The Closer (2005–2012): Season 7, Episode 18 - Drug Fiend - full transcript

Sorry, we should've taken two cars.

Stop apologizing. Really.

I didn't like the sermon anyway.

[GABRIEL CHUCKLES]

Okay. So, uh, I'm gonna go on inside.

If you wanna head on to the
restaurant, I'll catch...

No, no, no.

I am not going to brunch
with your grandparents without you.

Why not? They'll adore you.

Mm-hm. Like your mother does?

[SCOFFS]



Anne, my mother loves you.

- Now, that's just... That's not true.
- She... It is...

The only thing you have ever done
that upset my mother...

was when you told her
she rinsed the dishes off too much...

before putting them in the dishwasher,
ANNE: I have nightmares...

about the look that she gave me.
Listen, it's very simple.

I'm not going to brunch with your family
without you, by myself.

I... I'll wait. I'll wait here.

Okay, I got a better idea.

You're coming in with me.

- What? No.
GABRIEL: Yes. Yes. Yes.

ANNE: I'll contaminate the scene.
GABRIEL: Yes. It's time you met people.

God, the alternative to brunch
with your family is murder?

If you don't come, my parents are gonna
think you stayed in the car to avoid them.



Yeah, I'm doing that. That... Yes.
That... That's exactly what I'm doing.

- Anne.
- David.

[POLICE SCANNER CHATTERING]

Okay. So why don't you just wait here
while I get everything ready for the chief?

- Yeah.

POLICEMAN:
Sir?

Uh, Detective Sergeant David Gabriel, Major Crimes.
She's with me, okay?

Sergeant.

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

GABRIEL:
No, ifs perfect.

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

GABRIEL:
Be sure not to touch anything.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, on the second floor. Okay.

Just one second.

Detective Gabriel, what do we know?

Well, our victim's name
Is Dr. Christopher Brady.

He's 41 years old. He's a board-certified
gastroenterology oncologist.

I think I said that right.

So that's what? Cancers of the stomach?

Yeah, colon, intestines,
that sort of thing.

Dr. Brady lives alone.
He's unmarried, originally from Florida.

•He shares this office
with a Dr. Steven Parr...

also an oncologist specializing
in cancers of the head and neck.

Cancers of the head and neck.

I guess that includes thyroids.

- Is your father still struggling?
- Yes, he Is,

And the body was found by?

By a janitor cleaning the infusion room
this morning at 9:15 a.m.

- He called 911, they called us.
- Jo.

Oh, you're wearing a flower.

Oh! Boutonniere. My grandmother pinned it
on me before we went to church.

Oh, I'm sorry that we called you away
from services.

Don't worry.
They'll be open next Sunday too.

Uh, so I just got word that Dr. Parr, who's
our victim's partner, is on his way in.

- He'll be here in a few minutes.
- Ok.

- Uh, chief'
- Mm-hm?

This is, uh, Anne Mason.

Deputy Chief Johnson.
And what do you do here, Anne?

Uh, oh, no.

- I'm David's girlfriend.
- David who?

David Gabriel.

- Oh! David.
- Yeah.

[I see.;0]

•Yeah, I rode with Anne to church
this morning so I don't have my car.

Oh, right. Okay.

Well, pardon us, Anne,
while we go check on our murder victim.

I'll have David back shortly.

I'll wait here.

GABRIEL: I'll be right back.
- Yeah.

Blunt-force trauma to the head.

Whatever the weapon was,
we've searched the entire office.

We had patrol look at the garage,
the dumpsters, no luck.

Head wound's
not what killed him though.

For heaven's sakes,
he was beaten and strangled?

With this, chief.
IV tubing. Makes a really good garrote.

BRENDA: Time of death?
- Between 6 and 10 p.m. last night.

Thank you. What was the doctor doing here
the middle of the night on a weekend?

Well, he administered chemotherapy
on Saturday too.

BRENDA: Staff?
- One nurse, chief.

She says she left early yesterday
to meet her sister.

- We're confirming that right now.
- Security cameras?

They only run live feeds.
Nothing's saved.

