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Diagnosis Murder Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
The Roast
Thu, Sep 23, 199945 mins
The day Dr. Mark Sloane is to be 'honored' as Man of the Year at the Roast, where comedians makes merciless fun of him in the Jokers Club, which despite its fun-loving name is also a cesspit of envy and blame, Andy Baxter, a sideman who made a surprise appearance grossly insulting the speaker, Lou Summers, and dropping trou he's killed during a very short power break by a knife in the back. While Steve is conducting first interrogations, the killer knocks out Jesse and stabs Lou to death. The crowd provide multiple clues and suspicions, but Mark figures it all out by elimination on accounts of motive and opportunity.
Episode 2
Sleeping Murder
Thu, Sep 30, 199945 mins
When a businessman runs through the streets to shoot an apparent nobody in clear daylight, Steve is puzzled. Mark is even more surprised when his annoying brother Stacy Sloan appears after a drive all the way from Arkansas for free medical consult with a bad back; worse, he is found to relapse into dangerous sleepwalking landing him twice at the site of a fatal accident or murder of a patient. Meanwhile Dr. Madison Wesley, the new dean of the medical school, is brutally harsh on young Dr. Daniel Richards, despite Mark's pleading to cut the talented kid some slack after an honest mix-up of patients and charts. How does all this fit together?
Episode 3
Bringing Up Barbie
Thu, Oct 7, 199945 mins
Now Susan his run off to Oregon with a chiropractor, Jesse suffers babysitting Amanda's rascal CJ. Mark is delighted to meet in BBQ Bob's Chuck Greer, who once saved Steve's life in Vietnam, and accepts minding for a while his daughter Barbara, who also proves a handful. Steve discovers he has been assuming the identity of the wealthy Ralph Eastman, as he ran from a clothes shop chased -both in their underwear- by an unknown man who recognized him. Both Sloanes are surprised to hear she knew her dad wanted her off his hands for several days, not knowing he's offering mobster Tommy Toussaint to repay a fortune he embezzled two years earlier- they find out when the crook kidnaps Mark and Barbie...
Episode 4
Murder at Midterm
Thu, Oct 14, 199945 mins
When bright med student Quinn Montgomery, whose formerly rich family from Miami was ruined, learns during midterms that his penniless lover Holly Harris is pregnant, which would ruin his wedding plans with heiress Jennifer Warner, he arranges her death with poisoned Chinese takeaway and sets up a stooge. Once Amanda points out the supposed suicide or accident is fake since there's no gelatin in her stomach, so her food had to be spiked, Mark Sloane starts investigating every single detail till he knows enough to set a trap...
Episode 5
The Flame
Thu, Oct 21, 199945 mins
While Jesse is jogging he sees smoke coming out of a garage, breaks the door but is too late to save Frank Baumgart, the apparent suicide victim. Amanda finds he was on Prozac but also was hit hard on the head. Steve finds a wrench and the finger prints of Frank's ex-boss John Parkinson, who has a violence record and was being sued by him for $2,000,000 he didn't even have, on the suicide note; Johns wife Livia turns to Mark, her old friend. Then John produces proof she was too close again with Frank, but denies hiring the PI to the Sloanes. Livia now tells Mark she lied to give John an alibi. Betsy, a blonde jogger in the neighborhood, dates both Jesse and Steve, who worries once having busted her brother. More details and minor witnesses further complicate the picture, but Mark figures it all out...
Episode 6
The Killer Within
Thu, Oct 28, 199945 mins
Dr. Madison Wesley asks Mark to help Lisa, her great love's daughter, whom she found OD'd, into a prime rehab. After five days she steals admittedly at least one syringe of Demerol from an open medicine cabinet, and finds Tommy Santini ODd from three more, although he was afraid of needles, so she's arrested. Shortly after a session with Dr. Carla Meyer, the MD in charge, another patient, Kiki, is found dead with a suicide note, which Mark proves absurd; then he sets a trap...
Episode 7
Gangland: Part 1
Thu, Nov 4, 199945 mins
Gangster 'Mr. G', a perfect Mark Sloane lookalike, is released from jail; his gang has moved business to California, and rented a Malibu beach-house. His daughter, who took care of the 'firm' for years, is furious to be shoved aside again from the new project, the 'Gangland' casino for which she got the governor to sign a private bill granting the state's first-ever license by bribing politicians, but can't go trough with having him killed by a sniper, and decides on kidnapping her old man- but gets Mark instead, while the real Mr. G is mistaken for Mark even by Jesse, who needs him to testify a customer who made a bad fall in BBQ Bob's was simply drunk... Steve investigates the murder by sniper of Chester Chumley, the old man about to retire and close Ponyland, an old-fashioned children's ride, who was prepared to donate the Malibu land to Community General for a supervised patients care 'wellness center'; Chester's nephew and heir Lucas is more likely to sell the valuable beach property, which would fit into the casino plan...
