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This second season takes place a few months after the first and Olive is still keeping secrets; she hasn't told Chuck's aunts that Chuck is alive and she hasn't told Chuck that 'Aunt' Lily is actually her mother. She has managed to cope with this until Lily and Vivian turn up at The Pie Hole; just as it looks as if she is going to reveal the secrets she screams then says she can no longer work there. Aunt Lily offers to take her somewhere where she can sort her life out... a nunnery! As with all episodes there is also a mystery to be solved; this time a man is convinced that his girl friend was murdered... by a swarm of bees! The girl had been working for 'Betty's Bees' a company that makes honey based products. In order to find out who did it Chuck goes undercover and learns that the company had recently been taken over by a rival and the dead girl had been due to become the next face of Betty's Bees, replacing Betty herself... a motive for murder perhaps.

Having really enjoyed the first season of 'Pushing Daisies' I was keen for the second one to start and on the strength of this episode I think it will be as good as the first. The murder mystery was as surreal as ever and having Olive become a nun was hilarious! The lead actors continue to put in fine performances; I particularly liked the touching scenes (emotionally not physically of course) between Lee Pace and Anna Friel when Ned revives Chuck's dead bees. It look like we will be having more multi-episode stories this season as the various secrets still remain unrevealed and when the episode ends Olive is still at the nunnery and a mysterious man pays a visit to The Pie Hole.

This episode begins with a shock. Olive is sick of hiding all these secrets and she'll either have to tell or do the next obvious thing--run off and, at least temporarily, join an order of nuns (which she does)! She doesn't at all fit in and by the end of the show she's still there.

The story begins with a rather nasty resurrection for his business with Emerson. A woman was stung to death by bees but apparently someone was paying them to be certain if this is really what occurred. Naturally foul play WAS involved and so they infiltrate the most logical place--the dead woman's old employer--a weird Honey business. And, since Chuck already has demonstrated her adoration of bees, she is the natural choice. Can they solve this weird and wacky case or will Chuck once again die? At the end of the show, you learn that Chuck's father is lurking about--and you see a view of his back as he's in The Pie Hole! Talk about a teaser and it (along with the recent knowledge of who Chuck's real mother is) is taking this weird show further in the direction of a soap-opera.

All in all, a LOT happens in this particular show--and a lot of cliffhangers are introduced as well. Clearly the producers are shaking up the show a bit, I assume, to try to create more buzz.