So the killer could be anyone.
We don't know who. Do we know why?

Well, maybe. There are cabinets
and coolers back there...

.and all their shelves have drug names
on them, but they're empty.

Chief, some of the missing medications
are chemotherapy agents...

but we also have morphine,
hydrocodone, oxycodone, Betanol.

Opiates.

PARR: I told Chris this would happen.
- Told Chris what?

•it he insisted on treating addicts, •
homeless people, we'd have trouble.

Whoever killed him didn't even look to see
what drugs they were taking. My God.

If I can't infuse people tomorrow,
this could ruin our business.

You consider treating cancer
a business?

I'm sorry.
Do you wear that badge for free?

Yes. Treating cancer patients
is how I make my living.

And when people choose me,
hoping that I can cure them...

.they have to sit next to some person
who's pissed his pants...

because he's too high to remember
to go to the bathroom that's bad.

Also bad,
people coming in for chemo tomorrow.

I don't have medications to give them.

Okay, let's start at the beginning.

According
to Dr. Brady's phone records...

he had one appointment
around the time of the murder.

- A W. Sanders?
- Wally. Wally Sanders.

- One of Chris' wholesale drug suppliers.
- Okay. We'll track down Mr. Sanders.

All I need from you is a list of everyone
who was here for treatment yesterday.

I can't give you that.

- Why not?
- HIPAA, David.

- Excuse me?
ANNE: HIPAAI

Urn, Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act.

- It severely restricts patient records, but-
- Urn, so sorry.

One second. Urn...

- David'
- Yup.

Is Anne an attorney?

No, not yet.
She's studying to take the bar,

You're dating a lawyer?

Who I met in church.

- That's supposed to make it better?
- Please, let's not...

Look, doctor.
No one wants to violate federal law.

If we're going to find out who
killed Chris and where your...

You know, actually, if the police asked
the DA to drop a warrant...

assigning a special master,
you can examine medical records.

Pardon me.
Why don't you go with Anne somewhere...

where she could freely explain how a special
master might work In this situation?

- Yup.
- Thank you. Make sure to write It down.

Would you? I don't wanna miss a word.

- Yes, ma'am.
- Thank you. Thank you so much.

Look, doctor, I don't need to know
why a person was here.

I just need their names.

We will pursue waivers for medical records
on an as-needed basis.

Make a list the names of people
who might've been upset with Dr. Brady...

and a contact list of next of kin.

I don't have time for this right now.

I have medications I need to replace
for tomorrow.

- No one is coming tomorrow.
- Extra help to get my Infusion room.

- Send your patients somewhere.
- I am not going to expose myself.

Sir, this office is a crime scene and it
will remain closed until we process It.

Something wrong with your hearing or do
you not care about people with cancer?

Oh, you don't wanna answer that,
so you just walk off.

Hey. You want some answers?
I'll give you some answers.

Her father's recovering from cancer
right now.

- Do you have any more genius questions?
PROVENZA: Just do what we ask.

Write down who was here yesterday...

anybody that was upset with Dr. Brady
and his next of kin.

Until I get my office back, you get jack.

Oh, chief. It turns out our victim fired
one of his nurses last week.

- A woman named Laurie Shaw.
- Do we know why?

No. But I told her we needed to get a
set of elimination prints from her.

She's in Interview Room 2.

- Do you want me to talk to her?
- No. No. We'll both go.

Uh...

Would you please let Lt. Provenza know
that I'm waiting for an update from him?

- Yes, ma'am.
- Thank you so much.

So now it's not just your mother.
Your boss hates me too.

No, she's just really focused on the murder
right now.

- And my mom loves you.
- Oh...

- She does.
ANNE: No, David.

Laurie Shaw? I'm Deputy Chief Johnson.

Thank you so much for giving up
your Sunday to talk to us.

I can only imagine how you must feel •
after working for Dr. Brady for how long?

Three years.

Look, can I ask?
Was his murder, in any way, drug-related?

And why would you think that, ma'am?

About two weeks ago,
I was looking through some charts...

when I noticed what looked like
some creative accounting.

- You mean fraud?
- I don't know.

