Moonlighting 3.10

Poltergeist III -- DiPesto Nothing

Bert gets on Agnes' nerves. She thinks that he's getting treated better  than she is at the Blue Moon Detective Agency. She decides (without consulting with them) to take a case that Maddy and David reject. Mrs. Renborn, the client, needs someone to prove that her home is haunted. She takes the case despite the fact that the thought of having to track down a ghost gives her the creeps.

Bert shows up while Agnes is trying to solve the case. She resents having him around at first but quickly changes her mind.

Thoughts

This episode was a little too silly for me. David and Maddie are in it but only briefly at the beginning and the end. I think it's great that they tried something different but in my book this is a swing and a miss. I think that the writers and the director are mostly to blame for the quality of this episode.

Moonlighting 3.09

The Straight Poop

Rona Barrett visits the office of the Blue Moon Detective Agency. She brings a camera crew with her. She wants to get to the bottom of what's going on in the office, between David and Maddie. She tries interviewing David but he tells her that he will need to talk to Maddie. Rona Barrett relents and goes to talk to Maddie. She asks Maddie about her relationship with David, how they met, how things are going between them, and how she feels about him.

Rona Barrett leaves Maddie's office and talks to Agnes DiPesto for a few minutes. She asks her what it's like working for Maddie and David and about her relationship with the two of them. She goes to see David after talking to Agnes. She asks him about what it's like working with Maddie.

Moonlighting 3.08

It’s a Wonderful Job

Maddie has a bad day. No one in at the Blue Moon Agency is happy because she has insisted that they work the week of Christmas. David tries to talk her into changing her mind but she won’t.

Maddie was planning to visit her Aunt Ruth in the hospital later that day but then she finds out that her aunt died. Maddie leaves the office and goes to a bar for a drink. A man named Albert approaches her. He offers to listen to her talk about whatever is bothering her, but she’s not interested in his offer. She wishes that she had just sold the Blue Moin Detective Agency instead of keeping it.

Moonlighting 3.07

Atomic Shakespeare

Padua, 1593. Lucentio (Burt) wants to marry Bianca (Agnes) but her father won’t let her marry until Kate (Maddie), her older sister, is married. Kate is a bit wild and intimidating. The men of Padua are not interested in her but then Petruchio (David) comes to town and Lucentio sees an opportunity.

Petruchio gets Kate’s father’s blessings to marry her but Kate is very resistant to Petruchio’s attempts to woo her.

Petruchio and Kate get married even though (a) she is bound and gagged at the time and (b) he shows up three hours late for the ceremony. 

The marriage starts out rocky but eventually Kate grows to appreciate Petruchio. They return together to Padua for the marriage of Bianca and Lucentio.

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.

Moonlighting 3.05

All Creatures Great.. and Not So Great

Father McDonovan, a Catholic priest, turns to Maddie and David for help. A woman came to him and confessed that she was thinking about killing herself. Father McDonovan didn't get to see her face doesn't know what she looks like, just that she caught a cab from the church.

Maddie and David go through endless log books from taxi companies until they find the fare. They go to the house where the taxi dropped the woman off. Everything seems normal. The woman is married and happily so, or at least that's what the observe from a distance.

They tell Father McDonovan what they found. He's surprised but accepts it. The next day they learn that Mrs. Adamson blew her head off with a shotgun. Maddie and David visit Mr. Adamson but they don't learn anything new that changes their mind.

Moonlighting 3.04

Yours, Very Deadly

Gail Woodley hires Maddie and David to figure out who has been sending her love letters. She's been married for 10 yearsGail has been responding to the letters but she's had enough. She wants it to stop. Maddie and David find the guy. His name is Peter Macy. He's deaf and mute. They tell him to back off. 

Allyce has an affair with Herbert Viola, a temp who works at the Blue Moon Detective Agency. She is very aggressive with her physical affection for him. He doesn't know how to respond.

Mrs. Woodley turns up dead the next day. Maddie and David go looking for Peter Macy. They find him dead. They start to think that maybe he didn't kill Gail. Maddie and David decide to stake out the post office box where the letters were being sent. That's how they found Peter Macy.

They don't have long to wait before Ken Woodley, Gail's husband shows up. They corner him. He confesses but then he takes off running.

Moonlighting 3.03

Symphony in Knocked Flat

Maddie is tired of guys who don't put out, enough effort when taking her out on date. David finds out about this and suggests that she let him take her out. He promises to make it worth her wild but in return she has to go on his kind of date. She agrees to his terms. 

David runs around town trying to get tickets to something (think ballet or opera) that Maddie would like. He winds up buying a couple tickets off a scalper, not realizing that the seats aren't together.

