Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead - Recap

News reports are all agog about Nate Haskell's escape. The convicted
"Dick and Jane" killer was being transported to federal prison when a
co-conspirator smashed her vehicle into the prison van. Ray asks Brass
if there's any new news. He's apprehensive because it's just a matter of
time before Haskell kills again.

A man flatlines on the strip and the EMT's call the coroner. David says
the liver temp is 98 degrees, meaning the body has been dead less than
an hour. He's bagged and brought in.

David goes to work removing belongings, including a notebook in the
man's side trouser pocket. His cell phone goes off, and David answers by
saying he's busy. He can't talk about this now. Whoever it is didn't
want to talk about it this morning, when David was willing and able to
talk about it, and so now's not good. The corpse's finger moves, and he
sits up and turns to the side, getting up off the table. He walks up to
David, who promptly passes out from the shock. He remains conscious, and
sees the man walk to the door.

When David regains full consciousness, Brass, Robbins, Catherine and Ray
are there, asking questions. All David had time to do was snap a few
photos and take his personal effects. There was no wallet. Security
radios in that he is nowhere to be found. It would appear he left the
building. Catherine quips "Dead man walking!"

As David is wheeled down the hall he's cooing terms of endearment and
apology to his dearly beloved. He feels very bad about how he handled
their squabble earlier. Robbins talks to the EMT who pronounced him. He
was a total flatline. Dead. Gone. All symptoms checked for
non-existence. She's sure.

Catherine finds sweat in the body bag where the dead man's palms would
have been. But dead men don't sweat. All Ray has is the man's bus pass,
and the notebook, which is very well-used. He starts reading from it.
It's pretty confusing. Greg arrives with some surveillance footage of
their John Doe walking down the hall. Given everything that's happening
these days, should they be expecting the antichrist? Ray figures Haskell
going missing is enough to fill that quota.

A uniform gives coffee to Sara and leads her to a dead body with a head
wound. When they arrive at the location, the body is gone. There's blood
both on the ground and the gutter spout, so Sara knows the officer
didn't imagine the body. She takes a few pictures. She hypothesizes that
maybe he wasn't dead? Maybe he hit his head on the gutter spout, and he
was intoxicated enough to appear pulse-less.

The officer watches a man walking down the alley on a video in Brass'
office, and positively id's him as the dead body Sara got called to. He
knows the guy was dead! Brass believes him, since it's the second time
today. The officer says it's a zombie epidemic. Jim advises him to keep
that opinion to himself.

Nick starts running DMV facial recognition to see if they can get a
match on zombie #1. He tells Sara he considered calling the DMV, just on
principle. Half of them are the walking dead. Sarah got DNA back on both
zombies, and neither of them was in CODIS. Henry arrives and says that
Hodges has a proposal. The two zombies should be the inaugural entrants
in his newly-copywrited ZODIS (Zombie DNA Index System) ... he made him
say that. Both sample's toxicology reports were clean. They don't have
anything to go on.

Greg pulls out the notebook from the first zombie and sees that there
are three letters along the front (across from the spine, the page
sides) "EDA". He starts analyzing the contents of the book. He brings
his results to Ray. There was a Dr. Elliot David Aden teaching at WNVU
several decades ago. EDA, as written on the notebook. He's very
interesting. He was a world-renowned psychoanalyst that according to
Greg, "fell down the rabbit hole of psychedelic drugs". He became a bit
of a Dr. Feelgood, until one of his students threw himself out a 5th
story window. He was banished by the University, but charges were never
filed. Apparently, the government didn't want to step on the toes of
someone who knew their secrets. So how did Aden's notebook land in the
custody of zombie #1? And is Aden still around? Greg tracked him down by
following his government pension check.

Sara and Ray pay him a visit. Ray knocks, and a voice informs them that
they have to drive another three miles to get to the casino. He says
they have the wrong guy, but Sara calls out that they are from the crime
lab, and they have something of his. He looks out and sees his notebook.

He rants about government bureaucrats all the way across the yard. He
says they claimed that all of his papers had been destroyed, as he
shakes his notebook, proof that they lied. He finally calms down enough
to ask where they got his book from. Ray shows him a picture and asks if
he recognizes zombie #1. No, he doesn't. He's dead? He's obviously on an
autopsy table. Ray tells him the truth. He was dead, and then he wasn't.
Aden finds this very interesting. As he talks, Sara realizes he sounds
like he conducted reanimation experiments. Did he? He asks what Sara's
clearance is. She says 5'9". Ray asks if that's his handwriting in the
book, and he says yes, to most of the entries. Not the ones at the end
of the notebook. Somebody is trying to build on his work, and make it
look like it's all theirs.

He sits outside with Sara, making small talk. Ray arrives with good
news. Aden's work was archived, not destroyed. Ray hands over the keys,
and they go to check it out.

Catherine makes jokes on the phone. Maybe they need a new classification
for this situation. DOAwol. Nick got a DMV facial recognition match for
zombie #1. His name is Max Ferris. He's a grad student in psychology.
They're going to try to track him down.

When they get to his office, Ray advises Aden not to tamper with
anything. This is all evidence. Aden refers to it as his Library of
Alexandria, his trove of treasures. It looks like somebody has been busy
there recently. Sara notes that the remainder of his files appear
untouched. Whoever was in there only appeared interested in
death-related phenomenon.