Dr. Brady was one of the most caring
physicians I'd ever worked for.

But he hadn't been himself lately.

First, we lost a few more patients
than we usually do... That happens.

But then these odd prescription orders
turned up.

And you asked Dr. Brady about that?

Pardon me for interrupting.

Did Major Crimes tell a Dr. Parr...

.that he could not infuse cancer patients
at his office tomorrow?

Yes, we're still processing the scene.

Lieutenants Flynn and Provenza were left
behind to talk the doctor Into cooperating?

Well, yes. Why?

Because Chief Pope Is
driving in right now...

.to talk about how he would like
Major Crimes to proceed.

LAURIE [OVER MONITOR]
- And to the sick.

And I admired him for it.

Dr. Brady hated the idea of people dying
just because It was expensive to cure them.

When I told him I thought he was taking
this Innovative billing a little too far...

he'd said that I could either quit
or he would have to fire me.

So I left.

Chief, sorry, Captain Raydor
would like a word.

If you thought Dr. Brady was breaking the
law, why didn't you contact the authorities?

You know how hard it is for a nurse
to get hired...

.after they reported a doctor
for scamming Medicare?

For scamming Medicare?
And how did Dr. Brady do that?

By ordering lots of expensive prescriptions
his patients didn't need.

What made you so sure
that these drugs were unnecessary?

Because the patients that Dr. Brady
was ordering them for didn't exist.

Well, I just transferred, actually.
I'm finishing my...

- What's wrong?
- Let's not use the word “wrong.”

Let's say the situation has become complex.

- What situation?
- Am I the only one who remembers...

that lawsuit we settled?

Absent the appointment of a
special master, the HIPAA...

Excuse me. I'm not asking
for patient Information.

Should I apologize for being right?

Oh, God.

You know how long it takes
to get a warrant with a special master?

- Twelve to 16 hours.
- It has to be done through the DDA's office.

•Which is why I called DDA Hobbs,
asked to rush it through to tomorrow.

- There. Happy? I
- No. No, I'm not.

That gets a special master appointed.

It could take days, weeks
to sort through what we need.

And if Dr. Brady was killed...

.because he was providing medications
for “fictitious patients”...

.which is what a nurse
told us was happening...

This nurse was let go.
Could be she's holding a grudge.

- Well, something you would know about.
- What?

Pardon me, Commander Taylor,
you've got good news.

Uh, yeah, yeah, Flynn and Provenza, I
they got Dr. Parr to come downtown. I

They're hoping that you can talk him
Into being more helpful.

Am I supposed to do something in return
for the honor of Dr. Parr's company? •

Look, this doctor's office
Is a legal minefield.

If we interfere with treatment,
any one of his patients could sue us.

I don't have time
to process a crime scene.

Look for missing drugs, find out what they
might have to do with this murder.

Establish a timeline. Let the system work.

Ahem. Try to help her understand, okay?
Seriously.

[DOOR SLAMS]

- When is Dr. Parr up?
- Uh, any minute.

Look, though you heard the chief order us
to give this man back his Infusion room...

may have neglected to mention that to
Dr. Parr before I Invited him downtown.

- Thank you. Thank you, commander.
- Gives you a fighting chance, right?

Anyway, good luck.

I thought you were still monitoring
my division because of the leak.

Is there some other agenda
I don't know about?

- Chief Pope didn't tell you?
- Tell me what?

I'm now supposed
to inform the DA's office...

every time Major Crimes
rolls out for a homicide.

I thought you knew.

I didn't.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

- Excuse me, chief, Wally Sanders is here.
- Who Is that?

- The pharmaceutical supplier for Dr. Brady.
- Right.

You found his name
on the victim's cell phone calendar.

- May be the last person to see him alive?
- Yes. Thank you. I'll be right there.

Does Chief Pope really want a DDA involved
In all my cases from the beginning? Why?

The chief believes he's about
to be appointed to his own full term.

He will move upstairs.
He will be further removed...

.from day-to-day supervision
of divisions.

He's saddling me with as many babysitters
as possible, Is that it?

I'm keeping the DA's office busy
with the special master...

