#5 The Wig That Knew Too Much: After Lorna hears the hate and fear rhetoric that is labeled as a news program on the islands cable access show she decides to find out more about the shows star producer. When the producer appears to have no history, at least that she can find on the internet, she enlists Annie’s cyberstalking abilities and when that doesn’t work she and Annie turn to a local lovable gossip monger. After they learn what they now believe to be the truth of the producers personal life and his history Lorna writes an article that is completely rejected by a mysterious man with federal credentials who tells the real truth about the man behind the rhetoric.
#10 Sally’s Photo Club In an effort to be more supportive of Sally’s hobbies, Lorna agrees to accompany Sally on her photo clubs outing. Then afterward, at the same time Sally is looking through her shots, Lorna listens to the news and learns about the outbreak of robberies on the island and Sally discovers a photo she has taken of the possible robbers in action. When Lorna takes the photo’s to the police department she is blown off so she and Annie concoct another plan to catch the robbers in action. After staking out would be perfect robbery sights Lorna and Annie figure they should keep their day jobs and leave it to the police. But then they meet Roberta, an island cop, who becomes fast friends with the ladies and help them out on their final stakeout.
#11 Victorian Homes Tour Cozy up to the fire, it’s our two part homage to Agatha Christie. Our cozy murder who done it starts when Lorna and Annie volunteer to be guides for the island’s tour of homes in the historic victorian district of Ohlone Island.
#12 Victorian Homes Tour The conclusion. Annie has been drugged, Lorna has lost her cool...a few times, and Detective Keeling could lose his job if Detective Holloway the laziest detective in the west, has his way. Oh, and there’s a murderer running loose on the island.
#13 Robbed by numbers. Lorna’s strategy to avoid joining the book club backfires when she drags Roberta and Annie to a painting class at the local art gallery. But the painting class turns out to be more competitive than they bargained for as they battle for a spot in the gallery showcase. The class should be an outlet for them as they deal with a crashing economy and christmas around the corner, but when the class is robbed the added stress of surviving such an attack may be too much for their friendship.
#14 Secret Santa. Every Christmas Sally has to come up with a new way to trick Lorna into not opening her presents before it’s time. This year she enlists the help of Annie’s husband Tim to confuse and muddle Lorna’s “present tracking senses”. As Annie tries to convince Lorna to relax and enjoy the holiday she too has become a pawn in Sally’s master plan.
#15 The Book Club Scandal. Lorna gets caught up in burglary and grand theft when she reluctantly joins the local book club and a rare Jane Austen is stolen from the near bankrupt independent book store.
*#16 Podcast Production Special. A behind the scenes look at the show and some listener Q and A with the writer and producers of The O Line Mysteries.
*#17 Podcast Production Special II. A short interview with Beth Hutchens who plays Lorna Tollison on the show.
#6 Halloween Shuck and Jive: Annie hasn’t slept in two weeks. She truly believes an Amy Winehouse ghost like figure is haunting her home. Over lunch she divulges her haunting story to Lorna and convinces her to stay up late with her to witness the haunting. That night Lorna witness the haunting herself, she doesn’t believe it, but she does see it and confirms Annie’s worst nightmare, that Amy Winehouse is haunting her. The next day the two visit a “medium” and for a price are able to get the medium to perform a seance at the house that night. Without finding out if the seance took or not Lorna gives Annie the bum rush out of the house to Sally and Lorna’s home in hopes of Annie getting some undisturbed sleep. The next day Lorna meets up with a real estate agent who is showing her the new homes on the market when they pull up to an empty home on the same street that Annie lives on. The agent tells her the story of the craftsman bungalow styled home and that it is very possible there was a murder in the 1920’s as the occupants went missing and were never heard from again. Although she is delighted with the home she’s not sure whether or not to confirm Annie’s haunting or keep mum and get a good price on the home.
