Walk 2-9/10 The First Time 1.01-Scarecrow and Mrs King

Back to Suburbia..

Amanda is listening to an aerobics instructor and vacuuming the floor as part of her version of the work out.

We hear Amanda thinking out loud..
Amanda (to the beat of the exercise): Duck . . . a la Nathan Hale . . . Valley Forge… Flapjacks… …Pilgrims… Peach… Puff. (She pauses) Pilgrims Peach…

(A thought seems to have struck her.
We cut to Amanda pouring over recipe books in the kitchen.. She looks through one book, then closes it and tosses it on the table. She grabs Dotty’s recipe box and unties the pink bow around it. She rifles through the cards and picks one out.)
Amanda: (finds one card) “Duck a la Nathan Hale.”
(finds another card) “…Valley Forge Flapjacks.”
(Dotty comes in and stares at the mess.)
Dotty: Well! Even as a child you weren’t very neat in the kitchen.
[I’m just going to say I”m super glad Dotty eventually gets a life and let’s these kinds of comments about Amanda as a child go. Eyeroll.]
Amanda: Mother, these two recipes, I found them in your recipe box, but they’re not in any of the other cookbooks.
Dotty: No, of course not. They’re from the “Colonial Cookery” show. I mean, you only get original recipes from Mrs. Welch.
Amanda: Mrs. Welch? Did you see her show this morning?
Dotty: No. I had a migraine.
Amanda: Oh.
Dotty: But, if the machine worked, I have it on tape.

Jackpot!!

(Dotty and Amanda are sitting on the couch, watching.)
Announcer: And now here’s Mrs. Lydia Welch, who comes to you live from her own Virginia kitchen.
[Love the scarecrow on the wall behind Amanda!]
Mrs. Welch: Welcome to my home. Now, I want you to set those ovens at exactly 400 degrees, and time is important here. We will be baking for exactly one hour.

“And what is the dish?” you ask? …
(Amanda leans closer. Whoo this is the shot in the credits no? Amanda mouths the words along with Mrs. Welch.)
…I call it “Pilgrims Peach Puff.”
[Sounds tasty!!]
Dotty: Oh! Wonderful. What do you think? Amanda? (She turns and finds nobody sitting next to her.) Amanda!
(Upstairs. Amanda is hiding against the wall by the banister. She is on the phone with Lee’s secretary.)
Amanda (whispering): Yes, this is Amanda King calling… What do you mean Mr. Stetson doesn’t answer his ring? Could you try again, please?

We cut to Lee’s Porsche pulling up in an alley way. He gets out of the car. Looking good Lee. (another shot from the credits?)

Lee’s being watched. Uh oh. Someone is waiting for him, aka – Pilgrim’s Peach Puff!

That is one massive walkie talkie!

Lee enters the building, there’s someone in there waiting for him, he’s right on time. Lee’s got his gun out.. but it’s no good they get the jump on him, hitting him over the head and Lee falls to the ground. Uh oh. Pilgrim’s Peach flop.

On to Mrs. Welch’s house.

Lee is seen bound and lying on the floor somewhere out cold.

On to the TV station. WPED 3.

Amanda has brought the whole den to annoy the staff… not a bad tactic to get what you want as quickly as possible!

Amanda is still on the phone with Lee’s admin, while trying to help a scout with his knots at the same time. Amanda is literally currently trying to do 4 things at the moment all at the same time – call Lee, tie/untie a knot, and whatever she is at the tv station for. gold. [the 4th thing? trying to maintain her sanity of course!]
Amanda: Could you please try Mr. Stetson again? Uh, yes, well, could you see if he’s picked up his messages, please? Yes, I’ll hold. (She lowers the mouthpiece.) Boys! Boys! Boys. (She tries to untie a knot around a scout’s wrists. Jamie is standing behind her, shaking his head. She reads from the manual.) “The Killick hitch knot, when properly executed, can be quickly untied.”
Jamie: Gee, Mom, I guess you didn’t properly execute it.
Amanda: Thank you very much for pointing that out, sweetheart.
The boys have corrupted the whole tv station oh dear!!!! They are getting into everything!!
…(on the phone still): Is this unusual? He told me that he picks up his messages every two hours without fail– Hello?