.DDA Hobbs won't even be able to cross
the street before tomorrow afternoon.

At the earliest.

It's nice to know that you and Commander
Taylor are running Interference for me.

Thank you.

Thank you. Excuse me.

SANDERS:
I don't know If I can be much help.

I don't deliver the kind of drugs
that people wanna steal.

I hardly ever meet the patients.

This a complete list of all the
medications you dropped off yesterday?

- Five prescriptions?
- Yeah.

Dr. Brady's order for Saturday was small.
But it varies from week to week.

Man.

It's really awful.

He was one of the good guys.

I don't know where his patients
are gonna go.

- Won't Dr. Parr take them?

They treat different kinds of cancers...

.and they have different approaches.
Chris would...

He would see sick people regardless
.of whether or not they could pay.

It's one of the reasons he got medications
through me. Drugs are not cheap.

You sell discount chemotherapy?

Chief, Mr. Sanders' company
serves as a link...

between large pharmacies
and doctors' offices.

Some of these medications
have a short shelf life.

Rather than let them go bad
when not selling...

the company gets them out
to the doctors at reduced prices.

If used before they expire,
the efficacy of the medication is the same.

The expiration date that makes stealing
what I delivered yesterday crazier.

Unless you were gonna deliver those drugs
to several patients by next Friday...

But they are expensive.
Here's one for $10,000 a dose.

That's the discounted price.

Well...

If what you charge is reduced,
what do the doctors charge?

Well, it depends.
Dr. Brady would pass on the discount.

Dr. Parr has a vacation home in Napa.

Look, what they bill their patients
Is not my business, really.

But I don't deliver to Dr. Parr anymore
If that tells you anything.

What about other doctors?
Would a thief sell...?

No. Reputable physicians
would never even consider...

.getting these drugs outside the system.
There's people's lives at stake.

They have to get approval from
the Insurance company, Medicare...

before the drugs are even delivered.
And they have paperwork for the billing...

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

I'm so sorry, Mr. Sanders.

Thank you so much.

Mama. I need to call you back.

I'm right in the middle of something.

Is Daddy okay?

Then I'll call you tomorrow.

You may not be aware of this, but I'm
good friends with the city attorney.

- I saved his mother's life.
- The city attorney doesn't work here.

I don't have to do anything he says.

If I don't get to infuse my patients...

Let's not threaten each other, doctor.
Why don't we make a deal?

You give me list of every person
who entered your office yesterday...

.and in return, I will give you access
to your Infusion room.

Medical records are protected by a...

I'm not asking you to identify any Individual
as a patient. I'm asking for a list.

Names, addresses,
phone numbers, please.

I'm not sure I can do that legally.

Well, why don't we ask the expert?
You remember Anne?

Gabriel. Anne originally brought up
the HIPAA statute.

That's because she is a lawyer who
advises the L.A.P.D. on medical issues.

If Dr. Parr doesn't identify any individual
as a patient, is It legal for him to...?

You're holding my infusion room
as hostage-?

I'm not holding anything hostage, sir.
You are.

I'm offering you a choice.

If you think it's tough, wait till we have
a court-appointed special master.

Yeah. And we have somebody going
through every file In your office.

Will we discover you were buying
your drugs at discount...

- ...while charging your patients full price?
- There's nothing Illegal about that.

Or that Dr. Brady was submitting paperwork
to Medicare for Imaginary patients?

- Does HIPAA cover them?
- It's not true.

- If we pass that allegation on to the feds-
- No, no.

It wasn't like that.
Chris would never commit fraud.

Maybe we should have the FBI confirm that.

Of course there's a chance the media
could get the story first.

Gee, I wonder what that would mean.

Or you can give us names,
we will get waivers...

.allowing us to examine
their medical records.

And by cooperating here,
I Incur no liability?

Oh, I...

Don't see why you would.

Look, I think that you could have
even more problems...

if your patients don't receive
their treatments, doctor.

Fine.

I'll give you the names.

- Just try and be discreet.
- Oh, doctor, discretion is my specialty.

My God. I mean, it's one thing
to hear you talk about it...

