Originally aired: Wednesday October 10, 2007 on ABC
Writer: Peter Ocko
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Show Stars: Lee Pace (Ned), Jim Dale (Narrator), Anna Friel (Charlotte “Chuck” Charles), Chi McBride (Emerson Cod), Kristin Chenoweth (Olive Snook), Ellen Greene (Vivian Charles (credit only)), Swoosie Kurtz (Lily Charles (credit only))
Guest Stars: Field Cate (Young Ned) , Patrick Fabian (Mark Chase) , Jonathan Mangum (Bernard Slaybeck) , Riki Lindhome (Jeanine) , Matt Braunger (Rick) , Omar Avila (Manuel) , Taji Coleman (Beth) , Alex Endeshaw (Lab Technician) , Wesley Harris (Science Teacher) , Jon Eric Price (Ned’s Father) , Sy Richardson (Coroner)
At the age of nine, Ned was put into a school for boys after his mother’s death. When his fellow students teased him, Ned reanimated the frogs in science class, putting the boys into a panic. Ned kept is secret from the teacher, and has been keeping secrets ever since.
Ned and Chuck are sparring over Ned’s past and who else he’s revived, and he avoids mentioning he kept his mother alive which result in the death of Chuck’s father. Meanwhile, Olive is watching them to see if any touching is going on, and Emerson is relieving stress by knitting. Emerson gets a case and he and Ned head for the morgue with Chuck tagging along. They bring the dead man, a car safety tester Bernard Slaybeck, who was hit by a car. Distracted by Chuck and Slaybeck revealing he was in love with Jeanine in promotions, they almost run out the minute before Slaybeck reveals he was killed by a crash test dummy.
They discuss the case at the Pie Hole but Emerson is more upset at Chuck 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 then her. Ned and Chuck go to the Dandy Lion company where Slaybeck worked, testing a car that runs on dandelions. 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.
Chuck and Emerson both manage to get fake ID badges to get them 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, who was riding a Ferris Wheel when she died and hasn’t heard of Dandy Lion. She does remember signing up to volunteer to test cars, however. Leaving, they spot Jeanine and take her back to the Pie Hole and reveals she was being watched and was in love with Bernard. She reveals that they grew apart as the testing of the Dandy Lion Six approached. She suspected Bernard was seeing another woman and follow 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 Six. 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 obsessed about Ned and Chuck, the others wake up and find themselves in plastic bags inside a Dandy Lion at the crash-test facility. The dummy unmasks to reveal… Mark Chase. It turns out Bernard had learned the Dandy Lion was a death trap, 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.
Realizing they’re about to die, Ned and Chuck share a kiss through their plastic bags. Emerson uses his knitting needle to cut himself free then free the others. Ned drives the Dandy Lion out, unaware that it’s a deathtrap. Chase knocks them off the road and down the hill to the next road, while the police pull Chase over. The others drive toward the Pie Hole and are about ready to hit 70 mph and explode, they come across Olive and are forced to slow.
Chase is unable to escape and is sentenced, while Jeanine recovers from her eating disorder. Emerson braces himself for a lot of stress-relieving knitting. And Ned gets a car with a plastic divider so Chuck can ride safely next to him.
Source: TV.com
