Episode 13, Season 1
Title: Miracles and Wonders

Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Allan Arkush
Original Air Date: 21 January 2002


Description:

Jordan's views on faith are tested as she attempts to scientifically explain how a homeless man -- who claimed to be St. Francis bearing the stigmata -- could have died in a church, and her investigation takes a bizarre twist when the man's body disappears from the morgue. Meanwhile, Max faces his own test of faith with a health scare that prompts him to make a major life decision; Garret's inability to communicate with his daughter, leads them to family therapy; and Nigel's faith in a more earthly deity comes into question when Elvis enters the building.  

Guest Stars:

Tom Beyer (Guy), Kavi Raz (Dr. Singh), Robert Picardo (Father Bruno), Anthony DeSando (Father Paul) Andrea Martin (Nora Kaminski), Valeri Ross (Shrink), Tom McCleister (Charlie)  
 

Random Facts:

Goofs:

Music:

Are You Lonesome Tonight, Elvis Presley
Soul Limbo, Booker T. & The MGs
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley
Jailhouse Rock, Elivs Presley
Shooting Star, Bob Dylan

Quotes:

Bug: Are you willing to place a wager on that?
Trey: Twenty bucks that nothing bazaar happens in the next 48-hours.

Jordan: Dad I’m worried about you.
Max: I know.  That’s why I want you to go.

Nigel: You can’t really apply math to resurrection.

Max: Well let’s try to find out.  You be Saint Francis and I’ll be God.
Jordan: Very funny.

Max: Alright.  Then you be science and I’ll be faith.

(Jordan pushing her way into the break room)
Jordan: Hey that is this a Marx Brothers movie?
Nigel: Free Donuts
Jordan: Sweet!
Garret: Hey Jordan.
Jordan: Yeah
Garret: Did you ever hear of the Saturn Effect?
Jordan: Oh yeah, Bug gave me an article on that. I was thinking of using it as toilet paper.

(Nigel walks into the crypt and sees the dead man dressed as Elvis)
Nigel: Please tell me this isn’t a dream.
Lily: Nope, he’s real all right.
Nigel (impersonating Elvis): “Thank you…thank you very much.”

Garret: Tell me you’re havin’ a better day than I am.
Jordan: I don’t know about better, but I can guarantee you it’s weirder. When was the last time you did an autopsy on a Saint?

Lily: So, how did your therapy session go?
Garret: Shrink says I’m supposed to take a leap of faith. More like a leap into oblivion.

Nigel: Any guesses on what we’re lookin’ at?
Jordan: Look, if you wanna play 20 questions I’ll save us both some time…the answer to all of them is I don’t know.
Nigel: Wow, you’re no fun.

Lily:…he and some other physicists spent years working on something called the Ciaos theory, which basically says there are no random events in the universe. Like, a butterfly flaps its wings in Indonesia and boom, a piano falls on someone in Brooklyn. It’s all connected.

Priest: So I see you’ve ruled out the theory of resurrection.
Jordan: Figured we’d explore alien abduction first.
Priest: Still the believer I see.

Jordan: Think I’m going to let a locked gate keep me out?
Paul: That’s called breaking and entering Jordan.
Jordan: What are you collar boy…what are ya…chicken?

Jordan: Look, I happen to believe in science. Science is my friend. Science doesn’t let me down.

Jordan: Ok, how did you pay for this?
Max: I scraped it together. The house is completely paid off, I got a nice severance package when I left the force, and then there’s the money I was saving up to leave to you.
Jordan: I have an inheritance?
Max: Well, you did.

Max: If this guy was some kind of Saint or something…
Jordan: He was not a Saint. He was a homeless man; we don’t even know who he was.
Max: Well then let’s try and find out. You be Saint Francis and I’ll be God.
Jordan: Very Funny.

Max: I need to find out how I’m going to deal with this. It doesn’t concern you.
Jordan: The hell it doesn’t, you’re my father I care about you. I mean what happens if you need to….
Max (cuts Jordan off): Try to have a little faith Jordan.
Jordan: Yeah well, I lost my faith the day I saw Mom lying dead on the dining room floor.

Bug: People believe in all sorts of things, and it’s that belief that makes them real. I believe that when I close the refrigerator door the light actually goes out, because to believe otherwise…well, what would that say about the nature of the human condition.

Max: It’s my life Jordan; we’ve already been over this.
Jordan: It’s not just your life, you don’t live in a cave, it involves me too.

Nigel: Been a rather queer couple of days, hasn’t it?
Trey: Least we didn’t go hurling into outer space. We should count our blessings.

Jordan: Boy, it’s a great big ol’ universe out there Garret.
Garret: Yeah it is. You don’t have anything to add to that?
Jordan: No, actually for once in my live, I don’t.

 

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