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Pushing Daisies: The Norwegians

When Emerson turns down her offer of employment, Vivian hires a team of Norwegian detectives to locate the missing Dwight Dixon. However, the trail of clues leads to Ned and Chuck, and their secrets.


7.8/10 (23 Votes cast)

Episode Info


Episode number: 2x10
Production Number: 3T7060
Airdate: Wednesday December 17th, 2008

Director: Tricia Brock
Writer: Scott Nimerfro

Alternate Airdates:

UK (ITV1) Apr 03, 2009

Guest Stars
Stephen RootStephen Root
As Dwight Dixon
Recurring
Orlando JonesOrlando Jones
As Magnus Olsdatter
Ivana MilicevicIvana Milicevic
As Hedda Lillihammer
Michael Weaver (1)Michael Weaver (1)
As Nils Nilsen

Co-Guest Stars
Nicholas KhayyatNicholas Khayyat
As Eugene Mulchandani
Recurring

Uncredited
George Hamilton (1)George Hamilton (1)
As Ned's Father
Main Cast
Lee PaceLee Pace
As Ned
Anna FrielAnna Friel
As Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
Chi McBrideChi McBride
As Emerson Cod
Jim Dale (1)Jim Dale (1)
voiced Narrator
Ellen Greene (1)Ellen Greene (1)
As Vivian Charles
Swoosie KurtzSwoosie Kurtz
As Lily Charles
Kristin ChenowethKristin Chenoweth
As Olive Snook
Field CateField Cate
As Young Nate

Recap

Twenty years ago at the Longborough School for Boys, Ned convinces Eugene to go to war with him in the woods. They stumble across a dead hunter hanging over a fence. Eugene runs away in fear but Ned brings the hunter back to life, believing he was murdered and hoping he can find the killer and bring his father back. The hunter explains that he accidentally shot himself. The park ranger arrived and Ned quickly re-kills the hunter. However, the authorities believe he and Eugene are responsible. Eugene’s parents bailed him out, but Ned remained in jail for a very long while...

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Episode Quotes
Emerson: This is one of the need-to-know cases. And you do not need, therefore you shall not know.

Emerson: Oh look at that. A dumb idea just found a friend.

Emerson: Well, then allow me to put this to you delicately. You see, men are dogs. They come, you know, sniffin' around, barking up your tree. But if they don't see a kitty cat up in that tree, pretty soon they stop barking. Dwight's not missing. He's barking up somebody else's tree.

Chuck: Poor Vivian. She's carrying a torch for a flame I extinguished.
Ned: With my finger.

Nils Nilsen: You and Dwight hobnobbed in the same circles.
Emerson: The Hell I did. We didn't nob no hobs. And certainly not in no damned circle.

Olive: But I don’t need protection. That’s what I have several longstanding restraining orders for.

Vivian: They came highly recommended. In their home county, they're the most decorated figures since Thor Bjorklund--inventor of the hand-held cheese slicer.

Olive: This gives me pause.
Vivian: A manicure might help.
Olive: No, "pause," like one step past "play" and not quite to "stop."

Vivian: There may have been involvement with a criminal element in his past, but that's behind him now.
Lily: It ain't behind him. It's right on top of him, if not inside him.

Nils Nilsen: The DNA analysis that I performed on your hair told us everything we needed to know.
Olive: Oh. I was under the impression that penicillin would clear that up.

Emerson: Detective work is a lot like money. It don't really come with instructions.

Emerson: Let me tell you everything I know.
Nils Nilsen: There's nothing you can tell us that MOTHER can't once she finishes her analysis.
Hedda Lillihammer: Although we don't wish to look a gift whore in the mouth, Mr. Cod.

Emerson: There's a time for callous braggadocio and a time for sensitivity. To the Norwegians, that time is never.
Vivian: I suppose it's a holdover from their Viking ancestry. It would be difficult to rape and pillage with the subtlety of a humanist.

Olive: Did he die of natural causes?
Chuck and Ned: Yes!
Olive: Are either of you referring to "murder" as a natural cause?

Olive: Then they beat me with a blue-and-yellow stock as they got high on Abba and tiny little meatballs.
Nils and Magnus: Swedes!

Emerson: Listen, we're all professionals, people. This doesn't have to get ugly.
Nils Nilsen: Your shirt suggests otherwise.

Narrator: The details in the case did speak loud and clear. But the story they told was a lie for the facts were not these.



Other Episode Crew

CreatorBryan Fuller (1)
Executive ProducerBarry Sonnenfeld  |  Peter Ocko  |  Dan Jinks  |  Bryan Fuller (1)  |  Bruce Cohen
Co-Executive ProducerAaron Harberts  |  Gretchen J. Berg  |  Lawrence Trilling
ProducerDylan K. Massin  |  Davey Holmes (1)  |  Scott Nimerfro
Co-ProducerLivia Hanich
Consulting ProducerDouglas Petrie
Production DesignerMichael Wylie
EditorAndrew Charlton
CastingJennifer Lare  |  Camille H. Patton
Unit Production ManagerDouglas S. Ornstein
First Assistant DirectorCary Jones
Second Assistant DirectorSean D. Whitler
MusicJames Dooley
Music EditorTom Trafalski
Costume DesignerRobert Blackman
HairstylistDaniel Curet  |  Michael Davis (3)
Make-upTodd McIntosh
Set DecoratorHalina Siwolop
Property MasterJeffrey Paul Johnson (1)
Post Production SupervisorClaudia Alves
Supervising Sound EditorChristopher Harvengt
Re-Recording MixerMichael C. Casper  |  B. Tennyson Sebastian III
Director of PhotographyMichael Weaver (2)
Story EditorChad Gomez Creasey  |  Dara Resnik Creasey
Sound MixerEdward L. Moskowitz
Executive Story EditorKatherine Lingenfelter
Costume SupervisorCarol Kunz
Visual Effects SupervisorWilliam Powloski
Visual Effects ProducerElizabeth Castro
 

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