.but watching your boss in person
Is just-...

She's intense.

Yeah, well,
It's for the right reason though.

Don't forget the doctor.
Whoever killed him is Intense too.

And if it's a drug user, once they've gone
this far, they'll do it again.

You know, on a brighter note,
you were here long enough...

to avoid meeting my grandparents.

Oh, well, they're here till Friday.

So I think we'll have plenty of time
to tell everyone...

about our new living arrangements.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

Oh! Ha, ha. Oh!

Captain.

- Anne.
ANNE: Hi.

GABRIEL:

Are you leaving so soon?

Well, ask Chief Johnson
how soon it feels.

Leaving too late maybe.

Should I come back? Get you?

With the medical records we're gonna
be getting, It's gonna take time.

- I'll just see you when I get home.
ANNE: Okay.

Bye. Uh, good night.

Uh, bye.

You live together.

Uh... Well, yeah. Four days ago,
we decided to combine our resources.

But we've been dating for a year now.
It felt like it was time.

You know, I haven't told my family yet.

I'd actually appreciate it
If you didn't tell anyone else around here.

Knowing what people think
about lawyers.

- Married one myself.
- Really?

Well, technically, he was a lawyer.

First he passed the bar, then he spent
the next 10 years drinking...

until he gave that up for gambling.

- So, what, you're divorced?
- Separated. For 20 years.

It's all very Catholic.

And, detective, for what it's worth...

I find, from time to time, a lawyer's
opinion on what I'm doing Is worth hearing.

Yeah, I mean,
I get Anne's point of view on everything.

Whether I want it or not. It's more
of the opinions of the people here...

that I'm not interested
in dealing with right now.

- Secrets safe with me.
- Thank you, captain.

- Uh, detective?
- Yeah?

This is DA Hobbs' application
for a special master.

It needs a signature,
It needs a little more information.

Would you mind walking Chief Johnson
through It for me?

I think she's seen enough of me today.

Yeah, no problem.
I will give It to Hobbs myself.

- Good. Thank you.
- You're welcome, captain.

Tell me what you're searching for.
We wouldn't have to fax over...

every single page
of every patient's records.

I am looking for the murder, doctor.

Sorry, I know that this has been
an enormous Imposition on your time...

.but we are almost finished talking
to patients.

What makes you so sure Chris' killer
was from Saturday's appointments?

Maybe he was murdered by someone
just walking in off the street.

Because after smashing Dr. Brady
on the head...

someone off the streets would run.

Instead, your partner
was strangled to death.

With IV tubing.

A regular thief would have come in
with his own weapons.

Our murderer improvised with stuff
he found around the office.

Stuff that he might have known
was there.

Which indicates that Dr. Brady knew
and recognized his killer.

The killer knew him,
which Is why the less helpful you are...

the more worried you make me.

I always thought Dr. Brady
would be coming to my funeral.

And here I am going to his.

You can never be too sure
of anything in this lifetime, can you?

And you have no idea who his killer is?

No, ma'am. Not yet.

TAO:
If you could sign this waiver...

we'll have Dr. Parr here fax us
your medical records.

It could help us.

Urn...

You just had your chemotherapy yesterday,
Miss...?

Oh, Lee. Rita Lee. Yes.

I feel pretty good, all things considered.

Dr. Brady was an amazing oncologist.

He really cared about people.

I guess now I'll just have to go back
to the city clinic...

and the rash will come back.
And my hair will fall out again.

The side effects I get
when those people treat me.

The presence or absence of side effects has
nothing to do with the delivery of agents..

Individual results vary
based on the drug...

You would say that, wouldn't you?
Your patients suffer terribly.

God, I've seen them.
What you put those people through.

•RITA: Okay, I'm sorry. I'll sign.
You can get my medical records.

I hope it helps you find out
why someone would murder a doctor...

who helped cancer patients stop
from feeling sick all the time.

What's the matter, doctor?

Unless he asked me something specific, I
.1 never bothered with Chris' patients. I

Since you have their records,
I'd like to look at them.

We have our experts looking at them.
What do you wanna see?

When it comes
to the side effects of cancer therapies...

