List of Pushing Daisies characters
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This is a list of fictional characters from the ABC television series Pushing Daisies.
Main characters
Ned
Ned (Lee Pace) is a 29-year-old pie maker with a unique magical ability to bring back to life anyone or anything that is dead. He owns his own pie restaurant, called 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, though they can only stay alive for one minute before something else must die in their place.
Ned had a childhood crush on his neighbor, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles. The two shared a first kiss at the neighboring funerals of Chuck's father and Ned's mother, but the two lost touch immediately afterwards when Ned was sent away to boarding school by his father. Twenty years later, Ned learns of an unaccompanied female tourist, dubbed the "lonely tourist", murdered on a cruise ship, and soon discovers that the woman is his long-lost love. He revives Chuck at the funeral home to ask her who killed her, but cannot bring himself to re-dead her when her minute of life is up, allowing her to live instead (and inadvertently causing the larcenous funeral director to die in her place.)
Chuck and Ned soon develop strong feelings for each other and begin a relationship; however, they cannot touch at all, as doing so would kill Chuck. However, Ned and Chuck find other ways to express affection: they kiss each other while encased in body bags and while holding a sheet of plastic wrap between their lips.
The character of Ned as a nine-year-old is played by Field Cate.
Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
Charlotte Charles (Anna Friel), usually called Chuck, is Ned's childhood neighbor and boyhood crush.
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