Ep. 20 - High Desert
Prepare to get out your Sherlock Holmes hat and pipe as we become private detectives in this desert-based drama.
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High Desert was a drama-mystery show focused on Peggy (Patrica Arquette), a former drug dealer and current drug taker, as she works to become a private investigator. Following the death of her mother and pressures from her two younger siblings, Peggy is forced into trying to find a missing woman seeking the reward advertised by her brother. With the help of private investigator Harvey (Brad Garrett) she works to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Guru Bob’s (Rupert Friend) wife. In searching for the answers, she uncovers a massive forged art ring and learns that Guru Bob’s former wife was a master art forger. Working through the trauma of her mother's death, Peggy begins working on a play to perform at her side job with a woman she meets on the bus who dramatically resembles her late mother (Bernadette Peters) and tries to drum up more business for her old west town theme park. On top of all of this Guru Bob is being extorted for money from the fake paintings he has sold to maintain his lifestyle, and Peggy’s ex-husband Denny (Matt Dillon) is released early from prison and is trying to re-kindle their relationship while taking to criminal endeavors of his own. Through various misunderstandings and sleights, Peggy brings Guru Bob to the theme park to have him taken in by her PI friend, only for him to run off into the desert. Meanwhile, Peggy embracing her misleading tactics at her job, steps into a massive canon aimed at a large target as she works to do the right thing for the first time in her life.