As the pandemic surges, San Francisco Private Eye Chauncy gets a job offer they can't refuse.

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In the middle of COVID, six actors arrive at an isolated luxury mountain resort to rehearse a new script with playwright Allyce Singer. But before they can get started, things take a deadly turn.

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In episode 2, an angry pilgrim, a lusty wench and a bunch of iambic pentameter walk into a bar … err, we mean an olde English tavern …what could possibly go wrong?

Wherein our intrepid gumshoe monitors the action from a secret room hidden behind a one-way mirror in the bar, and the investigation takes an unexpected supernatural turn. But not before Chauncy shakes up a pair of old school Gimlets ( half London Dry Gin, half Rose's lime juice) to toast Phillip Marlowe with Nolan, the strangely familiar Director.

Picture it, a Pandemic Summer Wednesday at Tabard Lake Lodge. The sin is envy and a wrathful stage manager is high on the list of suspects in the murder of the late playwright and host. So, could there be a better time for a roomful of ham-inclined actors to dive into a script built around a séance, an artist who only recently escaped a sanatorium and, well, a goose? Warning: there will be accents.

Tempers run high when scene 4 exposes Freddy's fevered, voracious sexual past for all to see. Did his gluttonous behavior plant the seeds for Allyce's demise? Simone's allergies blow up as Chauncy's investigation continues.

After a late night polishing off a bottle of single malt with Nolan , Chauncy ponders the sin of sloth. Meanwhile delusional back-stage antics and daggers-out bitchery reach a tipping point as the company rehearses scene 5. And what up with all those crazy accents?

Saturday night at Tabard Lake Lodge. As the Company mounts the final scene in outer space, "pride goeth before a fall". . . literally. Champagne flows, music plays, the whole gang is on its worst behavior----and Chauncy's still hiding behind the bar. Whodunnit, already?!