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Oct 3, 2007 · Pie-lette: Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. With Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale. Ned uses his unique powers to bring his childhood crush, Chuck, back to life and solve her murder. But he is also forced to keep his distance from her, because if he touches her, she will be dead forever.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- 2007-10-03
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Ned brings his childhood sweetheart, "Lonely Tourist" Charlotte Charles, back to life after she's murdered on a cruise ship. The revived Chuck helps Ned and his partner Emerson solve her murder, and discovers that her first kiss with Ned must also be her last. Meanwhile, Olive makes advances on Ned, Vivian serves cheese, and Lily holds her breath.
Ned is a young man with a special gift - he can bring a dead person back to life with a touch. But there's a catch - if the person stays alive for more than a minute, then someone else will die. Also, a second touch will bring death, forever.
Ned discovers his gift as a child when he brings his dog, Digby, back to life. When Ned's mother dies, he brings her back to life - but this kills the father of his childhood sweetheart, Chuck. Another touch kills Ned's mother. Both left alone, Ned is sent to boarding school, and Chuck lives with her aunts, the reclusive Lily and Vivian. Ned and Chuck share a first kiss, and are then parted.
Nineteen years, thirty-four weeks, one day and fifty-nine minutes later, Ned owns a bakery, the Pie Hole. He also moonlights as the partner of Emerson Cod, a private investigator who discovers Ned's secret gift. Emerson realizes that they can turn a profit solving murders by reviving the murder victim and asking who killed them. Meanwhile, Ned's employee and neighbor, Olive Snook, has a crush on the pie maker - but Ned has learned not to get attached to anybody, and he wards off Olive's advances.
Everything changes when Ned learns that Chuck has been murdered on a cruise ship. He and Emerson travel to Ned's hometown, Coeur d'Coeurs, to solve the case. Ned revives Chuck, and she's thrilled to be reunited with her old friend. She doesn't know who killed her, and Ned only has a minute to return her to the grave. But he can't bear to kill her, and the funeral director, Lawrence Schatz, dies instead. Ned hides Chuck in the coffin, and secretly arranges to rescue her after the funeral. Chuck stays in Ned's apartment - but despite the romantic feelings that they share, they can't ever touch again.
Chuck is happy to make a fresh start on her life, and she approaches Ned and Emerson with a plan to solve her own murder and collect the reward. They go to Boutique Travel Travel Boutique, where manager Deedee Duffield offered Chuck a free cruise in exchange for transporting a pair of plaster monkeys. When they arrive, Deedee has been killed as well. Ned brings Deedee back to life, but she dies again before telling them who killed her. Ned, Emerson and Chuck realize that if the plaster monkeys were in Chuck's possession on the cruise ship, then they would have been sent to her next of kin -- Aunt Vivian and Aunt Lily.
They go to Vivian and Lily's house, to find the monkeys before the killer does. Ned and Emerson talk to Chuck's aunts, ex-synchronized swimmers with matching social phobias. Chuck has to stay out of sight - but she's determined to help, and she climbs up the back wall to her bedroom. Lily goes upstairs to collect the monkeys for Ned, and is attacked by the killer. Ned is also attacked, and Chuck rescues him. Lily survives her attack, and shoots the killer dead.
Starring
•Lee Pace: Ned •Anna Friel: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles •Chi McBride: Emerson Cod •Jim Dale: The Narrator •Ellen Greene: Vivian Charles •Swoosie Kurtz: Lily Charles •Kristin Chenoweth: Olive Snook
Guest Starring
•Patrick Breen: Leo Gaswint
Co-Starring
•Terry Anzur: Newscaster #3 •Ed Brigadier: Minister •Field Cate: Young Ned •Ted Garcia: Newscaster #1 •Murray Gershenz: Rabbi •Tina Gloss: Ned's mother •Brad Grunberg: Funeral Director •Sammi Hanratty: Young Chuck •Geraud Moncure: Newscaster #4 •Leyna Nguyen: Newscaster #2 •Sy Richardson: Coroner •Greg Suddeth: Gravedigger •David Trice: Matthew Miltenberger •Julie Wittner: Deedee Duffield •Jeff Wolfe: The Shiny Shoes Killer
•The late scuba diver that Ned resurrects at the end of the episode is named "Matthew Miltenberger" by the Narrator, but listed as "Martin Miltenberger" in the credits.
•The first episode had a strong debut, reaching 13 million viewers and winning its timeslot. The episode had a 4.3 rating/12 share for adults 18-49.
" Pie-lette " is the series premiere of the American comedy-drama television series Pushing Daisies. The episode aired a day earlier in Canada than the United States. Plot. Ned is a young man with a special gift—he can bring a dead person back to life with a touch.
- October 2, 2007
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- 276K
- Bryan Fuller
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Pushing Daisies is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3, 2007, to June 13, 2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned , a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, an ability that comes with stipulations.
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