In this episode, Victorique continues to investigate Queen Coco Rose’s murder. Victorique has the grave of Nicole Lulu excavated. When the grave is opened, it’s revealed that while the body is preserved, the head had been severed and is rotting. Victorique sends Grevil to talk to whoever runs the cemetery to find out who brought the body, and under what circumstances.
As Grevil heads off, Kujo notices a cameo locket. When he picks it up and opens it, a scrap of paper is revealed. Victorique snatches it out of Kujo’s hand, which draws the attention of the Order members who had accompanied them. Kujo quickly starts praying out loud to cover, which Victorique promptly explains is an “Oriental incantation.” (Much to Kujo’s outrage.)
When we get back from the opening credits, we see Victorique reading the note. She sees a dove, and then we next see the dove flying away with the note strapped to its leg. As she’s watching the bird fly away Grevil comes up to her with a report about the corpse.
They return to the theater, where Victorique, Kujo and the others watch the play. We get an overview of the events that the play is depicting, and then we see Jupiter Roget and his companion. Grevil is a little confused about what Victorique is up to, and Victorique says that she’s going to explain what happened during the play. (Also during the play, Sophie is talking about Coco Rose and utterly torturing Jupiter’s companion without realizing it. Jupiter’s companion is the King, by the way.)
In order to figure out what all happened, we have to go back to the Leviathan case. Leviathan and Queen Coco had a very, very close relationship. Shortly after the death of Leviathan, Queen Coco had a child. The child was reported as stillborn, and the queen was murdered shortly after. This was then covered up with Nicole Lulu serving as a sort of body double of the deceased Queen. However, an emissary from France, Coco’s home country came to visit the Queen, and a second murder, this time of Nicole Lulu had to be arranged.
Though Victorique is able to explain the death of Coco Rose, she claims to be unable to name the murderer. This causes some outrage among the members of the Ministry of the Occult. Victorique however is adamant that she doesn’t know who the murderer is. Grevil heads off to ask his father what to do next, leaving the Ministry members behind to keep an eye on Victorique and Kujo.
We get a brief interlude where Cecile is yelling at Sophie for having gone off to see the play without her, then we go back to Kujo and Victorique. Kujo gently teases Victorique for not being able to solve the case, and she kicks him. Then suddenly, the agents of the Ministry are attacked. (The instant the Academy agents show up, Kujo immediately places himself between them and Victorique. I could not help but go “aww.”) Then we get a close up of Jupiter Roget, who has entered the box seat where Victorique had been watching the play.
Victorique reveals that she knew that Jupiter Roget had been listening in the entire time. Jupiter and Victorique have a very sideways conversation where it’s clear that they are trying to score points off of each other. Jupiter does not trust her, she does not trust him, and most of what’s going on is of course flying right over Kujo’s Watsonian head. It turns out that Jupiter has come to question Victorique about a certain item that Victorique withheld from the memento box. She also reveals to Jupiter that she knows more about the murder than she had let on to the members of the Ministry of the Occult.
The scene shifts to Cordelia and Brian, who are sitting in a tree when Cordelia receives the note that Victorique sent via the dove. Cordelia reveals to Brian that it turns out that the child had been Leviathan’s. Then we go back to Kujo and Victorique who are now down on the stage, with Jupiter Roget. Victorique reveals that it was the king who had murdered Coco, and then the elaborate charade involving the body double had been devised by Roget as a way to protect the king and the stability of the country. After this revelation, the king comes up, and there’s a brief exchange between him and Victorique, before both Jupiter and the king leave together. From there we shift to Victorique’s father, who continues to be extremely creepy and sinister. (He also mentions a new name for Victorique, “Monstre Charmant.”)
As Kujo and Victorique head back to the school, their carriage picks up two extra travelers. One is a woman of late middle age and the other is a dark skinned young man–her son. They chat a little bit, and the young man mentions that the old clock tower near the school is gone now. He asks his mother if this makes her sad, since the tower had been important to, “you and Father.” His mother states that she is not sad because she still has her memories, and her son. It’s a very touching scene and yes, you are seeing that Coco Rose was not the one who had died.
It turns out that Coco Rose’s lady’s maid looked enough like her to serve as a body double, and somehow Coco and her child were able to escape. (Possibly helped by Jupiter Roget.)
At the very end of the episode, we switch back to Cordelia, where we discover how Brian is able to be in two places at once: he is actually twins. (Twins who apparently decided to live their lives as a single person.) Brian asks Cordelia what she’s thinking about concerning Victorique, but Cordelia just smiles and hums a song.