1x01 Pilot - Dead Like Me Episode Guide

Dead Like Me

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 100
First Aired: Jun. 27, 2003

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Kirsti	played by Jodelle Ferland
Dave Romain	played by David Lewis (IV)
Record Store Employee B.M. Moore	played by Matthew Currie Holmes
Becky	played by Debbie Podowski
Brett	played by Brad Sihvon
Druggie #1	played by Sean Amsing
Druggie #2	played by Stefan Arngrim
Doug	played by William MacDonald (II)
Duane	played by Blu Mankuma

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Data Entry Guy: Files don't just disappear. George: They do if you drop them down an elevator shaft.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot George: Who decides what we look like? Mason: I don't know. Maybe this is what our inner child looks like when it grows up. George: If that were the case, it looks like my inner child's road to adulthood was paved with crack cocaine, ten-dollar blowjobs, and maybe even a trick baby or two.

CONT: While George works at Happy Time, before her death, she drops a file with a red paper sticking out down the elevator shaft. While she is walking to the guys desk she is holding the file she dropped. Then when she sets the files on his desk, it is gone.
CONT: As Georgia is walking down the hall of files she has her hair in front of her name tag. A few seconds later there is no hair covering the name tag and Georgia makes it a point to cover the name tag with her hair.
FAIR: After George is struck by the toilet seat and killed she walks over to one of her shoes and kicks it causing it to stand up. It is subsequently established that dead spirits can't interact with solid matter, but we also see her move the letters on the fridge door, so dead spirits can obviously move things around sometimes (just like general ghost lore).
CONT: In later episodes, it is established that if you reap the soul after death, the soul has the characteristics of the dead body - like claw-marks on the face, flattened heads or even autopsy scars. Yet here, Roxy reaps a woman's soul after a piano has fallen on her, but her soul emerges totally intact and unscathed.
CONT: When Mason and George are about to go into the house of the murdered accountant we see the lock from the inside of the apartment and it's unlocked. When we see it again it's locked and then Mason unlocks it.

George's wish that she could just "wish it into the corn field" is a reference to Jerome Bixby's short story, "It's a Good Life," in which a little boy with god-like powers whisks an entire town into an alternate reality, and holds the population in a paralysis of fear. "Wish it into the cornfield" was what his mother pleaded with Anthony to do to creatures, and people, that he had killed. The story was adapted for the original "The Twilight Zone" (1959), with Bill Mumy, and re-imagined for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).