
Quincy has to find a cure for the virus while battling the large corporation underwriting the doctor's research. S : Diana Marcus & Chris Abbott & Nancy Faulkner Ī doctor using a genetically engineered form of the SV40 virus to create a possible cure for cancer may have inadvertently created a deadly virus when a cancer patient and anyone she was in contact with dies. When he is shot dead, six townspeople all admit to the killing, and Quincy has to go through the town's indifferent police chief ( John Anderson) and the group of townspeople to get to the truth.
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Quincy is called to testify in the small-town murder trial of a sadistic, ruthless man ( Brion James). The cause of death of a baby diagnosed with Sturge–Weber syndrome is in dispute of Quincy and an up-and-coming disabled pathologist, who Quincy feels is taking the case personally due to his disability. She needs assistance from a support group to help pull her out of the cycle of alcohol addiction. Quincy's friend and fellow medical examiner ( Ina Balin) is allowing her alcoholism to interfere with her work, resulting in numerous mistakes in autopsies. Note: three months after this episode aired, the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. Arthur Ciotti ( Michael Constantine, reprising his role) once again take on the drug companies and the government to get the Orphan Drug Act passed so she can obtain the life-saving medication. In a sequel to Season 6's " Seldom Silent, Never Heard", a young mother is suffering from myoclonus, and is having problems getting the medication she needs. The practice of "ghost surgery" (having a young resident do an operation in place of an experienced surgeon) is explored after a man dies from complications during routine bypass surgery and the man's brother pays for an autopsy to determine who is responsible. Quincy, Emily, and the boy's probation officer ( Gregory Sierra) seek to prove the boy's innocence before the officer's program to get kids out of the gang lifestyle is shut down by a politician up for reelection. episodes No.Ī young girl is killed in a drive-by shooting, and a 14-year-old boy (on probation for gang activity) is arrested for the killing, though he denies any involvement.
