The Lady of Larkspur Lane is the twelfth episode of Season 1 of CW's television series Nancy Drew. It aired on January 29, 2020.
Synopsis[]
The official synopsis of The Lady of Larkspur Lane from The CW:
SEARCHING – While Nancy Drew and the Drew Crew follow up on the latest Lucy Sable lead, they also work to uncover who tried to kill Ryan leading them to a startling revelation.[1]
Plot summary[]
Act 1[]
Nancy is determined to talk to Patrice Dodd in the aftermath of her discovery that Lucy may have been afraid of her mother at the end of her life, but the woman now has dementia and recently suffered a stroke and now lives in a mental institution where only family can visit. Her son doesn’t want to upset her and refuses to interview her, which leaves Nancy to take matters into her own hands.
Act 2[]
Bess goes to meet a business acquaintance of her aunt’s for lunch, hoping to get valuable networking time with a potential mentor. But Bess finds herself on a double date with Amaya, the businesswoman the Marvins set her up with. It’s pretty uncomfortable, as it’s made clear that Amaya sees Bess as a way to close the deal with the two businessmen meeting with them and not as someone to be mentored.
Nancy, George, and Nick head to the asylum to talk to Mrs. Dodd. As they formulate a plan, it comes out that Nick has helped George buy The Claw, which definitely rubs Nancy the wrong way.
Meanwhile Carson calls Ace for help, hoping to reach Nancy. The hit the Hudsons called on him is happening soon, and he needs outside help with this one. Ace decides he’s going to have to handle this himself since Nancy is currently trapped in a parallel dimension and thus lacks reliable cell service. He marches right over to the yacht club where Ryan Hudson is. It’s also where Bess is currently on her business date. Ace asks Ryan to call off the hit, but Ryan says the only way to save Carson now is to get him out of prison. Ace interrupts Bess to ask her to appeal to Ryan, knowing that she’s helped influence him towards the good side before. This intrigues Amaya, who now sees Bess as more than just a prop to help her get the deal.
Act 3[]
They sneak into the hospital and George distracts the guards as Nancy snoops in Mrs. Dodd's file. Nick goes to steal some visitor passes, but notices a strange black mold spreading through the hospital. Signaling the place serious has something wrong with it.
Before Nick can get to Nancy, a worker notices her and asks what she’s doing there. Thinking quickly, she tells him she’s a reporter looking to do a story on “what’s happening” at the asylum. Buying the explanation the aide tells her all about the hauntings at the asylum which started after the séance where Nancy accidentally released all the ghosts into Horseshoe Bay.
Ace has comes up with a outlandish plan to save Carson since he’s unable to reach Nancy. Using his skills as a hacker, he arranges a transfer to state prison for Carson. Carson is relieved at the serendipity of this, unaware that Ace hacked into the system. But when he’s loaded into the van for the transport, Ace is the driver. He impersonated a police officer and broke Carson out of prison. Carson, realizing now that maybe his daughter’s lovable hacker friend wasn’t the best person to entrust his rescue to, lists the many crimes Ace has just committed, but Ace doesn't care as the alternate is letting Carson get killed. It turns out that Ace is taking Carson TO HIS OWN HOME to essentially wait for Nancy to show up with a better plan which Carson face-palms at.
Act 4[]
Nancy is able to get away from the orderly and finds Lucy's mom, who’s in bad shape. She thinks it’s still 1999 and specifically the Friday before Lucy’s murder. She also thinks Nancy is Kate Drew. Patrice isn’t able to speak in full sentences, but manages to reveal that someone else has also been questioning her recently. She also says she hid the “key to Lucy’s secret” in “the thin man’s book.” With that, she suddenly remembers that her daughter was murdered and screams as Nancy gets right out of there.
When she tells Nick and George about Patrice’s rantings, Nick notes that the short passages she was speaking in are psalms. The thin man’s book could be the Bible. Nancy saw this thin man as a ghost and theorizes that she must mean his bible.
At the Drew home cops are surrounding it. Since this is framed as a hostage situation, Karen is called in to “negotiate” with Ace. Ace tells her to check the security tapes at the prison, since they will prove that Carson was in imminent danger. But when they look at the footage, it is oh-so-conveniently angled in a way that there’s no evidence of the hit. Now, Ace is stuck.
But Bess comes through by calling in a Marvin family favor with Ryan after some encouragement from Amaya. Ryan sends Ace an audio file that not only confirms the hit but also the identity of the inmate sent to attack Carson. This evidence gets Carson released until his trial for his own safety. Amaya also helps by using her connections to make the charges against Ace go away. Celia Hudson texts Ryan, telling him that she knows what he did and isn’t pleased
Act 5[]
It's revealed that the ghost was Mr. Roeper the former owner of the home turned asylum who apparently murdered his own family. Nancy learns that their bodies were found in the the East Wing and goes to check it out.
Nancy finds the room which creeps her out as the bible is found which contains a key card. But as Nancy goes to leave, the door vanishes. The room begins to fill with cockroaches as Nancy passes out.
Act 6[]
Nick and George wait in the lobby for Nancy and have a chance to chat about their new business venture. Nick acknowledges that he might have been overzealous before, and it seems they are now on the same page. Nick and George are forced to leave the building in a fire drill, and it turns out the aide they spoke to earlier was actually a patient posing as a staff member. Nancy wakes up in a alternate reality version of her home where both her parents are alive and well. Nancy overjoyed by this doesn't notice the cockroaches everywhere
Cast and characters[]
Starring:
- Kennedy McMann as Nancy Drew
- Leah Lewis as George Fan
- Maddison Jaizani as Bess Marvin
- Tunji Kasim as Ned "Nick" Nickerson
- Alex Saxon as Ace
- Alvina August as Detective Karen Hart
- Riley Smith as Ryan Hudson
- Scott Wolf as Carson Drew
Guest-starring:
- Kenneth Mitchell as Josh Dodd
- George Salazar as Sal
- Pamela Roylance as Patrice Dodd
- Tiana Okoye as Amaya Alston
Co-starring:
- Albert Nicholas as Javier
- Michael Adamthwaite as Gus
- Reese Alexander as Orderly Conrad
- Shayne Walker as Layne
- Shaun Omaid as Inmate Peter
- Ambrose Gardener as Mr. Roeper
Additional:
- Judge Edelstein
Quotes[]
- Ace: "Did your dad put a jailhouse hit on Carson Drew?"
- Ryan: "My father wouldn't do anything like that."
- Ace: "Your dad sank his own ship and killed the entire crew. More recently had me and my girlfriend run off the road. Carson represented you. He had your back after your wife died when nobody else would. Call off the hit."
- Carson: "You hacked into the department of corrections database, ordered my official transfer to the state prison, impersonated an officer of the law, stole a van."
- Ace: "Changed lanes without signaling. That one just happened just now."
- Carson: "And broke me out of prison. I'm a prison escapee, right now?"
- Ace: "Technically, yes."
- Nick: "I know I said I'd be a silent partner in The Claw. And I meant it at the time."
- George: "But?"
- Nick: "But, there's something about having a say in things. I haven't had that in a long time. And co-owning The Claw and getting it back on track...I feel like I have a purpose again. Like, I'm waking up. And that feels good. George: So, like co-bosses? I can get down with that."
- Ace: "Bess, you are well above mediocre."
- Bess: "You have to say that. You're my plate anchor."
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External links[]
The Lady of Larkspur Lane on The Internet Movie Database
