A pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
Cast:Lee Pace , Anna Friel , Chi McBride , Jim Dale , Ellen Greene , Swoosie Kurtz , Kristin Chenoweth , Field Cate , Sy Richardson , Samantha Hanratty , Stephen Root , Leyna Nguyen , Diana Scarwid , Tina Gloss , Nicholas Khayyat , Jon Eric Price , David Arquette , Christine Adams
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.
The team investigates an unusual car manufacturer after a murder victim claims that he was killed by a crash test dummy.
Emerson asks Ned to bring the funeral director he killed back to life, knowing that it will expose the secret about why Chuck is still alive. Olive also learns about Ned and Chuck's secret while delivering a pie to Chuck's aunts.
Emerson, Ned and Chuck are on a case of stolen jewelry goods, and solving a murder/suicide case, as well as finding out about a missing prisoner.
In this Halloween episode, Emerson and Olive track down a "ghost" who's been killing the jockeys at the old race arena where Olive used to race as a former jockey herself. With help from Ned and Chuck, they try to solve the big mystery.
When a dog breeder is poisoned to death, suspicion falls upon his four wives as well as a businessman who was planning to market his new breed of dog.
A woman dies in a scratch-and-sniff book explosion. Was the scientist who wrote the book the target of the explosion, or was this part of an intentional publicity stunt gone horribly wrong?
The owners of a new candy store hope to put The Pie Hole out of business. And when one of the store's owners turns up dead, Ned is wrongfully charged with murder.
Ned tries to make amends with Chuck after his confession, and Emerson finds a corpse in ice.