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| Title = Girth |
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| Series = [[Pushing Daisies]] |
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| Season = 1 |
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| Episode = 5 |
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| Airdate = [[October 30]], [[2007]] |
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| Writer = Kath Lingenfelter |
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| Director = [[Peter O'Fallon]] |
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| Guests = [[Carlos Alazraqui]]<br>[[Barbara Barrie]]<br>[[Ralph P. Martin]]<br>[[Christopher Neiman]]<br>[[Hamish Linklater]] |
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| Next =[[Bitches (Pushing Daisies)|Bitches]] |
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'''Girth''' is the fifth episode of the first season of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''. It guest starred [[Hamish Linklater]] of ''[[The New Adventures of Old Christine]]''. In the episode it's revealed that [[Olive Snook|Olive]] was once a jockey that won many elite copetitions including an infamous race where she and three other racers trampled a star jockey to death. The group agreed not to tell anyone that in fact was a planned murder. In the present the ghost of the supposed dead racer rises and kills one of his murderers leaving Olive to hire [[Emerson Cod|Emerson]] and [[Ned (Pushing Daisies)|Ned]] to take on the case. It was written by Kath Lingenfelter and directed by [[Peter O'Fallon]]. |
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==Synposis== |
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[[Ned (Pushing Daisies)|Ned]] is at the Longburrow School for Boys and dealing with the school [[postmistress]]. However, he never received a letter from his father. On [[Halloween]], he finally received something: a pre-printed notice that his dad was moving. Ned ran away and went to his father’s new home on Halloween, to find him with a new wife and two step children. |
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A [[ferrier]], Lucas Shoemaker, is working in a [[stable]] when a horseman comes at him and kills him. |
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At the Pie Hole, [[Olive Snook]] is discussing Ned’s hatred of Halloween and [[Charlotte "Chuck" Charles|Chuck]] wants to know what Olive told her [[Lily Charles|Aunt Lily]] and [[Vivian Charles|Aunt Vivian]]. Olive still assumes that Chuck simply faked her death, and Chuck is relieved that Olive doesn’t suspect what really happened. Ned comes in and is taken aback with the Halloween decorations. Olive plays coy about exactly what she has told, then hears about the death of the ferrier, Lucas Shoemaker, who was trampled to death in an accident. Olive goes to her safe deposit box and takes out the money necessary to hire [[Emerson Cod]] to investigate Shoemaker’s death, believing it was murder. It turns out Olive was a [[jockey]] and competed against Shoemaker. |
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Emerson takes the case and goes to the [[morgue]] with Ned and Chuck. They interrogate the toothless Shoemaker (with translations by Chuck, who was once in [[headgear]]) who says that John Joseph Jacobs killed him… and Jacobs died seven years ago. Shoemaker warns that Jacobs will kill again, and they figure Jacobs is a [[ghost]]. |
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They let Olive know and she gives them a list of other jockeys that might be in danger. Olive is leery about identifying Jacobs and then faints. Emerson goes to check out a jockey’s bar while Ned goes alone to the stable to look for clues and prods Emerson into taking Chuck with him. Ned admits he won’t even go to the stable, and an upset Chuck goes to the stable and tells Ned to do what he has to. Olive wakes up and remembers that Jacobs was the golden boy of racing until he competed in the Jock-Off 2000 and fell off his [[horse]]. Olive, the winner, inadvertently trampled him along with several other jockeys. Olive saved the winnings which she used to pay Emerson, and Emerson figures that someone is trying to avenge Jacobs. Olive figures that someone is going after the people who placed, in the order they came in. |
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At the jockey bar, Emerson talks to the bartender, Pinky McCoy, while another jockey, Gordon McSmalls, warns about Jacobs’ ghost. Gordon says that Jacobs’ [[tomb]] has been broken open so Olive and Emerson go there and open the coffin. All they find inside is the skeleton of a horse… with no legs. |
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Chuck and Digby go to the stable and find [[cracker]] crumbs, and Emerson surprises them, while Ned goes back to his old house, which is where he went when after seeing his father. Chuck, Emerson, and Olive go to see Jacobs’ mother, Mamma Jacobs. She invites them in and says that she made peace with her son’s death. She shows them his ashes, explaining that she had his horse All the Gold secretly buried in Jacobs’ tomb. They’re unaware that someone is watching them through the [[heating vent]]. |
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At Pinky’s bar, a ghostly figure appears and tramples him to death. Meanwhile, Ned goes to visit Chuck’s aunts next door and ask them to tell them what they can about his father. Chuck realizes that the pie they served him is from the Pie Hole (when the strawberries die when he touches them) and goes to leave, and Vivian tries to console him. |
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Ned goes to Pinky’s bar where everyone else is, checking out Pinky’s corpse and finding cracker crumbs on the floor. Chuck gets Olive out while Ned and Emerson interrogate Pinky’s corpse. Pinky reveals he fixed races and asks them to apologize to Olive: he figures Jacobs is seeking revenge on him and Olive benefited. They explain that Pinky briefly revived and Olive explained that one of them had cut Jacobs’ girth, causing him to fall to his death. The others agreed to keep the secret and destroy the saddle, over Olive’s objections. |
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They lock up Olive at her house then Ned and Emerson go to find Gordon, the last jockey, while Chuck guards Olive. Olive goes to the bed to get some booze in her bedroom but slips up to the roof and sees… John Joseph Jacobs. Chuck knocks him out briefly and they notice he’s two feet taller then he should be. Jacobs explains that they revived him but his legs were broken in the fall so they transplanted his horse’s legs onto him. Jacobs has been living in his mother’s basement while he relearned how to walk. Olive tells him to get out and live and Jacobs agrees. |
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The three of them go to Mamma Jacobs’ house and the women realize that she likes crackers. They examine Jacobs’ ashes and realize they’re from the burned saddle. The horseman rides into the house. |
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Emerson and Ned find Gordon and he mentions that Shoemaker confessed everything to Mamma Jacobs and gave her the ashes to prove what he was saying was true. The horseman removes her mask to reveal that she’s… Mamma Jacobs. She’s seeking revenge for the fact her son lost his chance to win the Triple Crown. They run out of the house as Mamma Jacobs gallops after them. Ned and Emerson get to the house and hear them in the nearby woods. Chuck twists her ankle and Olive gets her to safety before luring Mamma Jacobs away. Ned grabs her just in time while Emerson clubs Mamma Jacobs with a shovel. Olive embraces Ned… who drops her to go to Chuck. |
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Mamma Jacobs ends up in jail while Olive gives the trophy cup to Jacobs. Ned and Chuck go to her aunt’s house and Ned says he knows about the pies. Chuck then dresses up as a ghost and goes up to the aunts for trick-or-treat. |
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