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Quincy M.E. Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1981 - 1982
Episode 1
Memories of Allison
Wed, Oct 28, 198160 mins
Sam and Quincy are attending a job fair for students when a woman falls down an escalator, just after shouting at someone who has been following her. While she is in hospital it is discovered she has a severe case of posttraumatic amnesia. A high price assassin is caught in her hospital room not long afterwards and leads to even more interest in who she is and why someone would want her dead.
Episode 2
The Golden Hour
Wed, Nov 4, 198160 mins
A young girl is injured in a car accident and rushed to a hospital by the paramedics. Her father who is severely injured is sent to a trauma center instead because he is a more serious case. The father survives and the daughter dies. The difference between a trauma center and an ER was what saved the man. City regulations make it hard for the center to get enough patients and it is about to get closed down unless Quincy can help.
Episode 3
Slow Boat to Madness: Part 1
Wed, Nov 11, 198160 mins
Quincy and Janet finally get some time off and go on a weeks cruise. They are looking forward to some rest and relaxation together. Before long their holiday is interrupted. Quincy is visited, late one night, by the captain. One of his crew has been murdered and he would like Quincy's advice. The murderer is caught but he has died before the morning and an autopsy reveals that he could have died from an infectious disease. A disease that could already be spreading throughout the ship.
Episode 4
Slow Boat to Madness: Part 2
Wed, Nov 18, 198160 mins
While on a cruise in Tahiti, Quincy steps in and helps the crew when a mysterious illness affects the passengers on the ship.
Episode 5
D.U.I.
Wed, Dec 2, 198160 mins
A man is knocked down and killed by a drunk driver. Quincy is outraged to discover that the killer is likely to get away with a light sentence and tries to change things. His digging uncovers much more than he, and the prosecutor, could ever have expected.
Episode 6
For Want of a Horse
Wed, Dec 9, 198160 mins
Quincy investigates the death of a ranch owner while Dr. Astin and his wife struggle with their foster child.
Episode 7
Gentle Into That Good Night
Wed, Dec 16, 198160 mins
A nineteen-year old boy, with a malignant tumor, dies in a car accident. Quincy does the autopsy and meets the family. He goes to meet Dr. Pendleton, a doctor who deals with people who are close to death, and wants to learn how to deal with people who have just identified a loved one in a more dignified way. He spends some time with the doctor and even takes his place for a while.
Episode 8
Dead Stop
Wed, Dec 23, 198160 mins
A truck driver dies just days after being splashed by a caustic chemical he was illegally dumping. Quincy uncovers the cause of his death and investigates further, trying to find where the chemicals were dumped before it rains and a dangerous chemical cloud is created.
Episode 9
Bitter Pill
Wed, Jan 6, 198260 mins
After a teenager dies from taking a seemingly harmless pill, Quincy sets out to shut down the highly dangerous, but legal, trade in 'look-alike' drugs. He tries to find out why it is legal to make such pills and concentrates on closing down a small, local shop that sells the pills.
Episode 10
Guns Don't Die
Wed, Jan 13, 198260 mins
A man is mugged and killed in a park, fortunately the killer is quickly found and arrested. Sometime later a gang member kills a young boy. The autopsy shows that the same gun killed the boy and the mugged man. Quincy takes it upon himself to track down the weapon and make sure that it cannot be used to kill anyone else.
Episode 11
When Luck Ran Out
Wed, Jan 20, 198260 mins
When a prized racehorse, belonging to Nelson Spencer a friend of Quincy's, dies suddenly after a big race, an insurance investigation uncovers foul play. The expert insurance investigator sent by the insurance company is Quincy's latest girlfriend. A situation that causes problems for Quincy, stuck between his girlfriend and his friend.
Episode 12
Smoke Screen
Wed, Jan 27, 198260 mins
A big fire strikes at a hotel. The Coroner's Office is called in to deal with the fatalities. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation rather than from the actual fire. Investigations prove it was arson and a suspect is quickly found. Quincy doesn't believe they have caught the right man though and helps out an insurance investigator, Jake Carter, look into it further.
Episode 13
For Love of Joshua
Wed, Feb 3, 198260 mins
A doctor persuades a couple that their new baby, which was born with Down's syndrome, will not have any life outside of hospitals and institutions. The child is then allowed to starve to death, something that causes a second doctor to ask for the original one to be charged with murder. Quincy investigates and finds out more about how children with Down's syndrome are treated in the world. To do this he visits a family that look after six children on their own.
Episode 14
Into the Murdering Mind
Wed, Feb 10, 198260 mins
A family is violently murdered in their own home. The man arrested is the son and brother of the family members. He is a schizophrenic who blames everything on 'The Beast', an alter ego inside his head who can take him over if he stops taking his medication. Quincy thinks, after talking with the DA, that he could be making it all up to get off on an insanity plea and tries to prove his theory.
Episode 15
To Clear the Air
Wed, Feb 17, 198260 mins
An old man at a hospital for respiratory disorders drops dead after going for a walk during a smog alert. Quincy's autopsy reveals lungs that had some kind of inflammation, caused by the pollutants being pumped into the air by the oil refineries near the sanatorium. Refineries that are meant to cut back their emissions during a smog alert.