A very unimpressed man brings Amanda a folder with a listing of all of Mrs Welch’s recipes.
Amanda: Oh, thank you very much. This will help the boys get their . . . Bear badges so much faster.
[lol Amanda’s straight up lying!! Just like a pro! 😉 ]
Man (sarcastically): Wonderful.
(Amanda picks her way through boys to get to the couch.

I think the above picture kind of says it all. these boys are feral!!!
Amanda snatches her purse out of the hands of a boy who is playing with it.

She sits on the couch amidst all the chaos and focuses on the folder, also taking the white index cards from her purse. )
Amanda: (to herself) Duck a la Nathan Hale . . . broadcast the same day Fielding died, and Portland. Valley Forge Flapjacks . .  . the day Jeffries was killed. Pilgrim’s Peach Puff today . . . (She looks up, suddenly frightened.)
…Lee has a mission today. (She shakes her head.)
…This is none of my business.
(She sits there a moment, then stands up.)

[Will she listen to Lee and stay out of it?
Whahahahaaaaaaaa!!!! that’s too funny!!! Of course she won’t  ]

Outside the TV station. The feral group are exiting the building.. and joined by Dotty.

Amanda: Oh, good, Mother.
Dotty: I’m sorry I’m late, but there is just no hurrying a woman’s prerogative.
Amanda: Mother, something’s come up. Now, I need you to take the boys home for me, all right?
Dotty: What? When will you be back? Amanda, Dean is coming to dinner!
Amanda: It’s okay…
… I’ll be back in plenty of time. Just take the boys home for me.
Dotty: Amanda. I suppose this goes without saying, but a good relationship is nothing to tamper with.
[Yes it does go without saying, so don’t say it. ugh.]
Amanda: Mother, I have an emergency! . . . At my club.
Amanda quickly walks away.
[lol Dotty’s annoying me so I’m super pleased Amanda just straight up lies to her rofl!!]

Dotty’s head snaps around to watch her leave, pretty confused at what’s going on!
Dotty: Clams again, dear?
[Yes a clams emergency!]

Amanda’s car is seen driving up the driveway of Mrs Welch’s lair!…

She parks the car, and approaches more closely on foot. Amanda notices a guy to the side of the house unloading a fruit and vegetable delivery. She picks a fallen melon up off the ground as a way to approach him.

Amanda: I hope I can look back on this someday and laugh. [I adore this line. At one point, I was tempted to make this the name of the blog. rofl. Heck it might still apply nicely and yes I can totally look back on the last almost 12 years of writing for this blog – and laugh!]
(Amanda stands)
 
…Yoo-hoo! (The man looks up.)
…Hello! (She walks over to him.) …You dropped your melon. (He doesn’t take it. He just stands there looking at her. lol)
…Would you to buy some Cub Scout cookies? I have three boxes left.
Man: We bought already, lady.
[the grouch walks past her back to his delivery he’s in the middle of unloading.]
Amanda: Well, okay, uh. Thank you anyway!…
(Amanda makes a plan! She purposefully places the melon on a teetering box of  oranges, making the oranges fall over and roll everywhere.) …Oh, I’m sorry, sir!
Man: Hey, what is this, they’re all over the place!
(While the guy is busy with the runaway oranges, Amanda sneaks into the cellar. She runs down the stairs and hides behind a wall partition. The man looks in to see if Amanda is down there.)
…Cub Scout lady! You down there?

He looks for Amanda but doesn’t find her. Amanda progresses further into the house. Rofl we hear one more time the guy outside yelling “Cub Scout lady!”.

Amanda creeps around some, I won’t go into too much detail here.. she hears others moving around.. and then hears someone say: I’ll be back, Stetson.
(Jackpot!! Lee’s alive!! Amanda hides in a little nook or something behind a door, and no one notices her.)
… I say you’re lying. There’s no Operation Pinocchio.
[Yeahhhh the operation name is Ironic! haaaaa That is hilarious!!]
Lee: Could be. If I’m not lying, you were very smart not killing me at that warehouse. If I am lying, at least I bought myself some time.

