Diagnosis Murder Season 4 Episode 9 Murder By The Bus Load
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00:00me a lot what do you think the right night i've got one patient to see and i'm out of here
00:05he's in three how much they cost they have the floor seats lakers in chicago yeah what does
00:13that translate to in dollars i've already spent my inheritance well i had no idea can i pick up
00:18dinner my credit cards were counting on it oh okay looks like you're going to be fine
00:26it's a little salmonella poisoning is what it was we'll treat you for the dehydration give you a
00:30little something for that upset stomach you'll be able to go home you know from now on i wouldn't
00:36buy any seafood from a pickup truck on the freeway ramp
00:46that's that's it you sure yep
00:49what's going on that major bus accident on the west side
01:02smack between two seats unconscious severe head and body trauma possible internal injuries we
01:07immobilize this next start an ivb5w drama one right away how bad is it up there it's a war zone six more
01:16ambulance is coming in right now oh boy i'll save you a seat okay sorry
01:35so
01:47so
01:49so
01:55so
02:01Okay, on my count, three, two, one.
02:20Pupils are dilated and unresponsive.
02:30BP 50 over 30, pulse 120.
02:32Okay, crossing type, four units, whole blood in your CVC, chem 7, cranial and abdominal
02:38CTs.
02:39We need to intubate.
02:41Give me an 8.5E22.
02:45Horyngoscope.
02:49He's stable.
02:50Pressure is 90 over 50.
02:52Rhythmus sinus and regular 90 per minute.
02:55Okay, sedate with three milligrams of morphine and notified next of kin.
03:00Yeah, yeah, sonny.
03:08Talk to me.
03:09Adult male, 50s.
03:11Throw it over the seat in front of him.
03:12He's got severe abdominal pain.
03:14I started an IPB5JU at the scene in 10-milligrams of Demerol.
03:18How much is that going to cost me?
03:19Tell me if this hurts.
03:21Okay, okay.
03:22Uh, full panel crossing type, four units, whole blood.
03:25I'd like to get a chest x-ray and an abdominal CAT scan.
03:29I'd like to buy a new set of tires for your porch.
03:30He's in forest!
03:31When the bus tipped over, he's standing against the window.
03:32He's got massive head and body trauma.
03:33Be awake.
03:34Be awake.
03:35Time of death, 6.51 PM.
03:36Just give me another minute.
03:37He's gonna pull through.
03:38Oh, damn it, honey.
03:39You've done your best.
03:40All right, turn away.
03:41What happened?
03:42The tele-broken legs and looks for contusions and last things.
03:44I'm on the train.
03:45Oh, no, no.
03:46I'm on the train.
03:47I'm on the train.
03:48I'm on the train.
03:49You're on the train.
03:50Oh, no.
03:51I'm on the train.
03:52I'm on the train.
03:53You're on the train.
03:54All right.
03:55Turn away.
03:56I'm going to give this.
04:06All right, turn away.
04:07What happened?
04:08I have a broken leg that looks for contusions and lacerations.
04:11How bad is it?
04:12Good clean break.
04:13And that's a good thing?
04:14As far as broken bones go, give her 20 milligrams of Demerol and take her down to x-ray.
04:18Let's go.
04:26The bus rider is wrapped around the steering wheel, neck, chest, and pelvic pain.
04:30Okay, start an IV.
04:31TKO push with three milligram morphine IV.
04:34Push, cross, table, C-spine, chest and pelvis x-rays.
04:39Come here.
04:45Give the details.
04:46The thunder under speed.
04:47No signs of trauma, confusions, or lacerations.
04:50But she is complaining of neck and back discomfort.
04:53I'm fine now.
04:54It's okay.
04:55She's a judge of that.
04:56Let's give her three milligrams of morphine for the pain and I'll talk to you after I look at the film.
05:00Let's take her down to x-ray.
05:02Next.
05:10You all right?
05:11It's under control.
05:13It's all under control.
05:14What's the tally?
05:15Uh, two green tag, two yellow, one red, two DUA.
05:31Two?
05:32I only saw one.
05:33He hasn't come in yet.
05:34The fire department is still trying to pull his body out of what's left of his car.
05:37The guy ran a road and quit the bus.
05:39The bus driver lost control, jumped the curb and ran.
05:42I don't run into a building.
05:43The driver of the car still had a beer can in his hand when I found him.
05:47How long after the accident did you arrive at the scene?
05:50Oh.
05:51Five minutes.
05:52Tops.
05:53The dust hadn't even settled yet.
05:54All the victims of the crash were trapped inside the bus.
05:57We had to force the doors open to get in.
05:59It's pretty ugly now.
06:03Amanda, I'd like you to take a look at the DOA that came in.
06:06Sure, what's up?
06:07All the other victims came in with a promise, the front part of the body.
06:12This talisker has a wound on the back of his head.
06:15Well, there could be a dozen explanations for that.
06:18I'd settle for one.
06:19You got it.
06:23Steve left us here for you.
06:25Thank you, Nancy.
06:26Said he'd meet you there if you could get away.
06:28The maker came.
06:30Oh, Steve's gonna kill me.
06:32Excuse me, doctor?
06:37Yes?
06:38I was beginning to think everyone had forgotten me.
06:41Oh, the curse of the green tag.
06:44I haven't called them by the names, but that's a first.
06:47That's our trio system.
06:48You see, red is critical, yellow is urgent, and greens...
06:51Means, why is this idiot taking up a valuable ER bed?
06:55Oh, that's not exactly the terminology that we use here.
06:58You know what, it's close enough.
06:59When they brought me in, I saw a guy with a black tag.
07:04Is that what I think it is?
07:06A DOA?
07:07Mm-hmm.
07:08Poor guy.
07:09It could have been me.
07:11Just be glad it wasn't.
