Family Plots

Blood Is Thicker Than Water (1x1)

: 19, 2004

In this premier episode, we are introduced to the employees of the Poway Bernardo Mortuary, a busy California funeral home: Shonna Smith, the head mortician; Emily Vigney, the office manager; Rick Sadler, the boos; Melissa Wissmiller, the assistant funeral director; Chuck Wissmiller, hearse driver (and father of Shonna, Emily and Melissa); John Greeney, apprentice embalmer; and David Moravee, funeral director. Shonna has only thirty minutes to get a body prepared and to the funeral. Chuck objects to Emily's joke about his diabetes and Emily freaks out, tosses her pizza on the lunchroom wall, and storms out. A circuit breaker problem shuts down the phone system. Chuck talks about his former boxing career and picks up a few of his boxing students in the mortuary's van with a corpse coming along for the ride. At the end of the day, the three sisters have a ""girls' night out"" to escape the stress of the day. Synopsis from A&E: Welcome to Poway Bernardo Mortuary, where a real-life death e