Perhaps what might cheer me up is a trip to a magic show, or that’s the plan put forward by Chuck when she organises herself, Ned, Emerson and Olive to an evening out in this week’s episode, Oh Oh Oh…It’s Magic. The Great Hermann employs Emerson Cod to discover why his supporting players; a monkey, two doves and a rabbit, have all died in unfortunate circumstances. The problem is that none of these are suitable recipients for Ned’s special touch, as they’d be unlikely to say who killed them. But it’s not the end of the fatalities, and soon the Great Hermann is also an ex-performer, incarcerated in the same block of concrete that he usually escapes twice nightly. But initially this appears to be a ruse, when they open the block and find it light on quickset-magician. Eventually, they discover that he is indeed dead, just not in that exact block! Overall, the cast get some excellent lines in this story, which had an underlying theme about confronting the past and dealing with those emotions. As to a counterpoint to this at the end Olive goes to see Lily Charles, and acting as a surrogate for Chuck hidden outside in the car asks those questions she’s most like answers to. I have a curious feeling that before this is entirely over the secret of Chuck’s birth and death will be revealed, but probably not in those stories already in the can. We can only hope for a ‘resolution’ special. Next week, Ned and Emerson investigate the death of a Mr Hoffer, but obviously not the crime connected union leader of fame, I assume.
