US Air Date: 28/11/2007

Writer: Abby Gewanter

Director: Allan Kroeker

At school, a young Ned makes friends with Eugene, an exchange student, but when Ned jumps into a pile of dead leaves and brings them back to life, Eugene runs in fear.

In the present, Ned asks Chuck if he’s her boyfriend, and she agrees. She then says that today would have been her father’s birthday, had he lived. Emerson comes in with an easy case but Ned is more worried about how he’s responsible for the death of Chuck’s father. Tina hires Emerson to investigate the murder of her boyfriend Tony. They talk to Tony who says that Burly Bruce Carter killed him and used his girlfriend, a plastic doll, to strangle him. Bruce invited Tony to a double date with his plastic doll but when Tony got there first and pointed out Bruce’s girlfriend isn’t real, Bruce strangled him with the doll’s hands.

A rival shop, Bittersweets, opens across the street, run by brother and sister Billy and Dilly. Tensions mount between the two stores and when Billy is killed, Ned is arrested for murder. Ned’s cellmate is Bruce, and Ned must quickly distract him from revenge by asking him how he met Sheila the doll. He explains how he bought a doll to get into the carpool lane and then fell in love with her. Ned tries to console Bruce, assuring him that he’ll be back together with Sheila eventually.

Chuck and Emerson do some digging on the new shop’s owners and discover they were being blackmailed. Dilly goes after the blackmailer and kills him. Ned is released and, later, confesses to Chuck about killing her father.