Episode 6, Season 1
Title: Believers

Written by: Tom Ellis Kessler
Directed by: Ian Toynton
Original Air Date: 29 October 2001


Description:

Jordan investigates the death of a Massachusetts Senator's daughter found stabbed in a park, apparently murdered by her boyfriend. Believing there is more to this case than the police's theory of love gone bad, Jordan reluctantly pairs up with an ethically challenged newspaper reporter, Adam Flynn, to further investigate the girl's death. Meanwhile, Garret wrestles with the issues surrounding a man's wish to be buried as an anatomically correct woman, while Bug and Trey face weighty religious issues and potentially explosive consequences when they attempt an autopsy on an obese Orthodox Jewish man.

 FORENSICS

Guest Stars:

Shawn Christian (Adam Flynn), Sara Botsford (Lauren Ryder), Daniel Roebuck (George Falk), Andy Umberger (), Richard Fancy (Rabbi Joseph Wolk), Vince Grant (Denny Logan / Denise), J. David Krassner (Roy), David De Leon (Security Guard), Lisa Long (Falk's Lawyer), Dale E. Turner (Jumpsuit), John Posey (Dr. Calvin Yarborough), Seamus Dever (Tom Murch), Amanda Carlin (Carol Logan), Amy Aquino (Det. Lois Carver), Kathryn Hahn (Ms. Lily Lebowski)  
 

Random Facts:

Jordan gets an apartment—apartment #311, 227 Pearl Street, Boston, MA. There is a Pearl Street in Boston, but not a building #227.

Goofs:

Music:

Shalom Aleichem, David Grisman
You Are Not Alone, Patty Griffin

Quotes:

Trey: Mad Dog?
Doctor: Oh I guess you guys have never seen Macy on the basketball court. Total animal.
Bug and Trey look at each other…laugh (don’t believe him)

Max: There’s this new thing they’ve got called the classifieds. You should check them out. They actually have places to live in here.
Jordan: Exhibit A (points to a plant in her office): I can barely take care of a house plant, let alone a place of my own

Lily: Dr. Macy, you’re needed in the crypt. There’s a bru-ha-ha

Max: This list of dead people….pure gold.
Jordan: Dad
Max: Here’s the pick of the litter. River view…1600 feet of loft space. I told the landlord we’d be there in 15 minutes.

Lily: What about the Hippocratic Oath?
Garret: I work on dead bodies.
Lily: Exactly. The body is the conduit to the soul. It’s only through death that we pass on to a higher state. Don’t you believe that?
Garret: Listen, I don’t know what I believe. It’s a little early in the day for a theological discussion, don’t you think?

Animal Control Guy: The last tenant had about a dozen of them (snakes). Most of them your poison variety. That one right there tried to get a hold of my large toe. That of been about 12 and a half minutes of fun, huh.

Nigel: Okay boys on three.
Bug: Uno, dous..(guys pull, body falls on ground not gurney)
Nigel: Maybe we should go over the minimal impact again.

Garret: I don’t know what I believe. It’s a little early in the day for a theological discussion don’t you think?

Max: Well, what do ya think? (asking Jordan about the apartment)
Jordan: Ok, we’re going.
Max: What? Where you goin’? I haven’t even seen the place yet.
Jordan: It’s a snake pit.
Max: Really, looks ok to me.

Reporter: The way I see it you and I are on the same team here. The only difference is you’re looking for a cause of death and I’m looking for a by-line.
Jordan: You keep following me you’ll be looking for a hospital.

Reporter: Is that a smile you’re trying to fight back?
Jordan: It’s a facial tick.

Nigel: Morning sunshine. Toxscreen with your coffee (handing Jordan a file)
Jordan: She had all these drugs in her system?
Nigel: Zanax and Prozac and Valium oh my.

Garret: Is this a Jewish thing answering every question with a question?

Jordan: Come to give your condolences? Sweet.
Reporter: And I’m sure you attend the memorials of all your stiffs.

Nigel: Oh, that bloody thing is massive. (looking at the liver of Mr. Katz)
Trey: 2,000 grams, easy
Bug: 2,500
Nigel: 2,150. Lenny?
Doctor (Lenny): Well, I’m better with inflamed adenoids, but I’ll say 2,700 even.
Bug: 2,750
Nigel: Give that ENT a cigar.

Nigel: Sweet Nancy, he blew! (Speaking right after Mr. Katz insides blew in the morgue)

Garret: Let me get this straight, are you telling me he actually blew up?
Lenny: Oh, he blew up alright.
Nigel: Like a hamster in a microwave.

Max: Will you keep it down please. (Talking to Jordan in the kitchen) I don’t want you waking Evelyn.
Jordan: Oh right, we wouldn’t want to do that.

Nigel: We detonated a man. I’m not sure intention is as interment.
Bug: If this was India a little explosion would be no problem. There they set fire to the bodies to actually help the soul move on.
Nigel: Well, if that really works then Mr. Katz’s soul ought to be in the promise land by now.

Jordan: What are you doing here?
Reporter: Thought we’d maybe go grab a drink. You know, celebrate.
Jordan: There’s not much to celebrate.
Reporter: You mean meeting me wasn’t the highlight of your week?
Jordan: Meeting you…Now there’s a reason to drink.

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