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Season 5

Episode 59- I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld


The Case

Harry Sofer comes to Blue Moon and waits in Maddie's office to talk to Dave and Maddie. Unfortunately, he dies while they argue in David's office. Winston Guy shows up the next day looking for Mr Sofer. Mr Guy tells them that he and Mr Sofer split a lottery ticket worth 10 million and offers 10% to Maddie and Dave to find the ticket. Dave and Maddie go looking for Sofer's half of the ticket and find out that someone else is looking for it too (Icku and Bicky). David convinces Maddie to go to the graveyard with him to check Sofer's grave. Maddie figures out pretty quickly that David intends on digging up Mr Sofer to get the ticket. Maddie refuses to participate, but then she and David are forced at gunpoint to dig him up.
After leaving the graveyard, Dave and Maddie find Harry's body and the lottery ticket. But Icku and Bicky show up and Maddie and Dave (and Harry) escape to Maddie's house. At Maddie's they figure out that everyone is after the secret drawing in Harry's tattoo. Icku and Bicky return, admit they're spies after naval plans, take Harry and give Maddie and David a "shower." Later Winston Guy shows up, admits he's a spy too, and draws a gun on Maddie and David. While the three of them struggle Maddie gets knocked out by the gun and falls to the ground unconscious. She has a crazy dream and wakes up in the hospital. In the end, like the last act of Hamlet, they all end up dead. Well, except Maddie and David, of course.

What's Really Going on Chris?

Maddie catches David and the men of Blue Moon in David's office making calls to the "adult" phone lines. She gets mad, but not as furious as she usually does. She has the phone company put a block on all future 976 phone calls. As they look for Mr Sofer, Maddie and David get into another discussion about death. Maddie believes that there is no heaven and no afterlife- when you die that's it. Of course David disagrees and finally understands why she gets so "creeped out" by anything that has to do with death. She claims that she wants to get her one chance at life right by working hard and making something of herself. David wonders if that is what all her uptight behavior over the years has been about. He vows that if he dies first he'll haunt her to prove her wrong. Maddie says she doesn't want to talk about David dying and says that she doesn't know what she would do if he died first. David promises to keep her side of the cloud warm. Maddie laughs and figures that David would be chasing some angel in a french maid outfit. David laughs and says maybe that's true, but that it doesn't matter, they'd keep in touch because it wouldn't be heaven without her.
At the end, David asks Maddie to be the executor of his will. He trusts that she will take care of all of his last wishes. She is very honored by his request and vows that she will follow his instructions to the letter. He suggests that she look over his wishes so that they can clear up any confusion now. She agrees, but then storms out of the office when she sees what his wishes are. As she leaves he says to her, "you want me to die with a smile on my face, don't you?"

Chris's Obsessive Analysis

This episode is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry." It has a wild Maddie dream sequence and a hysterical shower scene. It also has some nice moments between Maddie and David, and an amusing ending. It seems that people either love it or hate it.
Maddie and David continue their discussion about death, the afterlife, and God. They continue to disagree. Maddie's still a skeptic, David still believes. This is also not the first time that David has asked Maddie to "take care of things" for him when he's gone. In past episodes he's asked her to throw the first clump of dirt on his coffin and later to make sure he's cremated so that he can "go out in a blaze of hydrocarbons."
In the last few episodes David and Maddie really have been acting like they're married at times, and David has called Maddie "the Mrs" and joked about a meatloaf they left in the oven at home. David obviously believes they will be a part of each other's lives for a long time as indicated by his "afterlife" discussion and asking Maddie to execute his will. Maddie's dream also (in a strange way) indicates this too. It is interesting that in her dream David is the grim reaper and throws Maddie into her coffin. Is this her subconscious fear that David Addison will be the death of her (literally or figuratively?) It also reveals her doubt about her own non-beliefs.
In the last episode David actually showed up to a meeting on time, and in this episode Maddie seems to have "loosened up." She gets upset about the sex line phone calls, but takes it much more in stride than she has in the past. In the graveyard she uses a David line, "for the love of Mike." David then does a responsible thing and had a will drawn up (even if it does have a joke for Maddie in it.) It seems that our two polar opposites are inching toward some middle ground. Possibly to a place where they can accept each other and be happy? We'll have to wait and see......

Memorable Moments

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