This episode has Jessica visiting her niece and nephew-in-law, Carrie and Leonard Palmer, for their anniversary. Only when she arrives...Leonard is a week off on the calendar and kind of a mad scientist hard at work with his charts and programmable telescope at work. He is delighted to see Jessica however.
When a defense contractor ends up dead and Jessica's niece's lies come out, it's game on for Jessica who teams up with the local detective that not only has literary aspirations, but cinematic ones.
It was great to see Love Bug alumni, Dean Jones as the lovable scientist, but my favorite characters were the detective played by George diCenzo and Leonard's boss who is played by Jeffrey Tambor.
This episode takes place outside of Cabot Cove and they murder mystery is pretty convoluted which isn't helped by the lying.