David picks up Maddie in a limousine. They go to a concert but things get awkward when David realizes that the seats aren't together. They wind up getting kicked out of the music hall.

The next day two pairs of FBI agents come to see Maddie and David, separately. David and Maddie decide that one of the pair's of agents must have been fakes. They rush over to Maddie's home, without saying anything to either pair of FBI agents, real or phony. Maddie finds a parking stub in her purse.

Moonlighting 3.02

The Man Who Cried Wife

James Bower hires David and Maddie to figure out what's going on with Melissa, his wife. He thought he killed her a week ago but he's been getting phone calls from her since the night he killed her.

James went back to the spot where he buried her body but it wasn't there. He doesn't know what to do. Maddie is okay taking the case until she learns that he hit and killed his wife. Maddie wants to drop the case. She wants David to drop it too but he insists on pursuing it.

David stays on the case despite Maddie's orders to back off. He has a wire tap set up. The next time James gets a call from Melissa he gets the number and address from where she is calling. David, Maddie, and James head out there but things kind of go sideways when Melissa spots them and takes off in her car.

Moonlighting 3.01

The Son Also Rises

David Addison, Sr. comes to town. He's there because he is getting married. David Addison, Jr. avoids his father at first but Maddie works it so that Jr. has to talk to Sr. David learns that his father is getting remarried. He's delighted until he meets Stephanie, his father's bride to be.

David Jr. had a one-night-stand with Stephanie, years ago. He tells Maddie about how he met Stephanie (the first time around) and how he can't imagine Stephanie being his father's wife. He goes on a drinking binge but he recovers in time for the wedding. Maddie goes as his plus one.

David is his father's best man. David pulls Stephanie aside in the middle of the ceremony. He has to talk to her about what happened between them four years ago. She misunderstands and tells him about how she used to regularly get drunk and pick up men in a bar back in Philly. She also tells him about how she met his father.

Moonlighting 2.18

Camille

David and Maddie hire Camille Brand, a woman on the run from a man pretending to be a police officer. They don't know about her fugitive status, just that she saved the life of a politician and is about to be given the key to the city. David figures that she will be an excellent hire but Maddie has her doubts.

Camille rejects David's sales pitch when he first makes it. When the phony police officer shows up and tries to shake her down she reconsiders. She shows up at the office of the Blue Moon Detective Agency and finds herself greeted enthusiastically by the staff of the office.

David gives up his office for Camille. The phony cop eventually tracks her down. There is a chase. The fourth wall is broken. The episode ends with Maddie and David saying goodbye to one another until they meet again next season.

Moonlighting 2.17

Funeral for a Door Nail

Roger Clements is distraught after Celia, his wife is killed in a car accident. Roger hires someone to kill him but he asks for a few days to clear up some matters before the hired killer fulfills the contract. Roger goes to get his will straightened out but while he is waiting to see Alan Margolese, his lawyer, he spots Celia down on the street. He runs outside but she is gone by the time he gets to where he last saw her.

Clements contacts Blue Moon Detective Agency. He asks them to get the hired hit called off. They do but it turns out to be too late. There was a bomb planted in his car. When he goes to leave his car explodes.

Moonlighting 2.16

Sleep Talkin' Guy

A prostitute named Toby comes into the office and tells David about Jerry, one of her regular clients, who said something in his sleep about someone named Farley getting murdered later that night. She doesn't want to hire David. She just thought she should tell someone.

There's no job so David doesn't do anything about it. The the front page story the next day is about someone named Farley who was murdered. David finds Toby and pays her to listen to what her regular client who talks in his sleep has to say and report back to him. She says okay.

Moonlighting 2.15

Witness for the Execution

Ninety-year-old Lawrence Everette wants to hire Maddie and David to witness his murder. Maddie doesn't want to have anything to do with the matter. David is okay with taking the case. They argue about it. He winds up going to Mr. Everette's room at the nursing home at the appointed hour. Mr. Everette is already dead.

David is standing over the life-support machines in Mr. Everette's room when a nurse walks in. She accuses David of murdering Mr. Everette. David runs off. He stops by Maddie's home later that night. He tells her what happened. While they are talking police detective Lieutenant Tappia shows up.

Maddie talks to the detective but is evasive when he asks her about David. The detective leaves. Maddie returns to her bedroom only to discover that David has left.

Moonlighting 2.14

Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

Alexander and Virginia Hayes, Maddie's parents, come to Los Angeles for a wedding. Maddie's mother suspects that Alexander is having an affair. Maddie hires David to follow her father and see what he can find. David follows Maddie's father to a hotel, finds out his room number, and knocks on the door when he knows that he isn't there. A woman answers the door who isn't Virginia.

