Camille Brand is in trouble with the law. Although what she has done is never quite specified, we have enough clues about her background to conclude that she's a con artist.
As our story opens, Camille is escaping from the police officer who has her under arrest. As she flees from him, she inadvertently stumbles into a crowd, landing on top of a would-be assassin, preventing his attempt to shoot a Senator. As a result, the world treats Camille like a hero, and she's happy to let them do so.
David Addison wants to hire Camille, hoping that her prestige will win business for Blue Moon. Camille accepts, but not because she wants to work – she's using Blue Moon as a cover to hide from the police, one police officer in particular, who sees Camille's sudden prestige as an opportunity to extort money from her in exchange for not arresting her for evading the law.
After three weeks of doing nothing but cashing her paychecks, Maddie is furious with Camille, and with David for hiring her. Camille decides to leave Blue Moon, but not before stealing $2000. David and Maddie encounter the police officer, and all three of them pursue Camille.
Okay, that's the setup, but the honest truth is that the plotline here is not really what makes this episode memorable. This episode is memorable partly because Whoopi Goldberg and Judd Nelson are the lead guest stars, but mainly because, as the four of them chase each other, for the first time ever we leave the Moonlighting universe, chase around the television studio where the series is filmed, and finally wind up back in the Moonlighting universe, in the Blue Moon offices – but not for long. Just as the police officer is explaining why he is going to shoot all of our main characters, the property master takes the gun from him ("We're on a very tight schedule – prop's gotta go back in the prop room, ya know?"), the film crew begins to dismantle the Blue Moon office set from around these characters as we watch (the season is over, after all!), and as they do, a voice announces, "Goldberg and Nelson, your limousines are waiting." Judd Nelson is confused. "What happens to my character?" he asks. Bruce Willis explains to him that his character goes to jail, while Camille goes straight and becomes respectable. Goldberg and Nelson leave arm in arm, Bruce and Cybill say good-bye to Allyce ("Guess I won't see you until Fall"), and then they all drive off into the sunset.
In retrospect, looking back over the entire series, we've seen so many occasions where Moonlighting has broken through the fourth wall – either by making reference to itself as a television show, or by taking us outside the walls of the Moonlighting set like it did this time – that we've become accustomed to thinking of Moonlighting as a series which does this routinely. What is interesting about this episode is that it's the beginning of that characteristic of the show: it's the first time that Moonlighting took us outside of itself with such earnest and wild abandon.
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This is the first episode which gives Blue Moon a definite address. 16 minutes into the episode, we see David Addison's business card which gives Blue Moon's address as:
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15555 Century Park East
Century City, Ca. 91302
This address is not real. There is no 15555 Century Park East in Century City. There is a 91302 ZIP code, but the center of that ZIP code is located in Calabasas, which is roughly 20 miles northwest of Century City.
Blue Moon's address appears one more time, in the episode Fetal Attraction. In that episode, the same address is shown, but without the suite number.
Additionally, two phone numbers are listed for him on the business card: (213) 203-2020 and 203-2629. It surprises me that he wasn't given numbers with “555” prefixes, as is commonly done in movies and television shows to avoid giving out someone's real phone number. I wonder who we would have reached if we had called those numbers when the episode aired.
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