Half the people in town are fans of an old time movie star whose first film was never seen but featured garden gnomes. They were all collectors and when their gnomes started going missing and then Dan who owns the town newspaper was framed for killing someone offering to sell him a copy of the missing movie. Vesta and Scarlett start up a neighbourhood watch and catch the gnome thieves and Max discovers the killer who killed three times. Clarice finally comes and gets rid of Hector and Helga and their 200 offspring. ( )