5 reviews
A little too paranoid and hard to believe, but wildly entertaining.
Sometimes when you watch a TV show or movie, it's best to turn off that nagging voice in your head that says 'that's impossible'...otherwise, it's hard to enjoy them. This is definitely true of "No Deadly Secret"--a thoroughly enjoyable but difficult to believe episode of "Quincy".
It all begins with Quincy on his boat with very beautiful woman (in this case, Elaine Joyce). This makes most viewers think 'how can a coroner who looks like Jack Klugman get all those pretty girlfriends?!'! Regardless, the lady falls asleep and during that time, an old friend of Quincy's shows up--and he's dying. Quince rushes him back to the lab where he does an autopsy on his just-dead friend. It looks like someone beat the guy to death--and, of course, Quincy calls the police to inform them. Here is where it gets weird--the body, the reports and all other evidence that the dead man had been there are all gone. And, the further the episode progresses, the more Quincy looks like he's lost his mind.
Like all the other previous episodes of the show, Detective Monahan and Astin behave like idiots--and immediately doubt Quincy's story. Now considering he is ALWAYS right, you wonder why they don't just assume Quincy is correct!! Regardless, the whole conspiracy angle sure is entertaining and it keeps you guessing.
It all begins with Quincy on his boat with very beautiful woman (in this case, Elaine Joyce). This makes most viewers think 'how can a coroner who looks like Jack Klugman get all those pretty girlfriends?!'! Regardless, the lady falls asleep and during that time, an old friend of Quincy's shows up--and he's dying. Quince rushes him back to the lab where he does an autopsy on his just-dead friend. It looks like someone beat the guy to death--and, of course, Quincy calls the police to inform them. Here is where it gets weird--the body, the reports and all other evidence that the dead man had been there are all gone. And, the further the episode progresses, the more Quincy looks like he's lost his mind.
Like all the other previous episodes of the show, Detective Monahan and Astin behave like idiots--and immediately doubt Quincy's story. Now considering he is ALWAYS right, you wonder why they don't just assume Quincy is correct!! Regardless, the whole conspiracy angle sure is entertaining and it keeps you guessing.
- planktonrules
- Mar 23, 2013
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Great Quincy episode.
- poolandrews
- Nov 22, 2007
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Great start to Season 3!
No Deadly Secret begins late in the evening on Quincy's (Jack Klugman) boat where he is entertaining a girlfriend (Elaine Joyce) who falls asleep on him and he is then startled by his friend, Carl Hopwood (Troy Melton), who shows up needing medical treatment and collapses beside the boat. Quincy attempts to rush Carl to the hospital but he dies en route and Quincy decides to take him right to the coroner lab to perform the autopsy. The preliminary results reveal that Carl died of hemorrhaging as the result of injuries sustained from a beating, leading Quincy to contact the police before he ends up falling asleep on the office couch.
The next morning, Quincy is awakened by Sam (Robert Ito) and is shocked to learn that the body of Carl is nowhere to be found. All of the tests and records associated with Carl have also disappeared with the exception of an audio recording of Quincy performing the autopsy, leaving Lt. Monahan (Garry Walberg) and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin) in disbelief of his story. Additionally, a lab assistant who was the only witness to the body being brought in is later found dead of a contaminated drug overdose. Quincy begins to pursue his own investigation despite the protests of Asten and Monahan and this leads him to look further into Carl's employment as a scientist.
This was the first episode of the third season of Quincy and a very good one in my opinion. There is an interesting mystery featured with some twists, and Quincy has to do practically all of the work here since others do not believe his story. This aspect of the episode is pretty ridiculous because you would think that Monahan and Asten would give Quincy the benefit of the doubt when the body disappears since he is such an esteemed coroner who has proved himself to them over and over again. Instead, you have Monahan undermining Quincy by making snide, sarcastic and unfunny comments in front of others involved which is totally unprofessional and Asten acting like the world is going to end because a lobbyist called him on the phone. You should know better gentlemen!
Those annoyances aside, this is a quite enjoyable episode which will entertain and keep your interest right up until the very end.
The next morning, Quincy is awakened by Sam (Robert Ito) and is shocked to learn that the body of Carl is nowhere to be found. All of the tests and records associated with Carl have also disappeared with the exception of an audio recording of Quincy performing the autopsy, leaving Lt. Monahan (Garry Walberg) and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin) in disbelief of his story. Additionally, a lab assistant who was the only witness to the body being brought in is later found dead of a contaminated drug overdose. Quincy begins to pursue his own investigation despite the protests of Asten and Monahan and this leads him to look further into Carl's employment as a scientist.
This was the first episode of the third season of Quincy and a very good one in my opinion. There is an interesting mystery featured with some twists, and Quincy has to do practically all of the work here since others do not believe his story. This aspect of the episode is pretty ridiculous because you would think that Monahan and Asten would give Quincy the benefit of the doubt when the body disappears since he is such an esteemed coroner who has proved himself to them over and over again. Instead, you have Monahan undermining Quincy by making snide, sarcastic and unfunny comments in front of others involved which is totally unprofessional and Asten acting like the world is going to end because a lobbyist called him on the phone. You should know better gentlemen!
Those annoyances aside, this is a quite enjoyable episode which will entertain and keep your interest right up until the very end.
- rayoflite24
- Aug 16, 2015
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Truly engrossing, unusual episode
- scottschada@yahoo.com
- Aug 3, 2015
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Starts out strong, ends weak
Quincy is entertaining a stewardess when a knock comes to the door of his boat. It's a friend of his, Carl Hopwood, who appears to have been beaten badly, but he's unconscious and cannot say what happened to him. Quincy puts him in his official station wagon and takes him to a hospital, but he realizes the man is dead when he arrives and continues on to the morgue and performs an autopsy. The only person who sees him is the night attendant at the morgue.
Quincy then falls asleep on the couch at the morgue. When he awakens the next morning, he discovers the slides and samples he sent to the lab are missing and the body is missing as well! The only person who saw the body besides Quincy, the morgue attendant, is taking a few days off and nobody he lives with - in a set up that looks like it is left over from the hippy commune days - knows where the guy is.
Carl's current live-in girlfriend claims he was alive that morning - he went to work! At work, a "fake" Carl Hopwood is presented and everyone there acts like Quincy is crazy when he calls the man an imposter. Did I mention that the morgue attendant who saw the body turns up dead of a drug overdose? What goes on here? Unfortunately, nothing very interesting it turns out.
If not for the ending I would have given this a nine. It may be the best episode of Quincy ever. I'd recommend it even if the denouement is less than satisfying.
Quincy then falls asleep on the couch at the morgue. When he awakens the next morning, he discovers the slides and samples he sent to the lab are missing and the body is missing as well! The only person who saw the body besides Quincy, the morgue attendant, is taking a few days off and nobody he lives with - in a set up that looks like it is left over from the hippy commune days - knows where the guy is.
Carl's current live-in girlfriend claims he was alive that morning - he went to work! At work, a "fake" Carl Hopwood is presented and everyone there acts like Quincy is crazy when he calls the man an imposter. Did I mention that the morgue attendant who saw the body turns up dead of a drug overdose? What goes on here? Unfortunately, nothing very interesting it turns out.
If not for the ending I would have given this a nine. It may be the best episode of Quincy ever. I'd recommend it even if the denouement is less than satisfying.