The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Series Premiere. After launching Botswana's first female-run detective agency, Precious Ramotswe (Jill Scott) investigates cases involving a missing boy, a missing finger, a cheating husband and a dubious daddy.

When a young boy named Wellington comes into the agency looking for work, Precious hires him to hand out flyers to help shore up business. As a favor to JLB, Precious checks out a Nigerian dentist, Dr. Komoti, who has suspicious mood swings. A worried man, Rre Banda, comes into the agency asking for help finding his missing dog Lucky; Precious doesn't want to take 'The Disappearing Dog' case, but Grace insists they can't turn away any paying clients. Later, while handing out flyers, Precious stumbles upon the case of 'The Absconding Apostolic' when she meets a distraught woman, Mma Siphambe, whose husband has been missing for two weeks.

Precious visits a local orphanage, where a young woman named Tabitha tells her she's worried about her father, Rre Lisindi, who seems unusually fearful lately. A new client, Dr. Sibenke, asks Precious to investigate the mysterious deaths of three patients under his care, who each died on a Friday at 2 o'clock. Precious and Tabitha break into Lisindi's storeroom and find evidence that leads Precious to believe he may be in over his head. Rre Makgothi, a wealthy landowner, hires Precious to investigate a suspected poisoning in his family, but she ends up finding something that surprises her.

An American woman, Andrea Curtin, comes to the agency looking for her son Michael, who disappeared from a farming commune 10 years earlier. Citing the 'glass ceiling,' Grace asks Precious for a promotion. BK finds his beauty salon ransacked, and Grace offers up a theory on the culprits. Precious and Andrea discover that a woman named Clara, who they see in an old newspaper photograph with Michael, may be involved in the case of 'The Boy with an African Heart.' Later, Grace reveals a long-held secret to Precious.

Mma Pekwane comes to the agency fearing that her husband has purchased a stolen car, and she wants it returned so that she can be right with the Lord. Patel, a local electronics-store owner, asks Precious to investigate whether his daughter has a secret boyfriend. He also advises JLB that he needs to improve his image if he wants to win over Precious. Later, JLB uses a 'high-tech' solution to help Precious with the 'Steal Stolen Sedan' for the Lord case. With the help of BK, Grace dives into her new assistant-detective role, staking out the wife of Badule, a man who thinks his spouse is having an affair with a man who may be paying for their son's school tuition.

Precious and Grace learn of a rival agency run by a man, Cephas Buthelezi, and decide to check out the competition. A beauty-pageant promoter named Two Shots Pulani asks Precious to vet the contestants in his 'Beauty and Integrity' contest. Patel asks Precious to ramp up her investigation of Nandira, his daughter, and her suspected secret boyfriend. To solve their cases, and stave off rival Cephas, Grace disguises herself as a reporter to talk to the beauty queens, and Precious tails Nandira in search of her mysterious boyfriend. Meanwhile, when JLB goes away on a fishing trip, Precious is surprised to discover that absence makes the heart grow fonder.