Episode 8
Gangland: Part 2
Thu, Nov 4, 199945 mins
Mark is brought in shot, Jesse saves him -while student Alex Smith does his rounds- by removing the bullet, but he has temporary amnesia; no, that's lookalike mobster John 'Mr. G' Gotti: the real doc walks in with Steve, but soon Mr. G knocks him down and takes his place; his daughter finds Mark locked into the closet, but the mobster walks into a trap at his girlfriend's. Steve is just in time to prevent a sniper casing a fatal accident in Ponyland, discovers the daughter is working as administrator on the wellness center project and helps Mark set a trap...
Episode 9
The Mouth That Roared
Thu, Nov 11, 199945 mins
Radio shock-jock Denise Steiner declares on a TV show 'in jest' she would have to kill her birth mother, who abandoned her after birth, if she ever found her after all of these years. While Mark is her radio guest, she gets a call in the long-lasting search for her mom; she doesn't take it seriously, but after the show an assistant shows that the caller, Joanne Lombardi, knew about her secret birthmark. Meanwhile, Jesse warns everybody that his visiting mother is a terror by being too nice- she surprises even him by offering a full partnership in her private practice in Minneapolis. Denise goes looking for Joanna, finds her dead and is arrested. Mark fills in as radio host, and while providing sage advice over the air, snoops at the station. Someone plants the murder weapon in her flat's aquarium, but its obvious place convinces Mark it's a frame; then is appears Joanne was not a mother but turned in the Arriaga family with Immigration, but how can he trap the obvious suspect?
Episode 10
The Seven Deadly Sins
Thu, Nov 18, 199945 mins
The Sloane sleuths are joined by female Scotland Yard inspector Churchill when a murder is committed by Grant Connors, an expert art thief and seducer she follows everywhere. Yet she has a deal with him to reunite a set of diamonds last owned by the last Romanov czar. When Mark confronts her being a phony, she tells to be one of his victims, Vanessa Sellars, whose husband died from heart-failure when surprising them. Meanwhile Jesse decides to donate to the same auction, for the benefit of the hospital, a possibly priceless violin his father gave him. The auction proves eventful...
Episode 11
Santa Claude
Thu, Dec 16, 199945 mins
Claude Campbell, the hospital's janitor, is looking forward to play Santa Clause again, but Mark diagnoses him with terminal cancer. The preparations for Christmas festivities are difficult- Jesse bitches about the commercial side and social pressure, even more after someone breaks his car window and steals all his presents, but finally volunteers BBQ Bob's for a homeless dinner; Mark can't find any good voices for a barber shop quartet. Trying to get Claude eligible for assistance, Steve discovers his identity is false, he's actually Andrew Basevich, an escaped Missouri convict condemned for murdering his wife Sharon; he admits but claims he was innocent, which hypnotic regression seems to confirm. When a sheriff's deputy turns up for his extradition, Mark emotionally blackmails Steve to go investigate in St. Louis, decades late but against the clock. Even when he finds proof, the legal proceedings seem unstoppable until after Claudes six months prognosis expires...
Episode 12
Man Overboard
Thu, Jan 6, 200045 mins
Mark is asked by a friend to cover for a cruise ship's Doctor, who has gone on his honeymoon, splitting the medical duties with Jesse and Amanda, and Steve tags along for a much needed vacation. Barely aboard, they must save multimillionaire Robert Brantigan, who somehow had taken a triple dose of insulin. Jesse and Amanda drown in patients, especially after Mark takes on the duties of the injured Activities Director. Robert goes missing, and his wife Clare reports him missing to the ships' Captain. News reaches the cruise ship that his drowned body has been recovered. Steve learns Robert's daughter Tracy (from his first marriage) has access through her pharmaceutical internet business to the drugs that are found in Robert's body during Amanda's autopsy, and she determines he's been murdered. His wife suggests he may have been suicidal, and definitely drunk when she saw him the night before, then accuses his daughter Amy, who confides in Steve that his recent angry outbursts were due to a brain tumor he'd told nobody else about. The L.A.P.D. talks to the sister of Clare's first husband, Carl Donahue (who also perished at sea on a cruise), but Clare points out she wasn't then, and isn't now in her husbands' will - but the sister tells Steve she was paid handsomely by his insurance company. Key pieces of evidence are found hidden in Amy's cabin. Will Mark, Amanda, Steve and Jesse be able to put all the clues together to catch the killer?