Episode 16
The Shadow of Death
Wed, Feb 24, 198260 mins
An ex-nurse, who served in Vietnam and suffered nightmares because of it, is found dead in her apartment. Her best friend, who was also a nurse in Vietnam, tries to help find the killer but has problems of her own. She suffers her own nightmares from the war and begins to fall deeper into depression and alcohol. The same thing happens to many vets when they come back from the war and Quincy wants to help her, if he can.
Episode 17
The Flight of the Nightingale
Wed, Mar 3, 198260 mins
With no doctor around and a shortage of staff, Lynn Buchanan, a nurse decides to ease a patients pain by giving him medication. The patient dies and nurse Buchanan is suspended, even though the doctor's chart didn't say she shouldn't have done it. The rest of the nursing staff go on strike, her suspension being the last straw. Asten gets Quincy to look a bit closer than normal (Quincy look closer than normal!) when he does the autopsy because his wife is in the same hospital and was looked after by Lynn Buchanan.
Episode 18
Stolen Tears
Wed, Mar 17, 198260 mins
A man who was a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps is run down and killed after he recognizes the man who was his tormentor in the camp. He manages to get a message sent to his friend, Heime, before his death and he tries to convince Quincy that it was murder, not an accident. At the same time Heime, who runs a Holocaust museum, has to deal with a rich, powerful man who spends his time proclaiming that the Holocaust never happened.
Episode 19
The Face of Fear
Wed, Mar 24, 198260 mins
A woman, Vicki Maguire, who has suffered from agoraphobia, manages to finally leave her house, for the first time in seven years. While walking her dog along the beach beside her house she looks in through the window of another house, and witnesses what she thinks is a woman being strangled. The police are called and when Monahan and Brill get to the house there is no body, no sign of a struggle and a completely different man in residence. No one believes her story, except for her psychologist Dr. Rainer, and she goes to see Quincy. She persuades him that the woman wasn't seeing things and that he should help her find out the truth, before she suffers a relapse and will never be able to leave her house again.
Episode 20
Expert in Murder
Wed, Mar 31, 198260 mins
Quincy is going to be testifying in the appeal of a big mob boss, Victor Ramsay, and his evidence is vital to him staying in prison. Ramsay and his people have other ideas though and have a plan to guarantee his release. They kill the only witness and then set about making sure that Quincy is discredited. Once this is done Quincy and the D.A. have three weeks to come up with more evidence or Victor Ramsay will be released.
Episode 21
The Unquiet Grave
Wed, Apr 7, 198260 mins
After running into an ex-girlfriend he had a fall-out with years ago, Quincey finds himself on the case when her husband dies and must unweave a diabolical plot to reveal the killer's identity.
Episode 22
The Last of Leadbottom
Wed, Apr 28, 198260 mins
Captain Quincy, M.D., U.S.N.R. is in proud attendance with Sam and Asten when a museum is dedicated in honor of his friend and former boss, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Burgess S. "Leadbottom" Mackenzie, under whom he served in Korea. When Admiral Burgess collapses and dies at the dedication ceremony, Quincy immediately takes charge and begins the autopsy; he and Sam find a mysterious computer chip and some unexplained questions about the Admiral's heart condition. Under U.S. law, when an active duty hero dies in the performance of his duties, the autopsy must be formally conducted by a U.S. Naval pathologist as per the offices of the U.S. Navy. Dr. Asten refuses to release the remains of Rear Admiral Mackensie to Cmdr. Butler of the Navy unless Quincy signs the paperwork. The Navy is upset: when JFK died in Dallas, his remains were transported to Maryland and autopsied at Bethesda Naval Hospital. When WIVES (in the plural) begin appearing at the morgue at L.A. County Coroner's office (one of them discussing Admiral Mackenzie's Navy funeral with full military honours at Arlington National Cemetary ordered by the White House) Quincy politely but firmly refuses to release his the body of his fallen comrade. When the Admiral of the 16th Naval District of the U.S. Navy reinstates Quincy's Naval commission, Quincy is back in the Navy. Will it be boot camp, espionage, or murder?
Episode 23
Deadly Protection
Wed, May 5, 198260 mins
After a child dies drum wings undoubted from the father's recent purchase of a guard dog, Quincy at first thinks he's dealing with a corrupt breeder. But, the reality's worse; a competitor's stealing the man's well trained dogs, and leaving violent lookalikes in their place.
Episode 24
The Mourning After
Wed, May 12, 198260 mins
The Dean of Branham College, a college buddy of Quincy, asks Quincy to deliver the commencement address to the class of upcoming graduates. Coincidentally, says Sam, the body of a freshman, Carey Stadler, lies on a table in the Coroner's Office, dead from drowning. Carey had been rushing a campus fraternity; some of his friends claim he was despondent from losing his bid to join the fraternity. But Carey's family, particularly his brother, Nick, are adamant that Carey would never take his own life. Quincy suggests grief counseling for the stunned family, which leads to a bit of necessary closure. But, Quincy is as outraged as ever when he finds no pool water in the boy's lungs and issues with the exact TOD. Quincy helps the Stadlers through the maze of official police and DA investigation and forces the truth about Carey's death: fraternity hazing gone too far. It is small comfort that Carey drowned while saving the life of a fellow pledge; he is the one who finally confesses the entire chain of events. Quincy stands on high at the podium, giving the commencement speech; instead, of addressing the futures of the 95% not involved in the incident, Quincy uses the occasion to drive home the horrors of fraternity hazing.