#7 Lorna’s Father Lorna’s father, Quill, flies in to see the new home she and Sally purchased, which is on the same street as Annie. Initially delighted with their purchase he of course wants to do a few upgrades for his favorite “kids”. When Quill goes digging under the house, he finds a mysterious lock box filled with coded messages. After Lorna unlocks the coded messages, he takes Sally on a treasure hunt around the island looking for clues while Lorna heads to the local library to research the public records on the house and it’s previous occupants who went missing in the 1920’s. When Quill steals another lock box from an old Post Office, Sally decides she’s had enough of his hyjinks and drags him back home where Lorna sits on the truth of the missing tenants.
#8 Blackmail At The Gym Despite the inherent double digit germ factor and general disgust of belonging to a gym Lorna and Sally have a membership to the islands public gym. After their pals Derek and Kevin go along on guest passes to their island gym with them they begin getting blackmail letters. Unsure of any correlation to the gym visit and the blackmailing the group next visits a new gym opening up on the west side of the island only to find the same trainer from the old gym avoiding them. When Lorna returns to her gym for a swim she overhears the trainers talking about the rash of blackmailing activities related to the gym she jumps from the water and into the fray.
#9 The Rot Is Deep Detective Keeling isn’t exactly honest with Lorna. Lorna isn’t exactly honest with Sally. The California State Bureau of Investigations isn’t exactly honest with the Ohlone Island government. But the “security” agency masquerading as a disaster response team is just flat out lying. Lorna has put together the perfect earthquake survival kit and Sally, wanting to add to the kit, buys Lorna a short wave radio and a C.B. When Lorna sneaks off to the deserted Naval base to play with the new electronics instead of putting them in the kits she gets her finger broken by a mystery security agent. When she goes to Detective Keeling to report the incident he sees his chance to use Lorna’s rabid curiosity to double cross the CBI and expose their waste of the islands resources. But not before Sally gets involved and risks her job to help them both.
#18 Trailer Park Tango. Lorna and Sally visit Sally’s grandmother in a desert retirement village and find the community in a dither about home break in’s happening during their planned activities. With the thief in her sites, Lorna sets out to convince a young man caring for his grandfather to seek help from his elders.
#19 East Bay Whine. Annie gets her first solo marketing campaign with an east bay winery, but she gets more than she bargained for when she begins to suspect someone in the company is trying to set her up as the patsy for their failing wine distribution. But turning to Lorna to help her track the real culprit proves insufficient as Lorna is in bed and medicated for her painful back spasms while fending off a home health worker who is trying to give her “spit baths”.
#20 Lorna vs. the interviewer. After Lorna publishes her self help book she wrote while on painkillers for her back spasms she begins the long journey into marketing with her first stop on a local talk radio show with a host who tries to get her to cut him in on a marketing “deal”.
#21 Three Blind Mice. Lorna’s unofficial god-mother, Tessa, is coming to town with a bag of tricks that is going to blow the lid off of how the internet is accessed. But the big question is can Tessa keep the lid on until her product is complete or will she fall prey to corporate espionage.
#22 The Murdered Banker. During a kayaking trip around the estuary Lorna finds an “old salt” long thought to be a drowned banker done in by his wife. But how can Annie and Lorna prove his existence and free his incarcerated wife when the D.A. has the case on lock down?
#23 Dental Damned. When Sally finally has her long needed dental work done, Lorna mistakenly drives away with a forbidden bulk of restricted painkillers. It takes all of Annie’s moral strength to keep Lorna from using them as her retirement fund. With a frothing band of teenagers and a gang on their trail Annie and Lorna finally resolve to return the narcotics to their rightful owner.
# 24 Recycled Fraud. All of Ohlone Island is chipping in and volunteering to keep the islands resources afloat. But as Sally volunteers at the library, Annie and Lorna volunteer for the beach clean-up only to discover it’s being used as a waste disposal front.
#25 Body Parts Bingo. Body parts keep floating through the Bay estuary and despite the obvious reasons why a person wouldn’t go looking for the rest of the bodies Lorna and Annie just can’t help themselves. With the help of an island journalist, Lorna and Annie learn the gruesome truth of human trafficking.
