Reader, I hope you’re as excited as I am to have our Victorian era detective pals back in action! Remember how last season Detective Mustache (Nash) offered our pal Victoria Mars (Eliza) the opportunity to run his office while he went off to set up a new branch in Paris? And how Duke Silver (William) had just gotten dumped by Arabella? It’s been a while, so if you, like me, needed a refresher, you can find all my previous recaps here.
As you may recall, last week’s episode ended with New Superintendent dropping a major ultimatum on our pal Duke Silver: take the Glasgow promotion or else. Well this week, both Duke Silver and Victoria Mars have to deal with the fallout from that, so they’re both practicing their “this is fine, great actually, I’m not super sad about it at all” speeches in their respective mirrors, when Victoria Mars is interrupted by a visitor: Detective Mustache.Victoria Mars: It’s weird that you’re here; last time we talked you tried to blackmail me! What do you want?