I'm probably one of the most highly
regarded physicians In the country. I

- Really?
- Yes, really.

Check it out.

That woman was infused yesterday.

Look at her. She seems fine.

And I'd like to know why.

That's because she wasn't
taking chemotherapy at all.

Rita says she was.

The nurses' records indicate
that she had a regular dose yesterday.

I can go into a lot of technical detail,
but let's just keep it simple.

See that number?

That's Miss Lee's
carcinoembryonic antigen level.

- That's your idea of keeping it simple?
DOCTOR: You don't have to learn the terms.

All you need to know is numbers.

First, Miss Lee's current carcinoembryonic
antigen level Is at 106...

and on the drug she's been taking,
that number should be less than three.

So, what does that mean?

It means she has metastatic stage III
pancreatic cancer...

and she's not being treated for it.

Why would Dr. Brady just pretend
he was giving her the drug?

We could ask him,
but, oh, hey, he's back at the morgue.

No chemotherapy explains
no side effects.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

- Across the board. All these people.
- What?

Dr. Brady's
been withholding chemotherapy...

from every one of his patients.

Mm, say you found out that Dr. Brady
hadn't been giving you the drug...

- ...that's supposed to save your life.
- That's a motive for murder.

- The nurse said he'd lost more patients.
DOCTOR: I'm not surprised.

You should exhume the bodies
of these patients.

Whoa, whoa, exhuming bodies?

What are you doing here?

- It's Sunday night.
POPE: I might ask you the same.

Unless your killer's gonna murder again,
I can't justify overtime.

He could be killing more people
than we know.

Might be worth it just to strike Medicare
fraud off your list of possible offenses

- Why
FRITZ: Because there Isn't any.

Dr. Brady may have been buying drugs but
he was paying for them out of his pocket.

What? So Dr. Brady ordered false
prescriptions from Medicare...

.filled those prescriptions with drugs
near their expiration date...

paid for them out of his own pocket...

.and then deliberately withheld them
from his patients?

Hm.

That's an interesting question,
which I think could be answered tomorrow.

I know, Mama, don't you worry.

We're gonna get Daddy better,
I promise you.

No, no, no. The tickets are all paid for.

You just show up at the airport
with your ID.

If you can get him here, I have a plan.

Yes. I know.

I hear him calling.

Well, tell him I love him
and he needs to go with me on this. Okay?

Yeah. All right.

I love you too. Okay.

Okay.

I'll see you all real soon.

Bye now.

You think your dad's in good enough shape
to come all the way here from Atlanta?

The doctor's not gonna fly out there
to see him.

You didn't get much sleep last night.

How could you tell?

- You kept me awake.
- I'm sorry.

Just finding all these people
with cancer...

who thought they were getting better
weren't even being treated.

I... That could happen to Daddy too.

- He's not feeling any better.
- He's cancer-free.

But feeling worse than he was
when he was sick.

And there's this other thing.

What other thing?

- You were right about Pope all along.
- Oh?

He's not trustworthy.

In fact, he's a jerk.

- He's always been a jerk.
- What did he do now?

Now he's about to be made chief for life
or something.

And, and, and he's got the DA
watching over me...

and Raydor and I don't
know who else an d...

I just... I feel like such an idiot.

I may not have done right by everyone...

•...but I have always given
my professional best to Will.

And I've always, always done
everything he told me to do.

Ha, ha, you have?

No, you have, you have.

Assuming he had my back,
but he doesn't.

He doesn't have my back.
It's really upsetting.

I'm-I'm really upset.

Oh, I can see that.
I'm not gonna sit here and defend Pope.

You can't. He has no defense.

- Will Pope is a selfish bastard.
- He is.

The kind of guy who always puts his career
before everything.

Well, yes. That's exactly right.

And I feel your pain, I do. I really do.

It's hurtful, isn't it? When
someone thinks their job...

I mean, their job.

Is more important than
what another person might want or need.

Is there anyone else we know...

.who you think might sometimes
behave like that?

Anyone?

Oh, my gosh.

Doctors.

- They're all like that, aren't they?
- Well, doctors, yeah. But...

