... Best Picture Oscar winner "Ordinary People" from two years before, except with a crime aspect since otherwise Quincy would not be involved.
A young man is accidentally killed in a hazing incident by a fraternity he wants to join. The group of college kids panic when he drowns, and so they place his body in the pool at the college to hide what happened. This is how the police and Quincy get involved.
Most of the episode focuses on the family of the dead boy and it mirrors what happened in Ordinary People. The mother is in denial and resents her surviving son because the one who died is her favorite as much as she doesn't want to admit it. Meanwhile the surviving son tries to please her - he strikes out - and the father tries to get the woman to open up about her grief - he strikes out too.
The story and acting are good enough, but it just doesn't seem like a suitable topic for a series that is supposed to be about crime and forensic medicine. There is a tie-in to that here, but it is tenuous at best.