Deadbeat (TV series)

Kevin owes Roofie money, so in order to pay him back, Kevin runs Roofie's newsstand for the day. While at the newsstand, a guy named Gucci Man comes to Kevin, asking for his help with a haunted blanket. The ghost in the blanket is nicknamed Shaky Hands (Godfrey), who went to movie theaters to record movies, then would sell them as DVDs on Bootlegger Row, but his hands shook a lot while holding the camera, giving him the nickname. Before he died, Shaky recorded a video without the camera shaking, which also recorded a murder in front of him. Shaky wants Kevin to show the video to Gucci Man so that he will be respected, and will no longer have that nickname. After finding the video, the Swedish Mafia, who committed the murder in the video, kidnap Kevin. Kevin, fearing for his life, explains that he is a medium, and proves it by telling that the boss of the Swedish Mafia (Darrell Hammond), who is a ghost, was gay. Then, in front of the Swedish Mafia, the boss goes into his light. The Swedish Mafia then get Kevin to dig his own grave, to prevent Kevin from using the information of the Swedish Mafia's victims against them. Shaky Hands brings Gucci Man to help Kevin, where 3 of the four Mafia members are agents, and Shaky Hands killing the last one, who held Kevin hostage. The agents, who killed the man in the theater, decide it is best to destroy the tape. This causes Kevin to be sad, because now Shaky Hands will never be respected and go into the light. Gucci Man tells Kevin that he gave Shaky Hands that nickname out of respect for him. Shaky Hands, who hears this, goes to his light.

Kevin's business is working smoothly with the newsstand helping to draw more business. He is approached by a comedy club owner, Darcy (Samantha Bee), who wants help with a haunting at her club. Upon confronting the ghost, a dead comedian named Buddy Silver (Jason Kravits), he finds that the ghost doesn't want to leave since he enjoys performing for other ghosts. To get rid of the stubborn comedian, Roofie suggests providing him with a terrible audience so that he will go into the light. Kevin shows up to Buddy Silver's next show with a group of women who died on the way to a bachelorette party. The women, who are more interested in a strip show, ruin Buddy Silver's performance, and he disappears. However, now the comedy club is haunted by a bachelorette party that demands a stripper. Kevin provides them with a male stripper, but the stripper misinterprets the situation and dances for Kevin instead. When he tries to explain the situation, the stripper runs away, believing that Kevin is a murderer. The frustrated bachelorette party refuses to leave until they see some actual nudity, and Kevin ends up exposing himself to them, allowing the women to disappear into the light.

25 years ago, on Halloween, Kevin and a child at an orphanage use a mirror in a basement, and say "Bloody Mary" 3 times. While the other kid doesn't see anything, Kevin sees the ghost of Bloody Mary (Brooke Lyons), and talks to her. Since then, every Halloween, Kevin talked to Mary via a mirror. In the present, Kevin and Roofie go to a restaurant, and Roofie orders a Bloody Mary for him, Kevin, and the hungover waitress. Because Roofie says "Bloody Mary" 3 times, Kevin sees Mary in a mirror, and they catch up. Kevin, ever since he was a child, had a crush on Mary, and decides to see if he can get the mirror from the orphanage from when he first met Mary. Kevin goes to the orphanage and talks to Sister Brothers, who will give the mirror to Kevin if he can get rid of a ghost haunting the orphanage. The ghost is a child named Amber, who doesn't communicate verbally. Kevin takes Amber to his apartment, trying to solve her problem, but he doesn't know what she wants. Kevin, who turns away for a minute, sees Amber is missing, along with his knife/lighter and a picture of Camomile from a magazine.

Roofie buys a teardown online for a cheap price, and brings Kevin along. Roofie plans on sprucing up the house and selling it back on the market for a high price. Kevin goes with Roofie to see if he can scavenge anything from the house. However, Kevin and Roofie soon learn that the house is haunted. Kevin finds out that the previous owners of the house were a couple named Jack (Ethan Phillips) and Julep (Mary Testa), who died arguing about what color to paint the kitchen. Julep poisoned Jack's drink, and Jack found out, and stabbed her 47 times, and Julep pushed him down the stairs, breaking his neck. Kevin, who acts as a counselor for them, find out that the only reason they stayed together for so long was Brianna (Halley Feiffer), their 30 year old daughter. Brianna was a shy girl who liked to play with her dolls, and when she saw her parents dead, she called the police, and unknowingly drank the poison.

Jeremy Goldberg, a businessman, asks Kevin to check on a haunted apartment that belonged to Jeremy's father. Kevin learns that every month for the past 40 years, the rent was paid on time, with a check arriving on the landlord's table via the vent. Kevin finds out that the apartment is inhabited by the ghost of Rube Goldberg, inventor of Rube Goldberg machines, and Jeremy's grandfather, who rented the apartment under Jeremy's dad's name. Rube Goldberg plans on making the most elaborate Rube Goldberg machine of all time, and promises Kevin $10,000. Jeremy tells the landlord he no longer wants the apartment, and he doesn't want Kevin to help, but Kevin does anyway. Rube Goldberg asks Kevin for a certain spring from Arab Spring office, a 4-hole bowling ball(used for people with 6 fingers) from a certain bowling alley, and a blind hamster from the Kindergarten class at an elementary school. Kevin succeeds getting the spring by disguising himself as fruit delivery guy, and gets the bowling ball, but accidentally breaks the fingers of a bowler, but is stopped by some kids who bully him at the elementary school by throwing soccer balls at him.

