It is a dark and stormy night and veteran detective Jack Russell is murdered at his own retirement party. Among those in attendance: his amphibian butler, a no-nonsense police inspector, his aquatic archenemy, an incomprehensible chef, a reanimated corpse, and... ... 8th President Martin Van Buren? Using nothing but their wits, ragdoll physics, and just a bit of audience participation, it is up to this eclectic band of familiar but legally distinct puppets to figure out which one of them is a killer before they strike again.