The Fun in Funeral - Recap

The Past

Ned at the age of ten tests his ability and how long he can let something stay alive without killing something else nearby. He figures out he can only keep them alive for a minute.



The Present

Ned and Chuck are making pies and Ned is avoiding the fact that he basically had to kill someone to keep her alive. She ends up kissing him… through a piece of Saran Wrap. Olive is nearby, watching them jealously, and ends up talking with Alfredo Aldarisio, a traveling salesman who sells medicine. Emerson stops by for ice cream and ends up having to listen to Olive express her frustration: he’s not particularly interested. He reveals that he’s taken on a new case: that of Lawrence Schatz, the funeral home director at the place where Ned resurrected Chuck. He insists that Ned goes with him to the morgue to interrogate the body, but Ned is understandably nervous since Lawrence is the man who died when he kept Chuck alive. Emerson is well aware of that and wants Ned to face up to what he did. When Chuck starts getting curious, Ned admits that he “killed” Lawrence to keep her alive.

Alfredo is demonstrating some of his medicines, including mood altering pills, when Chuck comes in. Olive is glad to see that she’s unhappy, and Emerson isn’t too thrilled since he was close to Ned when Ned kept Chuck alive. Emerson had worked with Lawrence and his twin brother Louis, and it’s Louis who hired him to investigate his brother’s death. It turns out that Lawrence was a grave robber who stole from the corpses at the funeral home. The stolen heirlooms are missing and the victims’ families aren’t happy, so Louis has hired Emerson. Ned refuses to get involved but Chuck wants him to resurrect Lawrence so he can apologize and she can thank him for dying for her.



At the funeral home, they meet Louis. It turns out that Chuck’s aunts Lily and Vivian cancelled their new synchronized swimming tour: they found an old postcard from Chuck and were so traumatized they've gone back to hiding in their house. Louis figures that one of the angry family members killed Lawrence in revenge, and he knew about Lawrence’s thieving when his brother confessed to him. After Louis leaves, Ned resurrects Lawrence and he apologizes while Chuck thanks him. They prepare to talk to Lawrence about his murder but Chuck recognizes her watch on his wrist: it was a gift from her aunts that he stole it from her corpse. She angrily slams the coffin lid shut and Ned tries to get it open within the sixty seconds while Emerson runs for his life to get out of proximity. With seconds to spare Chuck and Ned get the coffin open and Ned “kills” Lawrence again.



Ned, Chuck, and Emerson go over the protesting letters from the families, then Chuck talks to Alfredo about his mood-altering meds. He offers her a sample pack and she bakes it into a pie and has Olive deliver it to the aunts. As Olive leaves, she’s unaware that Louis’ dead body is in the freezer behind her.



Ned and Chuck find Louis’ body and call Emerson, who figures someone is setting Ned up. Meanwhile, Olive gets to the aunt’s house and panics, but they invite her in and they turn out to be quite nice. They invite her in for pie (Olive doesn’t know about the spiked pie) and as they describe their dead niece, Olive realizes they’re talking about Chuck. Then she eats some of the pie.



The police arrive at the Pie Hole, tipped off by an anonymous caller. Ned resurrects Louis so he can walk out on his own and explain that he choked to death on a piece of tongue he was eating, when one of the family members confronted him about the heirloom thefts: he was working with his brother all along. Ned kills him again with a touch and they head for the funeral home. They sneak in through the basement window but Emerson gets stuck. Ned is already inside and after accidentally resurrecting a couple of corpses, he finds a corpse that isn’t: a Chinese man holding a Civil War sword. The man is Wilfred Woodruff, and the Schatz brothers stole his father’s sword. It turns out his great-great-grandfather was a coolie working on the railroads, escaped, and ended up becoming a Civil War hero.



Ned grabs a sword as Wilfred attacks him and the duel up and down the stairs. Wilfred reveals that he thinks Ned killed Lawrence (he saw him flee the scene of the crime after resurrecting Chuck), so tried to frame him for Louis’ death as well after taking the sword back. Chuck gets in and Wilfred goes after her, but Ned trips him and Emerson (still stuck in the window) kicks him unconscious. Ned ends up tangled in the curtains, which he pulls down to reveal the hidden heirlooms.



A drugged-up Olive gets back to the Pie Hole. Realizing the extent of the obese Schatz brothers’ criminal ways… Emerson decides to go on a diet. Woodruff is taken away by the police while Ned and Chuck mail all of the recovered heirlooms back. Ned finally admits that even knowing it would kill Lawrence, he would have kept Chuck alive. And Chuck has come to terms with the fact that someone died for her to live, and is happy that Ned would have chosen her. They start to kiss and Ned goes for the Saran Wrap.



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