No Deadly Secret begins late in the evening on Quincy's (Jack Klugman) boat where he is entertaining a girlfriend (Elaine Joyce) who falls asleep on him and he is then startled by his friend, Carl Hopwood (Troy Melton), who shows up needing medical treatment and collapses beside the boat. Quincy attempts to rush Carl to the hospital but he dies en route and Quincy decides to take him right to the coroner lab to perform the autopsy. The preliminary results reveal that Carl died of hemorrhaging as the result of injuries sustained from a beating, leading Quincy to contact the police before he ends up falling asleep on the office couch.
The next morning, Quincy is awakened by Sam (Robert Ito) and is shocked to learn that the body of Carl is nowhere to be found. All of the tests and records associated with Carl have also disappeared with the exception of an audio recording of Quincy performing the autopsy, leaving Lt. Monahan (Garry Walberg) and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin) in disbelief of his story. Additionally, a lab assistant who was the only witness to the body being brought in is later found dead of a contaminated drug overdose. Quincy begins to pursue his own investigation despite the protests of Asten and Monahan and this leads him to look further into Carl's employment as a scientist.
This was the first episode of the third season of Quincy and a very good one in my opinion. There is an interesting mystery featured with some twists, and Quincy has to do practically all of the work here since others do not believe his story. This aspect of the episode is pretty ridiculous because you would think that Monahan and Asten would give Quincy the benefit of the doubt when the body disappears since he is such an esteemed coroner who has proved himself to them over and over again. Instead, you have Monahan undermining Quincy by making snide, sarcastic and unfunny comments in front of others involved which is totally unprofessional and Asten acting like the world is going to end because a lobbyist called him on the phone. You should know better gentlemen!
Those annoyances aside, this is a quite enjoyable episode which will entertain and keep your interest right up until the very end.
The next morning, Quincy is awakened by Sam (Robert Ito) and is shocked to learn that the body of Carl is nowhere to be found. All of the tests and records associated with Carl have also disappeared with the exception of an audio recording of Quincy performing the autopsy, leaving Lt. Monahan (Garry Walberg) and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin) in disbelief of his story. Additionally, a lab assistant who was the only witness to the body being brought in is later found dead of a contaminated drug overdose. Quincy begins to pursue his own investigation despite the protests of Asten and Monahan and this leads him to look further into Carl's employment as a scientist.
This was the first episode of the third season of Quincy and a very good one in my opinion. There is an interesting mystery featured with some twists, and Quincy has to do practically all of the work here since others do not believe his story. This aspect of the episode is pretty ridiculous because you would think that Monahan and Asten would give Quincy the benefit of the doubt when the body disappears since he is such an esteemed coroner who has proved himself to them over and over again. Instead, you have Monahan undermining Quincy by making snide, sarcastic and unfunny comments in front of others involved which is totally unprofessional and Asten acting like the world is going to end because a lobbyist called him on the phone. You should know better gentlemen!
Those annoyances aside, this is a quite enjoyable episode which will entertain and keep your interest right up until the very end.