Dummy - Recap

The Past

After his mother’s death, Ned’s father put him into boarding school. When the other boys gave him a hard time, He animated a science class’ frogs, starting a panic. Later the teacher asked him who was responsible and Ned lied… and has been lying ever since.



The Present

Chuck wants to know who else Ned has revived, and he doesn’t want to get into it since his resurrection of his mother caused the death of Chuck’s father. Olive, who is in love with Ned, is watching them while Emerson is in his office knitting to relieve stress. The team gets a new case and Emerson and Ned head for the morgue, along with Chuck who insists on going over Emerson’s protests. Ned resurrects the dead man, Bernard Slaybeck, who reveals he worked in safety development at an automobile company, Dandy Lion. Supposedly he was run over by a car but before he can say much more, Chuck asks him about his life and he says he was in love with Jeanine in Promotions. They run out of time and the only thing he can say before Ned re-kills him is that he was really killed by a crash test dummy.



Back at the Pie Hole, Emerson isn’t happy that Chuck is still alive, since it’s messing up their investigation and distracting Ned. Olive is bugging him for info on Chuck, so he tells her that Ned cares for Chuck a lot more then Olive. She isn’t happy about that. Ned and Chuck go to Dandy Lion, which is promoting its new car, which runs on dandelions. Jeanine is dressed as a giant dandelion during the rollout of the new car, headed by CEO Mark Chase. Jeanine denies knowing anything about Bernard, and Chuck sneaks away during the tour. She finds a room with test dummies, including one that is missing its face and clothes. They report back to Emerson, who figures it’s a lead. Olive is left alone and starts singing her blues.



The gang sneaks into the crash-test facility and finds dead bodies strung up in the lab in place of crash test dummies. Ned revives a couple and they reveal they had volunteered their bodies for experimental purposes after they died. They find Jeanine and take her back to the Pie Hole where she reveals she was really in love with Bernard. They meet when she was training as a dandelion but he became obsessed with the new dandelion-powered car. She followed him when he went on one of his nightly drives and figured out what he was really doing. She refuses to tell them until Emerson gives her a piece of pie. Once he does, she drives there in one of the prototype cars while they follow in another car. Before they can get there her car explodes. She survives and she gets to the hospital, and gives them directions to the site Bernard was checking out. They go there and find a pit filled with crash dummies, all of them with their on-board recording devices destroyed. They figure someone was destroying the dummies to destroy the evidence from the crash tests, but a man dressed as a test dummy shows up and tasers them unconscious.



They wake up at the crash-test facility and find themselves in plastic bags inside another Dandy Lion. The dummy is standing there and reveals he’s Mark Chase. He learned that the Dandy Lion exploded under certain conditions and destroyed the crash test dummies to cover up the information. When Bernard learned about it, Chase put him in a plastic bag inside of a test car and then rammed it into a wall, making it look like an accident when Chase put him out on the road. It’s a very cunning and elaborate plan… except the gang can’t hear it because they’re inside plastic bags. Chuck and Ned share a kiss as they realize they’re about to die, but Emerson frees them all with his knitting needle. They escape in the car but since they couldn’t hear Chase’s plan, they don’t know the car will blow up at a certain speed. They’re speeding down the street toward the Pie Hole… and Olive walks Digby right in front of them. They stop just in time, while the police arrest Chase: the Dandy Lion he’s driving malfunctions.



Jeanine recovers at the hospital while Emerson replaces his knitting needles and starts on several sweaters. Ned does get one thing out of the case: a plastic divider for his car, with a plastic glove insert so that he can safely touch Chuck when she’s sitting next to him.



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