Kevin later goes to a cafe to talk to Roofie, but sees Camomile on a date with a TV actor. Camomile reveals to Kevin that she is not interested in him, and says that he will never amount to anything. Kevin then decides to prove her wrong by getting the $10,000 and finish his job. Kevin confronts the soccer players, but before their ball can hit Kevin, Chips stops the ball and destroys it, scaring the kids away. Kevin gets the hamster from the class, albeit injuring the hamster and causing the teacher to have a broken leg. Kevin brings the three items, finding out that Rube Goldberg didn't need them. Rube explains that his life of making his machines caused him to push his family away, and that he wanted to reunite his family using metaphysical dominoes. Rube needed Kevin to set the metaphysical dominoes in place, setting the greatest Rube Goldberg machine of all time. He tells Kevin to knock a group of dominoes. The dominoes send a paper airplane, which hits a taxi driver, causing a car crash. The crash causes the bowler with the broken fingers(who is making a delivery on his bike) to drop the Spring catalog for Arab Springs. This causes an employee at Arab Springs to get fired. The employee takes his stuff with him in the fruit box Kevin brought. As the employee leaves, the box opens, dropping an assortment of items, including a Magic 7 ball, which Jeremy slips over. Jeremy gets sent to the hospital, where he is placed in the same room as Sarah, the kindergarten teacher. Jeremy finds out that Sarah is Rube Goldberg's granddaughter, and Jeremy's long lost cousin. Jeremy then calls the apartment landlord, saying he is interested in the apartment, and asks him to fix a broken window. The landlord fixes the window, causing a mechanism in Rube's room to activate a lightbulb, sending Rube Goldberg into his light.

The Mayor of New York City (Ray Wise) offers Kevin a career-making case, for $10,000 if can remove the haunting of the subway. On site, Kevin meets Mikey O'shmidt (Domenick Lombardozzi) who appears to be caught in an infinite loop of ghost denial, making him the most difficult case that Kevin has ever faced. While drinking at a bar to solve this problem, Kevin encounters Sue and the two talking there situation. After giving Kevin idea to distract Mikey from his loop by having a pretty woman during his conversations, Kevin and Sue drink until they're "more drunk than they've ever been." Kevin returns to the tunnel and waits for Sue only to find Camomile vying for his position. Kevin convinces the Mayor to Jockey for the Tunnel job result in a televised exorcise stand-off. Just when Kevin is about to convince them of his legit medium abilities, a wall mysteriously breaks. Camomile exposes that is in fact a trick (that she set up) and blames Kevin as a fake medium. Afterwards, she humiliates him by making Sue playback his previous recording from some days ago, denouncing his abilities as a medium. She convinces everyone to help her exorcise the ghost, only to have Mikey coincidentally, but not before realize what caused his death. Mikey goes into his light, causing the lights at the workers' feet to break. Kevin is humiliated and discredited, so no one believes his warnings that Mikey was killed by another angry ghost who haunts the construction site.

After being humiliated by Camomile, Kevin decides to quit the medium business and find some other non-ghost related employment. After a long and unsuccessful search, Kevin returns to his apartment to find the ghost of Sue (having been killed by the angry ghost from the tunnels). Reluctantly Kevin agrees to help ghost Sue as his last medium job by gathering Sue's remains for burial at sea. After gathering Sue's body parts, and a close encounter with the angry ghost, Sue and Kevin make it the water, only to discover that they left the bag in the taxi they took. Kevin retrieves the bag, only to have Camomile black-mail Kevin with a video of him gathering Sue's remains. She will frame him for murder if he doesn't make sure the tunnel is safe. Kevin and Sue return to tunnel to find Daniel L. Turner (Todd Barry), who wanted credit for designing the Second Avenue Subway, and said credit for the design had been stolen by Earl Greystone. So Sue suggests "rewriting history" by editing a page on Wikipedia to give Turner credit. With the help of Roofie, Turner goes into the light. Despite Kevin's objections, Roofie creates a wiki page for Kevin giving him partial credit for the Tunnel job. Camomile tries to exact revenge, but finds the video has mysteriously been destroyed.

Kevin explains to Roofie his predicament with Sue, and gives Roofie Sue's finger for safekeeping. While trying to "help" Sue find what is causing her to stay, Sue reveals she had an ex-boyfriend named Glen. At one point, they were supposed to have a date together, but Glen never showed up. Kevin goes to Glen, who reveals that he was getting ready to meet Sue, but got injured and lost her contact information as a result of a car accident. Sue suggests that they go on a date the next day, and Glen accepts. Kevin talks to Roofie, and Roofie tells Kevin that Kevin can control it, as Kevin is the only way for Glen to talk to Sue. Soon after, Glen comes to Kevin's stand, saying he died by slipping in a puddle in his bathroom. Glen decides to continue on his date without Kevin. Before he leaves, Glen says that his only regret is not being able to get his maid a Green Card by marrying her. Kevin then goes to the maid, and they get a marriage certificate. While getting the certificate, Glen meets Sue as a ghost, but almost immediately after seeing each other, Glen goes into the light. Kevin goes to meet Sue at the intended date spot, where Sue tells him about Glen, and she assumes that Glen's unfinished business was meeting her. Sue decides that she won't worry about getting into the light, and decides to live in the moment.