David reports back in to Maddie what he found. Maddie feels like she has to tell her mother but doesn't know how to do it. Maddie and David go to dinner with Maddie's parents the next night. Maddie can't bring herself to tell her mother but after dinner, when she gets a moment alone with her father she gives her father a piece of her mind.

Moonlighting 2.13

In God We Strongly Suspect

The Great Kandinsky, an escape artist, dies while attempting to escape (while handcuffed) from a tank of water. His widow hires David and Maddie to keep an eye on the body until it gets cremated. They spend the night at the funeral home in the room with the body. The body is there when they arrive but when they wake up the next morning it is gone.

Maddie and David drive to Mrs. Kandinsky's home. They tell her what happened. She is freaked out and slams the door in their faces. They drive around town looking for the body. They wind up at the morgue. They talk to the medical examiner. They ask to see any John Doe's that were brought in. The first one they look at is Mrs. Kandinsky.

David and Maddie don't know what to think. They mull over the situation. The next day the Great Kandinsky turns up dead, for a second time. Maddie and David return to the morgue and confront the medical examiner. He is less than pleased to see them.

Moonlighting 2.12

North by North DiPesto

David and Maddie send Agnes to the California Investigators Association dance in their place. Maddie helps Agnes get dressed up and get her hair and make-up done. Agnes meets a man named Kyle at the dance. They dance. Kyle hands her a piece of paper with some numbers written on it and then he disappears.

The next day Kyle shows up at her office. He takes her out for a bite to eat, at 9 AM, in a bowling alley. There's a call for Agnes. She goes to answer the phone but by the time she gets there the line is dead. She returns to the table where she was seated with Kyle but he doesn't look so good and he has a knife in his chest.

Agnes goes to get the manager of the bowling alley but Kyle has vanished by the time she gets back to the table. The manager kicks her out of the bowling alley. She goes to make a phone call but two men are following. They aren't the same men that were after Kyle the night before.

Moonlighting 2.11

The Bride of Tupperman

David and Maddie are hired by Alan Tupperman to find him a wife. David is excited about taking the case. Maddie is not. Tupperman gives them a document containing a description of what he is looking for in a wife.

Maddie and David disagree over how to interpret the description. They decide to have a contest. Each will bring Tupperman a woman and they will see which one he picks. Maddie finds Molly, who is an expert chef, speaks three languages, but doesn't spend a lot of time on her appearance. David finds Stevie, who presents herself as a woman who spends most of her time on her looks and not much else.

David and Maddie argue over which woman Tupperman will pick. David is certain that it will be Stevie. They get paid by Tupperman for finding him a wife but there is some confusion as to which woman Tupperman picked. 

They follow Tupperman back to his home Connecticut in the hopes of solving the mystery. There they discover a crime.

Moonlighting 2.10

Twas the Episode Before Christmas

Mary and Joseph Goodman wake up in the middle of the night. Two men have broken into their apartment. They force Joseph to drink some alcohol and then throw him over the balcony of his apartment, killing him. Mary escape with their baby in the confusion.

Mary goes upstairs and leaves the baby in Agnes DiPesto's apartment. Agnes was in the middle of doing laundry and left the door to her apartment open. Mary disappears, leaving Agnes to find the baby without a clue as to where it came from.

David and Maddy have questions for Agnes, the next day, when they find her with a baby. She tells them what she knows. They go back to her apartment looking for answers. In the lobby of her building they meet three detectives names King. The three Kings are looking for the Mary and her baby and tell Maddy and David about what happened to Joseph.

Moonlighting 2.09

Atlas Belched

Maddie gets an offer from another agency that wants to buy Blue Moon Detective Agency. David advises her against selling but she does anyway. David runs into a man, Phil West, who is about to lose his job. His story is that a rolodex was stolen off his desk. It's a rolodex with a lot of phone numbers for very important people, worldwide.

David helps Phil find the rolodex and then finds out that Maddie sold the company. David goes to Phil's boss and tries to impress him by pointing out that he's the one who found the rolodex. It is then that David learns that someone is holding the rolodex for ransom. Phil's boss assumes that Phil is the one ransoming the rolodex and accuses David of colluding with Phil.

David runs out of there ASAP. Maddie, meanwhile, discovers that everything has changed at the office since she sold the company. She doesn't like it. Maddie and David track down the rolodex and Phil. They talk him into giving it back. They promise to tell his boss that he was held hostage along with the rolodex.