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Quincy, M.E. :: Valleyview (02x12)
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| Title: | Valleyview |
| Episode #: | 02x12 |
| Production Number: | 46908 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday May 13th, 1977 |
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Howard Phillips, a patient at the Valleyview Sanitarium, dies of a blood clot – a coronary. But his grandson contends the old gentleman’s heart was in fine shape, and pays the $362 fee for an autopsy. Quincy performs the autopsy and discovers that the grandson was right – Howard Phillips’ heart was fine. But Quincy cannot discover what did kill the man. Then another patient at Valleyview dies, and Quincy begins to wonder. When a healthy staff member succumbs to the same mysterious death, Quincy is certain someone at Valleyview is killing people, and must discover who and how before more people die.
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Quincy: Howard Phillips, age 76, they say he died of a blood clot – coronary.
David Phillips: He didn’t. I saw him just last week, and he could have taken me two falls out of three on the mat. His heart was perfect!
Quincy: You a doctor?
David Phillips: I’m going to be. Right now I’m just somebody who loved his grandfather very much. And who thinks he got the short end of it.
| Mr. Friedman: How much time? Thirteen months she’s been here, with no change!
Dr. John Franklin: Mr. Friedman, I...
Mr. Friedman: She is no better than she was the first day...
Mrs. Friedman: She’s worse. More hallucinations... Dr. Franklin, tell us the truth. What hope is there?
Dr. John Franklin: There’s always hope.
| Sam: Well?
Quincy: Beats me. No coronary occlusion. Heart size and weight are normal. No signs of recent damage.
Sam: Which means no heart attack.
Quincy: Well, nothing firm until we get the micros, but I don’t think it’s going to make any difference. I want you to run a tox screen.
| Quincy: Why, Sam? Why is this man dead?
| Quincy: You were right and Dr. Franklin was wrong. It wasn’t a coronary.
| David Phillips: It was malpractice!
Quincy: Oh, don’t be so tough on the doctor, you see what he had to...
David Phillips: Of course I see! You’re trying to protect him now! No doctor is ever wrong according to another doctor!
Quincy: All of us are imperfect. I have fouled up many times and I will again. And when do I appreciate it when somebody blows the whistle on me.
| Sam: Quincy? Would you be offended if I asked you to... well... I mean... not go off the deep end.
Quincy: What are you doing? Bucking for Asten’s job?
| Dr. Peter James: Don’t play word games, doctor! You suspect there’s a killer running loose, otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
| Dr. John Franklin: Did you find the exact cause of death?
Dr. Peter James: No. Doctor Quincy found nothing at all. That’s apparently why he’s here. He seems to think that somebody on our staff is guilty of killing the Friedman girl and Mr. Phillips.
Dr. John Franklin: Och! Why would anyone on our staff want to see either one of them dead?
Quincy: Compassion. Relieve pain.
| Dr. John Franklin: Yes, under certain circumstances, I do believe in euthanasia.
Quincy: Such as?
Dr. John Franklin: Well, take an example... two people, been together many years, in love. They find out that one of them has a terminal disease of some sort. And the person with the disease is in such... such awful pain... that they ask the other person ‘Please – put them out of their misery.’ The person does. Well, I don’t call that murder, I call that mercy.
Quincy: They were your patients?
Dr. John Franklin: No, they were my parents...
| Asten: You want them to investigate a murder, and you can't say for sure whether anyone’s been murdered!!
| Asten: Alright. Let’s say I assume you’re right. I ask for an investigation and I get it – and that investigation does not turn up a mercy killer. You know what you would have accomplished? You would have destroyed Doctor James. You would have destroyed Valleyview.
Quincy: If I’m right, what makes you think the murders are going to stop?!? There’s going to be an epidemic up there!! I’m not interested in the reputation of Valleyview or the man who runs it. I’m interested in saving lives!!
| Miss Grayson: Miss Robbins, do you know anything about this? I found it in the medicine room.
Miss Robbins: Well, what is it?
Miss Grayson: That’s what I’d like to know. And I’d like to know who put it there.
Miss Robbins: It’s not labeled.
Miss Grayson: That’s right. You know the rules about that.
Miss Robbins: Well, I didn’t put it there.
Miss Grayson: And you don’t know who might have?
Miss Robbins: No... no idea at all!
Miss Grayson: We’ll get to the bottom of that in the morning.
| Sam: Quincy... you were waiting for a break. Well, we got one. But not the kind you wanted.
Quincy: You got another body from Valleyview.
Sam: Um hmmm. Except it’s not a patient this time. It’s a nurse.
| Dr. John Franklin: Wait a minute. Here’s a man... a therapist... lives on the premises.
Quincy: So?
Dr. John Franklin: So, it means he’s here all the time. And he showed an inordinate interest in the Friedman girl.
| Quincy: You’re not helping him, honest. You’re gonna hurt him.
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Quincy describes Howard Phillips’ aorta as "smooth as a baby’s" during the autopsy. He describes the heart as of normal size and weight and he finds no occlusions. In short, his cardiac health was excellent. Yet later, Dr. Franklin describes Phillips as having a long history of heart disease. Quincy could have detected such a condition at autopsy in a number of ways: scarring, enlargement, and partial occlusion of the cardiac arteries are all common and easily detectable signs of heart disease.
| Quincy describes the poison as curare – or a poison very much like it. Curare refers to various dart poisons formulated from compounds found in South American plants. It is not a medically specific term.
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