What would happen if you would mix "Twin Peaks" and "Harper's Island" "Happy Town," will be pooped out. "Happy Town" its approaching almost a decade of peace after being riddled for years by unsolved kidnappings. But in the wake of this small town's first crime in seven years, some dark truths are being revealed about some familiar faces. They say every town has its secrets that doesn't even begin to describe Happy Town."
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The plot in a nutshell: Small town life agrees with Tommy "T.C." Conroy ("October Road's" Geoff Stults). Happily married to his high school sweetheart Rachel (Amy Acker) and proud father to Emma (Sophia Ewaniuk), T.C. spends his days as the laid back deputy to his folksy sheriff father (M.C. Gainey) in Haplin, Minnesota - a town with no crime. Well, at least for the past seven years. You see, while some of the locals refer to Haplin as "Happy Town," seven years ago it was the site of the famed "Magic Man" kidnappings. The still-at-large figure took seven children - including the daughter of John Haplin (Dean Winters), the owner of Haplin's largest employer: Our Daily Baking & Confectionary (a.k.a. "The Bready") - with such ease it was almost, well, magic. Said event still haunts the town, from the tags seen on various buildings (a question mark with a halo above it) to a bitter debate with nearby Cook's Ridge over whether to keep a banner commemorating the missing kids at the annual Thaw Fest.
Tangentially, Haplin is also the new home to Henley (Lauren German), a Snoqualmie, Washington native whose late mother (a la "Everwood") spoke highly of visiting the town when she was younger. Henley in turn is using her inheritance to open a candle shop there. And thus she's given a tour of Haplin by realtor Miranda Kirby (Linda Kash) where we meet everyone from Big Dave (Abraham Benrubi), owner of Big Dave's Pizza Barn (Home of the Mega Monster!); to Eli "Root Beer" Rogers (fellow "Road" alum Jay Paulson), a hapless deputy ("It's a small town," he quips. "Everyone gets a nickname."); to Andrew Haplin (John Patrick Amedori), John's handsome teenage son; to Dot Little (Lynne Griffin), who runs a boarding house populated by mostly chatty widows; to Merritt Grieves (Sam Neill), a fellow boarder who's opening a movie memorabilia store ("The House of Ushers"). They subsequently have their own set of storylines, including Andrew's secret courting of Georgia Bravin (Sarah Gadon), Emma's babysitter from the wrong side of the tracks.
All of their foibles however take a backseat when Jerry Friddle (Boyd Banks), the town's resident pervert, is found brutally murdered in his fishing house. The sheriff - who's been slowly cracking as of late, making odd references to a girl named Chloe - seems to think it's an omen of the dark days ahead, namely the return of the Magic Man. And after his breakdown puts him in the hospital, it's T.C. who's tasked by Haplin's mayor (Frances Conroy, who in case you weren't keeping score is John's mother and Andrew's grandmother) with taking over, much to the chagrin of veteran detective Roger Hobbes (Robert Wisdom) - and his investigation turns up some surprising secrets.
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