Writer: Bryan Fuller

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Ned can bring people back to life with one touch. We learn this when we see him, as a youngster, revive his dog. The problem is that this leads to other people dying. In the case of his dog, it was his mother. In the case of his mother, it was his girlfriend’s dad. He also can’t touch people again once he’s revived them, or else they’ll die. Again. He finds this out when he touches his mother. With his mother dead and his sweetheart also orphaned, Ned is sent to boarding school. His girlfriend, Chuck, is sent to live with her aunts.
About 20 years later, Ned is running a bakery and moonlighting as the partner of a PI who knows his gift. Ned’s neighbour is also developing a crush on him, but to no avail as Ned doesn’t want to get close to anyone.
Things kick into gear when Ned learns that Chuck has been murdered on a cruise ship. Naturally, he and Emerson trot off to solve the case and revive the girl. In refusing to kill her though, Chuck’s funeral director dies, forcing Ned and Chuck to arrange an elaborate escape plan involving Chuck’s funeral. Afterwards Chuck stays with Ned, although they can never touch again.
Chuck then chooses to help Ned and Emerson solve her murder, which involves her now dead travel boutique manager and a pair of plaster monkeys. The monkeys end up at Vivian and Lily’s house so the do-gooders race there before the killer can. Ned and Emerson quiz the aunts while Chuck hides. Lily then goes to retrieve the monkeys but is attacked by the killer who then attacks Ned. Chuck then intervenes and Lily shoots him. After finding out that the monkeys were made of gold, Vivian and Lily collect the reward for finding the killer and Ned, Chuck and Emerson agree to work together.