07:12I am.
07:13That's why I was calling you.
07:14Well, is there something that you need?
07:17Yeah, to get out of your way.
07:19Just give me some papers to sign, and I'll go home.
07:21Are you sure you're all right?
07:23Well, I saw it from a bizarre compulsion to call my mother
07:26and apologize for all the rotten things I ever did to her.
07:29I feel just great.
07:31Okay.
07:32I heard that one of your doctors gave up Laker floor seats
07:35to take care of all of us.
07:37Oh, yes, that wouldn't be the first time.
07:39Well, look, I know the Lakers coach.
07:41Really?
07:42Yeah, so you tell that doctor he's got two tickets coming his way.
07:45I think Dr. Sloan would appreciate that.
07:48Now, Ms. Jackson, let's see here.
07:51Your x-rays look clean.
07:53No sign of any injuries.
07:55Good.
07:56Well, that's a relief.
07:57I'll have the nurse come over, and you can fill out the paperwork.
08:00Okay, great.
08:01All right.
08:02Oh.
08:03Oh, my.
08:04Are you all right?
08:05It's my hair.
08:06Oh, my.
08:07It's my back.
08:08All right.
08:09My neck.
08:10Oh, my God, that hurts so bad.
08:11Is that any better?
08:12Yeah.
08:13Listen, um, I think you should stay with us a little longer.
08:17You could have a homey-aided disc.
08:19I want to run some tests, okay?
08:21If you say so.
08:23Besides, how often do I get to read a six-month-old issue of People magazine?
08:28How are you feeling, Mr. Woods?
08:37But I'm being mugged.
08:39I could buy three beds for what you're charging me to lie on this one.
08:44I've been looking over your test results.
08:46You're hematocritus 20, hemoglobin 7, which tells me that you are severely anemic and probably bleeding internally.
08:54I suspect that you have a lacerated spleen, and we'd like to operate immediately.
08:59Oh, forget it.
09:00Mr. Woods, I don't think you understand.
09:03No, I understand perfectly.
09:05I walk out of here right now, you only get four figures.
09:09But you get me into an operating room, we're into five figures before you even cut me open, so forget it.
09:15If we don't suture your spleen, you will bleed to death by morning.
09:20Now, if you want another opinion, I'll be glad to get another doctor down here right now.
09:25Yeah.
09:26And your buddy will tell me I need two operations.
09:29I know how you guys work.
09:30Well, I guess you got me right where you want me.
09:35I'm going to schedule you for the first available OR.
09:39Mr. Woods, this is a clear-cut case.
09:42Your insurance company will not contest the claim.
09:45The only people more crooked than doctors are insurance companies.
09:49To hell with a bunch of you.
09:57Would you notify the OR and prepped us in Woods for surgery?
10:01I'm going to go re-sock the unit.
10:03Yeah, leaving me with the glamorous part of the job.
10:06Wow.
10:07I'll meet you outside.
10:09You guys heading out again?
10:10Yeah, shit's just starting.
10:12Maybe I could ride along with you guys one night.
10:15Need a little more excitement in your life?
10:18Maybe.
10:19Eh, clear with whoever has to clear these things.
10:22And yeah, you can come along any time on one condition.
10:26Let me ride along with you here.
10:29Ooh, you need less excitement in your life.
10:31Exactly.
10:32That's why I'm trying to get into med school and I need all the help I can get.
10:36Hey, well if you need any letters of recommendation...
10:39Uh, what I need is a miracle.
10:41I've got the medical school entrance exam next month and no time to study.
10:46I tell you what, you let me ride along with you guys and I'll help you pass those tests.
10:51You do that, I'll even let you ride the siren.
10:54Siren?
10:55Yes.
10:56No ID on this man yet?
10:58He wasn't carrying an identification.
11:00No.
11:01Police are doing what they can.
11:02How is he?
11:03Well, not good.
11:04Possible.
11:05Acute tubular necrosis.
11:06Put him on sodium bicarbonate drip.
11:07You'll be an update on this condition every half hour or so.
11:08You got it.
11:09Be in pathology if you need me.
11:10You beat?
11:11Yeah.
11:12Uh, Fred Tallister sustained severe abdominal and chest trauma resulting in a lacerated
11:18liver and massive internal bleeding.
11:20You beat?
11:21Yeah, uh, Fred Tallister sustained severe abdominal and chest trauma resulting in a lacerated
11:22liver and massive internal bleeding.
11:24Now, all of these injuries are consistent with him being thrown forward in a crash.
11:27Well, that's a relief.
11:28But it was the blow to the back of the head that killed him.
11:29Blow?
11:30Yeah.
11:31A blow?
11:32A blow?
11:33A blow?
11:34A blow?
11:35A blow?
11:36A blow?
11:37A blow?
11:38A blow!
11:39A blow?
11:40A blow!
11:41A blow!
11:42A blow!
11:43A blow?
11:44A blow!
11:45A blow!
11:46A blow!
11:47A blow!
11:48A blow!
11:49yeah take a look at this I removed these from his head wound look like little
11:58pieces of rock well the shape and the impact suggest the edge of a brick now
12:04didn't the paramedics say that all of the victims were trapped inside the bus
12:08when they arrived well then how did Fred Tallister get hit in the back of the
12:13head with a brick because he wasn't killed in the accident
12:18Fred Tallister was murdered on that bus and that means the murderer is still in
12:25this hospital
12:30where's my dad over the first three quarters will go down in history is one
12:37of the greatest athletic achievements of all time after that who knows what you
12:41didn't stay till the end after what you paid for that ticket how did you know
12:44that my dad mentioned it he felt really bad about having to stand you up well he's
12:49got a funny way of showing it the lounge
12:51lounge lounge
12:53I think people understand I know you will
12:58I think Steve will understand.
