Pushing Daisies is a comedic drama which features Ned (Lee Pace) as a man with the extraordinary ability to bring dead people back to life, but only for one minute. After the minute, if they don't die, someone nearby will take his place and be death's next victim. Ned is then determined to use his abilities to solve crime and together with the local investigator, Emerson Cod (Chi McBride), they solve crimes by bringing dead people back to life to find out who killed them.