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Quincy M.E. Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1977 - 1977
Episode 1
Snake Eyes
Fri, Feb 4, 197760 mins
Quincy, Lee and Danny are all in Lake Tahoe together. Quincy is there for a forensic Pathologist convention and the others for a weekend break. While they are there the guests and staff start coming down with some kind of strange illness. Quincy and a couple of other Forensic Pathologists are called in to help but when some of the patients start dying they still have no clue as to what is killing them. To make things worse the casino owner does not want to admit that anything is wrong, as it will affect his bookings and profits.
Episode 2
Snake Eyes: Part 2
Fri, Feb 4, 197760 mins
The disease continues to spread and the rest of the hotel/casino's guests want to know what is going on. They want to get out of the building but Quincy and his colleagues know that they have to keep the disease, and the guests, contained. If the disease gets out of the hotel it could cause an epidemic that could quickly spread all over the country.
Episode 3
...The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone...
Fri, Feb 11, 197775 mins
A thigh bone is found buried on the building site of a new student union building. Quincy is teaching a class at the university and soon involves himself and his students who the bone belonged to, how they died and possibly even who killed him. Not surprisingly Monaghan and Asten consider this a complete waste of time and want Quincy to get back to his job and stop bothering them.
Episode 4
Visitors in Paradise
Fri, Feb 18, 197760 mins
Quincy and Danny go on a fishing holiday to the beautiful lakeside town of Paradise, free from their troubles of restaurant managing and Dr. Asten. Almost as soon as they have started fishing a young woman pulls her boat alongside them and thanks Quincy for coming to investigate her mother's murder. Quincy has no idea what she is on about but is affected by her pleading and agrees to look into it.
Episode 5
The Two Sides of Truth
Fri, Feb 25, 197760 mins
Quincy investigates the death in an oil refinery fire. Is the man missing executive William Farrell? Quincy comes under pressure from the man's widow and her lawyer to declare a death for insurance purposes. Then Quincy discovers his conclusions will be refuted by Dr. Herbert Stone, the man who taught Quincy and whom he regards as a mentor. Dr. Stone now testifies for anyone willing to pay his fees. But Quincy believes the evidence is irrefutable, and Stone's testimony will destroy a once exemplary reputation, now tarnished by mercantilism. Quincy must discover the truth before his old mentor can destroy himself on the stand.
Episode 6
Hit and Run at Danny's
Fri, Mar 11, 197760 mins
Quincy helps a football player struck by a car in Danny's parking lot. Later, the car is pulled from the water and there is just one body inside - a young woman who is friends with Quincy's girlfriend and whom police assume caused the accident. That's big trouble for Danny, because if he served her last, he may be liable for the accident. At autopsy, Quincy discovers evidence of extensive plastic surgery, and his investigators hit walls trying to identify the young woman's next of kin. Discovering her identity may be the key to saving Danny's restaurant, but there are people in the government who would prefer the young lady's past remain a mystery
Episode 7
Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?
Fri, Mar 18, 197760 mins
Quincy disappears at the worst time: a "corpse" delivered to the morgue isn't as dead as the hospital believes. Monahan needs help with a diamond smuggling case, and a young boy with symptoms that defy diagnosis arrives at the hospital. Fortunately, Dr. Hiro - Quincy's boss' boss - fills in...
Episode 8
A Good Smack in the Mouth
Fri, Apr 15, 197760 mins
Asten's wife picks up a 9-year-old boy, Joey, out hitchhiking and both are in a car accident. When Quincy realizes that the bruises on Joey's body are too old to be from the crash, he becomes determined to prove that his parents are beating him--and to get them help before Joey becomes one of his patients.
Episode 9
The Hot Dog Murder
Fri, Apr 22, 197760 mins
After a talk at a university a student who wants his advice approaches Quincy. He thinks that a body that was donated to the university was murdered, that he didn't die accidentally as the records show. What makes it worse is that the body came from a top security prison wing, where the man was being held for his own safety at the time.
Episode 10
An Unfriendly Radiance
Fri, Apr 29, 197760 mins
Sam calls Quincy at Danny's with a strange case: an accident victim with very unusual blood test results. The man died from an small gash on his forehead, because his blood could not clot. Monohan arrests the driver, who was discovered with a small amount of cocaine that he claims belonged to the passenger. To clear the driver's name, Quincy and Sam must discover exactly how the dead man received a lethal dose of radiation. He works at a nuclear power plant, but the type of radioactive material there could not have caused his death. So where was he exposed? And why?
Episode 11
Sullied Be Thy Name
Fri, May 6, 197751 mins
A well-known priest, who is running a crusade against pornography, is found dead in the room of a prostitute. She insists that he had a heart attack while she was with him. Monahan cannot believe that Father Terrell would have betrayed his principles and wants Quincy to look very closely when he autopsies the body. Quincy finds some discrepancies and wants to do a more detailed investigation, starting with Carlo Dicassa, noted pornographer and enemy of the father.
Episode 12
Valleyview
Fri, May 13, 197760 mins
Valleyview, a convalescent and nursing care home, has an excellent reputation. Then Howard Phillips dies of a blood clot - a heart attack - and his nephew drops $362 on Quincy's desk. That is the county's fee for an autopsy, which is the young man's right, so Quincy performs the examination - and discovers the elder Phillips' heart was in fine shape, with no evidence of a clot. A second patient succumbs to the same mysterious disorder, and shortly after that staff nurse Grayson. All come to Quincy's table; none reveals the secret. Asten pressures Quincy to step lightly around Valleyview's reputation lest the good work it does be destroyed forever. But until Quincy can determine the cause of death, he cannot dismiss any possibility - including the most damning one of all, that Valleyview might have an Angel of Death among its staff...
Episode 13
Let Me Light the Way
Fri, May 27, 197760 mins
A rapist is terrorizing Los Angeles. After one attack, a nurse who worked at a local hospital dies as a result of shock. The prime suspect is a mechanic who has eluded capture. Even though Quincy and the police pretty much know who it is they can't arrest him due to lack of evidence. Things become personal when he attacks a rape counselor who Quincy has become friendly with.
