Comedy series · 6 × 11 minutes · Coming to Bell Fibe TV1 December 17, 2026.
I Can Explain
A woman fleeing one absurd catastrophe after another gets stranded in a strange little town that recognizes her as one of its own.
She’s one of them. She’s just the last to know.
Directed by Anthony Q. Farrell, and starring Anastasia Phillips, Shaun Majumder and Mary-Colin Chisholm, I Can Explain is a comedy caper featuring a fake crime scene, a real crime syndicate, and a town that’s delighted to help. Rebecca (Anastasia Phillips) comes home from work and walks straight into a nightmare: blood everywhere, what looks like a murder weapon, and her partner Pete’s (Shaun Majumder) shirt on the floor. Before she can even think, she’s doing what she always does. Cleaning it up. Fixing it. By the time it hits her what it looks like, with her prints everywhere, she panics and runs, driving east as far as her SUV will take her. Along the way, a stranger asks her to watch his cooler and never comes back. Not wanting to seem irresponsible, she takes it with her. Rebecca plans to catch the ferry to Newfoundland, but Hurricane Gary shuts down the crossing and strands her in North Sydney, Cape Breton. The cooler turns out to hold $50,000 worth of smuggled baby eels. The smugglers who track her to North Sydney think she’s a hardened professional. Now she has to keep the eels alive until the next boat. Fortunately, she gets plenty of help from a troupe of locals who recognize her as one of their own. North Sydney’s default setting is delight. To a woman who’s sure she’s wanted for murder, that reads as menace. The warmer they are, the more terrifying it gets. When Rebecca realizes where the real jeopardy lies, the town has her back.