The Olive Branch Garden Center is not all it seems. On the outside, it looks like any other place to buy seeds, plants, and duck doo. On the inside, it’s a place where teens in trouble with the law live and learn more than they bargain for.
Five teens from different backgrounds are forced to the right side of the law when murder creeps up and grabs them. For the first time, they see crime through the eyes of a victim. They uncover secrets about themselves and each other in the process. They also find some lessons learned are harder than others.
Join Pone, Spaz, Bean, Cash, and Shroom as they look for trouble in ways they never dreamed. Will they hit pay dirt before they are found pushing up daisies? Come and find out, Yo.
Episode #1
Death of a Garden Hoe by Gale Borger (Ages 13+)
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A dead prostitute. A missing garden hoe. Who hoed the ho?
Five jailbird teens are sentenced to do community service time at the Olive Branch Garden Center. Cops watch their every move and bad luck dogs their every step.
A sick-nasty gamer named Pone, a spoiled, self-centered rich kid they call Cash, Shroom, an ex-gang banger with a badass attitude, Bean, a really smart, but bumbling idiot, and a very angry prostitute named Spaz stumble upon a dead girl in an alley.
Pone grabs his cell phone to call 911. Shroom wants to blow and let someone else find her. Bean pukes on his new chucks and says nothing. Spaz sees her life mirrored in the dead girl’s eyes. Cash missed the whole thing, but he’s also missing a garden hoe.
Not really caring what the others want, Pone digs his heels in to investigate, needing to satisfy the “want to know” bug. He thinks they should join together to find who offed the dead chick. So how can he convince his new “friends,” who can barely stand each other, to solve the mystery of dun it?
Episode #2
Digging Up Dirt
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Pone is determined to find out who killed a young prostitute, but his plan just got flushed down the toilet. Shroom refuses to help, no one can find Spaz, and Bean and Cash are totally useless. Determined to find answers, Pone uses his hacking skills to dig up dirt on the murderer.
Armed with an identity and an attitude, Pone figures he’s hit pay dirt, but his luck is about to change. Will the facts get him and his friends planted six feet under?
Working outside the law is familiar territory for these teens, but they have to use their talents to stay alive long enough to save one of their own. Can they beat the clock this time? They find out the hard way how far each of them will go to save someone special.
Episode #3
Kill Me Over the Garden Gate
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Closing in on a suspect is easier said than done for the Olive Branch garden crew. While Pone and Shroom use up their last “get out of jail free” card, Spaz has Bean stashed under the bed at the Hunnicut mansion.
Val’s mom, Silvia Hunnicut arrives home unexpectedly. What does this hold in store for Frankie’s weekend plans? Cash plays the inside guy, Pone and Shroom grab their monkey suits and go under cover at a formal dinner, and Bean is about to flip his purple wig. He and Spaz are both up to their high heels in trouble!
The cops finally have their warrant, but will it be a corpse they find when they pass through the garden gate.
While the Olive Branch crew sees how the other half lives, a shot in the dark means life or death to one of them. Will this be the end of the Olive Branch Garden crew? Or will the bond of friendship hold them together?
Episode #4
You Say Tomahto, I Say You’re Dead
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Pone and Bean have found a girl (it’s not the first one), but it disappears from the compost pile on the Hunnicut estate before the police can get there. Where did she go? Who killed her? Was she a dead prostitute, or was she just a girl in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Looking for a corpse that has taken a hike is no easy task–that is, until a trip to the hydroponic vegetable operation yields more than tomatoes!
The Olive Branch Garden crew finds teamwork is a must when they’re one player down, and searching for clues is no easy task when you’re up against the money and power of the Hunnicut family.
But what the heck is up with Cash, and whose team is he playing for?