13:12I know he will.
13:14Good news.
13:16The one homicide detective in all of Los Angeles has arrived.
13:20The one?
13:21Well, I'm sure if there's any other detectives on duty tonight,
13:24my father would have called them before he pulled me out of that game.
13:27I don't think he understands.
13:28Steve, I'm sorry.
13:29We didn't want to let the killer know that you figured out Talisker was murdered
13:32so you couldn't have a platoon of police parading through the halls of community general.
13:37Don't you understand?
13:38You understand.
13:39That logic is flawless as long as the killer's actually in the hospital.
13:42Everyone who was on the bus is still here.
13:45What if the killer wasn't on the bus?
13:46He had to be because Talisker didn't sustain that head move in the accident.
13:50He certainly didn't walk on with it.
13:52So it must have happened in the five minutes between the accident and when the paramedics arrived.
13:57See, all the passengers were trapped on the bus during that time.
14:02Nobody could get on, nobody could get off.
14:04Look, all right, I'm convinced he was killed by somebody on the bus, but why?
14:08Well, there's one thing for certain.
14:09The murder was not planned.
14:11Unless the accident was part of it.
14:13A cover-up for some sort of assassination.
14:16I have no chance.
14:17I talked to the precinct on the way over here and they tracked that drunk rider back to three different bars tonight.
14:22There's nothing phony about the way he was drinking.
14:24So the accident was a real accident and the murder was a crime of opportunity.
14:29So what do we know about the victim?
14:30I just went on in, uh, wallet, keys.
14:39Well, that's odd.
14:41According to this ticket, Talisker parked in a lot at Westgate and Santa Monica 45 minutes before the bus crashed.
14:48Why would he take the bus if he had a car?
14:51Maybe his car broke down.
14:52Well, easy enough way to find out.
14:56Well, look at the bright side.
14:58You can listen to the end of the game on the way over to the garage.
15:01Oh, thanks, Dad.
15:02I never thought of that.
15:04But fax me everything you got on Talisker and the other passengers.
15:07And, uh, if I can find any other homicide detectives on duty in Los Angeles, I'll have one of them check it out.
15:20Hey, what happened to you?
15:23Uh, Mr. Claverius has had a little late-night snack.
15:26Oh.
15:27A bagel?
15:28Yeah.
15:28Uh-huh.
15:29A little word of medical advice.
15:31Always defrost those bagels before slicing.
15:34They never cut toward your hand.
15:36Would you irrigate that wound?
15:37It'll be right in the suturing.
15:41Thanks, Dad.
15:44What a dope.
15:46So you been studying?
15:47Yeah, between breakfast food emergencies.
15:49Try me.
15:51Okay.
15:52What is the maximum amount of potassium chloride you can inject into a vein?
15:5820 to 30 milliequivalents.
16:01How much anticonvulsant can you mix in a bicarb IV solution?
16:05One hundred milligrams.
16:08What is the usual dosage of dopamine used to increase blood pressure?
16:11Two to ten microcentigrams per minute.
16:14Come on, give me a hard one.
16:15Hard one?
16:16Okay, let's see.
16:17What is the leading cause of failure on the, uh, med school entrance exams?
16:22What?
16:23Cockiness.
16:24You missed one.
16:25I did not.
16:27Oh, yeah, you did.
16:28Now, which one?
16:29Hey.
16:30He's gonna give you all the answers.
16:32How are you gonna learn anything?
16:33Oh, you're cruel.
16:37Both of you.
16:38You think we're bad for you to get into medical school?
16:41Oh.
16:42Could you guys do me a favor?
16:44What do you need?
16:44Draw me up a little seating chart of that bus and show me exactly where you found everybody.
16:50Sure.
16:50Yeah, no problem.
16:51She's very well.
16:51Medic!
16:52Medic!
16:53Orly's, I need some help over here.
16:55I'm not there.
16:57Hey, boy, just relax.
16:58You're in the hospital.
16:59We'll take care of you.
17:00I don't know what happened.
17:01He tore out his IV and went crazy.
17:03You guys got him?
17:03Nancy, keep him on that, uh, sodium bicarb.
17:06Give him about a hundred milligram of phenytoin sodium IV and strap him down.
17:12Right.
17:12Look, Lance, you look kind of exhausting.
17:16As opposed to the radiant beauty I generally exude?
17:19Ten hours into an 18-hour shift.
17:21Yeah, well, maybe you'd better take a break.
17:23Maybe I should take a week in Hawaii.
17:29Is he going to be okay?
17:31Oh, I don't know.
17:32It's hard to say.
17:33He's not, uh, stabilizing.
17:35And the last blood test showed his kidneys shutting down.
17:38Oh, just the beginning of internal failure.
17:41Yeah, I'm surprised if he's last the night.
17:44There's nothing you can do?
17:45Well, you know, the IV will stop the seizures.
17:47But, uh, other than that, we just keep them comfortable.
17:51You know, sometimes being a doctor is not fun.
17:54You don't think I'm too cocky, do you?
17:56You were cocky, did you?
17:58Then you walked in here.
17:59I was rolled in here as a patient, remember?
18:02Cocky patient.
18:03Oh, well, I guess being mugged and beaten gives you an attitude.
18:06Well, you pulled through it pretty good.
18:08And you'll make a good doctor if you stick with it.
18:11Oh, thanks.
18:12Okay, thank you.
18:13All right, see you.
18:21Mr. Flanick, I'm Dr. Travis.
18:23How are you feeling?
18:26Nauseous.
18:27But I think it's knowing that I have that tube in my chest that's making me sick.
18:33You know, nausea is quite understandable after what your body has been through.
18:37I'll give you some medication for that.
18:38Just taking off that tube probably do it.
18:43When you hit the steering wheel, you broke a couple of ribs.
