:41:01
They take care of the vegetables.
:41:03
Sometimes they die before
they get there, like this one.
:41:07
More work for us.
:41:12
Now we'll get an idea.
:41:14
We're looking for anything.
Micro-infarcts, staph loci...
:41:19
...gross hemorrhagic areas,
congenital defects....
:41:22
Nothing. Just like the
other cases, we come up cold.
:41:26
l know it sounds silly...
:41:28
...but if you wanted to put people
in a coma, what would you do?
:41:32
On purpose?
:41:33
Diethyl para-amino tannadol.
:41:35
No, it leaves a serum trace.
:41:36
-lf you look for it.
-lt also peaks alk phos.
:41:39
A real giveaway.
Besides, who can get tannadol?
:41:41
-Use paradine.
-lt has a taste.
:41:44
We'd make great murderers.
Who knows more than a pathologist?
:41:48
lt keeps my wife in line.
:41:50
Hell of a lot of crimes
slip through our fingers.
:41:53
But in this case, a coma.
:41:56
First rule of crime:
:41:59
Keep it simple.
:42:01
What's simple?
:42:03
Carbon monoxide.
:42:04
Boring.
:42:06
Carbon monoxide?
:42:07
Sure, it's perfect.
:42:09
Anesthetist uses carbon monoxide
instead of oxygen.
:42:12
lt's colorless and makes the blood red
so the surgeon doesn't notice.
:42:17
But the brain dies from lack of oxygen.
The patient doesn't wake up.
:42:21
No other effects?
:42:22
Sure. Cardiac irritability.
:42:25
Which this case had.
:42:26
lt'd be better to block
the neuro-muscular junction...
:42:29
...with succinylcholine.
:42:31
-Who's gonna do it?
-Who'll feed your carbon monoxide?
:42:35
That's the problem.
:42:36
Been 1 2 coma cases
here in the last year.
:42:39
They're always different.
:42:40
Different case, different anesthetist,
different operation.
:42:44
Hard to imagine it's murder.
:42:47
Are you sure?
:42:48
What do you think? There's a conspiracy
at the Boston Memorial Hospital...
:42:53
...involving all the anesthetists?
:42:56
I've had a rather hysterical call
from Dr. George in anesthesiology.