Coroner

Any idea where you're going, or what you'll do next?

I haven't really thought about it,

I'm just ready for a fresh start.

We made a pretty good team.

Yeah, we did.

- We should celebrate. - What are you doing tonight?

It's a rage room.

Hey, Jenny. Hi.

You still have to see a doctor.

Hmm.

I needed to see you first.

I wanna tell you that you were right.

You were right about me hiding.

You were right about me being scared.

I felt like all I could do is ruin things so that um,

that I couldn't get better here.

But that was my fear of things going wrong.

Okay, look.

Hey.

We uh,

we can take it slow. Huh?

Start right here.

Where we are.

Sorry.

It's okay, it's just work.

No, no, hey,

you can go to work.

It's important.

Me, I'm just, I'll, uh...

I'll take care of my stitches.

Okay.

Okay, uh...

I'll uh, I'll take a look at them afterwards just to,

you know, to make sure that they're okay.

- Come by the office? - Yeah.

Okay.

Bye.

I can't believe we're about to go into Olivia rice's house.

It's like visiting Kubrick or something, man.

I didn't know you were such a big fan.

When's the last time she even made a movie?

Well, not since the 90's, but my high school friends and I,

we used to do Sci-Fi marathons of her, Cronenberg, and Scott,

and we would do a bunch of mushrooms and we would just...

Oh.

Hey! Hey, are you the detectives?

I called you, I called the police,

but she won't let me in the house.

- I'm sorry, ma'am, who? - My stepmother.

She won't let me in because I know she killed my dad.

Um, miss?

Lorde. It's Lilium Lorde.

It's my dad in there.

Okay, Lilium, I'm detective Abed,

maybe we can just hang outside

until you're ready to give me a statement.

- Come on. Would that be okay? - Oh, yeah.

You must be the detective

everyone's been waiting for.

- Ms. Rice. - I'm detective McAvoy.

Please, my husband doesn't have much time.

Ma'am, I'm a homicide detective.

I thought your husband already passed on.

- Please. - Hm.

You...

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

It's funny how some people's homes look exactly

how you would imagine, right?

So, uh, whadda we got on this?

Xavier Lorde, well known neurobiologist.

Suffered from early-stage ALS.

He's been completely locked in since his stroke last year.

His wife, Olivia rice,

says he communicated through voice technology

he developed himself.

Ms. Rice says she found him dead at 7:00 this morning.

But the stepdaughter, Lilium Lorde...

Mm-hmm?

Claims that Olivia pulled the plug on him.

Well, it's not the oddest thing for family members

to have different stories.

Well, you haven't seen what's odd, yet.

It's preparation for cryonics.

Cryonics?

It's people who wanna be frozen

and woken up in the future.

Three letters?

Hey!

Hey!

- Hey. - Hi!

- Hi, there, captain! - Whadda ya doin'?

- I didn't see ya sittin' there. - Yeah?

Okay.

Whatcha doing? A little shopping online there, are ya?

Are you okay?

- Who, me? - Fine, what about you?

I'm doing well.

Cryogenics is the study of low temperatures.

Cryonics is the use of low temperatures

to preserve people.

Cool.

Did you just...

is there anything to the stepdaughter's accusation?

The dry ice is uh, is new for me,

but I don't, I don't see any foul play.

Cryonics is really just a alternative funeral arrangement.

If you're finished working,

I'd like my husband back, please.

Ms. Rice, uh detective McAvoy relayed your request,

but unfortunately, I, I can't release the body

until I finish my investigation.

Investigation into what?

Xavier made his wishes quite clear.

And what were his wishes?

I'm sure in your job you meet people of different beliefs.

This is our belief.

Transhumanism.

That technology can transform the human condition.

Xavier's wishes are stated in this.

- This is? - His living will.

Okay, it says here,

upon his legal death his body is to be sent to cryosleep,

facility for the patients of cryonics.

Xavier communicated through his voice tech.

He told me exactly what he wanted.

Just step back, please?

I'm his daughter. You're a liar!

You're not supposed to be in here.

- Daddy and I spoke yesterday. - Just watch it.

Listen to him.

Her cryonics obsession was destroying his piece of mind.

Oh, Lilium, my sweet child, don't be sad.

Daddy, I'm afraid of what we'll do for this crazy belief.

I have to stop her.

You always know what's best for me. Lily-bear...

your father transitioned to biostasis naturally.

- He is a sick man! - You are the sick one!

She knew I was coming here and turned off his machine

before I could get here to stop her.

- This proves that she killed him. - Spoiled child.

If you truly cared, you would know how much he wants this!

Okay, let's just, let's,

let's just take a second, okay?

Was there anyone else in the house last night?

Just the night nurse and myself.

Okay.

So, let's go over the events of last night and this morning.

All right, Olivia, you said you found

your husband dead at around 7:00 this morning?

Dead?

Xavier is in a metabolic state of suspension.

I got a notification on my phone

from the heart monitor company,

saying Xavier was having a cardiac episode.

I ran into his room.

Where you found Cedric?

Yeah, I am Dr. Lorde's night nurse.

No, Barney is the night nurse.

What happened to Barney? Why were you here?

Barney had a family issue and needed the night off.

Cedric replaced him.

Okay, so what happened next?

Uh, he's uh, DNR,

so I called time of death and immediately put him on ice.

It's what the family wanted.

Once Xavier went into biostasis,

I called cryosleep so they could take the body there

and start the perfusion.

I got here just after 8:00 A.M..

When you typically overreacted.

And called the police.

We need to get on with this.

The clock is ticking.

If my husband's body degrades,

he will not be a candidate for preservation.

Excuse us.

Xavier was hooked up to a heart monitor.

Data is stored remotely so I’m gonna try to call the company

and see if I can find out what time his heart stopped.

Yeah, and get an exact time of death?

Right. If I can get a look at the echocardiogram,

I may be able to tell if it was a heart attack

or something more sinister, like Lilium's suggesting.

That'd be an impressive trick.

Yeah, it's worth a shot.

That's blood.

That's a perfusion machine.

I'm gonna go with sinister.

Perfusion machines are usually used in hospitals

to recirculate blood in a, in a heart surgery.

So, you're saying that's five litres of Xavier Lorde's blood.

Dollars to donuts.

And perfusions normally take a couple of hours.

Yeah, then dollars to donuts,

Olivia was lying about finding him at 7:00 A.M..

Yeah. Exactly.

Stop! You're killing him!

Do you not understand?