#26 Black Widow. Lorna’s dad, Quill, is back in town and he’s lookin’ for some lovin’. But not so fast, Sally is uneasy with his choice of lady friends and sets out to find Quill a “nice lady”, despite Lorna’s even tempered reservations. But when it looks like Quill is about to make a mistake of a lifetime Sally puts her relationship with her partner and father in law on the line.
#27 Truth will out. Part I. As Annie and Tim’s divorce becomes more of a reality Lorna tries to help Annie out by taking her out to blow off some steam at Trivia night in the local pub. After a fun night of escape for the ladies they return home to a shocking and unthinkable reality that unravels the lives of these two friends.
#28 Truth will out. Part II. In the season finale, the ladies of the O Line Mysteries learn first hand how the events in our lives shape and twist us.
SEASON 2:
#29 Lorna Gets Therapy Amidst the confusion following Tim’s murder, in the season opener Sally begins the long journey that will unravel her past, Annie seeks to uncover a murderer and Lorna seeks a second opinion on exactly why everyone is so “weird”.
#30 Mustang Sally Sally continues her secret meetings with The Nurse while distracting Lorna by casting suspicion on the internet. But when Sally forms an alliance with Michael that’s when the sparks fly.
#31 Can O Worms Sally digs herself deeper into problems and enlists Roberta to help her recover a device from Annie while Lorna shops for planters.
#32 Alliances Lorna is left babysitting while Annie and Michael stake out Tim's killer and Sally has a clandestine meeting with the Nurse. But when Annie goes missing from the stake out Lorna decides a good nights sleep is in order.
#33 Sally’s Goose Chase Sally and Roberta put Lorna on a wild goose chase so Sally can slip out of town “on business” and Annie is still missing.
#34 Annie Rolls the Dice Michael and Sally plot to distract Annie and Lorna with a dice game at the local pub which leads Annie to finally takes a chance on Lorna's trust.
#35 Listening Device Lorna and Annie execute their big plan to help Sally after Annie suprises Lorna with her secret weapon.
#36 The Ho Next Do Annie and Lorna use Sally's newest diversion to further their own agenda and learn something new.
#37 Let’s Torch It There's a new cafe in town that has Lorna's name all over it. But who owns it and what do they know?
#38 Parent sTrap Sally's past unfolds for Annie when an unlikely duo show up on her doorstep and there is no doubt who they came to see.
#39 The Driver Died With Annie fully on board now the final plan is in place and Sally’s parents leave to places unknown.
#40 Just Play Along Sally and Michael take their positions to track the real device and follow both Pearce and the Nurse while Lorna and Annie agree to just play along like everthing is normal and do nothing. Well, almost nothing.
#41 Greed and Loathing Michael and Sally follow their suspects giving Lorna time to think and prepare her own special way.
#42 Red, White, and Scotch In their continued search for Annie's contact the women end up in a foriegn land slogging through the snow and confusion as Michael direct's them via a satellite phone.
#43 The Elderly Renegades The mystery of Annie's comes to light on the snowy streets of Prague.
#44 Trust Building Back on the island Lorna is working on her trust building with Roberta while Sally and Annie are on their way to Virginia to be debriefed.
#45 Courtesy Call While Sally is working to build trust in their relationship, Lorna uses cloaking software to hide her IP address when she records a podcast detailing her experience with finding the satellite device - only to earn herself a courtesy call from an old friend.
#46 Defining Trauma Annie turns the corner on her trauma when she see's Lorna deceptively scheming to put together the musical podcast.
#47 Musical Mystery In the series finale lead up, Lorna keeps her promise to make a musical mockery of her secret agent experience.
#48 Series Finale In the series finale, Annie and Lorna resume their lives where they left off before Tim’s death and the satellite device fiasco but someone from their resent past has other plans for them.
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