Maybe Dr. Parr is more like his partner
than we know.

I said I wanted to examine Chris' files
and you wouldn't let me.

I need to be working
with the people In my own practice.

You're lucky I haven't shut
your practice down.

I have a special master warrant
ready to go.

As soon as I have access
to your patients' charts...

My patients? Why would
you wanna be looking at my patients?

To find out if they've been dying
like Dr. Brady's were.

Is that what's been happening, sir?

It's very straightforward, really.

You draw the medication I
from a vial with a syringe...

inject it into a bag of saline
and administer the drug through an IV drip.

The system should work as designed...

but sometimes we have mistakes.

Awful mistakes.

So last night, after observing Miss Lee's
asymptomatic responses to the chemo...

I went back to my office
and looked at my own files from last year.

What did you find?

What I thought I'd find.

A period during which many patients...

.seemed not to properly absorb
the chemo.

When instead of improving,
people died.

I felt errors may have been made.

But I was afraid that if I brought
attention to the problem that...

You'd be sued.

Yes, I'd be sued.

I... I deal with life and death
on a daily basis.

I can be taken to court where even if I win, I lose.
My liability insurance goes up.

I have to explain myself over and over
to medical boards, my peers.

And if I ever find myself in circumstances
where I can't properly clear my name...

nothing is the same after that.

I'm sure Chris was thinking
the same thing too.

When his nurse told me
that he had ordered medications...

for patients that didn't exist...

.l wondered if he was thinking of testing
those drugs to see If they were real.

What drugs are we talking about here?

The drugs he got from Wally Sanders.

I suspected they were fake.

How could he get away with that?

Wally controls all the paperwork.

He has access
to the original packaging...

so counterfeiting it
would be simple enough.

As for the rest,
we just trusted the words.

What words?

“Use as directed.”

If we can't even believe in that, I...

At $10,000 a dose.

Wally could be making millions.

Millions?
How many oncologists does he serve'

He delivers drugs to San Diego...

Orange County, Palm Springs,
Los Angeles, Santa Barbara. My God.

I should have reported him
instead of just dropping him as a supplier.

But if I had been wrong...

- Detective, we need a warrant.
- Yeah. Sanders' home, business office.

Everything. I'm on it, chief.

RECEPTIONIST:
Dr. Royce's office.

Hey, there.

Dr. Royce.
Don't know how I swung it...

but I managed
to fill your entire order this week.

Well, I can't wait to take a look at it.

Oh, I'm sorry,
I thought you were Dr. Royce.

Dr. Royce thought that he was giving
his patients chemotherapy.

So did all the other oncologists
on your route.

- What you doing?
- Quality control. Hands behind head.

- You have the right to remain silent.
- You're gonna ruin that.

It's meant for a patient.
If they don't receive it...

They would what? Die?

And understood these rights
as they've been read?

You see, Wally, we've spoken
to several of Dr. Brady's other patients.

- The ones that are alive.
TAO: They have certain things In common.

No hair loss, no rashes.

Also, they're all dying.

That's because this is not a drug.

To the camera please, doctor.

I don't know what this man sold
elsewhere...

.but here, he's selling salt water
to children with leukemia.

No, no, no. Look. You can't seriously
think I would do something like this.

There must be a problem In
the pipeline somewhere.

No mistake, sir.

We found these drug labels
at your apartment, on your printer.

About 500 of them.

They're identical to those found
on actual chemotherapy prescription vials.

The dates hadn't been filled in.

We also found over 50 gallons
of saline solution in your spare bedroom.

Thousands of tiny glass bottles
and a really expensive printer.

- It's not illegal to have those things.
- It's not. But you know what Is Illegal?

Not reporting income.

You've billed doctors
for money your company never received.

Helps explain the $6 million you have
in your Merrill Lynch account.

Some of it involving Medicare,
Medicaid...

so the federal government
will have Its problems with you.

But what we didn't find, sir,
was the metal trolley case...

filled with saltwater
that you were rolling around last week.

This one looks brand-spanking new.

We found a receipt on your credit card
bought Saturday night, 7:07 p.m.

