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Oct 10, 2007 · Dummy: Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. With Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale. The team investigates an unusual car manufacturer after a murder victim claims that he was killed by a crash test dummy.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- 2007-10-10
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Ned revives a murdered auto safety specialist. The man doesn't know who killed him, but wants Ned to tell a co-worker that he loved her. Ned, Chuck and Emerson follow the lead to a car company about to launch an experimental new model. Chuck and Olive both hope to push through Ned's barriers and get to know him better, but the new car has a dangero...
At the age of nine, Ned was sent to a school for boys after his mother’s death. When his fellow students teased him, Ned reanimated the frogs in science class, sending the boys into a panic and getting his sweet revenge. Ned kept his secret from the teacher, and has been keeping secrets ever since.
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They discuss the case at the Pie Hole but Emerson is more upset at Chuck's being alive. As Ned and Chuck go to chat and make pies, Olive tries to get info on Chuck from Emerson, but all he says is that Ned cares more for Chuck than he does about her. Ned and Chuck go to Dandy Lion Worldwide Industries where Slaybeck worked, testing a car that runs on dandelions, the Dandy Lion SX. They find Jeanine handing out dandelions but she denies knowing Bernard. The company CEO, Mark Chase, takes everyone on a tour of the crash-test facility and Chuck sneaks away to spot one demolished test dummy among the others, missing a face and its clothes.
Back at the Pie Hole, Emerson figures it might be a lead and they head back to the company, leaving Olive alone with Digby. She takes the opportunity to sing a romantic ballad. She is interrupted by Manuel, who has arrived to wax the floors, but she continues singing anyway, since she assumes the earphones he is wearing will prevent him from hearing her singing.
Chuck and Emerson both manage to get ID badges that will allow them entry into the crash-test facility. They find dead bodies strung up in the lab and revive one of them, Rick Page. Page doesn’t work for Dandy Lion so they move on to the next woman, Beth, who was riding a Ferris Wheel when she died and hasn’t heard of Dandy Lion Worldwide Industries. She does remember signing up to volunteer to test cars, however. Leaving, they spot Jeanine and take her back to the Pie Hole, where she reveals she was being watched and was in love with Bernard. She says that they grew apart as the testing of the Dandy Lion SX approached. She suspected Bernard was seeing another woman and followed him on nightly evening drives. She confronted him but Bernard didn’t reveal anything, but she figured out what happened. Bargaining for Emerson’s pie, Jeanine eventually offers to drive them there, driving the Dandy Lion SX. However, it blows up en route and Jeanine ends up in the hospital. She gives them directions to a pit where test dummies are buried. The dummies have onboard computers and someone buried the dummies to dispose of the computers. However, a man dressed as a test dummy shows up and tasers them all unconscious.
While Olive obsesses about Ned and Chuck, the others wake up and find themselves in plastic bags inside a Dandy Lion SX at the crash-test facility. The dummy unmasks to reveal… Mark Chase. It turns out Bernard had learned the Dandy Lion SX was a deathtrap, then went to Chase. Chase decided to cover it up by disposing of Bernard in an accident as the crash-test facility, putting him in a body bag. He then laid out the dead Bernard at a deer crashing to fake the accident. However, since the trio is in body bags, they can’t hear any of Chase’s explanation.
Starring
•Lee Pace: Ned •Anna Friel: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles/Commercial Announcer •Chi McBride: Emerson Cod •Jim Dale: The Narrator •Ellen Greene: Vivian Charles •Swoosie Kurtz: Lily Charles •Kristin Chenoweth: Olive Snook
Guest Starring
•Patrick Fabian: Mark Chase •Riki Lindhome: Jeanine •Jonathan Mangum: Bernard Slaybeck
Co-Starring
•Omar Avila: Manuel •Matt Braunger: Rick Page •Field Cate: Young Ned •Taji Coleman: Beth •Alex Endeshaw: Lab Technician •Wesley Harris: Science Teacher •Jon Eric Price: Ned's Father •Sy Richardson: Coroner
•When this episode repeated in December 2007, the exterior of Dandy Lion Worldwide Industries changed. Instead of being a regular building with the "DL" logo on it, the entrance is shown with a large steel sculpture shaped like the spores of a dandelion.
•In addition, a line for the Narrator was added after Jeanine says, "Well, I figured it out.": "The Flower was no fool. Her information was valuable and the price was pie."
•Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene, although credited, do not appear in this episode.
•Kristin Chenoweth, in character as Olive Snook, sings "Hopelessly Devoted to You" written by John Farrar for Olivia Newton-John for the film version of the musical Grease, arranged by Daisies composer Jim Dooley.
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