Episode 9, Season 6
Title: Seven Feet Under

Written by: Brian Ross
Directed by: Kate Woods
Original Air Date: March 21, 2007

Description:    (full synopsis)

A 16-year-old girl is found murdered, her body dumped in an empty grave.  Macy works with Seely on the case, uncovering the secret life the victim lead in their search to find her killer.  Jordan continues to suffer health problems.  Meanwhile, Dr. Switzer discovers the body of a mummy she is examining is a fake.  Woody and Bug work to discover who the imposter mummy is and how she ended up replacing the real mummy.

Guest Stars:

David Andriole (David Tallridge), Neal Jones (Russell Berman), David Monahan (Detective Matt Seely), Peter Mackenzie (Frank Ripton), Helen Slater (Elaine Tallridge), Leah Pipes (Melissa Ripton), Brooke Smith (Kate Switzer)

Random Facts:

 - Dexamethasone (the drug Jordan was taking) is also known as Decadron.  It has many uses including to reduce brain swelling (cerebral edema) in patients with a primary or metastatic brain tumor.  It is a potent adrenocortical steroid and is quite useful but has side effects.

- King of Egypt: Ramses II - He was born to Queen Tuy and his father Sety I.   He was given the throne at the age of about 20 and ruled for 67 years. He was the second longest-ruling Pharaoh. Ramses II had a harem of wives.  It was presumed that he had over one hundred children with all his wives.

Ramses Family Members

- Kate makes a reference to Scooby Doo, the popular children's cartoon of 5 crime solving sleuths.

- Woody makes a reference to the movie Indiana Jones, when he calls Kate "Indiana Switzer" when she reveals that she had forensic anthropologic skills.

Goofs:

- When Bug said the Boston Met Museum (Metropolitan) I did a double take.  Granted, museums aren't my thing, but living close to Boston, I know about a few and have heard about others in the city.  And I didn't ever recall a Boston Met Museum.  So I did a search, and as far as I can tell there is no Boston Met.  Boston Museums

- Question: If the body was mummified--would it still have its stomach?  That is how Kate determined how she was killed...she had ulcers in her stomach...I though the stomach was part of the internal organs?

Music:

Walk Like An Egyptian by, The Bangles
Jubilee by, Alison Krauss

Quotes:

Woody: I just need to know for certain it’s the murder weapon (holding a prosthetic leg).
Bug: Wife’s handprints are all over the ankle.  The husband’s brains are all over the shin.  I’d say it was the murder weapon.

Kate: Rule number one about moving.  Try not to drop anything.
Bug: Uh…what is that?
Kate: Not what.  Who. (reveals mummy) Nyema.  It’s the murdered daughter of Ramses II.  19^th Dynasty.  13^th Century B.C.
Woody: You run out of fresh bodies?  Practicing up?

Bug: Shouldn’t they be asking a forensic anthropologist?
Kate: They are.
Woody: Wow.  So you’re like Indiana Switzer.

Woody: Well I hate to break it to you, but 3000 year old murder mystery.  Your perp’s going to be dead.
Kate: Get your hands off my mummy.

Seely: (sees Garret) Great.
Garret (sees Seely) Great.

Seely: Groundskeeper found her.  Sixteen years old.  Tragedy.
Garret: What you read palms now?
Seely: School ring. Class of 2008.

Garret: They were on vacation.  Trusted their daughter alone.
Seely: And if you were 16.  What the hell would you have done?

(Woody walks in, acting like a mummy)
Kate: Shouldn’t you be out directing traffic.
Woody: (laughs) No.  Um, no.  Though being forced to share the same room with you does feel like a curse.  Could it be the curse of the mummy. (walks around like zombie mummy)
Kate: Maybe it’s the curse of the homicide dick.

Woody: How about you Dr. S.  Is everything all wrapped up with your mummy?
Kate: Just about. I think Nyema was killed by the prince.
Bug: You know I’ve never heard you call a body by a name before.
Kate: No?
Bug: No.  Normally it’s gun shot wound in autopsy one or blunt force trauma in Trace two.
Kate: Nyema’s part of history.
Bug: Everyone’s part of history.
Kate: That doesn’t make sense.
Bug: Of course it does.
Kate: I’m talking about this…

Woody: So you know aren’t you supposed to…un-spool her?
Kate: This isn’t Scooby Doo Detective.

Woody: The sick freako wasn’t thinking about preserving her afterlife.  They just wanted to pass her off as your really mummy.
Kate: And they did a hell of a job.