Episode 13
Frontier Dad
Thu, Jan 13, 200045 mins
The whole gang, plus Alex Smith and Amanda's rascals, is invited to observe the shooting of an episode of "Frontier dad", a family series about Wild West hero Dash, starring Carl Simpson who gets a bit old but still does some stunts himself. His stuntman Jimmy falls to his death after multiple sabotage, including the radio instructions. Steve investigates high-profile undercover as the new stuntman, while Jesse temporarily replaces the fired medic, and diagnoses Steve hurt bad enough to see Mark in hospital. They learn Carls ratings are down while his teenage sidekicks are eager to take over center stage, while the producer feels pushed by Carl, someone else fears for her part. Jesse also gets a small part and enjoys snooping, helped by a cute secretary. Then a locked door nearly kills Steve and Carl in a take of an explosion, and the one man who had opportunity for that once was injured because of Carl. Mark discovers on tapes a trampoline sabotage proving Jimmy as the intended victim of the fatal fall. Yet another actress's medical diagnosis leads to other suspects...
Episode 14
Too Many Cooks
Thu, Jan 20, 200060 mins
The three doctor sleuths are celebrity guests in cooking shows on the Cuisine Chanel; Amanda even has a passionate relation with a star chef, René Fontineau. They soon learn the business is not relaxed but highly competitive. After a fire on the set and anaphylactic shock strike and kill René, Steve starts a murder investigation in what turns out to be a cesspit of grudges, greed and other personal or financial potential motives for the channel's sole owner, Keith Dunn, who once started as partner in a Cajun restaurant with René, the surviving star cooks and even Rene's nephew and personal assistant Josh, all of whom are found to tell lies which Mark must sift trough and figure out the part of fate.
Episode 15
Jake's Women
Thu, Feb 3, 200045 mins
When Jake Caldwell brings in his wife to the hospital, Mark learns it's Caroline, another woman besides the spouse Gloria he already knows, and Jake is in fact a bigamist. Just after Gloria finds out, she gets wounded and two days later Jake is killed, but by one or two shooters? It also comes out that Casanova Jake had a mistress on top of his wives, and both of them had invested their own money into his sinking business -he leaves them only debt- and his secretary's loyalty to the point of doctoring papers smells of another lover. Meanwhile, Steve finds he may be in a similar situation with his own girlfriend Maeve Michaels.
Episode 16
Murder by Remote
Thu, Feb 10, 200045 mins
Now noisy construction work drives Steve crazy at Mark's beach-house, he decides to move out, making his dad nostalgic. When Jesse's girl friend Lana dies in the pool of a fully computer-controlled house after disregarding a warning to keep out, Steve considers domotics both for his criminal and residential searches. Bruce Locatelli, the creator-CEO of the model which killed, suggests but refuses to say formally that his competitor Donald Purdy deliberately sabotaged his system by reprogramming it via the 'backdoor'. Mark finds out about Locatelli's past, but then he dies in an accident involving his own system at home; however it appears he may have planned to be saved by his maid who was held up by an exceptional traffic queue. Then the other doctors learn Locatalli may still be killing by pre-programming, and could have done so in Steve's new home, where Mark is indeed locked inside...
Episode 17
Teacher's Pet
Thu, Feb 17, 200045 mins
Mark and Steve go fishing; when they return they find med student Mickey Hoving, who was house-sitting, murdered, according to his wife Jill who is sitting next to him but unharmed by armed robbers. All physical evidence contradicts her story, and indeed she has a lover's row at the hospital with Dr. Donald Ward, which Jesse knew about, but she convinces him not to speak up. The only stolen effects are found dumped in the ocean; Dr. Ward tells Mark about their affair without accusing Jill. When Mark finds a contact lens, he realizes Ward is a suspect too, or probably the pair of them did it together- at her trial, they seem to be playing an elaborate game, but how can the Sloanes disprove it or is it too late already?
Episode 18
The Unluckiest Bachelor in L.A.
Thu, Feb 24, 200045 mins
Despite his clumsy and willful appearance, his honesty gets Steve picked in a TV dating program by candidate Lily Wilson. On their first date, in a park with cameras lurking around, he gets shot, but not seriously wounded; on their second, a car runs her over fatally. It turns out she was the -never before mentioned- sister of Community General doctor Frederick Wilson. After her roomy and friend Jean points Steve to P.I. Lou Tyler, he and Mark find out about Dr. Wilson's dark past...
