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Busted is the sixth episode of season 8, Mice & Murder.
Recap[]
"Last we left off, our animal investigators were in a thrilling fight for our very lives. The top of the elevator, indeed. The freight elevator in the servant's entrance of Loam Hall brought Buckster $ Boyd, Gangie Green, and Sergeant Lars Vandenchomp to the top of the hill under the storm, where they met a masked figure, who leapt forward, and almost struck down Sergeant Vandenchomp. One, two, bam, bam! Two punches across the face. And, as the gate was closed when Buckster hit the down button, Gangie Green pushed out with his shovel, hearing a crunch underneath the coat of the masked figure. The elevator went to the bottom.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the house, Sylvester Cross and Dr. Corbin Magpie cracked the secret of Squire Badger's self-inflicted wound. Not a self-inflicted wound at all! Not a possession by a malignant spirit. Not an attempt at suicide. But, instead, an attempt at surgery. Indeed, a piece of shrapnel from the Schnauzer War in Bavaria had lodged its way, years earlier, into Squire Badger's chest, right outside of his heart, and a burst electromagnetism, which we had already seen affect all the metal objects in the room, must have pushed the shrapnel deeper into his chest. And, in his attempt to get it out, Mrs. Molesly perceived what she thought to be a horrifying act of the occult. That mystery solved!
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the room, having witnessed a truly stunning act of quick-moving personal divulgence with Rosalind Crumb, one of the maid staff, just showing her whole butt to Daisy D'umpstaire, Daisy used that opportunity to look up a list of names in "The Chronicles of Barkus Aurelius" on the desk, on page 318, finding a list of names of different Roman emperors, and also discovering why the desk had been bolted down. Indeed, there was some complex wiring that was creating an open patch of electrical charge that shocked her hand at the beginning, and then, by the end of her investigation into the room, was no longer running an active current.
Daisy absconded from the room to go upstairs, where Vicar Ian was trying to solve the mystery of the incorrect dates on the bust of Barkus Aurelius, having a confrontation with Colonel James Hawkins about his presence in the library. Vicar Ian joined Daisy D'umpstaire, who was able to shut the door at a moment's notice to perceive Colonel Hawkins rummaging through Squire Badger's secret study, taking several documents, and also leaving a medal from his coat in the drawer of Squire Badger. All of you looking into the study now know that the entrance to the study must be somewhere in the library.
We ended last week's episode with Sergeant Vandenchomp, Mr. Green, and Mr. Boyd exiting the elevator, with a slash across Gangie's arm, and a bad wound in Lars's abdomen, to see Colonel Hawkins, Mr. Gilfoyle, and a number of the house staff in the hall outside the missing elevator. You were pronounced under arrest, and that's where we left off last week."
Synopsis[]
Locations[]
- The servants' quarters
- The séance room
- The secret study
- The library
- The ballroom
- Mrs. Molesly's bedroom
Characters[]
The Sylvan Sleuths[]
- Gangie Green
- Vicar Ian Prescott
- Lars Vandenchomp
- Detective Sylvester Cross
- Buckster $ Boyd
- Daisy D'umpstaire
New[]
Returning[]
Mentioned[]
- William Thornwall Brockhollow (†)
- Masked Assailant
- Fletcher Cottonbottom
- Mr. Dumpster
- Professor Simon Shellcrest
- Tufting Meadows Constabulary
Trivia[]
- This episode's title is a reference to the Roman Emperor busts in the library, but also the act of getting "busted", or being caught in the act of doing something wrong, when Gangie, Lars, and Buckster descended the elevator.
- The busts in this episode, as well as the device hidden inside of one, may also be a reference to the Sherlock Holmes story, The Six Napoleons.