Woody: Can we still get prints?
Kate: Well that may take awhile.  I need to re-hydrate it first.
Bug: Uhh…it?
Kate: The body.
Woody: Yeah, just a couple of hours ago you said that she was a part of history.
Kate: And now she’s part of a case like anyone else.

Woody: And I thought you were difficult (walking up to Jordan).  Switzer.  She’s a piece of work.  Hey.  Are you alright.
Jordan: Yeah, fine. (walks away)

Garret: You know.  What is it with you man?  Didn’t your parents pay you any attention at all?
Seely: You don’t know the first thing about my—
Garret: I don’t know and I don’t want to know.

(Woody walks in on Switzer looking, sad, at the body)
Woody: Hey.
Kate: Meet your blunt force trauma.

Jordan: I missed it since you took Seely and took over my case.
Garret: It’s not your case.  It’s our case.
Jordan: Now you’re babysitting me?
Garret: This is a big deal Jordan.  We need to talk.
Jordan: No.  Clearly you need to talk about it.  I’m dealing with it.
Garret: Are you?
Jordan: (shouting) Yes.
(Nigel walks into Jordan’s office.)
Nigel: So I’m looking over a list of subscribers to Cindy’s web— (pause) –site.  Sorry I… (turns to leave).
Jordan: No, no.  Now’s fine.

Jordan: I’m calling Seely.  (picks up phone)
Garret: No.  I’ll call him.  (presses dial tone down)
(Nigel gives them both a weird look)
Nigel: Alright… (turns to leave)
Garret: You let me know when you’re ready to talk.

Woody: Museum employee 162 and still everyone looks clean. 
Bug: Any news from the guys in major theft?
Woody: The way they tell it getting inside the world of black market antiquities is harder than breaking into Fort Knox. Leaving me with about 16 more names to check.
Kate: (enters room) Sounds exciting.
Woody: Riveting.  How about you?
Kate: I think I found cause of death.
Woody: You want to go two for two and give us a murder weapon?
Kate: Only if you consider winter a weapon.

Woody: (murmuring) So she was already dead…
Kate: You can thank me later.
Woody: W…w…whoa Hang on.  If we can find out where she died—
Kate: There’s no we anymore.  I determined id and cause of death.  My job’s done.  And if I’m not mistaken this isn’t a homicide anymore and so you’re done too.

Woody: Desecration of a body. Theft of corpse, but it’s not about Queen Tut any more so she’s done.
Bug: Ahh, ignore her.
Woody: How does somebody like Switzer even have any friends?
Bug: I don’t think she does.  Just the dog.
(Woody chuckles)
Woody: Figures.
Bug: Hey you know what I think?  When a body is mummified, they leave the heart inside.  They forgot to do that with Switzer.
(Woody chuckles again)
Kate: What is this High School?  You have some thing to say. Say it to my face.
(Woody stands up)
Woody: You treat a 3000-year-old body like it’s royalty.  But the second you find out she’s a regular person, poof, it’s back to business as usual.
Kate: It was always business as usual.  Just because my heart doesn’t bleed—
Woody: You don’t care about her. Or anyone else.

Woody: Look at this.  Look.  She had a family history of breast cancer.  Her mother died when she was eight.  Father unknown.  Personal affects, she was wearing a cross.  That’s all she had, but she was not an ‘it’.
(Kate walks out of room looks sad.)

Woody: Not quite the royal way she entered.
Bug: No.  Switzer had her boxed up before I could stop her.  She’ll be faceless again in some unmarked grave.
Woody: Well at least she’s leaving here like a human being.
Bug: Wish I could say the same about some of my colleagues. (looking at Switzer in the hall)
Woody: Some people just don’t get it.

Garret: So I spoke to Dr. Sanchez.  You didn’t follow up.  He said surgery, trans-nasal.  Now.
Jordan: Yeah, well did he give you the stats on that?  That I could probably die.  Maybe have a stroke and be paralyzed, a vegetable.
Garret: All that could happen if you do nothing.  Worst.
Jordan: You don’t’ know could happen.  Stress causes symptoms.  Symptoms go away.
Garret: Okay, Sanchez doesn’t believe that, neither do you.  There’s formaldehyde all over this morgue.  A ton of chemicals you’re breathing that are linked to tumor growth.
Jordan: Okay.  You want me to quit?
Garret: I want you to live.
Jordan: If I quit, what do I have?  What am I supposed to do?
Garret: Let your friends help you.
Jordan: If you say a word of this to anyone..,
Garret: Jordan.
Jordan: No Garret, please.  It’s my life. (walks out slamming the door)

 

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