The Crime Was Almost Awesome

**"The Crime Was Almost Awesome"** (translated from the French title, "Le crime était presque génial") is the forty-fourth episode of the second season of *Rosie*. It premiered in France on February 16, 2014, on Gulli.

## Synopsis

Rosie can't get over it, the dark novel she just read has strange similarities to the Pinson Merry. Convinced that this is not a coincidence, she is determined to find the author of the genius who blends into the nonsense surrounding and she is not at the end of her surprises...

## Summary

The episode opens in Rosie's room, where the girl is reading a book to Blackie. After looking through the book, Rosie realizes that the story she read has strange similarities to her neighborhood. She even points it out to Blackie how the book features a character who greatly resembles her young neighbor Olive. Fascinated by the similarity, she wonders out loud to Blackie if the author actually lives somewhere in the Pinson Merry and according to the book, the novelist is also an assassin who eliminates all their neighbors. Convinced that the similarities from the book and the real-life neighborhood are not a coincidence, she and Blackie are determined to find the author who seems to be blending in the surrounding of Pinson Merry all this time.

First, Rosie and Blackie are spying outside the Calendula residence where Eve Calendula is trimming her plants in the garden. Rosie tells Blackie that they must, as a serial killer would say, follow their instincts if they want to find the author of her book. Rosie sees Patrick Chatou arrives at the garden and is holding a yellow rose. Seeing that Mr. Chatou is walking towards Miss Calendula but he gets shooed away by her, she was convinced that he is secretly the talented assassin and the genius author of her book.

At the Chatou residence, Rosie shows up at the front door and pretends to innocently tell him if there's anything going on between him and Miss Calendula lately. Mr. Chatou tells Rosie that there's nothing going on between them and they are only neighbors trying to help each other. Even after Mr. Chatou closes his door, Rosie still suspects that he is hiding something.

In Rosie's room, Rosie uses her binocular to spy on Mr. Chatou who arrives at the Calendula house again. She sees Mr. Chatou pulling a heavy sack out of the house and said to himself that he's going to get rid of something from his sack. This causes Rosie to believe her suspicion is true: Mr. Chatou is a neighborhood assassin and he just happened to kill Miss Calendula and places her corpse inside the sack to get rid of without anyone knowing. But first, Rosie needs to see Mr. Chatou in order to offer him a helping hand.

Back at the Chatou house, Mr. Chatou was confused about Rosie's request to use his mini-portable incinerator. But Rosie convinces him that the incinerator can be very useful in case of very bulky waste for his garden which Mr. Chatou found that the incinerator can be very useful for his compost.

After Rosie leaves the Chatou house, she's back in her room and is looking through her book. She tells Blackie that one of the victims in the novel was killed because of the poison from herbicides that the murderer placed on them and she thinks that victim represents Miss Calendula. But when she looks at the list of victims from the book, she realizes that the next on the list is an elderly woman and she believes that the elderly woman from the book represents her grandmother Suzie.

Not wanting her beloved grandmother to be Mr. Chatou's next "victim", Rosie drags her grandmother out of her house to find a place for her to hide from Mr. Chatou. But her grandmother assures her that there's nothing wrong with Mr. Chatou after she mistakenly believes her granddaughter is dragging her around the neighborhood for a stroll when Rosie tries to hide her in the park. Wanting to prove to her grandmother that Mr. Chatou is an assassin, Rosie drags her grandmother to the Chatou house and spies on him talking to Rosie's mother Delphine. But to Rosie's surprise, she sees that Miss Calendula is actually alive when she shows up to speak to Mrs. Bodelin and Mr. Chatou about her garden. It turns out Rosie's assumption of Mr. Chatou being the neighborhood assassin is completely wrong; Mr. Chatou didn't actually kill Miss Calendula at all, and the sack she saw him carrying earlier to "get rid of" was actually full of compost and not Miss Calendula's body. Rosie felt embarrassed for spying on Mr. Chatou and mistakes him for the author of her book, but after eavesdropping on her mother's conversation with Mr. Chatou and Miss Calendula about owning a few herbicides, she's convinced that *her* mother is hiding something and pin the suspicion on her.

In the kitchen of her house, Rosie and Blackie look through her book again to see if the suspicion is true. Rosie found out from the book that the murderer hides their bottles of herbicides behind a blue door in the kitchen. Feeling scared, Rosie opens the blue door in her kitchen to see a cabinet full of bottles of herbicides which is exactly what the book stated. And when Rosie and Blackie both hear her mother's voice, they both huddle in fear and believe Delphine Bodelin is the author and the neighborhood assassin.

After the end credits, Olive arrives in Rosie's room holding the same book Rosie read. He asks Rosie if everything in the book including its setting is true, but Rosie responds with a "no".

## Characters

* Rosie Bodelin
* Blackie
* Eve Calendula
* Olive Chatou
* Patrick Chatou
* Suzie Bodelin
* Delphine Bodelin

## References

1. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/gulli/16-02-2014/
2. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programme-tv/869716/rosie/