Season 1, Episode 3: Pigeon

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Saturday 26 April 2008 9:05pm - 10:05pm

While Chuck makes mood enhancing pies for her aunts Lily and Vivian, Ned comes in covered with bee stings. Knowing that Chuck misses making honey in her former life, Ned has set up beehives on the rooftop for her.

Now that Olive knows Chuck's real identity, she ponders on how to expose her until a messenger pigeon crashes into the window of The Pie Hole and is accidentally brought back from the dead by Ned. In a bizarre chain of events, the group sees a crop duster plane crash into The Broadview Apartment complex and private investigator Emerson Cod follows the ambulance in hopes of reward money. Ned, Emerson and Chuck then begin to unravel the mystery of what happened to the pilot and try to determine whether or not the pilot had committed suicide.

To Ned's distress, Chuck becomes drawn to the man whose apartment the plane had crashed into who appears to be the lone survivor. His name is Conrad Fitch and he catches Chuck in his arms when she trips on some debris, while Ned cringes back. Ned becomes overcome with jealousy after she stays behind to help Conrad clean up instead of going to the morgue, and can only watch as they continue to touch each other.

With Chuck with the charming Conrad, Emerson and Ned question the dead pilot who wakes up with the question “Was it you who jumped on to my plane?” The two immediately know this was no suicide and set out to find the jumping hijacker. The two return to the scene of the crash were Ned’s jealously is returned after seeing Conrad and Chuck had coffee, which draws his attention to the smell coming from inside the coffee table. Ned discovers Conrad, the real Conrad, dead inside the coffee table. Ned then realises that other Conrad is actually the hijacker.

The mystery of the man posing as Conrad gets stranger as Emerson checks the background on the hijacker and discovers his real name is Lemuel Weinger who was in jail for embezzlement. He lost his right arm while shredding important papers and ended up with the nickname Lefty Lem. Further, Lefty’s cellmate was Jackson Lucas who was in jail for stealing jewels that were never recovered. They go to dig up Jackson at the prison grave yard and a ‘gooey’ Jackson reveals he hid the jewels at a Windmill and that he told Lefty about the hiding place.

Meanwhile, Olive takes the injured messenger pigeon to Aunts Lily and Vivian, who find a note attached to its leg. Olive is desperate to see the bird fulfill its destiny by flying again and making its delivery. After they fix its wing, it takes flight; but since the three women still have the note, they follow it in their car, momentarily forgetting their agoraphobia due to Chuck's homeopathic pies.

Lefty arrives at the windmill and introduces himself to the owner, Elsita. She invites him in and he ties her up and rips open the stairs to find the jewels. Olive, Lily, and Vivian are following ‘Pidge’, who is flying to the windmill. Ned, Chuck, and Emerson are driving there separately and Emerson is forced to sit through them chatting about their relationship.

‘Pidge’ arrives at Elsita’s windmill, and Lemuel says that she’s his bird. Olive and the aunts come in and turns out that when Jackson hid the jewels at the windmill he fell in love Elsita's mother, Elsa. Once he went to jail, they secretly talked by messenger pigeon, ‘Pidge’. Elsita reveals that her mother died but she kept up the messaging. Lemuel also kept up the correspondence when Jackson died, and the two fell in love. Elsita is also missing a leg, and reveals that the diamonds are hidden in her wooden replacement.

Chuck and the guys arrive and Olive goes to answer the door. She sees Chuck and prepares to open the door and reveal her existence to the aunts, but then reconsiders since she realises how much it would hurt them. She slips out and tells Chuck to wait a couple of minutes, and Chuck spots her aunts’ car. Olive gets Vivian and Lily out the back. As Lily drives them away she catches a brief glimpse of Chuck but isn’t sure if her one eye is playing a trick on her.

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