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* GirlInABox: Adult Chuck is introduced when Ned opens her coffin to revive her.
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* FirstKiss: Ned and Chuck shared their first kiss, with each other and in general, during the funerals of his mother and her father. When Ned revives Chuck they reminisce over it and she asks him for a LastKiss to bookend her life.

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* AlmostKiss

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* AlmostKissAlmostKiss: Chuck asks Ned for one last kiss before he puts her back in her coffin. Ned leans in but decides he can't do it.



* BlatantLies

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* BlatantLiesBlatantLies: Emerson can tell when Ned is lying because his eye twitches.



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A minor version but Olive's hair is much longer than in subsequent episodes and she doesn't wear the minidresses that will become her Pie Hole uniform.
* FailedASpotCheck: Aunt Lily.
* FirstEpisodeResurrection
* GirlInABox

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: A minor version but Olive's hair is much longer than in subsequent episodes and she doesn't wear the minidresses that will become her Pie Hole uniform.
uniform. Additionally, Emerson wears a leather jacket and plain purple shirt rather than the patterend jackets and floral shirts he prefers for the rest of the series.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The interior of the Pie Hole is subtly different in this episode, notably the booth seats are a solid dark color and lack the white semi-circle that was added in the next episode.
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FailedASpotCheck: Aunt Lily.
* FirstEpisodeResurrection
FirstEpisodeResurrection: Chuck was killed while on vacation. Ned brings her back to life and doesn't re-dead her.
* GirlInABoxGirlInABox: Adult Chuck is introduced when Ned opens her coffin to revive her.



* SeparatedByTheWall

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* SeparatedByTheWallSeparatedByTheWall: Chuck sleeps in Ned's bed on the other side of the wall from where he's sleeping on the cough. They both reach up and place their hands on the same spot of the wall.



* WhodunnitToMe

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* WhodunnitToMeWhodunnitToMe: Once she learns about the reward being offered Chuck decides to help Emerson and Ned find the man that killed her.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when Chuck's killer tries to strangle her.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised synchronized swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when Chuck's killer tries to strangle her.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when [[spoiler:Chuck's killer tries to strangle her]].

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* ChekhovsSkill: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when [[spoiler:Chuck's Chuck's killer tries to strangle her]].her.


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* [[MissedHimByThatMuch Missed Her by That Much]]: Despite looking directly at Ned and Chuck after blasting Chuck's killer with her shotgun, Aunt Lily doesn't see Chuck due to her eyepatch.

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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl

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* AlwaysSaveTheGirlAlwaysSaveTheGirl: This is why Ned can't bring himself to un-revive Chuck after bringing her back to life.


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* LaserGuidedKarma: The funeral director is shown blatantly stealing the jewelry of corpses while also gleefully accepting a bribe in order to allow Ned and Emerson to see Chuck's corpse. So, naturally, after a minute passes and Chuck remains alive, ''the director'' is the one who dies (on the toilet, no less).


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-->'''Ned''': It's a random proximity thing.
-->'''Emerson''': Bitch, ''I'' was in proximity!
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* AllThereInTheManual: A comic book given at San Diego Comic-Con, and later posted on ABC's website, gives some backstory behind Chuck's killer and his motivations for stealing the monkeys.

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No fridge logic. Digby ran away from Ned before the second touch rule came up.


* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A minor version but Olive's hair is much longer than in subsequent episodes and she doesn't wear the minidresses that will become her Pie Hole uniform.



* FridgeLogic: So, Ned didn't touch Digby once before learning the rule about second touches?
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* WhatTheHellHero: Since Ned's power randomly picks a nearby person to kill if he leaves a corpse alive for more than a minute, Emerson is understandably pissed off about Ned leaving Chuck alive--it could've easily been Emerson who died and not the funeral director, after all.
* WhodunnitToMe

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* WhatTheHellHero: Since Ned's power randomly picks a nearby person to kill if he leaves a corpse alive for more than a minute, Emerson is understandably pissed off about Ned leaving Chuck alive--it alive (though understandably Ned was so desperate for happiness he would have done anything). It could've easily been Emerson who died and not the funeral director, after all.
* WhodunnitToMe
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* ChekhovsSkills: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when [[spoiler:Chuck's killer tries to strangle her]].

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* ChekhovsSkills: ChekhovsSkill: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when [[spoiler:Chuck's killer tries to strangle her]].
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* ChekhovsSkills: Aunt Lily's previous career as syndronised swimmer allows her to hold her breath for a long time, a skill that comes in handy when [[spoiler:Chuck's killer tries to strangle her]].

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* ThisBearWasFramed: A dog is framed. The cause of death was in fact being mauled, but it was done by a dog of a different breed on orders from its owner.
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* FridgeLogic: So, Ned didn't touch Digby once before learning the rule about second touches?
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* BlatantLies
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* WhatTheHellHero: Since Ned's power randomly picks a nearby person to kill if he leaves a corpse alive for more than a minute, Emerson is understandably pissed off about Ned leaving Chuck alive--it could've easily been Emerson who died and not the funeral director, after all.

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* BlownAcrossTheRoom

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* BlownAcrossTheRoomBlownAcrossTheRoom: The Shiny Shoes Killer.
* FailedASpotCheck: Aunt Lily.


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* SeparatedByTheWall
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Young Ned discovers his power to raise the dead when he resurrects his dog, Digby, who was hit by a truck. Later that afternoon, after a play date with his best friend Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Ned's mother dies of a brain aneurysm. Ned brings her back; one minute later, Chuck's father drops dead. That evening, Ned's mother kisses him goodnight; the touch kills her instantly. This is the first hint that Ned has of any rules attached to his power: first touch, life; a minute's grace period before another person dies to [[BalancingDeathsBooks balance the scales]]; second touch, dead again--forever.

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Young Nine-year-old Ned discovers his power to raise the dead when he resurrects his dog, Digby, who was hit by a truck. Later that afternoon, after a play date with his best friend and next door neighbor, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Ned's mother dies of a brain aneurysm. Ned brings her back; one minute later, Chuck's father drops dead. That evening, Ned's mother kisses him goodnight; the touch kills her instantly. This is the first hint that Ned has of any rules attached to his power: first touch, life; a minute's grace period before another person dies to [[BalancingDeathsBooks balance the scales]]; second touch, dead again--forever.
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* GirlInABox

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He smuggles her back to his apartment above the Pie Hole, not really planning ahead; certainly not planning for Chuck to bring color and vibrancy and love back into his life.

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He smuggles her back to his apartment above the Pie Hole, not really planning ahead; certainly not planning for Chuck to bring color and vibrancy vitality and love back into his life.
life...

In the meantime, there's still the trifling matter of Chuck's murder to be solved. Chuck herself doesn't know who killed her, but points Ned and a resentful Emerson to Boutique Travel Travel Boutique, the travel agency she used. There they discover that Chuck's killer was after a package Chuck had with her... a package that, along with the rest of her belongings, has since been returned to her aunts, Lily and Vivian.

The race is on to get the package before Chuck's killer does--preferably before he kills again.



* Main/AlmostKiss
* Main/AlwaysSaveTheGirl

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* Main/AlmostKiss
AlmostKiss
* Main/AlwaysSaveTheGirlAlwaysSaveTheGirl



* Main/FirstEpisodeResurrection
* Main/WhodunnitToMe

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* Main/FirstEpisodeResurrection
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* Main/WhodunnitToMeWhodunnitToMe

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*BlownAcrossTheRoom




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