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Quincy M.E. Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 1
The Last Six Hours
Thu, Sep 21, 197860 mins
Finally getting to spend a bit of leave time with his latest flame, Barbara, Quincy heads off away from Los Angeles. They nearly get run off the road and then witness an accident. Quincy then finds himself in a life or death race to isolate a mysterious poison, found in the woman's body, that has already claimed two lives.
Episode 2
Speed Trap
Thu, Oct 12, 197860 mins
A race car driver is killed in a fiery crash. Quincy suspects foul play, especially when he finds amphetamines in the driver's system. He then tries to prove it was murder while at the same time dealing with a nosy insurance investigator whose company had a major policy on the driver.
Episode 3
A Test for Living
Thu, Oct 19, 197860 mins
A young boy who has run away from a home for mentally handicapped children is found dead. When Quincy performs the autopsy, however, he can find no medical reason for the boy being labeled mentally handicapped. He consults with an expert who suggests the boy may have been autistic instead. Quincy learns of another boy who is about to be committed to the same institution who may also be autistic, and fights to have him properly diagnosed before time runs out to get him into a proper school instead.
Episode 4
Death by Good Intentions
Thu, Oct 26, 197860 mins
When an indigent patient at a hospital dies unexpectedly, the young doctor who had been assigned to him is being blamed for making errors. He got the chance to practise at this hospital through the Affirmative Action prog - run by a good friend of Quincy's, who feels this whole situation puts the programme in jeopardy. But just as this is boiling to a head, more patients are dying - under suspicious circumstances
Episode 5
Images
Thu, Nov 2, 197860 mins
The world's most successful female television journalist appears to have been killed in a motel fire. But when the woman walks into the press conference where Quincy is announcing the cause of her death, people begin to question Quincy's competence. He has dental and x-ray evidence that support his findings, but when he starts hounding the journalist, trying to figure out who she really is, his career is in jeopardy.
Episode 6
Even Odds
Thu, Nov 9, 197860 mins
Quincy is called in to investigate the shooting of a bar owner in an apparent robbery attempt. During the investigation, the suspect panics and grabs the gun he used in the course of the robbery and starts shooting. During the shooting, Quincy is shot and is in grave condition. Monahan, Sam and Astin try to piece together what happened and using their memories of past cases that Quince worked on they try to figure out if he was shot by accident or maybe that his shooting was deliberate.
Episode 7
Dead and Alive
Thu, Nov 16, 197860 mins
After a courier van crashes into a gas station, Quincy declares that the driver died. But when the victim's sister starts getting odd calls that sound like they're coming from the dead man, Quincy decides that the driver was blown clear of the crash and is now wandering around somewhere, injured and disoriented. The courier company owner and the "dead" man's mother, however, support the initial determination. They want further investigation shut down, and it's up to Quincy to find out why, and more importantly, to find the driver before he dies for real.
Episode 8
No Way to Treat a Body
Thu, Nov 30, 197860 mins
Quincy helps his girlfriend move into a very odd rooming house. On her first night, she discovers 2 mummified bodies, hidden in the attic. Soon more bodies appear, but who was the murderer, and how they died isn't yet known.
Episode 9
A Night to Raise the Dead
Thu, Dec 7, 197860 mins
During a severe rainstorm, a mudslide washes several caskets from an old and supposedly abandoned cemetery. At first things look routine as Quincy tries to identify the bodies. However, he discovers a recently deceased man among the corpses and even worse the body shows signs of typhoid. Unfortunately, when Quincy tries to see if anymore bodies are buried up there his efforts are blocked by a senatorial candidate who had a stake in the cemetery. Now Quince must try to cut through the red tape to not only find any more bodies, but to try to prevent a full scale epidemic from breaking out.
Episode 10
A Question of Death
Thu, Jan 4, 197947 mins
The M.E.'s office is helping a hospital with their organ donation program. Quincy goes there to help declare a young man dead and he was told that his kidney would go to a man whose constantly having dialysis. Quincy and the doctor talk to the boy's parents and convince them to donate his organs for transplant. Later a lawyer upon learning of this sues the hospital for coercing the parents for gain. Quincy's in awe cause the man he was told who would receive the organ is not a man of means. He learns that the hospital director overruled the doctor and had the organ given to a wealthy man. Now the whole program is in jeopardy unless Quincy can prove to the parents that their son was brain dead at the time.
Episode 11
House of No Return
Thu, Jan 11, 197960 mins
Quincy autopsies a patient who died at a hospital which houses convicts considered mentally unfit for a regular jail. Shortly afterwards, the patient's mother contacts Quincy, alleging that her son was killed after being forced to participate in a human cockfight. But can he prove her story true before more inmates end up on his autopsy table?
Episode 12
A Small Circle of Friends
Thu, Jan 18, 197960 mins
While performing an autopsy on a football player who died from an aneurysm, Quincy notices he also had a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea. Astin loans Quincy and Sam to the health department to help find any sexual partners he may've been involved with before an epidemic occurs. At the same time, Quincy looks into the murder of a prostitute, who also was infected with the virus.