Pretty soon after the murder.

Especially if you add in the drive time.

TAO [ON MONITOR]: You needed
to continue your business...

I have the warrant for the special master.

- Better hold on to it.
- We might be using it as a template.

TAO: You stopped making your deliveries-
- Tern plate for what?

•Oh, we're gonna need 40
more special masters.

- That we know of. Maybe more.
- Fort:7?

That's how many oncologists I
.this guy was serving now.

You wanna see the face
of a mass murderer? Just take a look.

TAO: And you didn't want anyone to
notice anything, did you? Did you?

No. I didn't think so.

BRENDA: You must have been really
anxious to get things back to normal.

And this case here, it's exactly like the
one you used to bash In Dr. Brady's head.

And I bet this corner matches up...

with the wound
we found on the side of his skull.

BRENDA:
Don't worry, sir.

I'm sure we'll track down
where you dumped the old one.

- Will it have the victim's blood on it?
- Victim?

Will it be filled with the medicine
from Dr. Brady's office...

to make it look like he was strangled?

Medicine.

It's not medicine.

•Medicine is supposed to
make you feel better...

not make your hair fall out.

Not give you diarrhea, headaches
and stroke and wasting.

Medicine doesn't destroy
your sense of taste, your sense of smell.

Make you vomit.

These doctors were not giving them
medicine. They were giving them poison.

Toxic chemicals pushed into their veins
through an IV...

and they were charging them
for the privilege.

They didn't care
how many people they hurt.

- You murdered cancer patients.
- I didn't murder anyone.

- You took away their opportunity.
- People were dying.

What I did to them, I helped them enjoy
what little time they had left.

When they did pass away,
they looked like human beings.

Not some dried-up husks.

I saved these people from being tortured.

These drugs...

it's not medicine.

That's not what it says on your invoice.

You charged for brand-name prescriptions.
Not even generic.

And the millions in your bank account.
How many patients does that represent?

Ask my lawyer.

How about that?

It's my civil right.

I get a lawyer.

See, Gabriel. That's the kind of people
that lawyers hang out with.

You better take a long hard look
at your life choices, my friend.

Come on.

Attorneys protect us
from people like this, lieutenant.

- Protect us how?
- Imagine what we would do...

.with a man like this if we didn't know
he had an attorney coming.

That's a good point. Excellent point.

BRENDA: How much longer did you
intend on doing this to people?

You already made $6 million. You
had $6 million in the bank.

- We need-
- No, no, no. We're...

- He invoked.
- Wait.

Couldn't you just take that money
and go? Hm?

Out of curiosity. How much more
were you wanting to make?

- Another million? Two?
- Chief.

Three? How many more people
were you going to let die...

.before your bank account hit
the right number?

Please.

Never mind. I don't wanna know.

- You wanted to see me before I left?
- Yes, I did. Urn...

You were right.
I looked you up online.

And several websites list you
as one of the top 50 doctors In America.

- Is this some kind of apology?
- No. No, you don't deserve an apology.

A lot of people died
while you sat on your hands.

- I didn't have proof.
- Yes, you did.

- I Wasn't sure. -Yes you were.

- Is there anything else?
- Yes.

Urn, I need to make
an appointment with you.

You're kidding me.

You've just made it abundantly clear
what you think of me.

Not looking for a decent human being.
I'm looking for a doctor.

And you're it.

It's not for me. It's,
urn, it's for my father.

He's, urn, Corning in
tomorrow around noon.

- I'm not taking on any new patients.
- As soon as he gets In...

As soon... As soon as he gets in,
you are going to examine him..I

.and find out why he's not recovering
from having his thyroid removed.

He's having a terrible time
and I'm afraid that he might die...

and I don't know what else to do.

Did they get all the cancer?

They say so, yes, but...

He's not getting any better.

I can't lose my father.

[SOBBING]

Please help me. Help me.

Okay.

Okay.

We'll see you at 3? Is 3 good?

Yes.

- 3 is very good.
- Great.

- So I can go then?
- Yes. Thank you, doctor. I appreciate it.

Sync & Corrected by Shadowmoon