Ned

Ned is a fictional character in the ABC television series Pushing Daisies, portrayed by Lee Pace. Ned has a unique magical ability to be able to bring back to life anyone or anything that is dead. Ned works as a pie maker at his restaurant The Pie Hole, and also uses his gift to aid Emerson Cod, a private investigator, by bringing dead people back to life to find out how they died. Ned has the ability to bring the dead back to life with a single ... more

Ned is a fictional character in the ABC television series Pushing Daisies, portrayed by Lee Pace. Ned has a unique magical ability to be able to bring back to life anyone or anything that is dead. Ned works as a pie maker at his restaurant The Pie Hole, and also uses his gift to aid Emerson Cod, a private investigator, by bringing dead people back to life to find out how they died. Ned has the ability to bring the dead back to life with a single touch, but there are two conditions. First, if he touches a revived person, fruit or animal for a second time, it will die forever; and second, if the revived thing—person, animal, or other organism—remains alive for more than sixty seconds, something or someone else in close proximity will die in its place. Generally, whatever dies is a rough equivalent to what has been revived: a person for a person, an animal for an animal, or a plant for a plant. It would appear that the revival suspends the aging process, given that Ned's dog Digby,... less