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“In God We Strongly Suspect”

Another great Moonlighting episode that gives us some solid characterization of our two main leads.

An escape artist/magician dies in an attempt to escape from a container full of water. His wife comes to Dave and Maddie to have them watch the body of her husband until it was time for the cremation. Why? She claimed that her husband said that he would return from the dead and kill his wife.

The body disappears from the casket and the wife winds up dead.

This was a fun plot, and it was helped along with the fact that we learned some intriguing tidbits of Dave and Maddie. Specifically, that Maddie did not believe in God, which horrified David.

If I had guessed, I would have flipped the pair around in their religious beliefs. If you said one of the pair of them was an atheist, I absolutely would have guessed David.

We also discovered that Maddie is not in to celebrating her birthday. So when David and the staff pulled a surprise party for her, Maddie responded in a fairly cold manner.

There was a really charming scene where Maddie went to a magician named Abbie Cadabra to ask him some questions. Abbie was played by Eddie Quillan.

There was a fun beginning tag on the episode where David and Maddie talked to the audience about the episode, claiming that it was supposed to be in 3D, but they did not finish it. Maddie also broke the fourth wall in this episode with a line about “Flying fig”.