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Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer) & his assistant Jeannie (Emilia Fox) are
hired by Meredith Hortweldine (John Dougall) to protect him against his evil
twin JHasper (also John Mc Dougall) who allegedly wants to kill him to get his
share of the inheritance of their father, who was big in fridges &
cryogenics. Unfortunately though, Jasper has hired his own set of private eyes
as well, who happen to be Marshall (Shaun Parkes) & Snellgrove (Colin
McFarlane), the annoying detectives from next door. & while Jeff &
Snellgrove can't stop tricking each other in the most childish ways -ö
Snellgrve helped by some high-tech surveillance equipment, Jeff by his deceased
ex-partner Marty Hopkirk (Vic Reeves), whose spirit only he can see, Jeannie
& Marshall get on rather well. But after the actual reading of the will by
solicitor Ms Profitt (wouldn't you know it, John Dougall as well), things start
getting out of hand, as Jasper suddenly disappears through a secret passageway
- that leads to Meredith's room, Meredith suddenly has no time to lose to leave
the place, & when Snellgrove finds Jasper lieing in Meredith's bed ... a
bomb explodes into his face, consequently killing him & Jasper ... Meredith
though seems to fare little better since the airplane in which he wants to get
to the Bahamas explodes as well ... In Limbo - which is a bar in the
afterlife (first seen in the episode Blast
from the Past) - Marty meets Snellgrove, who is chased by beings
wanting to drag him upstairs (to heaven that is), but he wants to solve the
mystery of his own murder first, so Marty offers him to go down to earth in his
stead for a limited amount of time ... & back on earth, Randall, jeannie,
Marshall & Snellgrove find Anthony (John Dougall), old man Hortweldine's
other, illegitimate son ... who tells them that in case that both Jasper &
Meredith would die his mother, the old man's mistress (duh !) would inherit the
fortune, & who of course turns out to be ... Miss Profitt. But when our
heroes manage to corner her, she desperately threatens Marshall at gunpoint ...
but is talked out of it by Jeff, & later, claiming she needs a moment
alone, shoots herself. At this point, Anthony comes to collect ... Case
solved is it ? Nope, since the Hortweldine fortune was based on fridges &
cryogenic devices, every person involved, that is Meredith & Jasper and his
mother, were impersonated by Anthony, who had killed them all long ago but kept
them in his deep freezer to at convenient times fake their deaths, thus
diverting suspicion from himself ... Luckily, our heroes follow him to
Switzerland, & Jeff, disguised as a Swiss mountainman, forces a confession
out of him. Entertaining little murder mystery, but despite the plot
taking a few twists & turns too many, it stays wholly predictable.
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