18:47I could have told you that.
18:49One of them punctured your lung, causing it to collapse and fill your chest with air.
18:54We have to drain that air and relieve the pressure so that your lung can expand again.
19:00Sounds like I'm lucky to be alive.
19:06Yeah, nauseous.
19:10How about the passengers?
19:13Well, uh, there's one dead.
19:15One in critical condition.
19:17The rest came through with minor injuries.
19:20Did you know any of them?
19:22Not by name, but you drive the same line every night to get to no faces.
19:30Except Lou, of course.
19:33Lou?
19:34The homeless guy sleeps on my bus every night.
19:40I guess that made my bus home, didn't it?
19:44Between you and me, I don't even charge him.
19:49The guy was an arm.
19:51It's the least he deserves.
19:52And a whole lot more.
19:56You come out okay?
19:59Not exactly.
20:01He's the one in critical condition.
20:03I pick her up every night at 8 p.m. at Barrington.
20:16Sweet kid.
20:17I think she lives up by the university.
20:22What about her?
20:27She was on the bus.
20:29Yeah, she was in the first row.
20:33I don't remember her again, huh?
20:40Do you remember a guy in his 30s wearing a sweatsuit?
20:46Oh, yeah.
20:48Yeah, I, uh...
20:51He got on at Barrington, too,
20:53because I stopped to pick up that college girl,
20:56and she ran up just as I was closing the door.
21:01Have you seen him before?
21:03No.
21:05Does he?
21:08Well, he didn't make it.
21:11I was hoping you might have seen how it happened.
21:14Oh.
21:16The last thing I saw was a car running a red light.
21:21After that, everything's a boy.
21:23Well, let me go get you some Compazine,
21:27and, uh, I'll be back in a little while to check up on you.
21:29The hospital, Carlton, it's where they take you after a bus crash.
21:48Oh, yeah.
21:50Yeah, that's right.
21:52I made up the whole accident.
21:54Yeah, I even planted fake news footage on every channel
21:58just to get out of work for a sorority party.
22:02Look, if you don't believe me, just talk to the doctor.
22:05I'm like, would you talk to my boss, please?
22:08Sure.
22:08Hello, Carlton.
22:13Yeah, Dr. Amanda Livingston, Community General Hospital.
22:18No, this is not Buffy, and there is no party.
22:22Kappa Alpha what?
22:23Nice guy.
22:27Look, I can write him a note if you think it'll help.
22:29Eh, forget it.
22:30I know we like to eat your thing anyway.
22:32Oh, good, because I'm afraid you're going to be in a cast
22:35for about, I don't know, three months.
22:39Oh, no.
22:40Yeah, we can have one on this leg
22:41and have you out of here in a couple of hours.
22:43Yeah, but who's going to get me up and down
22:45all those hills at UCLA?
22:47I guess I shouldn't complain.
22:49One of the nurses told me that the guy behind me
22:54on the bus died.
22:57Yeah, I'm afraid so.
22:59Did you know him?
23:01You know, it's funny.
23:04I'm sure I know him from somewhere,
23:06but I can't seem to figure out who he is.
23:09Well, was he in a class,
23:11or maybe you'd seen him on the bus before?
23:15Actually, I've only been taking the bus for a few days.
23:19I used to just walk everywhere,
23:21but my boyfriend made me stop
23:23after a couple of girls were raped on campus.
23:31He said the bus would be much safer.
23:34Well, in that case, this is all his fault.
23:36He should be tearing you up and down those hills.
23:39Or he should at least be picking you up tonight.
23:43I'll let you tell him.
23:47Okay.
23:47What's his name?
23:50Carlton.
23:57Well, it's finally starting to slow down.
24:00Three hours to go, and I'm out of here.
24:02I may sleep for days.
24:05What's the status of Mr. Woods?
24:07He just got out of surgery.
24:08They had to do that sphenectomy.
24:10Did you hear the details?
24:11Haven't come down yet.
24:12Oh, well, I'm sure they're already logged in.
24:18Because as Mr. Woods would be the first to tell you,
24:21hospitals don't wait to bill you.
24:23Yeah, he's a real charmer.
24:24Called me a money-sucking leech
24:26when he's being willed to the OR.
24:28I think I know why.
24:30This isn't the first time he's been a community general.
24:33He's been a patient here before.
24:34I would remember him.
24:35He wasn't the patient.
24:37His wife was.
24:39She didn't make it.
24:43Okay, according to the paramedics
24:45and what we've learned from the patients,
24:47here's where everybody was sitting on the bus.
24:49Fred Talisker was on the right side in the sixth row.
24:53Dustin Woods was sitting directly behind him.
24:57Across the aisle was Luke Kupfer,
24:59the homeless man, stretched out.
25:01Sarah Gilby was on the left side,
25:03two rows behind the driver.
25:04Where was Melora Jackson?
25:06She was on the right side in the front seat
25:08right next to the door.
25:10Well, you think the driver would remember her?
25:12No one on the bus remembers her,
25:13and I got that from the paramedics.
25:16Hi, guys.
25:17Hey.
25:17Got some information.
25:18The information smells good.
25:19Well, I also had the dinner you owe me.
25:22Dinner.
25:22All the excitement.
25:23I forgot how starving I was.
25:25Did you learn anything?
25:27Fred Talisker was murdered.
25:29We found a brick with Talisker's blood on it,
25:31but no prints.
25:33Anything about Talisker himself?
25:34He was a claims adjuster for first fidelity casualty,
25:38and he has a Porsche,
25:39which we found on that lot at Westgate in Santa Monica.
25:41You know, I think I've heard of that insurance company somewhere before.
25:45I'm working at a hospital you've probably heard of them all.
25:47Did you find anything interesting in the car?
25:49Well, no real leads.
