Pushing Daisies

Ned works in a pie store and seems to lead a perfectly normal life. This, however, is far from the truth. Ned can, through the touch of his hand, wake people from the dead. He decides to use this ability of his to solve crimes, but this appears to be much more difficult than it sounds, when he gives life to his childhood crush, and decides to let keep living.

When an automotive expert is found dead, ironically after a strange hit-and-run accident, Ned suspects there's more to the story, especially when he finds out that the deceased worked for a company that was about to launch an experimental car. Meanwhile, Chuck wants some answers about how Ned brought her back to life.

Another strange death at the Schatz Funeral Home leads Ned back to the scene where he brought Chuck back to life. Meanwhile, Olive unwittingly becomes the messenger in Chuck's plan to bring a little sunshine into the lives of Aunts Lily and Vivian via some antidepressant-laced pies.

After an airplane crashes into an apartment building, Ned, Emerson and Chuck try to determine whether or not the pilot committed suicide. To Ned's distress, Chuck becomes drawn to the man who appears to be the lone survivor. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded messenger pigeon to the aunts for help.

Several jockeys are trampled to death, supposedly by the ghost of a long-dead rider, John Joseph Jacobs (Hamish Linklater - "The New Adventures of Old Christine"), and his spooky horse. Since she was a jockey before working at The Pie Hole, Olive hires Ned and the team to investigate. Meanwhile, Ned finds himself haunted by the ghosts of his own past as Halloween nears. Guest star Barbara Barrie ("Suddenly Susan," "Barney Miller") appears as Mamma Jacobs.

When a dog breeder who may have produced the perfect pooch is found dead, Ned and company try to figure out who exactly did the deed, especially after they learn that the deceased was a polygamist who left four grieving widows.