PUSHING DAISIES: "Pickle" - PAGE 6

Things not looking so good for Pushing Daisies.



• INT. THE PIE HOLE - DAY
• EMERSON reads the paper across from NED as CHUCK slides in beside him.
  
• EMERSON
  
• That’s the fifth time.
  
• Emerson puts the paper down on the table.
  
• CHUCK
  
• Fifth time for what?
  
• NED
  
• Fifth murder victim found.
  
• Ned taps the headline, which reads "Fifth Murder Victim Found," over a photo of said victim.
  
• CHUCK
  
• (asking Ned)
  
• How many until you’re a serial killer?
  
• NED
  
• I’m not a serial killer.
  
• CHUCK
  
• You in the not-you sense.
  
• EMERSON
  
• You’re kind of a serial killer.
  
• NED
  
• I’m a serial lifer.
  
• EMERSON
  
• Followed one minute later by unlifing. A series of them, one might say.
  
• NED
  
• One might not say.
  
• CHUCK
  
• I for one.
  
• NED
  
• She for one.
  
• CHUCK
  
• I don’t say.
  
• EMERSON
  
• You don’t say? Seems to me you do a lot of saying. You know who else doesn’t say?
  
• Ned and Chuck look at other and back at Emerson. Shrug. Emerson taps the newspaper, on the picture of the fifth victim.
  
• EMERSON
  
• Number five. But I’ve got a hunch we can get him to say.