25:51We found a first aid kit with a couple extra bottles and a septic,
25:55a trash bag, and a change of clothes.
25:58Did the car run?
25:59Yeah, it purred.
26:01If the car was running, why did you take the bus?
26:04Maybe he wanted to save a few bucks.
26:06I mean, parking on a campus can be pretty steep.
26:09I already thought of that.
26:10The lot on Westgate is twice as expensive as campus parking.
26:14Isn't there a Captain Clucks on Westgate?
26:16Yeah, but I was in the mood for Chinese.
26:18Is that the movie guy, Pam?
26:19I don't know.
26:20Sarah Gilby, the college student with a broken leg,
26:23she's a waitress there.
26:26That's right.
26:26She was taking the bus home, wasn't she?
26:28It's her sorority.
26:29Now, she used to walk, but she felt more comfortable taking the bus
26:32because of the campus rapes.
26:34Didn't she tell you she knew Talisker?
26:37Well, she'd seen him around, but she couldn't remember where.
26:41She'd seen him around?
26:44Steve, what was in that trunk again?
26:46Just a first aid kit, some antiseptic bottles,
26:50a trash bag, and a change of clothes.
26:51Why?
26:52Something clicking for you?
26:53Well, I don't know who killed Fred Talisker,
26:57but I think I know what he was doing on that bus.
27:00Sarah was his next victim.
27:09Welcome home.
27:10Welcome home.
27:10Welcome home.
27:23Now, that's the fourth woman
27:30to positively identify Talisker as a rapist.
27:34Congratulations, Dad.
27:35You just caught a guy the campus police
27:37had been after for a year.
27:38How did you know it was him?
27:40Not too hard, really.
27:41I just had to answer a few questions.
27:43Like what?
27:44Like, why did he take a bus at the campus
27:46when he could have driven?
27:48Why did he have a change of clothes in that trunk?
27:51And what did he need with antiseptic
27:53and a trash bag?
27:55Well, he needed the sweatsuit for the rape,
27:58and then he changed into the fresh clothes afterwards,
28:01and then he used the trash bag to ditch the sweats.
28:03Well, and the antiseptic was for any cuts or scrapes
28:06he might have gotten during the attack.
28:08That's right.
28:09And Sarah couldn't remember
28:10before she'd seen him before
28:11because she only got little glimpses of him
28:13when he was stalking her.
28:15Or she knew him all along and killed him.
28:18I think I'll check with his sorority friends
28:19and see if any of them were among Talisker's victims.
28:21Good idea.
28:23Have you got anything on any of the other passengers?
28:26Only one of them had a record.
28:28Lou Kupfer was arrested a couple times
28:30for public drunkenness,
28:31and he's been in and out of mental hospitals
28:33since Vietnam.
28:35That explains why he was calling for a medic
28:37when he had those seizures.
28:39I got big news, guys.
28:41Destiny Woods' wife used to be a patient here.
28:44So?
28:45All right, hear me out for just a second.
28:46Mrs. Woods had a terminal case of cancer.
28:49Her doctors believed that the only hope for survival
28:52was a complete bone marrow transplant.
28:55Oh, that's a serious operation.
28:57No one's even sure it's worth the risk.
28:59And I guess that's why the insurance company
29:01called it an experimental procedure
29:03and refused to pay for it.
29:05Guess which company?
29:06First Fidelity Casualty.
29:08That's where you've heard of them before.
29:10Maybe Dustin Woods blamed the insurance company
29:13for the death of his wife
29:14and made Talisker pay for it.
29:16Especially if Talisker was the adjuster.
29:19I think I'll check with the insurance companies
29:21tomorrow morning and find out.
29:23It looks like we've got plenty of suspects.
29:25Yeah, not much time to trap the killer.
29:28I can only keep these people here
29:30for a few more hours for observation.
29:32Then they're going to get suspicious.
29:40Good evening, Mr. Woods.
29:42I'd ask you how you're feeling,
29:45except I'm afraid of the answer.
29:48You should be.
29:49Yes, well, uh...
29:52I'm afraid your injury was actually worse
29:54than we thought.
29:56Oh, what a surprise.
29:58We had to remove your spleen.
30:00But the operation was a complete success,
30:03and you should be out of here
30:05in three or four days
30:05without any lasting complications.
30:07Yeah.
30:11Except for the 30 grand
30:12I'm going to go to this hospital.
30:16Little joke's on you.
30:18I'm broke.
30:21Why do you think I was on that bus
30:22in the first place?
30:25Because Fred Talisker was.
30:29Who the hell is Fred Talisker?
30:32He's an adjuster
30:33for First Fidelity Casualty.
30:35You were sitting right behind him.
30:36Well, he's lucky I didn't know who he was,
30:40or I would have wrung his neck.
30:43Yeah, well, it's, uh...
30:44We're too late for that.
30:45He's already dead.
30:49Um...
30:50That must not have been an accident.
30:55Now, the fact you're playing games with me
30:57means you know about my wife.
30:59You think I got even.
31:03Well, if he was your adjuster,
31:05and you were following him,
31:08a crash would be a wonderful opportunity.
31:10His death could be blamed on the accident.
31:13Everyone was hurt.
31:15Who would know the difference?
31:17I would.
31:25Because if I murdered that guy,
31:28I'd be just as bad as the insurance company
31:30that killed my wife.
31:34And unlike doctors
31:36and insurance companies,
31:39I've got a conscience.
31:41No, wait a minute.
31:48Don't tell me that's the end of the plot.
31:51Well, I offered to make a new one,
31:53but it's like driving your friends to the airport.
31:55You do it once,
31:55and it's your job for life.
31:57Yeah, tell me about it.
31:58Don't mind, Roy.
31:59He's put on Earth to reassure
32:00a single one of his worst things
32:02than being without a man.
