Pushing Daisies Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Pushing Daisies: Season 2 (2008 - 2009)

• Season 2 Episode 13: Kerplunk

  One half of synchronised swimming duo the Aqua Dolls is murdered - in a crime involving a shark - giving Lily and Vivian the chance to come out of retirement and stand in for their arch rivals as the Darling Mermaid Darlings at the travelling water circus. Ned and Olive go undercover as the aunts' management team to investigate the incident. Drama, starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel. Last in the series

• Season 2 Episode 12: Water and Power

  Emerson's old flame Lila Robinson turns up out of the blue and reveals a painful secret he had kept hidden for years. She offers to help him find daughter Penny in return for proving her innocence in the murder of millionaire Papen County Dam owner Roland Stingwell. Taxidermist Randy Mann takes a shine to Olive in his own awkward way. Drama, guest starring David Arquette, Fred Williamson and Gina Torres

• Season 2 Episode 11: Window Dressed to Kill

  Famed window dresser Erin Embry dies in mysterious circumstances, but Ned's life-restoring powers let him down, so Emerson recruits Chuck to tackle the case. The aunts are delighted to entertain a pair of recently escaped convicts who kidnapped Olive as a child in a conspiracy to command her parents' attention. George Segal and Richard Benjamin guest star

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Norwegians

  When Emerson turns down Vivian's request to investigate the sudden disappearance of Dwight Dixon, she hires a rival outfit to take on the job - and the relentless Magnus Olsdatter and his team of heavy-handed expatriate Norwegian detectives seem certain to expose all of Ned and Chuck's secrets. Drama, starring Lee Pace, Chi McBride and Anna Friel

• Season 2 Episode 9: Legend of Merle McQuoddy

  Olive helps Emerson investigate the murder of lighthouse keeper Nora McQuoddy and discovers the case could expose some of Papen County's stranger secrets. Meanwhile, Ned and Chuck have a traumatic encounter with a face from the past. Drama, starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel

• Season 2 Episode 8: Comfort Food

  Ned and Olive take part in a cookery contest where Colonel Sanders wannabe Colonel Likkin ends up deep-fried in his own fat. Hoping to get hold of his world-famous recipe, Ned revives him, only to learn a bitter customer has taken his revenge for years of obesity. Meanwhile, Chuck confides in Emerson about tricking Ned over keeping her father alive. Drama, with Lee Pace and Anna Friel

• Season 2 Episode 7: Robbing Hood

  A lawyer asks Emerson and Ned to investigate the death of a millionaire client in what at first sight appears to be a botched robbery. The detective suspects the crime masks a deliberate murder plot, with a gold-digging younger wife and a latter-day Robin Hood in the frame. Drama, guest starring Shelley Berman and Jennifer Elise Cox, with Lee Pace and Anna Friel

• Season 2 Episode 6: Oh Oh Oh ... It's Magic

  Famed magician The Great Herrmann hires Emerson to investigate the killing of his animal assistants and the visit to Conjurer's Castle provides Ned with a discovery of his own about his half-brothers. Dwight Dixon insinuates himself into the aunts' lives, but Lily is suspicious of his motives. Offbeat drama, guest starring Fred Willard, with Lee Pace and Anna Friel

• Season 2 Episode 5: Dim Sum Lose Some

  The gang goes undercover in a Chinese restaurant to help the wife of a murdered chef investigate his death. Emerson is reunited with Simone, the polygamist's widow and dog trainer who once caught his eye, while a mysterious man appears at the diner claiming to be an old associate of Ned's father - and wants help finding him. Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride and Kristin Chenoweth star

• Season 2 Episode 4: Frescorts

  A sexy new client hires the team to discover who killed a popular male escort, and the victim's anti-social taxidermist room-mate is high on the long list of suspects. Emerson's famous cigar-smoking private eye mother Calista pays an unexpected visit and lends her expertise to the investigations. Drama, with Lee Pace and Anna Friel, guest starring David Arquette and Debra Mooney

• Season 2 Episode 3: Bad Habits

  When Olive's best friend at the nunnery falls to her death from the convent belfry, Chuck, Ned and Emerson go undercover as a nun and two priests from the Vatican to prove that Sister Larue did not commit suicide, but was murdered. Meanwhile, Chuck researches her family tree and considers what to do with her new lease of life. Anna Friel, Lee Pace, Chi McBride and Kristin Chenoweth star

• Season 2 Episode 2: Circus Circus

  Ned, Chuck and Emerson are hired to look for a runaway teenage girl and trace her to a circus where mysterious deaths keep occurring. Lily is driven by guilt to visit Olive in the nunnery, only to discover she is contemplating a prolonged stay. Drama, starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel, with guest stars Diana Scarwid and Hayley McFarland

• Season 2 Episode 1: Bzzzzzzzzz!

