12,222 --> 00:40:13,393 These things take time. 812 00:40:14,871 --> 00:40:16,644 I work in the Pie Hole downstairs. 813 00:40:16,674 --> 00:40:17,674 Really? 814 00:40:17,798 --> 00:40:19,524 I own the Pie Hole downstairs. 815 00:40:20,222 --> 00:40:22,026 May we... walk together? 816 00:40:22,374 --> 00:40:25,206 - Well, that would be swell, Harvey. - It's Ned, actually. 817 00:40:26,485 --> 00:40:27,575 Very nice name. 818 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,450 Having recently discovered 819 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,246 that watching someone else make a fresh start alone can be 820 00:40:33,307 --> 00:40:37,777 fairly traumatic, the lovers who could not touch were happy to find that making 821 00:40:37,978 --> 00:40:40,855 a fresh start together was a thrill. 822 00:40:40,885 --> 00:40:42,584 Can we play this game every morning? 823 00:40:42,614 --> 00:40:44,162 Absolutely. Definitely. 824 00:40:45,322 --> 00:40:48,322 Synch: Gaillots & Salomon 825 00:40:49,053 --> 00:40:53,553 Subtitle: A²S Team --==All-about-Subs.fr==--