Episode 19
A Resting Place
Thu, Apr 6, 200045 mins
Steve's retired colleague Dave 'Hawk' Hawkins is murdered while undercover in the resting home Sunny Meadows. While waiting for Steve to perform an arrest, a vase is smashed onto his skull, expertly staged as a bath-drowning. Director Miss Winkle is most uncooperative, but Steve works out that Hawk was working on a robbery case, involving retiree Bart Ellison who was recently released from jail and still had a $2,000,000 loot, but he dies from an OD. The sleuths' theory being the motive was his hefty inheritance; Mark has himself signed in as retired banker Brinkley by Jesse, who helps Steve look for what Bart spent his ill gotten gains on. Friendly nurse Julie Crane is left a painting as memento; administrator Zanuck steals a valuable timepiece, valued a good replica, then finds a rat attributed to the garbage strike, while Steve researches Zanuck's father was in on the robbery. But then Mark has to blow his cover to perform an emergency tracheotomy...
Episode 20
Murder at BBQ Bob's
Thu, Apr 20, 200045 mins
While US Marines Captain Paul Davis, Lieutenant Richard Martinelli -an MP- and Lieutenant Jean Romanski are eating at BBQ Bob's during Jesse's shift, a fourth, Captain Hank Thomas, bursts in saying "You'll all be sorry" and shoots himself in the head. Steven has barely started his investigation when female NIS agent Warrant Officer Hannah Bernstein bursts in and claims the case for the military, illegally, yet he gentlemanly accepts to collaborate; even after they know he used the wrong hand base commander Colonel Lucien Chandler orders her to close the case as suicide, but she continues helping Steve 'on her own time'. They discover some suspicious things, such as an affair between one Davis, the colonels adjutant, and his wife Susan Chandler, and Mark figures out how everything fits together.
Episode 21
Two Birds with One Sloan
Thu, Apr 27, 200045 mins
Wheel chair user Saul Singer has a car accident but Mark gets him by ambulance to TV presenter Drew McIntyre's trivia quiz "Through the Roof" where he is breaking the earnings records - because he blackmails him to hand over the answers in advance. Steve hears Saul's car brakes were subtly sabotaged. The next show day, Saul has a fatal asthma crisis on air; Amanda finds his vital inhaler was empty. Drew's assistant, who was impressed by his memory, recruits Mark for an audition as contestant, which he aces and thus can snoop on the set. Meanwhile Steve finds Saul had Drew's secret cell phone number and investigates, helped by Jesse, how a car accident while bird-watching got Saul into his wheelchair and ties to Drew...
Episode 22
Swan Song
Thu, May 4, 200045 mins
Singer/pianist Danielle Marsh has her own grand piano flown to L.A. from New York claiming it's the only thing that calms her jittery nerves, and moves in with the Sloanes until her concert. Jesse hesitates to help med. student Ellie Rose meet her idol and present her own composition in her style. When Danielle comes for a medical check-up when Mark isn't in, she walks out after insulting Jesse; she's equally impossible at the theater and claims to have been chased in a red car by a man who had hassled her earlier in New York. Just when symptoms of memory loss have convinced Mark it was all in her head, someone shoots at her and him. . .
Episode 23
Out of the Past
Thu, May 11, 200045 mins
When a girl cop is brought in wounded, Jesse patches her up and dates her, but as Amanda finds and brings out she sets him up for a staged scary ride. Alex recognizes her roommate Amy Saroyan as a youth friend, runaway from home. She also was the roommate of the late call-girl Oaks, the godmother of her daughter Shannon; Oaks had a 'tame cop', Steve's ruthlessly ambitious colleague detective Robert Cardinal, who walks into a trap they set so he'll shoot the fake Amy. Meanwhile hospital official Dr. Madison Wesley dates slick Brett Hayward and plays along in his seemingly harmless scam... Amy still won't stay but invites Alex along to live on the 'value' of Clarissa's address book and Shannon proves to be a fictitious character, so Steve arrests her as extortionist...
Episode 24
Getting Mad, Getting Even
Thu, May 11, 200045 mins
Two weeks later, Brett Hayward murders Dr. Hjortsberg, the plastic surgeon who created his present identity, knowing him as patient Eddie Dagabosian, and as such harbors a grudge against Madison, with whom he moves in, but Steve's LAPD team finds the drugs the killer 'stole' in a nearby dumpster. Meanwhile a 'Dr. anonymous' publishes a sleaze bestseller book version of the Community General sleuths, entitled Big City Hospital, for which half the staff mistakes Jesse, even Amanda. Although everything goes wrong now in Madison's life, she resents Mark for running a check on Brett, which finds little, even suspiciously so. Steve questions in vain the real, clueless Eddie, a fence in prison. Brett cleverly arranges Madison to seem gone mad, but the Sloanes get back to Eddie and work out his past connection with Madison and ...