32:03Yeah, like being with Fred Talisker.
32:07What about him?
32:08You didn't hear?
32:10Poor woman
32:11positively identified him
32:13as the rapist running around the university.
32:15Four.
32:16Guess you can stop feeling so bad
32:18about losing him now.
32:19Yeah.
32:20What about the other crash victims?
32:22Well, they've all been stabilized.
32:23I just cannot figure out
32:25what's wrong with Melora Jackson.
32:27Still can't believe I missed her
32:29when I first got on that bus.
32:30Missed her?
32:31Yeah, Tanya and I
32:32were the first EMTs on the bus,
32:34but I guess I must have
32:35went right past her.
32:36Well, when did you first see her?
32:38Well, Tanya was working on Talisker.
32:40I went up to help the bus driver,
32:41and there she was, under her seat.
32:45Anytime.
32:52How are you feeling?
32:53Not too bad.
32:55As long as I don't want around much.
32:57That's good.
32:59I'm glad you're comfortable.
33:00What is it?
33:04Melora, I need you to be very, very brave.
33:08Why?
33:09I got your tests back.
33:11It's your spine.
33:13What's my spine?
33:15You have sustained severe trauma
33:17to your second and third vertebrae.
33:20And unless we operate right away,
33:22the slightest movement
33:23could sever your spinal cord.
33:24This can't be happening.
33:27I know how frightening this must sound to you,
33:30but surgical technology has made tremendous strides
33:33in the last few years.
33:34You have better than a 30% chance
33:36of only partial paralysis after this operation.
33:39Now, I've brought this along to calm you down.
33:43The orderly should be here any minute
33:46to take you down to OR.
33:48You get that needle away from me.
33:50Look, I know you're afraid,
33:52but your damage is degenerative
33:54and every second counts, Melora.
33:56There's nothing wrong with me.
33:58That's the tricky part about spinal cord injuries.
34:01Oftentimes, you just don't feel pain.
34:04Look, there's no pain
34:05because there is no damage.
34:07I'm fine.
34:08I bet you're fine
34:10because you were never on that bus when it crashed.
34:12That's why none of the passengers
34:13can remember seeing you.
34:15The paramedics found me on the bus.
34:18Not when they first came on.
34:20You followed them in
34:21and snuck under a seat.
34:24Now, let's see.
34:27City bus company,
34:29soft tissue damage, pain and suffering.
34:31What's that worth, Melora?
34:32What, a half a million?
34:34Okay, we can work something out here.
34:36Season tickets to the Lakers for you
34:39and all of your friends.
34:41I know the coach.
34:43Really?
34:44You know, I'll be at the White House this week
34:46and having dinner.
34:48Don't be too disappointed, Melora.
34:51You may have lost out on an incredible fortune,
34:54but you may have proven yourself innocent of murder.
34:57All right, stocking up for another major disaster?
35:08Well, we have about two a week,
35:09and that's only an easy week
35:11because in here you get your victims delivered to you
35:13on a nice clean gurney.
35:14Out there, we find them where they fall,
35:16sometimes in pieces.
35:17You see that every week.
35:18You must really rely on your partner
35:20for emotional support.
35:21Man, if you can't turn to your partner,
35:24you can't survive out there.
35:25That kind of pressure must be tough
35:27on a relationship, huh?
35:29Right, at the end of a shift,
35:30when I get home,
35:31all I want to do is go straight to bed.
35:33Yeah, I bet Tanya does too.
35:35I mean, I'm sure she's exhausted just like she is.
35:39I know what you mean.
35:40Do I know if Tanya and I are involved?
35:44No.
35:45No, not at all.
35:47I was just interested in what it's like
35:48for the two of you on the job, in the field.
35:51Out in the field and on the job.
35:53I'm married.
35:54That's great.
35:56I mean, congratulations.
35:58And Tanya is...
35:59Not.
36:00We're even close.
36:01In a year and a half I've worked with her,
36:02she's never mentioned a boyfriend.
36:06Oh, what a shame.
36:12Hi.
36:13How you doing?
36:15Oh, it's fine, I guess.
36:17In you are.
36:18Uh, Detective Steve Sloan?
36:21Is this about those unpaid parking tickets?
36:24Actually, it's about the murder of Fred Tallister.
36:28Do I know it?
36:30He's the man who raped Kelly Jones,
36:32your sorority sister.
36:33He's also the man who was sitting behind you on the bus.
36:38Oh, my God.
36:39Do you think he was after me?
36:41Yes, I do.
36:42I also think you were after him.
36:46I did some checking.
36:47You bought a gun ten days ago.
36:50And I'll bet if I checked in your purse right now,
36:52I'd find her.
36:59My boyfriend made me get the gun for protection.
37:03And from what you're saying,
37:04it sounds like I needed it.
37:05Well, I don't know if you were in any danger tonight,
37:09but Talisker was.
37:12Well, like you said, Detective, it's a guess.
37:16And even if it were true, what difference does it make?
37:19He wasn't shot.
37:21No, he was bashed in the head with a brick
37:22by somebody on the bus,
37:24somebody like you.
37:25I didn't kill him.
37:31I mean, if I was 100% sure
37:34that he was the man who raped Kelly,
37:36yeah, maybe I would have.
37:38But my leg was pinned down
37:43and I couldn't move.
37:45All I could think about
37:46was how much pain I was in.
37:48I'm not convinced.
37:51Until I am,
37:53you can consider yourself under arrest
37:56for carrying a concealed weapon.
37:59I don't know.
38:29So you mean Melora saw the accident
38:48and instead of trying to help
38:49any of the passengers,
38:51she waited for the paramedics to arrive
38:53to break into the bus
38:54so that she could pull off her own skin.
38:56You'd be surprised how often
38:58that kind of thing happens.
