Rosemary & Thyme: Series 02 (2004)

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Horticulure enthusiasts and amateur detectives Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) continue to solve mysteries while running a cozy garden shop in the second season of the British crime series Rosemary & Thyme. The first of the season's seven episodes is "Memory of Water," in which Rosemary and Laura, restoring an ancient wall garden, are confronted by a dead man who won't stay dead. "Orpheus in the Undergrowth" features Ryan Philpott in the recurring role of Laura's son Matthew, who joins his mom as she looks into the untimely death of a strange man in what was supposed to be a memorial garden (and, for all intents and purposes, is still a memorial -- to the dead man). In "They Understand Me in Paris," the ladies are summoned to France by an old friend who plans to open the 150-year-old garden on her estate to the public, only to be stopped in her tracks by the murder of her husband. "The Invisible Worm" finds a practical joke getting tragically out of control at a prep school where the ladies are tending the new roses. "The Gongoozlers" puts Rosemary in harm's way when she shows up for a TV "garden makeover" show. "The Italian Rapscallion" whisks Rosemary and Laura off to Italy -- and to a double murder occurring near a cliff garden. "Swords Into Ploughshares" offers a distraught Laura trying to find out if reports of Rosemary's death are true. And in the season finale, "Up the Garden Path," an annual garden contest wilts under the weight of a murder apparently committed out of "green envy." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi