Lost Christmas

Flaw investigates a sleigh crashing into a roof. Casey looks for stolen gifts.

## Episode summary

The episode opens with a view of the city covered in snow, accompanied by Christmas music. Casey is exiting the Detective Terra’s office, closing up for Christmas, but when she turns around, she finds a queue of people waiting for her. She stares at them for a moment, and then asks what they want. All of them start talking simultaneously, and Casey stops them with a gesture and asks again. This time all of them say, in unison, that their presents had been stolen.

In the US, Flaw is standing in front of the building, which has a smoking sleigh stuck in its roof. He scratches his head, and out of nowhere a lady pops up. She remarks on how unusual this scene is, and Flaw agrees. She introduces herself as Elice and offers her help. Flaw reluctantly accepts, and the two enter the building.

Casey is in a house, a married couple walking beside her. The man is holding a candle to light up the path. They come into a living room lit up by the decorated Christmas tree. There aren’t any presents under it. The married couple explain that they bought the presents and placed them under the tree, but they disappeared during the nightfall. The wife breaks into tears at the thought of her children waking up and not receiving their presents. Casey says that she visited other houses already, and that they had a similar problem. She then notices a patch of the carpet highlighted by the candlelight. Upon touching it, she realizes that it’s wet. She follows the wet spots to the window, where she finds a puddle of melting snow. She opens up the shutters, but at first doesn’t see anything other than the snow out there. But after looking upwards, she notices a figure on the house roof. Casey quickly climbs out of the window and jumps on a nearby tree branch to catch the escapee by the shin. She tries to pull them down, but is surprised to find herself floating off the ground. She starts panicking, but doesn’t let go as she lifted further up into the air.

Back in the US, Flaw and Elice are now inside the house, the sleigh is hanging in the roof above them. Wrapped presents are scattered around the room. Flaw curiously inspects them, and finds that each one is marked with a name and an address. He then climbs up the pile of presents so he can take a better look at the sleigh. Elice asks Flaw if he thinks it can be fixed. Flaw says he isn’t really an expert on flying apparatuses. Elice gasps, shocked that Flaw thinks the sleigh is flyable. Flaw explains that, according to the trajectory of its fall, it couldn’t come from anywhere but the sky. He then makes a joke about Santa Claus. As if on cue, he hears a clank of hooves, and so he climbs up higher to look through the hole left by the sleigh. He looks around to find reindeer wandering aimlessly on the roof of the building. There also seems to be a giant advertisement billboard with flashing lights. Flaw says that they might have confused the reindeer and made them veer off track and crash the sleigh. Then he wonders where Santa might be then, and Elice coughs and catches his attention.

Meanwhile, Casey is still flying through the sky, clutching the shin of a small figure. After some time they start descending, and finally land on a patch of snow in front of a small house with lit up windows. Casey catches her breath and then confronts her carrier. It turns out to be a small elf, who seems surprised that Casey came along with him. He says that his name is Widly, one of Santa’s elves. He then leads Casey inside the small house, and when they enter it becomes clear that it’s bigger on the inside. Other elves are working the factory assembly lines, wrapping presents. There is a holographic map of the world in the middle of the room, and a couple of elves wearing headphones are tapping some buttons at a control panel. Casey and Widly approach it, and the elves turn their attention to them. Widly reports that the presents still aren’t there, and the other elves start panicking. Casey quiets them down and asks what happened. Widly explains that Santa’s sleigh crashed somewhere in the world, and now the present won’t be delivered. Casey is in disbelief, stating that it is the parents who buy presents for their kids. The elves shake their heads and explain that actually the memories of the parents are altered, making them believe so, meanwhile it is actually the elves who make the presents. Casey offered her help, and asks what was the last known location of the sleigh. The elves point up at the US on the holographic map.

Over in the said location, Elice tells Flaw that the sleigh is hers. Apparently Santa Clause had gone into retirement, and now she, his granddaughter, is the one delivering the presents. She then says that Christmas is now ruined, as kids won’t be able to get their presents. Flaw promises her that he will help. Elice says that they will need to find a new vehicle for the reindeer to pilot.

We cut to Flaw tying up the reindeer to a bicycle. There is a cart attached to the back of it, and Elice is finishing loading the presents into it. She complains about Flaw’s choice of the vehicle, and, after sitting down on the bicycle seat, she realizes that it doesn’t have a navigation system. This is when Flaw gets a call from Casey.

The two share information, and Casey tells Flaw that she will able to direct them with the map she has. Flaw tells Elice to set off, and she starts pedaling. The reindeer start running, and then they jump off the roof and sail into the air, ascending. We are then treated to a montage of Casey giving directions as Flaw and Elice fly all over the world, dropping presents in people’s chimneys or just walking into the house and delivering the presents by hand. One sleepy boy sees Flaw while he is setting the present under the Christmas tree, and mistakes him for Santa Claus. The boy then begins reciting a poem as Flaw sneaks off.

After the montage is done and all of the presents are delivered, Casey is sitting on the porch of the house, staring up on the sky. Widly comes up behind her, and Casey notes that the stars look different. Widly reasons that it’s probably because they are on the North Pole. Casey blinks at him in shock.