Brass questions the man who stole Max's credit card. He thought he was
dead, what's the harm. Besides, he turned in Max' possessions. Can't
Brass just turn him loose?

Archie explains one of the possessions to Catherine. It's a wireless
video camera and receiver. Archie lifts the footage from the app and
tells Catherine to grab some popcorn. Max is saying that tonight's the
night, followed by a bunch of gibberish about discovering the mysteries
that lay beyond. He's cut off by another young man, who Catherine
recognizes as fitting the description of the alley zombie. Max calls him
Kurt. There's a third person on the video, a woman. One of them calls
her Alice.

Ray and Sara follow Dr. Aden to a room with an aquarium full of
poisonous fish. They're all alive, which means somebody has been in
there and feeding them on a regular basis.

Catherine and Archie continue to watch the tape as Max discusses
everything he's experiencing.

Aden finds some unit he refers to happily as "Maria", his nautilus. He
opens it, and zombie #2 is inside. Ray takes pictures, and Sara
announces that police and coroners are on their way. The wallet names
their victim as Kurt Dawson. His student ID expired about a year ago.
They wonder about why he was in the nautilus. Ray thinks maybe the tank
wasn't his idea. He drowned in 10" of water. He had high levels of a
toxin found in certain sea creatures. He also had LSD and pot in his
system. So his body was frozen, and his mind was ablaze, says Dr.
Robbins. Ray looks at him, and Al admits "I've been there."

He checks the EMT's EKG. He tells her that zombie #1 was affected by a
paralytic. She would've known that if her gain had been correctly
calibrated. The way she had it set, it wouldn't pick up Al's heartbeat.
She's lucky he doesn't bench her. This is her only warning. If it
happens again, she won't have a job.

Nick and Sara work at the site where Kurt's body was found. Nick finds
some light blue fibers which appear to match the t-shirt Max was wearing
in the morgue. With their hypothesis, Max and Kurt had an altercation,
and Max won. Nick finds what may be Kurt's camera.

Ray interviews Dr. Aden, and plays the video for him. Ray thinks Max was
following in Dr. Aden's footsteps.

Eric went through Kurt's email accounts and found a number of exchanges
between him and Max and Alice, a bio-chem major. Like Kurt, she seemed
to be under Max' spell. They need to find Alice.

While out looking for Alice, they find Max, leaning on a tombstone. He's
alive, and freaks them out. He was waiting for Alice. When they attempt
to take him into custody, he runs and is promptly hit by a car. That's
two-for-two on the dead zombie front. They still need to find Alice.

Catherine punches holes in Dr. Aden's notebook, and runs tests on the
little circles of paper. She finds that Kurt's notebook is a match for
Max's, only some of it is written about a formula that's only been
around a couple of years. It's Aden's handwriting, which means he's not
been near as 'hands off' as he's been leading them to believe.

Alice initiated email contact with Dr. Aden five months ago, when her
mother died. He wrote her back that he was happy to have a follower, and
encouraged her to find more. Max and Kurt.

Archie grabs them. He was scanning through Kurt Dawson's video, and he
noticed something strange. His camera was distorted by another camera.
Archie is working on finding out where the interference came from. But
in the meantime, he isolated a couple of frames. The feet in the picture
belong to a woman. It appears a car stops and picks her up. It looks
like an old Saab. Nick remembers Sara saying Dr. Aden drove an old
dinosaur like that.

Ray and Sara return to Dr. Aden's place. His car is gone. Maybe he knew
they were coming. Ray tries to raise a response, but nothing. Sara
discovers the door is open. They continue calling his name with no
response. Ray finds some videos with Alice's name on them, dated very
recently. The last one he picks up is from yesterday. Alice is on video,
nodding off. Aden is trying to get her to focus, and tell him what she's
seen. As he watches, Sara finds an invoice for 50 mg Tetrodotoxin. Dr.
Aden was supplying the paralytic. Alice just passed it around.

Ray notices a video camera, and pops the tape. It's from today. He puts
it in the player. It's Aden, basically making no sense whatsoever. It is
clear, however, that he intends to follow Kurt, Max and Alice's lead.
They hear a noise, and follow it to the back yard, where they find Dr.
Aden. He has faint pupil reaction. He's not dead, but he'll probably
never find his way back out.

Catherine radios Nick. He's at the campus, Aden's car is out front.
Campus police called it in, so he's checking things out. He hears a
noise from another room and goes down the hall to investigate, gun
drawn. The noises continue, but he can't pinpoint the source. Finally,
he sees Alice. She doesn't respond to his call. He says they've been
looking for her, and she says she's been looking for someone too. Her
mother. She saw that she was happy. She said she loved Alice, and told
her to go back. She wants to tell Kurt and Max. Nick tells her they
didn't come back.

Al and Ray discuss the case. Humans have always pondered if there's an
afterlife. Al believes that death is meant to be a mystery. Ray believes
that people that bring suffering and pain into this world should have it
repaid to them tenfold, whether in this world or the next. Al tells him
to be careful. Evil has a way of befriending the good before dragging it
off into the darkness.

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