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When Olive’s best friend at the convent falls from the bell tower, she enlists the help of Emerson, Ned and Chuck to find out the truth and more and more secrets are revealed as the investigators dig for answers…

Young Olive Snook had just returned from her first riding lesson.  More than anything in the world, she wanted an Arabian stallion, but her parents deny her.  Tenacity and a large shove, lead Olive to dig to Arabia her own.  In her own backyard she discovers a Pterydactyl, prompting a very wealthy Arabian statesmen to trade her the stallion she desires.  She learns at a young age that digging is dirty work, but can hold great rewards. 

In the nunnery, Pigby and Olive play in the yard finding truffles.  Sister LaRue, the sweet natured truffle caretaker, takes Olive under her wing. 

Back at the Pie Hole, Ned surprises Chuck with a French breakfast, only to find a mysterious short balding man, Cyrus Pennybaker, leaving her apartment.  She wants to dig into her past to find out more about her lineage—that’s where Pennybaker comes in.  Ned isn’t very understanding.  Past is past, why dig it all up?

Olive wants to stay at the convent forever.  She prays that if this isn’t the right place for her, for God to drop her a line—Sister LaRue crashes face first into the ground—fallen from the bell tower she so often visited to polish the bells. Everyone thinks its suicide and that Sister LaRue is going to hell, but Olive won’t accept it. 

Olive steals away in the night to Emerson Cod.  He can’t stop laughing at the sight of her as a nun.  Olive needs Emerson to prove that Sister LaRue didn’t commit suicide.  Knowing Emerson only worships the almighty dollar, Olive offers prayer as compensation and strangely he accepts.  Unbeknownest to Olive, Emerson’s desire to find his long lost daughter has sparked a bit of faith within him.  Olive and Emerson scheme a backstory—papal investigators—but Olive is clear: no Ned and Chuck! 

But Ned and Chuck come anyway and Olive is worries that the secret is going to just explode from her mouth.  The Mother Superior and the Father come and the three investigators use their fake identities. 

Seeing the body, Ned wonders why Chuck wants to dig into her past.  Emerson tells him to give her space and let her go.  Ned touches Sister LaRue, and expletives come pouring from her lips—she is bitter.  She mentions her stash of diamonds and that someone pushed her—then runs.  Ned has to chase her down, nearly tackling the nun before her minute is up. 

Snooping through the personnel files, Chuck learns that Sister LaRue used to be a fungi specialist and a sailor—which explains the cursing.  Talking about Sister LaRue’s past, Chuck reveals that she looked in Olive’s file and wanted to find out why Olive joined the convent, but it wasn’t there.  Chuck suspects it was she who drove Olive away. 

Olive isn’t happy when Emerson found out that LaRue was murdered—she just didn’t want a suicide.  Emerson finds a hollow spot in the wall in LaRue’s room and nun contraband—CDs, candy, feminine hygenie products—pours out.  They find out that LaRue was running goods in the convent. 

Emerson thinks the LaRue was killed by the Mother Superior for her smuggling;  especially if LaRue was smuggling in diamonds, which could bring the convent out of its financial slump. 

Chuck distracts the Mother Superior, while Emerson and Ned check out the truffle storage area.  They find a secret passageway, where LaRue must have run her goods.

Chuck talks to the Mother superior, confesses her longing for her mother.  She expresses uncertainty at whether or not she’ll be accepted into Heaven. 

Ned and Emerson find that the passageway leads to a restaurant kitchen—where a very scary and blood-spattered man wields a butcher knife. 

Tied up and threatened with cutlery by the bloody butcher, Hansel Von Getz, they tell him that LaRue was gone.  He feels a great loss—she brought him the truffles, he gave her the contraband.  LaRue and Von Getz ate together and eventually fell in love.  Von Getz mentions a prized Italian white truffle as the “diamond” of the table.  They find a note from LaRue telling Von Getz that she’s leaving him. 

Olive tells them that LaRue couldn’t have had white truffles—they only grow in Italy.  She leaves, angrily.  Ned chases her and Olive confesses that she was mad at Ned, because he dismissed her feelings for him.  Olive calls him on being emotionally detached.  Olive tries to explain that she might reveal a secret that she swore to keep; she pleads with Ned to stop digging.  But what if Ned guesses it…?

Olive is so happy that Ned finally (after much silent cajolling) discovers the secret: Chuck’s beloved Aunt Lilly is really Chuck’s mother. 

Olive discovers that the handwriting on the note to Von Getz matches the Mother Superior’s notes to Olive. 

Chuck contacts Pennybaker, but sadly he has nothing to report.  Ned tries to comfort her.  Chuck is concerned that she’s stuck in the middle, in limbo and feels alone.  Ned asks if she wants Ned to touch her again—leaving Chuck dead for good, but they are interrupted. 

Olive confronts the Mother Superior about the note.  She thinks the Mother Superior killed Sister LaRue to keep her away from Von Getz.  The Mother Superior reveals that she did it and confronts Emerson about the investigators being fakes—she realized things were off when “Sister Christian” (Chuck) doubted her place in Heaven.  Surrounded by little angry nuns…

The Father confesses to Ned, but Ned’s the one that needs to do the confessing.  Ned is worried that he keeps everyone at arms length.  Ned talks about being abandoned by his father.  The Father tells Ned that it was his father taught Ned to run from his problems, from the people he loves.  He tells Ned that if he wants to change he must take care of his past.  But the Father knows Ned’s an imposter!

The Father confronts Olive in the laundry room.  His clothes are covered in bat poop.  She realizes that he must have been in the bell tower—that he killed LaRue!

Hearing Olive scream, Ned and Emerson break out of the room where the clergy have stuck them. 

Chuck goes to the bell tower, thinking LaRue’s ghost is haunting the tower.  The only think is, the bells are stainless steel—no need to polish.  If sister LaRue wasn’t polishing the bells in the tower, what was she doing?  Chuck pulls a lever and reveals a secret truffle laboratory.  Chuck sees who killed Sister LaRue, but tumbles from the bell tower…

Olive runs from the Father while Chuck dangles from the ledge of the bell tower.  Emerson stops the Father, Olive runs to Chuck’s rescue.  She finds out that Pigby pushed LaRue over the edge by accident—she just wanted the truffles.  Olive, pushed by the bell, falls to her impending death.  She is strangely comforted, saying prayers for her friends.  But she instead lands safely in a hay cart, pulled into place by Ned. 

The facts were these:  Sister LaRue, formerly Dr. Frank, fungal specialist, tried endlessly to cultivate the Italian white truffle stateside.  Her funding was cut, after a few mishaps and she took it upon herself to join the convent after hearing of their truffle farm.  She used the bell tower to conduct her research.  Von Getz, brought her supplies for her lab—but she was simply using him.  The Mother Superior saw Sister LaRue with Von Getz and wrote the phony note to end the relationship.  The Father went to the bell tower to try to reason with Sister LaRue, but LaRue lashed out at him, pushing him up against the wall—getting the bat poop all over him.  He made her leave forever, but as she took her last look at the convent… Pigby struck. 

The Mother Superior continues the truffle research, bringing money into the convent.  Ned confesses that he was wrong to Olive and apologizes, sincerely.  Olive asks to come home, Pigby in tow.  Ned reveals that he plans to tell Chuck about the secret. 

After telling Chuck the truth about her mother, her eyes well with tears.  But to Ned’s delight, they are tears of joy—she happy to finally have a mother.

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