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Quincy, M.E. :: Sullied Be Thy Name (02x11)
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| Title: | Sullied Be Thy Name |
| Episode #: | 02x11 |
| Production Number: | 46926 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday May 06th, 1977 |
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Father Martin Terrell, priest and crusader, is dead. There’s little doubt that he died of a heart attack. The problem is where he died – in the bedroom of a high class prostitute. Was Terrell’s anti-pornography campaign an act of hypocrisy? Or did the cleric die elsewhere, and someone moved him to a compromising location to discredit him? Lieutenant Monahan, a friend of the priest’s, asks Quincy to take a personal hand. Monahan believes someone is trying to smear his friend, but can Quincy prove it?
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Two important forensic disciplines – then still relatively new – drive this plot. Livor mortis, or lividity, occurs when blood ceases to circulate. The heavy cells settle into the capillaries at the lowest parts of the body. But they do not settle into those parts of the body resting on or against any surface, because the capillaries there are compressed. A skilled pathologist can approximate time of death and can sometimes tell what sort of material the body rested on or against by studying these patterns. The second key point was comparative fiber analysis. Using this technique, Quincy compared two sets of fibers – one taken from the victim's throat and others from places he might have died – to narrow down the precise location of death. Modern forensic labs can perform more detailed analyses of such fibers, determining what they were part of and sometimes even the manufacturer.
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Monahan: It’s not routine, Quincy. You didn’t recognize him?
Quincy: He did look kind of familiar – who was he?
Monahan: Maybe you saw him on television – in the newspaper. He was a priest – Father Martin Terrell.
| Quincy: The lividity pattern indicates something else. Now what’s that tell you, Sam?
Sam: That he was on his side – fetal position – for quite a while after he died.
| Quincy: Lieutenant, priests have coronaries just like anyone else.
Monahan: Not in bed with hookers, they don’t!
| Monahan: Alright, he died of a coronary. The body, the lab, they told you that much. I’ll buy that. But I want them to tell you more! I want them to tell you that Father Terrell’s body was planted with that girl!
Quincy: Oooh, Lieutenant... As you’ve often pointed out, it’s my job only to find the cause of death.
Monahan: It’s your job to see that an innocent man isn’t smeared in the mud after his death. (pauses) Alright, it isn’t you job, it’s your nature.
| Quincy: Wherever he died, it happened between 4:00 and 6:00. Now you have to find out where - you’re a pretty bright man for a detective... it’s up to you!
| Monsignor: For a priest he was a remarkable con man.
Monahan: You’re telling me. You know, when he first started this place, a lot of people around here were concerned. You know, they thought they’d be in the middle of a crime wave.
Monsignor: I remember that.
Monahan: Well, I was a little worried myself, so I came over here to read him the rules. I was going to be real stern. You know, by the time I left here, he hit me up for a hundred dollar donation.
Monsignor: That was Father Terrell!
| Quincy: Have you forgotten your basics? First you doubt, then you question, then you assume and then you prove!
| Carlos Desskasa: But it was a coronary. So – what are you asking me these questions for? Unless you’re trying to tell me that you think he died in this office and that I had his body moved to that girl’s apartment in order to discredit the noble man of the cloth?
Monahan: I haven’t made any accusations, Mr. Desskasa.
| Quincy: Now, on the right side is the stuff I took from from Father Terrell’s throat. On the left side, fibers from Asten’s carpet.
Sam: He aspirated fibers from the carpet?
Quincy: That’s right! He had an attack, he fell to the floor, face down. He gasped for breath, and he vacuumed it up.
| Quincy: Lieutenant Monahan and I are looking for the same thing.
Carlos Desskasa: Ah-ha. To restore the good name of Father Terrell and to destroy mine.
Quincy: No offense, Mr. Desskasa, but I’ve never heard your name mentioned with quite the same respect.
Carlos Desskasa: Respect, doctor, is a very transitory thing.
| Draper: I’m sure you believe every word of this, Lieutenant. But it isn’t true, and of course it follows you’ll never be able to prove it.
Monahan: I think we have already!
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Quincy removes carpet fibers from Desskasa’s office without a search warrant. Since the office is not the scene of a crime a warrant is absolutely required, or any evidence obtained would be barred from a trial. One would hope Quincy, an officer of the court, would know the law better than this.
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