PUSHING DAISIES: WATER AND POWER (TV)
Summary
One in this fantasy-based dramedy series about a pie-maker whose touch can revive the dead. In this episode, in a flashback, young Emerson repeatedly makes trouble at school in order to spend time with his crush, Principal Swindle. In the present, Randy Mann visits Olive and Ned and Chuck discuss their support of their relationship and Olive's happiness, but are surprised when Olive abruptly ends things with Randy. They intervene, but Ned's clumsy advice then prompts Olive to reconsider Randy merely as a rebound from her feelings for Ned. Elsewhere, Emerson reunites with dog-training girlfriend Simone, and is then hired to solve the murder of power plant owner Roland Stingwell, whom Emerson knows of old, and the theft of his prized ruby. When Emerson questions Stingwell at the morgue with Ned's help, Stingwell accuses him of stealing his woman and names Lila Robinson as his murderer. Emerson admits that Lila is the woman in question and the mother of his missing daughter, as well as a "wily genius," but Ned and Chuck urge him to find her to both solve the case and locate young Penny. It is revealed that, years ago, Emerson was hired to tail Stingwell's fiancée but found himself falling for the woman, and she admitted to being a grifter, planning to steal Stingwell's money and his ruby. After falling pregnant with Emerson's child, Lila stole $50,000 from Stingwell and vanished.
The detectives tour Stingwell's dam and learn that all visitors are photographed for security. They find evidence of Lila entering and leaving around the time of the murder, but Stingwell's assistant reveals Stingwell's contract to replace leaky pipes around the plant and adds that a factory has secretly dumped harmful chemicals in the reservoir, creating more suspects. Emerson encounters Detective Puget and requests his help in catching Lila, but Lila soon turns up at Emerson's office and states her innocence. She offers to let him see Penny in exchange for his clearing her name, but Simone is upset at Emerson's secrecy and leaves. Randy worries that Olive is indeed using him, and Ned observes that love can make one desperate. They interview a number of farmers, including one Michael Brunt, who lost access to water because of Stingwell's dam, but he too seems innocent. Stumped, they revisit the assistant's claim and learn that the factory did in fact dump chemicals into the water, but while the evidence still points only to Lila as the killer, Emerson refuses to accept her guilt. Simone returns and interrogates Lila, suspecting that Penny is a bluff, and when Lila runs, Ned and Chuck hide out in her trunk, though she soon catches them.
Olive and Randy decide to pursue a genuine relationship after all, and Emerson gets an idea when he discovers that Stingwell's leaky pipes were located near Brunt's farm, providing his farm with free, though chemically-enhanced, water. Emerson explores the hidden passages in the pipes and finds the ruby hidden there, realizing that Brunt, disguised as Lila for the photo, killed Stingwell by flooding the pipes in order to keep his free water. Brunt, returning to fetch the jewel, attempts to kill Emerson and Simone in the same way, but they manage to escape and Brunt is caught by Chuck and Ned. With her name cleared, Lila brings Penny to meet Emerson, and Emerson states that he wants to take a turn in raising her long-term. Lila cons him, however, and takes his car, and he gets only a brief glimpse of Penny in the backseat as she drives away. He then learns that his pop-up book "L'il Gumshoe" is to be published, however, and hopes it will help bring his daughter back to him. Includes commercials and promos.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: June 6, 2009 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:56
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 104186
- GENRE: Comedy, fantasy/science fiction
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy, fantasy/science fiction; Drama
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 2007-2009
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - AT&T wireless services
- TV - Commercials - Bing.com search engine
- TV - Commercials - Chili's restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Coppertone Sport sunscreen
- TV - Commercials - Crest SpinBrush Sonic toothbrushes
- TV - Commercials - E-File tax software
- TV - Commercials - Ford automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Home Depot stores
- TV - Commercials - Hyundai automobiles
- TV - Commercials - JCPenney stores
- TV - Commercials - Jell-O pudding
- TV - Commercials - Lowe's stores
- TV - Commercials - Nesquick chocolate milk
- TV - Commercials - Nicoderm CQ nicotine patch
- TV - Commercials - Ocean Spray cranberry juices
- TV - Commercials - Olive Garden restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Progressive car insurance
- TV - Commercials - Samsung Jack personal digital assistants
- TV - Commercials - Samsung televisions
- TV - Commercials - Sensodyne Pronamel toothpaste
- TV - Commercials - Sprint cellular phones
- TV - Commercials - Toyota Prius automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Visa debit cards
- TV - PSA - A Better Community volunteering
- TV - PSA - Boys Town National Hotline
- TV - Promos - "G-Force" motion picture
- TV - Promos - "I Survived a Japanese Game Show"
- TV - Promos - "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
- TV - Promos - "NBA Finals"
- TV - Promos - "Pushing Daisies" upcoming episode
- TV - Promos - "The Bachelorette"
- TV - Promos - "The Proposal" motion picture
- TV - Promos - "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
- TV - Promos - "Wipe Out"
CREDITS
- Dan Jinks … Executive Producer
- Bruce Cohen … Executive Producer
- Barry Sonnenfeld … Executive Producer
- Bryan Fuller … Executive Producer, Created by
- Peter Ocko … Executive Producer, Writer
- Lawrence Trilling … Co-Executive Producer
- Gretchen J. Berg … Co-Executive Producer
- Aaron Harberts … Co-Executive Producer
- Scott Nimerfro … Producer
- Davey Holmes … Producer
- Dylan K. Massin … Producer
- Livia Hanich … Co-Producer
- Douglas Petrie … Consulting Producer
- Elizabeth Castro … Visual Effects Producer
- Dean White … Director
- Lisa Joy … Writer
- Jim Danger Gray … Writer
- Jim Dooley … Music by
- Lee Pace … Cast, Ned
- Anna Friel … Cast, Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles
- Chi McBride … Cast, Emerson Cod
- Jim Dale … Cast, Narrator
- Field Cate … Cast, Young Ned
- Ellen Greene … Cast, Vivian Charles
- Swoosie Kurtz … Cast, Lily Charles
- Kristin Chenoweth … Cast, Olive Snook
- Christine Adams … Cast, Simone Hundin
- Robert Picardo … Cast, Detective Puget
- Francesca P. Roberts … Cast, Amelia Stingwell
- Gina Torres … Cast, Lila Robinson
- Fred Williamson … Cast, Roland 'Rollie' Stingwell
- Matt Winston … Cast, Michael Brunt
- David Arquette … Cast, Randy Mann
- Melinda Bennett … Cast, Principal Eleanor Swindle
- Stephen deCordova … Cast, Specialist #1
- Nick Endres … Cast, Tour Guide
- Andy Forrest … Cast, Mr. Booker
- Sam Ingraffia … Cast, Specialist #2
- Stefan Marks … Cast, Mr. Abner
- Carol Mansell … Cast, Trish
- Byrne Offutt … Cast, Mr. Cray
- Yolanda Snowball … Cast, Female Teacher
- Craig Tsuyumine … Cast, Red-Faced Teacher
- Steven Wash Jr. … Cast, Young Emerson