Chuck looked at him, not with the usual confusion of the briefly resurrected, but with recognition. “Ned?”
And so, for the first time, Ned chose inaction. Chuck’s father died in her arms, peacefully. No miracle. No curse. Just grief, raw and human. Pushing Daisies - Season 1
They met in the aunts’ orchard, under a bruised twilight sky. Chuck’s father embraced her. But Dwight Dixon arrived with a gun. In the chaos, Ned touched Chuck’s father—reviving him from a bullet wound—only to realize too late that he was now holding a living person. To save Chuck’s life, he would have to let her father die again. Chuck looked at him, not with the usual
He didn’t. He couldn’t.