Moonlighting 3.06

Big Man on Mulberry Street

David angers Maddie once again, this time for showing up late to a meeting with a client, smelling like booze, and without the photos she promised the client he would have. They argue about it after they get back to the office. Later, David tells Maddie that he has to fly to New York to attend the funeral of his ex-wife's brother.

Maddie and Allyce search David’s desk for wedding pictures, without success. Maddie goes home and has a dream about David which involves him dancing with another woman to the tune of Big Man on Mulberry Street. Towards the end of the dream the woman leaves him and Maddie takes her place.

David hangs out with some friends in New York on the night before the funeral. They talk about Jimmy. David finds Maddie waiting for him when he gets back to his hotel room. She tries to explain why she came to New York. He tells her about his marriage.

David leaves for the funeral the next morning by himself. Maddie wants to go with him but he wants to go alone. She stays at the hotel but later she goes to the reception. She discovers that David isn’t there and wasn’t at the funeral. She talks to Tess, David’s ex. She learns something about their break up that David didn’t tell her. 

David and Maddie fly back to Los Angeles together. He acts as though he went to the funeral and the reception. She doesn't tell him that she went to the reception or about what she learned.

Thoughts

None of the guest stars are familiar faces to me but the one who played Tess was very good in her scene with Maddie.

This is a really good episode. I wasn't won over by the first half. The musical number felt a bit misplaced. The second half was another story. This one definitely deepens Maddie and David's relationship. It's not my favorite episode but it belongs in the upper tier of episodes of this show.