Missed a couple of episodes of Pushing Daisies? Well, not to worry! We’ve got the scoop to catch you up to date thus far.

In the series’ “Pie-lette” episode, we are introduced to Ned, a young boy with the ability to bring the dead back to life with one touch. We learn how Ned found out about this gift, and we learn the price he pays for using this gift. If he touches them again, they die again. Also, bringing one back to life means someone else must die. Ned learns, however, that if he touches a person again within one minute of bring them back to life, no one else has to die.

Grown up Ned puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. He opens a pie shop. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod finds out about Ned’s secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect the hefty reward fees) by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers.

This all works well until Cod brings Ned a case that will forever change his life. His childhood sweetheart, Charlotte (Chuck) Charles, is murdered while on a cruise. Ned must help find her killer, but it takes going back to the town he grew up in, Coeur d’Coeur, and bringing her back to life. However, Ned cannot bring himself to send her back. Chuck becomes the third partner in Ned and Emerson’s PI enterprise, but she encourages them to use their skills for good, not just for profit. Ned is overjoyed to be reunited with Chuck, the only girl he’s ever loved. Life would be perfect, except for one cruel twist — if he ever touches her again, she’ll go back to being dead, this time for good.

As for Chuck; she can never go back to the aunt’s that so lovingly raised her.

In the next episode, “Dummy”, Ned investigates the strange death of an automotive expert. The deceased worked for a company that was just about to launch an experimental car. Chuck complicates things by asking the wrong questions and using up valuable “life” time. Meanwhile, Chuck wants details of how Ned brought her back to life.

In “The Fun in Funeral”, Ned must go back to the funeral home where he first saw Chuck, much to his discomfort. We see that while Chuck stayed alive, the funeral director died. Chuck finds this out and feels terrible until she finds that the man was really a grave robber and actually robbed her! Meanwhile, Chuck discovers that her aunts have withdrawn into their house and seeks to cheer them up by adding anti-depressants to pies and sending them to their house. In an effort to help the delivery process, Olive takes one to the aunts herself and discovers who they are.

In “Pigeon”, Ned deals with in not being able to touch Chuck, when her head is turned by the survivor of a plane crash. The plane crashes into this man’s apartment and when the pilot dies, it looks like suicide until Ned finds out it may not have been. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded pigeon to the Aunts for help. The pigeon is given a new wing by Aunt Lily, then takes off out the window. Olive and the Aunts follow it to a windmill which belongs to Elsita, the daughter of a woman who was in love with a convict many years ago. The convict turns out to be the father of our crash survivor. In this episode, Olive has the opportunity to expose Chuck’s existence to her aunts, but has a change of heart at the last minute.

In “Girth”, we learn a bit more about Olive when she hires Ned to find out who is killing off jockeys. We learn that before her life at The Pie Hole, Olive was a jockey herself, and she has a secret. When Ned finds out that the jockeys are being trampled to death by a ‘ghost’, Olive becomes more frightened. She knows the ghost that they are talking about. It is the ghost of a jockey that was killed during a race when he fell off his horse. Olive finds out that the girth was cut. She and her fellow riders vow never to tell anyone about this, and that day, Olive quit horse racing completely. Meanwhile, Ned is dealing with some ‘ghosts’ of his own, when he returns to the home he lived in as a boy. We find out that Ned hates Halloween, for it was on Halloween many years ago that he learned that his father was never coming back to the school he placed Ned in. Ned discovers his father with a new family and a new life. This episode also deals with Olive’s revelation to Chuck that she believes Chuck faked her own death. Both women discover that there are some secrets that are best kept secret.