[Great pun Lee. you are literally lying. On the floor. Looking very handsome no doubt, but you are definitely lying!]
KGB agent: Yeah. About twenty minutes.
[Love the trying to explain why they didn’t just kill him! It kinda needed explaining!! They need info from him?? ok!]

(The agent leaves Lee, right on cue, we discover Amanda is hiding in an elevator and some one has called it.. oh boy! She’s on a dumbwaiter!
It reaches it’s destination and stops. She finds it’s taken her right to the scene of the crime. Man Amanda is so lucky!
She can see right into Mrs. Welch’s kitchen, where Mrs. Welch and her assistant, Olga, are standing there. Mrs. Welch is speaking to someone but we can’t see who as she’s blocking the view.)
Mrs. Welch: . . . like a violent storm-tossed sea! Always remember, dear, cooking is an art form, and our tummies are nature’s museums!
[What did she just say?! That makes zero sense. she’s really evil!! lol]
(We see Mrs Welch pick up the leftover soufflé and she places in on the dumbwaiter, not noticing Amanda.)
…The soufflé is delicious! Lord knows I don’t eat any.
[okay so Mrs Welch didn’t eat any.. but then how can you say it’s delicious?] 
A voice: I feel a little woozy, Mrs. Welch.
[Ohhh so the soufflé was drugged?]
(We see Amanda strain to identify that voice..she peeks through the window..)

Mrs. Welch: Oh, not to worry!…
… It’s the 200-year-old sherry we put in the sauce. (200 yrs? really?) There. Sit down. There we are.
(We get a clear view and can see it’s a floppy, drugged Francine. She’s out of it but still speaking.)

…Olga. (The assistant comes, writing down the information as Francine gives it to them.) …Now, Francine, the last time you told us that the agency codes in the Tampa, Florida zone were going to be changed.
Francine: Special Agent Elwood Davis will be arriving in Tampa tomorrow.
Olga: You refer to Elwood Davis as “Pears Paul Revere”.
Mrs. Welch: Fine, now that’s fine, Francine. Now, the usual Tampa rendezvous, in the rear of the Furniture Mart?
[Oh my goodness. these guys know so much!!!! this is really bad. Francine needs to find a new hobby for sure. Maybe try studying for a PHD in something else. not cooking.. but I digress.]
Francine: Uh . . . yeah. . . .
Mrs. Welch: Francine, Francine, the time. Now what about the time?
Francine: Three . . . three o’clock.
Mrs. Welch (to Olga): 300 degrees.
[I want to know what they do if someone is due to be met at 12 rofl. 1200 degrees?!]
(to Francine:) Will he have a partner?
Francine (shaking her head): No . . . no . . . no.
Mrs. Welch (to Olga): Bake for one hour. Add whatever else you need to make this dish come out…
[I really want to know if these recipes actually work. Did Dotty say something about that? hmmm..]
…Now, our people in Tampa will be tuning in to the show tomorrow morning to get the data.
(Mrs Welch walks away.)
Olga (pointing to Francine): What about her?
Mrs. Welch: Don’t worry about her. She won’t remember a thing. She never does.
(Amanda gasps and leans back.)

Where would the agency be if Amanda did what she was told??!!!
Whoa. so all this time it’s been Francine drugged up spilling all this information?that’s terrible!!! Seems Olga doesn’t usually see the active drugging and retrieving of information. Hmmm.

I don’t think this seemed as gross to me when I was a little kid watching this. lol. Ah youth!

And.. hey what’s the deal with the music box, and the card? Where did that even come from? Who could  have leaked Pilgrim’s Peach Puff as the name of the next dish aka agent to kill?  I’m going to guess it’s Olga wanting to defect and get a microwave.

I do think it’s hilarious that Lee is known as Pilgrim’s Peach Puff. He is delish…

And if Francine is the source of so much information, why did they need to keep Lee alive? Not that I’m not glad they did lol.

And on that note… I’m going to pause here and be back soon next weekend to finish up this episode!

Can’t wait to hear what you think!