38:59But what she did was fraud
39:00so I can make sure
39:01she doesn't get away with it.
39:03Instead, she gets away with murder.
39:05Maybe she's being very clever.
39:07Maybe the real scam she's playing
39:09is the one on us.
39:11What if she was one of Talisker's victims?
39:14Maybe she got on the bus to help,
39:16she recognized Talisker,
39:17and she killed him.
39:19So we buy her scam story
39:21and forget about her as a suspect.
39:23You're becoming as cynical as my father.
39:25Hey, thanks.
39:30Got that from Cupcrum.
39:31Coast blue, VR base three, coast blue.
39:37You can follow cardiopulmonary arrest.
39:40Monitor shows V-tip.
39:41Ventilate.
39:42Give me the panels.
39:42Two hundred joules.
39:51Clear.
39:54Clear.
39:58Again, three hundred.
40:00Clear.
40:02Clear.
40:04I think doctor's right behind.
40:06One milligram of atropena,
40:08a hundred milligram of lidocam,
40:09one amp, a bicarb.
40:17He's not breathing.
40:18He's still flatline.
40:19One amp, calcium.
40:27Nothing.
40:28Intricardiac injection, epinephrine.
40:36He's not responding.
40:37Keep us all fixed and dilated.
40:45I lost him.
40:58Hey.
40:59Hi.
40:59I just finished Luke Cutford's autopsy.
41:01Let me guess.
41:03He died a renal failure
41:04from acute tubular necrosis
41:06as a result of severe bodily trauma
41:08suffered during the bus accident.
41:10Well, he probably would have
41:12if the overdose of phenytoin sodium
41:14hadn't killed him first.
41:16Phenytoin sodium?
41:18I'm afraid I'm going to have to turn this over
41:20to the hospital's oversight board
41:21for an official investigation.
41:24Amanda, I'm the attending physician.
41:26I'm to blame for any failure in his care.
41:28Mark, but you didn't administer
41:29the anticonvulsant.
41:31Now, everyone understands
41:32how dangerous phenytoin sodium is
41:34if it isn't administered perfectly.
41:37I'm sure the board will take that
41:38into consideration
41:39when reviewing a nurse's actions.
41:41It doesn't make any difference.
41:43My responsibility.
41:44My patient.
41:47It isn't possible.
41:49Nancy, you told me how tired you were.
41:52Now, don't worry about any reprisals.
41:54Whatever mistakes were made,
41:56I'm going to take responsibility for it.
41:57I've got five kids, Mark.
41:59I'm used to being tired.
42:02I'm not going to OD some patient
42:04because I've had a long shift.
42:05Nancy, even with the prescribed dosage,
42:08phenytoin sodium can be fatal
42:10if it's injected too quickly.
42:11Don't you think I know that?
42:13Nancy, nobody's blaming you.
42:15No, I am.
42:17I keep going over these procedures
42:18in my head a hundred times,
42:20trying to figure out what I did wrong.
42:22There isn't anything.
42:24How can you be sure?
42:26I checked his IV.
42:27I gave him two grams of phenytoin sodium
42:30at 316.
42:32Copper was stable when I left.
42:35Well, Lewin code blew it around 335.
42:37That would be about 20 minutes later.
42:39Phenytoin sodium OD would be fatal
42:41almost immediately.
42:43I'm telling you,
42:44he was fine when I left his room.
42:47Can you hold up on that report if you are?
42:49Sure.
42:50I just want to check up where's IV.
43:07Don't tell me you're leaving so soon, Miss Jackson.
43:09Was it to you?
43:11You know who has to cover your hospital bill
43:12if you skip out without paying?
43:15The taxpayers.
43:16Right, your congressman.
43:17Frankly, I can think of better uses
43:20for those tax dollars.
43:22Like paying my salary.
43:24I haven't done anything.
43:27I'll bet you I could come up
43:28with a couple of charges
43:29if I really put my mind to it.
43:31Well, that's fine with you.
43:33Because false arrest is almost as lucrative
43:35as pain and suffering.
43:37But real arrest is a major pain in the butt.
43:40And I got a feeling you wouldn't want
43:41to go through that
43:42after your traumatic experience on the bus.
43:44What do you want?
43:47Just to know what you saw
43:48before you were so grievously injured.
43:51You mean a crash?
43:53After that.
43:56I looked in the window
43:57and most of the people were lying on the floor.
44:01They looked really bad.
44:03Did you see the homeless man?
44:05Yeah, he was really out of it.
44:06I remember because he'd fallen on top
44:08of this guy in a sweatsuit.
44:10This him?
44:13Yeah, the sweatsuit guy
44:15was trying really hard to sit up,
44:16but he couldn't get out
44:17from under the homeless guy.
44:20Then what?
44:21The ambulance came.
44:24So I hid
44:25until they broke the glass
44:28and opened the door.
44:29And once they went inside,
44:30I slipped in behind them
44:32and hid under the first seat.
44:33And then what did you see?
44:36The back of my eyelids.
44:38I was hiding under the seat
44:40with my eyes closed.
44:43I thought we had a deal.
44:45I tell you what you want to know
44:47and you don't arrest me.
44:48Oh, we do.
44:50The accounting office
44:51is right down that hall.
44:53Once you settle up with them,
44:54you're free to go.
44:55And thank you for your business.
44:57Come again.
44:57Come again.
44:57Now, this is the line
45:05from Cupper's bicarb IV.
45:08What are you looking for?
45:09Look at that.
45:11Well, crystallization.
45:13Well, somebody injected
45:14phenotoin sodium
45:16into the bicarb IV.
45:18Mm-hmm.
45:18The two substances
45:19are totally incompatible.
45:20It causes crystallization.
45:22Well, I can't believe
45:23someone with that much experience
45:24in anti-convulsants
45:26and Nancy Roche
45:27would make a mistake like that
45:28no matter how tired she was.
