Coroner

Do you think we should put this?

- I think we should put Dad in the closet

until we know what to do with him.

- I don't like lying to Ross about us.

- What was the plan, Mom? Hmm?

Get a new job, in a new house,

with a new boyfriend, and just erase Dad?

Tell me what you know about Gerald Henry Jones.

He's a Bay Street banker,

went for a jog by Tent City.

Claims a homeless man tried to rob him.

Jones stabbed him 26 times

with a pair of scissors he had in his running pack.

- Jones may get released from prison soon.

- It's time you knew the truth about Katie.

It was Arski? - Arski killed Katie?

Katie? Now, what about Katie?

- You wanted-you wanted to tell me the truth.

- You immerse yourself in the truths of others

so that you don't have to deal with your own.

What are you running from?

Oh hey,

the assailant shoved tissue

down Dr. Peterson's throat.

Sputum.

Very odd.

I'll run some tests.

Ross!

Is that you?

- Okay wait, you're the woman who died in my house.

Well, I guess it is your house now,

but you have not been feeding the birds!

They're also yours now, too.

- I'm sorry I-I didn't know, Mrs. Panych.

Sassy!

Never lose that part of you, deary.

It's what makes you special!

Man of the house and all!

- Hey. - Hey.

- This is how Gerald Henry Jones got in.

He climbed up the trellis.

- So, you think he killed Dr. Peterson?

Yeah, he stalked him.

Found out he put his house up for sale,

came to the open house,

and that's when he removed the locks.

- But why would he kill Dr. Peterson?

He had reasons.

Okay.

Jenny?

What?

Daddy!

No!

Daddy!

- Hey. - Yeah. Hi.

- If working this case is too much for you.

- No, I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm okay.

I'm... I'm just...

I'm just, I'm having a... a bit of a panic attack.

- Okay. You have someone you talk to about all this, right?

Yeah.

- All right, come on, I'll drop you off.

Hey. Hey. Hey.

It's okay.

I uh... I found that.

"Police are questioning

life-long Kawartha Lakes cottager, Gordon Cooper,

in relation to..." - "His eldest daughter's death."

- You've been looking into your past.

No. No, not me, my uh,

my former colleague must've been.

My dad said that uh,

that Katie tripped over the dog

and she fell down the stairs,

but in that article, they describe how she was found,

and she...

she had to have gone over the railing.

You can't know that.

I'm a coroner.

- My dad is lying to me, and I don't... I don't...

What are you doing?

- This is EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization

and Reprocessing therapy.

Follow my fingers.

Okay.

- Your memories of trauma come up involuntarily,

but if we bring them up now.

- You're trying to overload my brain.

Yes, disrupt your defences,

reroute your processing.

What memories come up around your sister's death?

In any order.

I remember...

I remember stairs.

I remember them being so high.

I look down but... I-I don't remember what I see.

- If you're here to interrogate me, call my lawyer.

Just out for a friendly run.

I'll give you a chance to come clean, Gerald.

- So, we're talking about that pathologist? Peterson?

Heard on the news that he died last night?

- Where were you? - Out running.

- By yourself? - Always.

Other people mess up my rhythm.

I ran 30K, then took a bath.

- Hm? You run the same route every day, huh?

- Well, I'm trying to get back in shape.

I'm training for the Hamperokken Skyrace in Norway.

Wanna hear a theory?

There's a 5-kilometre loop

between your old office on Bay Street

and Cherry and Lakeshore,

formerly known as Tent City.

You killed 'em on your runs, Gerald.

Thought nobody cared,

and you were right, for the most part.

But with Dr. Peterson, people care.

- If I did kill Peterson, it was your fault.

You and Peterson planted evidence

that pinned Floyd Shipman's murder on me.

You can't do that again.

Ross, my love,

I am going to be late tonight, okay,

so there is pizza in the fridge.

Okay?

Hey, you wanna come with me to work?

I mean, you can sit at my desk, you can,

I don't know, you can draw animals,

like you did when you were tiny?

Yeah, rad, I'm in.

Mrs. Panych, - Mhmm.

she's pretty cool, huh?

Is that why you bought the house?

Uh, I don't know.

- Can I go to the morgue with you?

No. No.

Dwayne? Dwayne?

We are going to treat this just like any other case, okay?

Dr. Peterson would want that.

Yes, he would.

Okay. Look at rib number 9,

does that look deliberate, to you? The scratch?

- Well, he was viciously and repeatedly stabbed,

so yes, I would say it was very deliberate.

- Can I have a...? Thanks.

Are those letters?

He has letters on the rib?

K-N-

I-T.

Knit. It spells knit,

which I don't, but I do crochet.

Just lightening the moment.

Look at this.

This is uh, the human bone we found

in the bucket of pig bones Detective McAvoy brought it in.

- The edging looks like a T or...

XXIV.

24.

So, this would be number 1.

I think we're talking about a serial killer.

At 366 Malvern Crescent, East Scarborough. - Mhmm.

But we don't think the rib originated there.

They excavated the entire yard,

but they didn't find any other traces of human bones.

- Where did the pig bones come from?

Based off pig roasts.

- So, you think the human rib I found

was connected to a serial killer,

and the same serial killer killed Dr. Peterson?

Mhmm.

And Dr. Allen said that the bones were 30-years-old,

so the real question is...

where did they come from?

And if we're saying that Jones is a serial killer,

how does this fit into his pattern?

Hold up.

That's a coyote paw print.

Can I have a piece of that string, please?

- Yeah, is that good? - Yep.

All right, coyotes travel in a 13-kilometre radius

to hunt and forage.

Don't ask, they do.

So, they could have found that human rib somewhere else.

So we're looking for a possible site of origin,

and 30-years-ago the terrain would have been...

ravines that coyotes would have run through

before suburban sprawl.

I place my bets here.

- Hey. - I'll meet you there.

Yeah.

Hey, what's up?

I'm the coroner's officer,

not the coroner's babysitter. I have real work to do.

- Okay, yeah, it's just gonna be a tiny bit longer,

all right? I have to go somewhere.

Uh, he'll be quiet.

He'll be on his phone.

He'll play video games.

And I have a baby inside me.

I can't deal with one outside me,