The Autopsy of Jane Doe

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- It's getting late, officer.

- Sheriff, you gotta

get down here.

- We got an ID on her?

- No, sir.

No relation to Paul and Carol.

- Who's she?

- Well, for now,

she's a Jane Doe.

You got something?

- Nothing was stolen.

Not a scratch on the outside

of the house either.

Doesn't look like

someone broke in.

To me, it looks like

they were trying to break out.

- Cause of death?

- How about we

skip this part tonight?

- Come on,

this one's a soft ball.

- Smoke inhalation.

- You're telling me

that smoke killed Mr. Howard?

- Well, damaged nasal passage

damaged throat, damaged lungs..

- Damaged lungs, yes.

But incompatible with life.

- So, you're saying

that's not the COD?

- I'm saying

look before you leap.

Where did the police

find the body?

- Uh, in his kitchen.

- House on fire.

Front door is 30 feet away

yet, he's not

trying to get there.

Lungs are damaged

but airways not denuded

nearly enough.

- So, he stopped breathing

before that fire

really got going?

- Open him up.

Now.

Now you see here?

Down below the occipital.

- A fracture.

- That explains the swelling

in his brain.

- Subdural hematoma.

That's what did it.

Not the smoke.

Everybody has a secret.

Some just hide them

better than others.

- Some people are better

at finding them.

- You did good.

You'll get there.

- Nobody's even claimed him yet.

He was all alone,

that's why he died.

- He died because

he fell and hit his head.

You got plans tonight?

- Emma wants to go

see a movie at the strand.

- I thought they'd closed

that place down.

- Uh, no, when was the last time

you even went to go

see a movie, dad?

- Uh, she has Alzheimer's

and he's building her a house.

- The notebook?

- Oh, yeah, your mother made me

go and see it with her

for her birthday.

I fell asleep five minutes in.

Yeah.

Are you alright finishing up?

- Yeah.

What's up, Tilden?

Hematoma.

Stanley.

Oh.

Hey, dad!

Stanley got another one.

Dad?

Jesus Christ!

- It's so easy!

- How'd you get down here?

- The key was in the elevator.

- Oh, my god.

- I gotta say, this is not

what I was expecting.

You said it was old but wow.

- I thought we were supposed

to meet out front.

- Well, I got tired of waiting.

- Where, where are you going?

- I'm having a little look.

- Come back.

- God, the place

just keeps going.

- Well, three generations

of Tildens keep expanding

end up with this

state-of-the-art facility.

Hey, come on.

- What's the rush?

- I've been down here all day.

- You got to see me at my job,

why can't I see you at yours?

- You work at a book store.

- Are these all people?

- Just three tonight.

- Can I see one?

- Well, no. No.

You cannot see one.

- Why not?

- Because there's...

Some things you can't

un-see, okay?

- Come on, I can handle it.

- No. No. And my dad

is way too strict.

- Try me.

So, what'll it be?

- Are you serious?

- Are you?

- Hell yeah.

- Pick one.

- Not that one.

The one next to it.

- A body's a body.

- Yeah, well, I pick that one.

What's that for?

- To make sure he's dead.

There used to be a time

it was hard to tell

a comatose person

from a dead one.

So coroners tied bells

to everybody in the morgue.

So if they heard a 'ting'

they knew somebody down there

wasn't quite ready to go.

- So, why do you have one?

- Well, I'm... I'm a bit

of a traditionalist.

- Why did you cover his face?

- There wasn't much

of a face left to cover.

Point blank gun shot blast

tend to do that.

- Who shot him?

- Angle of entry suggests

he did it to himself.

Until we found strychnine

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