Bitches - Recap

In the past, Young Ned tries to use his imagination to create a model life for himself but his imagination fails him. Wearing his dinosaur play suit, he looks up at the moon. At the same time, Chuck looks up at the moon wearing her dinosaur playsuit.

In the present, Ned is watching over Chuck as she sleeps. She wakes up, crosses the room, and trips on top of him. They touch but Chuck is still alive. They kiss then start to take off their clothes. However, Chuck goes further and pulls off her skin… revealing that she’s Chuck underneath. Ned wakes up to see Chuck watching him in bed.

At the Pie Hole, Ned admits to Emerson that he’s obsessing about Olive after the brief kiss after he rescued her from the homicidal jockey’s mother. Emerson doesn’t care. Olive confesses to Chuck that she had a brief kiss with Ned and is still obsessing. Chuck is okay with it once Olive promises it won’t happen again, then wants to know how Ned’s kiss was.

Fourteen miles due west, dog breeder Harold Hundin is stabbed to death in his office at a kennel club. The club hires the team to investigate the murder and they go to the morgue. Ned resurrects the dead man who reveals that he was actually poisoned. He slipped on coffee and fell on a pointed dog brush repeatedly, making it look like a stabbing. Harold knows that there was cyanide in coffee but didn’t recognize it in time due to the almond-flavored creamer. Ned re-kills him and Emerson figures it’s easy: they arrest the wife. Problem is, Harold was a bigamist and has four wives.

Each wife is involved in a different aspect of the dog business. Hilary, the first wife, runs a fashion company for dogs. Heather, the second, is a pet psychologist and radio talk show host. Simone, the third, runs the K-19 dog obedience school. And Hallie trains Labradors as seeing-eye dogs for the blind.

Olive tries to discuss their kiss with Ned, but he quickly moves away. The team splits up, talking with each of the wives while handing off Digby. Ned discusses performance issues with Heather, claiming their Digby’s when they’re his. Chuck pretends to be blind but that doesn’t work well and she claims they know what Harold said from a note. Olive doesn’t find anything, while Simone reveals that she backed over Harold’s beloved pet Bubblegum. She then reveals that the dog was a special four-dog hybrid. Each wife confirms that they gave Harold the day he left for work. The gang meets back at the Pie Hole to compare notes but the wives track them down. Each one says what kind of creamer they used… and Hallie is the only one who uses the almond-flavored variety.

Hallie is taken to jail but Ned and Chuck both think she’s innocent. Emerson agrees to clear her name after a school for the blind offers a reward to clear her name. Hallie suspects that dog breeder Ramsfield Snuppy, of Snuppy’s Puppies, is the murderer. They go to see Snuppy, but Chuck takes the time to tell Ned that she’s okay if he needs to kiss other women. They talk to Snuppy who reveals that he has a contract entitling him to Bubblegum’s ashes, and he plans to clone the dog and distribute it at Snuppy’s Puppies stores throughout the country. Snuppy also reveals that the wives weren’t happy with Harold signing the contract. They gang goes back to talk to the wives, and Emerson wants to know why Simone didn’t mention it since it gives her a motive to kill Harold. Simone figures that Snuppy killed Harold and framed Hallie to prevent them from filing an injunction.

Later, Emerson has a dream about the case, as he’s subconsciously realized that Bubblegum’s collar moved when he saw it at Simone’s school. He also wonders if he’s falling for her, since in his dream he’s falling into pies. He confronts her and she admits she faked Bubblegum’s death but didn’t kill Harold. She manages to confuse Emerson momentarily because she’s been conditioning him to take orders the last couple of times he visited. She knocks him out and ties him up, then demands to know what he has arranged with Snuppy. She doesn’t believe his denial and leaves him to go to the funeral, but his fear of the dark kicks in and he rips free of his bonds and gets the others. They go to Snuppy’s office only to find him dead by poison.

Ned prepares to bring Snuppy back but Emerson holds him back. He has an idea: they take Snuppy’s corpse to the funeral and bring him back to life. As planned, the guilty party runs away: Hilary. Ned re-kills Snuppy and tackles Hilary. It turns out that Hilary turned to Bubblegum for comfort after Harold married his next three wives, and hated it when she found out Harold was selling Bubblegum. She poisoned Harold and framed Hallie for the deed, but discovered that Harold had already signed the contract with Snuppy and he had the ashes. Hilary didn’t know the ashes were fake because Simone never told her she faked Bubblegum’s death to protect the dog. Hilary killed Snuppy and that was that.

Hilary is taken away and Emerson has to admit he’s impressed with Simone. Ned admits that Chuck is the only one for him and he doesn’t want Olive. Olive is disappointed and says she’s happy for them… but still wants to be with Ned.

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