Hello, Detective

Casey Remington is tasked with investigating the theft of a famous painting “A ray of dark”. Over in the US, Flaw is looking for one Melody Johnson, who has been missing for the last three months.

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with a shot of the sky lit up by the yellow moon. As the camera pans down, the viewers are treated with the view of a city illuminated by lampposts and lit up skyscraper windows.

The shot is cut to Casey sitting in her office in full Private Detective Terra attire. She gets a call, where she is told to urgently come to the art museum, as one of the paintings had been stolen. Casey nods and ends the call without a word.

Meanwhile, Flaw, also in full Detective Terra disguise, is having a visitor in his office, which looks identical to the one Casey was in. The visitor is Harry Peterson, who tells Flaw about his missing friend. Flaw nods as well, moodily looking out of the window into, presumably, the night. After Harry leaves, the screen splits in two as Flaw and Casey start monologuing about detective work, and it is revealed to the viewers that Detective Terra is two different people.

The opening theme finishes playing as Casey arrives to the scene of the theft. She is greeted by Lieutenant Morry, who tells her the details of the case. Casey closely inspects the scene and notices short white hairs strewn all over the place after some of them get on her black coat. Casey suggests that they should follow the hair trail. She and Lieutenant Morry go along the trail, the lieutenant viewing the hairs through a magnifying glass as they do so. The trail leads them to the art gallery’s rooftop, and ends there. Casey is puzzled at how the criminal could have escaped, as the building is nine stories high, with no other roofs close enough to jump to. The lieutenant says that maybe the criminal just jumped off, and Casey makes a very skeptical expression.

Coming back to Flaw, we see him entering an imposing building with “Grayhill University” written above the entrance. He stops in front of a door that has a golden nameplate that reads “Melody Johnson”. Before opening the door, he is confronted by the fans of Detective Terra’s work, Sasha Crow and Thomas, who insist on following Detective Terra during the case. Flaw tries to argue, but then Thomas bursts into tears and Sasha blames Flaw for it, so he is left with no choice but to agree.

The three enter the office and are immediately subjected to the horrid smell of cats, which Flaw comments on. The room itself is, similarly to Casey’s crime scene, covered in white fur, and thus Flaw is reluctant to enter. Sasha, on the other hand, springs into action, eager to help with the investigation. Thomas carefully follows her, remarking that his dog isn’t going to be happy about this. Eventually Flaw steps in too, and the three start looking around the office.

Thomas finds a collective photo of the university’s professors on the desk and shows it to Flaw. One of the professors is holding a white cat, and Flaw concludes that this is the one whose hair is all around the office. Sasha notices that the cat has an identifying collar around its neck. Flaw uses a magnifying glass to see the small text on it better. It turns out to be a string of numbers and letters. Sasha says that those codes are used for identifying lost cats and that she could look up this code in a database. Flaw agrees, saying that every possible lead is good for a case like this one. Thomas then points out that Melody’s bookshelves have a lot of books about art in them. Flaw says that it’s a bit unusual, considering Melody taught chemistry.

We cut back Casey’s investigation. She is in a library, looking for information on the stolen painting. Lieutenant Morry suddenly bursts into a room, waving around a newspaper and accidentally knocking over a couple of books on a table. Casey snaps at him for ruining her organizing, and the lieutenant shoves the newspaper in her face, saying that he had found where the painting had been taken. We see a close up of the article, which isn’t about the stolen “A ray of dark”, and is instead concerning when and where “a rave at dark” will take place. Casey chastises the lieutenant for his mistake and starts putting the fallen books back on the table, when one of the them catches her attention. The book has the stolen painting printed on its cover, and the last person who has taken out that book is no one other than Melody Johnson.

The two plot lines converge as Flaw phones Casey and they talk about their respective cases, coming to the conclusion that the two are without doubt connected. Flaw suggests that Casey looks for any Melody Johnsons in the UK while he is going to find out who the cat belonged to.

At the same time as we hear the end of that conversation, we see Casey and Lieutenant Morry knocking on an apartment’s door. We also see a loading screen on a computer. Flaw asks Sasha how long will they have to wait for the results. As the apartment’s door opens and Casey peeks inside, a shocked expression dawning on her face, the computer finishes loading and we see that the collar belongs to a cat whose name is Melody Johnson.

We fully return to Casey’s scene. Melody is, indeed, a white cat, and while Lieutenant Morry recovers from that realization, Casey wastes no time and tells the cat that she’s under arrest. Melody then lets out a loud meow and flees further inside her apartment. Casey and Lieutenant run after her in pursuit, until they arrive at a room which looks like a laboratory. Melody is standing on a catwalk over a cauldron of bubbling acid, the stolen painting in her paws dangling over the liquid. She threatens that she is going to destroy it unless they let her escape from the country. Casey argues that it’s an empty threat, as Melody loves art far too much to let a painting be destroyed. Melody hesitantly agrees and starts to get down from the catwalk, when, in a last ditch effort, she knocks down the huge pit of acid with her paw. Casey and Lieutenant Morry are splashed from head to toe with the liquid. We see Melody escape and wink into the camera.

Some time later, Casey is once again on the phone with Flaw, as she finishes telling him about the conclusion of their case. Casey tells him that the liquid in the cauldron hasn’t been acid and was just slime. She then laments that they both had failed, however Flaw jokingly tells her that the handcuffs wouldn’t have fit on the cat anyway, and that she should have brought some pawcuffs with her. Casey tells him to shut up, and Flaw laughs.