45:30You know, neither can I.
45:33Which means that
45:34Lou Kupfer was murdered.
45:35Well, I was able to catch
45:53Melora Jackson again
45:55just before she left the building.
45:56So Melora, but Planix,
45:58Sarah Gildy, and Dustin Woods
45:59are all under guard.
46:00You know, I can understand
46:01why someone would want
46:02to murder Fred Talisker,
46:03but why Lou Kupfer?
46:04You know, we know from Melora
46:07that Lou was beside Talisker
46:10just after the crash.
46:12My guess is that
46:13when the killer murdered Talisker,
46:15he just assumed Lou was dead.
46:17And when he found out
46:18that he wasn't dead,
46:20he couldn't take a chance
46:21on being identified.
46:22Yeah, but Lou was dying
46:23and delirious.
46:24You know, when it was now cold,
46:26he was having Vietnam flashbacks
46:28screaming for a medic.
46:29The guy was not a threat
46:30to any of them.
46:31You know you're right,
46:32he wasn't.
46:33Huh?
46:34What happened?
46:38Her dog was blocking the TV
46:39and wouldn't move,
46:40so she kicked him.
46:41But I didn't appreciate it.
46:43She fell and broke her jaw
46:44on the coffee table.
46:45All right, let's bring her in here.
46:48Hey, dog.
46:50Matt, ladies and gentlemen,
46:51it's the end
46:52of another long shift.
46:55At least it ended
46:56better than it started.
46:58So you're going home
46:59for a good night's sleep?
47:00Oh, I wish I could.
47:02I'm going to get home
47:03and study those books.
47:05Oh, then you probably
47:05haven't had a chance
47:06to figure out
47:07which one of just
47:08these three questions
47:08you got wrong.
47:10Oh, with all that's going on tonight,
47:11I didn't have a free moment.
47:13Well, that's a shame, Tanya,
47:14because you got it wrong again.
47:18I don't understand.
47:19How much Anakin-Bolson
47:21can you mix
47:21in a bicarb IV solution?
47:24100 milligrams.
47:26The answer's none.
47:28They're incompatible.
47:31If you'd done some studying up,
47:32you wouldn't have made
47:33the same mistake
47:33when you killed Lou Kupfer.
47:36Who's Lou Kupfer?
47:38He's the homeless man
47:39who saw you murder Fred Talisman.
47:42See, Lou wasn't calling
47:43for a medic.
47:45He was pointing out the murderer,
47:46the paramedic, you.
47:49I tried to save Talisker.
47:51You saw me.
47:52That's what had me fooled.
47:54All those passengers
47:56were trapped in that bus.
47:58I just assumed that
47:59the murder must have happened
48:00in that five minutes
48:01before you arrived.
48:03Crime of opportunity.
48:06Never occurred to me
48:07that it could have happened
48:08after you came there.
48:10The opportunity was yours.
48:13This is crazy.
48:16I didn't even know him.
48:17No, but you'd seen him before
48:19when you were attacked.
48:21I think when we look
48:22at your medical records,
48:23we'll find out you were raped.
48:25They never caught the man
48:26that raped you, did they?
48:28No, not until she saw
48:29his face on that bus last night.
48:35I haven't been able
48:36to get his face out of my head
48:37since the night
48:38he did that to me.
48:39I still had the brick in my hand,
48:45the one I used to break
48:46the glass on the bus door.
48:49I saw him.
48:53It all came back to me
48:54every second of it.
48:58That man did not deserve to live
49:02not after what he did to me.
49:06After what he did
49:07to all those women.
49:09What about Luke Hopper?
49:10What did he ever do
49:11to you or to anyone?
49:13He was going to die anyway.
49:15What I did,
49:17it really didn't make a difference,
49:19did it?
49:21Tell her.
49:21You have the right
49:25to remain silent.
49:27Please, Dr. Sloan,
49:29tell her I didn't really kill him.
49:30Anything you say,
49:31yeah.
49:47Excuse me,
49:48I'd like to see Dr. Sloan.
49:50May I tell him
49:50what this is regarding?
49:52I'm Del Harris.
49:54Does he know you?
49:55Well, he might.
49:56I'm the coach of the Lakers.
49:58Uh-huh.
49:59I'm Whitney Houston.
50:00Nice to meet you.
50:01No, I read in the newspaper
50:02where he gave up floor seats
50:04to the Lakers game
50:05to attend to those people
50:07in the bus accident.
50:08So I dropped by
50:10to bring him two tickets
50:11to the next game.
50:12I'll give Malure credit
50:14for one thing.
50:15She's got guts to pull this.
50:17Who?
50:18Sir, I don't think
50:19anyone's interested
50:20in your offer.
50:21Good day.
50:22These are the best seats
50:24in the house.
50:25Two tickets
50:25right on the floor.
50:26Oh, I bet they are.
50:29You got it all wrong.
50:30I'm wanting to give
50:32these to him.
50:33Well, in that case,
50:34there won't be any charge
50:35in my will, dear.
50:36You give Malura
50:37my best.
50:38Hey, did you see him?
50:45It's unbelievable, isn't it?
50:47What was he doing here?
50:48I was asking myself
50:49the same question.
50:50That's the coach
50:51of the L.A. Lakers
50:52right here at Community General.
50:54You think we could have
50:54got a couple of tickets
50:55out of him?
50:56Dream on, Dad.
50:58Let's get his autograph.
50:59Go.
51:03Yes, sir.
51:05Who?
51:07All right.
51:08THE END
51:38And on Maloney, there's a little of you and a little of me all rolled into one big guy.
51:42That Peter Strauss is a part cop and part psychiatrist.
51:45We may not solve crimes exactly the same way, but we get the job done.