4x23 The Good Death

Created on July 11, 2008 - 12:17

Season 4 x 23 -

First Air Date : Sunday, 29 April 2007

Ratings : 12.1 millions of viewers

Directed by Paris Barclay

Written by Gavin Harris

Flashback year : 1998 (9 years ago)

Summary

The team re-opens the 1998 case of a terminally ill man when a nurse comes forth confessing to euthanizing six of his former patients.

Sidestories

Lilly Rush

Lilly can't prevent her mother from drinking.
Ellen was reading "The Velveteen Rabbit" to Lilly.
Do you remember you used to have those bad dreams? I would read to you all night just to calm you down. I was there, Lilly.

Scotty Valens

Kat : everyone's talking about you and that ADA.
Scotty : What's to talk about?
Kat : How much you guys "hate" each other.

Scotty about Euthanasia :
Scotty : You know, my granddad had als. Was a boxer, couldn't hold up a spoon in the end.
Lilly : Oh,yeah?
Scotty : Yeah. Suffered for weeks before he died. Still don't know the point of that.
Lilly : Hmm. There's always hope, right?
Scotty : Well,you know you can put down a dog if it's in pain?
Lilly : Or a cat. Yeah.
Scotty : Why not us?

Music

"1979" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Out Of My Head" - Fastball
"The Freshmen" - The Verve Pipe
"Barely Breathing" - Duncan Sheik
"P.S. You Rock My World" - Eels
"Good Day" - Paul Westerberg

Notes

Number of victims : 1
Flashback style: Color
Murder weapon: Drugs
Motive: Euthanasia
Murder type: Mercy kill
New lead: New connection

Special: Natural death - Not a cold case

No "ghost" apparitions.

Other episodes from 1998:
1x03 Our Boy is Back
2x16 Revenge
3x15 Sanctuary
5x02 That Woman
5x13 Spiders

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