  New series of the quirky American drama about a pie-maker who can bring people back from the dead just by touching them. Chuck goes undercover at a honey-based cosmetics firm after its promotional model is stung to death by bees - and she soon learns about the dangers of office politics. Meanwhile, Olive is consigned to a nunnery to stop her revealing that Lily is Chuck's mother. Lee Pace stars

Pushing Daisies: Season 1 (2007)

• Season 1 Episode 9: Corpsicle

  Anna Friel and Lee Pace star in the long-awaited hit US drama about pie-maker Ned, who can bring people back from the dead just by touching them, then send them to the afterlife with just another poke of his finger. He decides to use his power to solve crime, bringing murder victims back to life so they can name their killers - but things get complicated when he resuscitates his childhood sweetheart and decides to let her stay alive, knowing they can never come into physical contact

• Season 1 Episode 8: Bitter Sweets

  Anna Friel and Lee Pace star in the long-awaited hit US drama about pie-maker Ned, who can bring people back from the dead just by touching them, then send them to the afterlife with just another poke of his finger. He decides to use his power to solve crime, bringing murder victims back to life so they can name their killers - but things get complicated when he resuscitates his childhood sweetheart and decides to let her stay alive, knowing they can never come into physical contact

• Season 1 Episode 7: Smell of Success

  Anna Friel and Lee Pace star in the long-awaited hit US drama about pie-maker Ned, who can bring people back from the dead just by touching them, then send them to the afterlife with just another poke of his finger. He decides to use his power to solve crime, bringing murder victims back to life so they can name their killers - but things get complicated when he resuscitates his childhood sweetheart and decides to let her stay alive, knowing they can never come into physical contact

• Season 1 Episode 6: Bitches

  Anna Friel and Lee Pace star in the long-awaited hit US drama about pie-maker Ned, who can bring people back from the dead just by touching them, then send them to the afterlife with just another poke of his finger. He decides to use his power to solve crime, bringing murder victims back to life so they can name their killers - but things get complicated when he resuscitates his childhood sweetheart and decides to let her stay alive, knowing they can never come into physical contact

• Season 1 Episode 5: Girth

  Hallowe'en presents a particularly spooky case for the gang, when a stableman is trampled to death by a ghostly horseman on a flame-spitting steed. It turns out that Olive knew the victim, so she engages Emerson's services. However, when Ned tries his usual trick of asking the victim for his killer's identity, there's a big problem - the accused died seven years ago so cannot have been responsible

• Season 1 Episode 4: Pigeon

  When an aeroplane crashes into an apartment building, an investigation is launched to determine whether or not the pilot committed suicide. But to Ned's distress, Chuck becomes drawn to the man who appears to be the lone survivor of the incident. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded messenger pigeon to the aunts for help. Quirky comedy drama, with Anna Friel and Lee Pace

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Fun in Funeral

  Chuck is upset when she realises Lawrence Schatz died because Ned let her live. Emerson is hired to investigate the funeral director's death by the dead man's twin brother, uncovering a trail of distraught customers and ending up with the sibling being found dead in the Pie Hole freezer. Olive stumbles on the big secret when she delivers a pie to Chuck's aunts. Quirky drama, with Anna Friel and Lee Pace

• Season 1 Episode 2: Dummy

  Ned sees his power as both a gift and a curse when he visits the morgue to inspect the body of a car accident victim who specialised in automobile safety. With the police offering a reward to whoever can find the killer, Emerson is keen to find answers. Lee Pace, Anna Friel and Chi McBride star. A first chance to see the second episode of series one, not shown in the original ITV1 transmission line-up

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pie-lette

  Anna Friel and Lee Pace star in the long-awaited hit US drama about pie-maker Ned, who can bring people back from the dead just by touching them, then send them to the afterlife with just another poke of his finger. He decides to use his power to solve crime, bringing murder victims back to life so they can name their killers - but things get complicated when he resuscitates his childhood sweetheart and decides to let her stay alive, knowing they can never come into physical contact