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Episode Number: 101
Season: One
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Bryan Fuller
Original Air Date: October 3, 2007

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Synopsis

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In the town of Coeur d'Coeurs, nine-year-old Ned is chasing after his dog Digby through a field of daises when it crosses the highway and is killed by a semi. The boy touches his dog and it comes alive: young Ned discovers his unexplainable gift of touching dead things and bringing them back to life.

Absorbed in the thrall of his next-door playmate (a girl named Chuck) and his mother's pies constantly baking in the kitchen, Ned has little reason to ponder his strange gift ... until his mother dies from an aneurysm. He touches her and she springs back to life, but after one minute, Chuck's father keels over dead. The full consequence of Ned's so-called gift comes full circle when his mother kisses him good night and dies permanently. Ned can revive the dead "for one minute without consequence; any longer, and someone else had to die. One touch: Life. Second touch: Death."

At their respective parents' funerals, Ned and Chuck share a kiss before he is shipped off to boarding school and she is sent to live with her reclusive aunts, never to meet again. Throughout his life, Ned "avoided social attachments, fearing what he'd do if someone else he loved died" and inherited his mother's obsession with pies, opening his own shop, "The Pie Hole". Ned's secret gift is known only to a private investigator, Emerson Cod, and he reluctantly assists him for reward money by reviving murdered victims and asking how they met their end.

And such is Ned's world ... until nineteen years later and his childhood sweetheart, Chuck, is killed. He awakens her but she doesn't know her murderer. Ned's long-suppressed emotions surface, and at the end of the minute, he cannot bring himself to end her life, so the grave-robbing funeral director dies in her stead.

Now Ned, Chuck and Emerson must solve Chuck's murder – all the while dodging her aunts, the suspicious Olive Snook (Pie Hole
waitress/Chuck's romantic rival) and each other, as the reunited
sweethearts can never come into contact without ending Chuck's newfound life.

Major Plot Developments

Unanswered Questions

1. One minute after Digby's revival, a squirrel dies.
2. One minute after Ned's mother's revival, Chuck's father dies; Ned has only revealed this fact to Emerson.
3. After the funeral, Ned's father abandons him at a boarding school, never to be seen or heard from again.
4. When Ned lies, his right eye twitches.
5. One minute after Chuck's revival, the funeral director dies in a private bathroom somewhere in the funeral home; although Emerson was right out the door, it is explained as "a random proximity thing".
6. The aunts are agoraphobic.

1. Did Ned inherit this "gift" from his father?
2. Although here in the present, Digby is not shown again after his revival: where did he go?
3. Digby has not aged after nineteen years: are the "revived" immortal until Ned touches them again?
4. What is Ned's last name?

Best Character Moments

Production Goofs

1. Young Ned & Chuck outfitted as a pterodactyl and dinosaur, stomping and destroying the animated Play-Doh city.
2. The bizarre origin and downfall of "The Darling Mermaid Darlings".
3. Revealing "The Pie Hole" as a full-scale pie.
4. Emotional Heimlichs a.k.a. the "hug."
5. Lily's revenge on the Shiny Shoes Killer.

1. In the opening scene, the sign reads "Welcome to Couer d'Couers"; translated from French, it reads "Heart of Hearts". However, the proper spelling is "Coeur".
2. When Ned revives the moldy strawberry in his pie shop, they didn't show the corresponding "death": what died in its place?
3. After Ned "killed" the suspect that Emerson was chasing on the rooftop, there are two people in the background who also witnessed the act.
4. Leo Gaswint should've slurred his speech since half his face is missing.
5. The elapsed time from when Ned first revives Chuck is well over one minute.
6. When Chuck gets back into the coffin, she lies at the opposite end where the pillow is.

Show Trivia
Cheese Trivia

1. Pie of the Day: 3 Plum.
2. All the TV newscasters shown throughout the episodes are real current or former news anchors.
3. Aunts' car license plate: DZI 026.
4. Ned is wearing an antique watch by Lorgel.
5. 1. Goat cheese with blue ash: Cheese has to be salted before ripened; since goat milk is already rich in salt, a lower amount is needed to achieve the right flavor. Edible ash derived from vegetable keeps a crust from developing (crushed charcoal can be used as a substitute).

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Young Ned tries out his newfound powers on a dead fly.	Olive tests Ned's personal space.
Ned showing affection for Digby via wooden hand.	Ned & Emerson discuss Chuck's revival.
Chuck watching Ned & Emerson talk to her beloved aunts.	Ned & Chuck & The Monkeys kiss.

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1. Pie of the Day: 3 Plum. 2. All the TV newscasters shown throughout the episodes are real current or former news anchors. 3. Aunts' car license plate: DZI 026. 4. Ned is wearing an antique watch by Lorgel. 5.	1. Goat cheese with blue ash: Cheese has to be salted before ripened; since goat milk is already rich in salt, a lower amount is needed to achieve the right flavor. Edible ash derived from vegetable keeps a crust from developing (crushed charcoal can be used as a substitute).