After Ned's confession to Chuck about killing her father, in the previous episode it isn't surprising that things aren't going well between them. In fact Chuck has gone off leaving a distraught Ned walking the streets looking for her. Chuck however is staying with Olive and even tells her about how Ned brought her back to life; of course she doesn't believe that. While this is going on Emerson gets a new case; somebody is killing insurance adjusters; specifically ones who were involved in turning down a teenaged boy's heart transplant operation. When Ned wakes the first victim the only think he knows is that he was killed with kindness... well; a baseball bat with the word 'kindness' carved into it. The victims are found hidden inside snowmen on the lawn of the boy's house. He certainly seems bitter enough to have done it but his health is such that he couldn't kill anybody himself; no matter how much he wishes he could. When Ned is off helping Emerson Chuck takes to the roof where she meets Oscar Vibenius, the 'smell man' again, it turns out he is still intrigued by her scent of death. Trying to avoid Ned Chuck asks Olive to bake a pie for her aunts but she adds far too much of the homoeopathic antidepressant causing Aunt Lily to start hallucinating and in the final moments of the episode she lets out a surprising revelation.
This was a fine conclusion to the first season; the mystery may have been smaller than usual but it was still entertaining. The story of how Ned and Chuck's friendship will be affected by her knowledge of his part in the death was well handled; it was both interesting and rather touching. It was good to see Paul Reubens return as Oscar Vibenius as he proved to be an interesting character in 'Smell of Success' and continued to be entertaining despite the viewer knowing he wasn't a suspect this time. The scenes were Swoosie Kurtz' character, Lily Charles, is hallucinating were hilarious and her final revelation to Olive came as a real shock; no doubt how Olive deals with this knowledge will be important in the next series.
This was a fine conclusion to the first season; the mystery may have been smaller than usual but it was still entertaining. The story of how Ned and Chuck's friendship will be affected by her knowledge of his part in the death was well handled; it was both interesting and rather touching. It was good to see Paul Reubens return as Oscar Vibenius as he proved to be an interesting character in 'Smell of Success' and continued to be entertaining despite the viewer knowing he wasn't a suspect this time. The scenes were Swoosie Kurtz' character, Lily Charles, is hallucinating were hilarious and her final revelation to Olive came as a real shock; no doubt how Olive deals with this knowledge will be important in the next series.