An evangelist whose church is being investigated by the government is found dead in a motel room., drugs and alcohol at his bedside table.An evangelist whose church is being investigated by the government is found dead in a motel room., drugs and alcohol at his bedside table.An evangelist whose church is being investigated by the government is found dead in a motel room., drugs and alcohol at his bedside table.
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- Dr. Lawrence Condon
- (as Regis J. Cordic)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA nameplate show's that Chief Deputy Medical Examiner's last name is spelled A-s-t-e-n. When the show started, his last name was spelled with an "I", but starting with season five it was changed to being spelled with an "e" until the show ended.
- GoofsWhen Quincy is examining the dead evangelist he turns the corpse's head to one side. As Quincy starts to move away the dead man turns his head back to the original position.
- Quotes
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: $75? All this fuss over $75? Why you!... Come here!
[Holds up a dollar bill over the window that looks out at County-USC hospital]
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: What do you see?
Dr. Robert Asten: I see a dollar. I see the hospital...
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: That's right. That's right.
[Steps forward so the dollar bill is very close to Asten's face]
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Now what do you see?
Dr. Robert Asten: I see the dollar.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: That is also right. That's what happens when you get too close to money. You can't see the good you're doing or can do with it. And that's what's happening to you, sir!
So far, this is one of the better episodes of Season 5 which has gotten off to a very lackluster start in my opinion. Although the set-up for this episode is strikingly similar to the Season 2 "Sullied Be Thy Name" episode where a priest is also found dead in a room under controversial circumstances, we still have a pretty decent mystery featured here and I thought the regular players as well as the guest stars all gave solid performances.
That said, this episode is not without problems in that it comes off rather disjointed. When Quincy brings in the team to conduct the psychological autopsy about a third of the way through, it's as if they suddenly take over and the entire focus shifts to them where they are doing all of the investigating with Quincy and the rest of the regulars noticeably absent. There is also a lot of post-mortem psychoanalysis which seemed to go way overboard to me because in the end it didn't really amount to very much.
I think most will find this episode somewhat interesting and entertaining, just be forewarned that you may need to do some fast forwarding during the scenes where the psychological autopsy team does their profiling ad nauseam.
- rayoflite24
- Oct 13, 2015