Episode 13
The Depth of Beauty
Thu, Jan 25, 197960 mins
Quincy delves into the world of cosmetic surgery after he autopsies a woman who killed herself because she hated the scars a botched operation caused. He discovers that the plastic surgeon isn't in fact a qualified plastic surgeon, only a qualified MD. The law allows anyone who has qualified as a doctor to call himself any kind of specialist he likes.
Episode 14
Walk Softly Through the Night: Part 1
Thu, Feb 1, 197960 mins
A top children's TV star, and a friend of Quincy's, is shocked when his son dies of a drug overdose. He had no idea his son was even on drugs and is angry when he finds out that a doctor prescribed the drugs to him. Quincy and the star, Brock, go to visit the doctor and find an enormous queue of addicts waiting outside the surgery. They are all waiting with money in hand to buy a prescription from the doctor. Quincy and Brock set about trying to shut this doctor down and to help a young would be doctor in his attempts to get some sort of drug counseling support system set up in his college.
Episode 15
Walk Softly Through the Night: Part 2
Thu, Feb 1, 197960 mins
The doctor who prescribed excessive drugs to many overdose victims is found murdered, and police arrest the young medical student who was trying to break the addicts by slowly reducing their daily amounts. Quincy doesn't believe the young man is guilty, though his friend Brock Campbell, whose son died due to an overdose from the doctor's prescription, remains under suspicion as well.
Episode 16
Aftermath
Wed, Feb 7, 197960 mins
A large passenger jet crash-lands 40 miles outside LA. Quincy and Sam are sent out to start the identification of the bodies and to make sure that the crash scene is kept intact. Once the rest of the Coroners team has arrived and the positions of the bodies have been marked out they are all taken back to LA, where an autopsy has to be completed on each and every one of them, all one hundred of them. Quincy eventually discovers that a dangerous flammable gas was being carried by the plane, not illegal but extremely dangerous. He then finds himself with two dilemmas to solve. The first being how to persuade the airlines that transporting this sort of flammable substance is not a good idea and secondly, to get an insurance company to accept that one of the unidentifiable bodies was that of a man they insured so that his wife and family can claim his life insurance.
Episode 17
Dark Angel
Thu, Feb 15, 197960 mins
Officer Tommy Bates, a close friend of Monahan's, is accused of killing a young car thief who goes berserk after crashing into Bate's police car. Although the signs point to the young man being under the influence of PCP, there is no trace of it in his blood. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worst when Monahan is suspended for roughing up the young man's accomplice prompting a lawsuit by lawyer Charlie Trusdale, the head of a civil rights organization. However, Quincy finds out that the young man was a chronic user of the drug and thinks that he was experiencing a delayed reaction to all the years of abuse of the drug. Quince also suspects that he might have been responsible for the horrific murder of a butcher the morning of the attack.
Episode 18
Physician, Heal Thyself
Thu, Feb 22, 197960 mins
A seventeen-year old girl collapses and dies after having had an abortion. The family wants an autopsy and tells Asten that they will pay for a private one. Quincy performs it and thinks that her death was caused by the negligence of the doctor who performed the abortion. He visits the doctor and the hospital and finds out that the doctor was drunk when he operated, proving this is hard though as he faces a conspiracy of silence.
Episode 19
Promises to Keep
Thu, Mar 1, 197960 mins
Quincy considers a marriage proposal from his girlfriend Lynne while working on a case. This then causes him to reminisce about his first marriage to his wife Helen. He also thinks about how his career caused him to neglect her, she developed a malignant brain tumor, and how her death influenced his decision to become a forensic pathologist.
Episode 20
Semper-Fidelis
Thu, Mar 15, 197960 mins
A Marine Corps Private dies during a night march in what appears to be a training accident. Since there is a question of what actually happened, Quincy is called in for a consultation to determine if this was an accident, a murder-cover up, or something else.
Episode 21
An Ounce of Prevention
Thu, Mar 22, 197960 mins
While completing the autopsy of a construction worker who fell to his death Quincy spots some unusual abnormalities. He gets Sam to run some further tests to see if there was anything that could have made the man fall. The results show that he was killed by a large amount of pesticides, pesticides that were covering the tomatoes he had for lunch. Follow up investigations show that a dumpsite near the town of Rosewood is leaking. The chemicals are infecting the ground in and around the dumpsite and town.
Episode 22
The Death Challenge
Sat, Mar 24, 197960 mins
A world famous magician comes out of retirement to appear on a live television show after his most famous trick leads to the death of his protege. After the autopsy Quincy has to find out whether or not the first performance was a cover up for homicide or whether it was just an accident.
Episode 23
The Eye of the Needle
Thu, Apr 12, 197960 mins
A woman dies because of her ulcer. It was discovered that she was seeing a doctor who practices alternative medicine. The doctor claims that she's aware of her ulcer and wouldn't have allowed it to get as bad as did. But the woman's husband is suing her for malpractice. And she is facing the possibility of losing her license so Quincy tries to prove her innocence.