- 30/04/2025
Diagnosis Murder Season 6 Episode 22 Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of My Life
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00:00I thought her nephew was staying with her. Why didn't you bring her in?
00:02Apparently he went out to get some groceries.
00:05The neighbor heard a crash.
00:07Miss Lamar wouldn't answer the knock, and so he called the paramedics.
00:10Is she all right?
00:11Yeah, a few contusions, a couple of scrapes.
00:15Dutton got here about 20 minutes ago with a translator demanding to talk to both of us.
00:20Wonderful.
00:30It's very simple.
00:36I'm aware that my condition is such that there is no cure, none.
00:42And I want to end it.
00:45I want to die.
00:49I want to make certain you thoroughly understand your medical condition.
00:55I know my condition.
00:57I have cancer.
00:58Lung cancer.
01:01And it's spread through my system.
01:06I've been under treatment for the last 14 months.
01:11Radiation.
01:13Chemo.
01:15All of it.
01:17Are you aware there are other procedures we can try?
01:22I know that.
01:23But that'll only delay the inevitable for, what, just a few more months of pain.
01:31And I want no part of it.
01:34Dr. Sloan is just trying to help.
01:37We like having you around.
01:39You're very sweet, but I don't want to hear anymore.
01:50I intend not to eat any longer, and I will not allow anyone to supply me with fluids.
01:56I want to die now.
02:05I want to die now.
02:07I want to die now.
02:22I want to die now.
02:22I want to die now.
03:53These are things we can do for your aunt.
03:55She doesn't want anything except to be left alone to die her way.
03:59But if there's something else...
04:01Look, Mark, I'm with you on this medically, but a living will does take precedent.
04:05And so does DNR.
04:07All we can do is follow the patient's instructions.
04:11I hope you realize what you're doing.
04:13It's Aunt Franny doing this, Dr. Sloan, not me.
04:16That's what I've been trying to tell you.
04:17But you agree with her?
04:19She's going to die.
04:21One way or another.
04:23There's no choice here.
04:25And I hate that.
04:26But I hate even more the idea of her being kept alive by a bunch of machines.
04:33Please.
04:35Leave her alone.
04:38Let us do this her way.
04:39How long do you think she has?
04:46Well, without nutrients and fluids, about a week.
04:51This is wrong.
04:53Let us do this.
05:23Let us do this.
05:53Susan told me that Francis Lamar died this morning.
06:10Yes, she did.
06:13Dehydration and cachexia as a result of end-stage lung cancer, just like she wanted it.
06:19It took her four days to die.
06:20Well, we had no choice, legally.
06:24But with that new radiation and chemo schedule, we could have had a chance.
06:29A very slim chance.
06:30You know that.
06:31And it is what she wanted.
06:34I just hate giving up without a fight.
06:37But it wasn't our fight.
06:40The fight was hers.
06:41So, I know we had to honor that, but I don't have to like it.
06:44Dr. Travis?
06:48Hi, I just heard about what happened.
06:53I'm sorry, I don't...
06:54Your patient, Francis Lamar, um...
06:57I just want to congratulate you on handling it in such a sensible way, even though I'm...
07:03I'm sure that was very hard on you.
07:08Excuse me.
07:13Who's that?
07:14It's, uh, Kate D'Lieb.
07:16She's the new attending.
07:17I don't know that much about her.
07:19If she knows about you.
07:26Let's see, Frank.
07:27You had your checkup just last week.
07:30All your medications updated.
07:33Your next appointment's Friday the 14th to three days early.
07:38Is there something you want me to do for you?
07:41Look, Dr. Sloan.
07:43I'm a very tough man.
07:44At least, I was CEO of my own corporation until I got hit with this Lou Gehrig's disease.
07:54And I wasn't even a Yankee fan.
07:58I know, Frank.
07:59Whenever I had to make a tough decision in business, I always did my own research.
08:06I did this time, too.
08:09Looked it up in dozens of reference books.
08:11It's a myotrophic lateral sclerosis.
08:16I know exactly what stage I'm at, where it's going.
08:23I'm going to lose all muscle, which I don't have much of now anyway.
08:29But then I lose speech.
08:32And then increasing pain until finally I strangle to death on my own spit.
08:39Am I wrong, doctor?
08:43Am I?
08:51Okay.
08:53That's why I'm here today.
08:56To ask you to help me to do the only sensible thing.
09:02I'm suffering, Mark.
09:04I want you to help me to end it.
09:07Lois, how do you feel about this?
09:15I think that's Frank's decision.
09:18If he wants to go.
09:23Frank.
09:25I can't believe you want to give up now after all you've been through.
09:29It wasn't exactly a snap decision.
09:33No, no, of course not.
09:34You did your research.
09:36You thought about it, and you discussed it.
09:40And you decided to let it beat you.
09:42All I need from you is a prescription for something.
09:48Morphine, anything.
09:50Hell, you're the doctor you should know.
09:51Oh, yeah, I know, all right.
09:53I also know if you're half the tough businessman you say you are, you'll rethink this.
09:59And do what?
10:00Jump out of a window?
10:01You know, off a bridge, maybe.
10:07I can't even go to the bathroom without help.
10:12Maybe I should starve myself to death.
10:14No, no.
10:16You find a way to make the quality of the remaining time as good as possible.
10:20For you and for Lois.
10:22There is no quality.
10:28There's no way to fight this.
10:32I want it to end.
10:35And I don't want Lois doing anything.
10:39I don't want her in any trouble after I'm gone.
10:41I want it done quick, neat, and painless.
10:48Will you help me?
10:51Or won't you?
10:52All right.
11:01I'll find someone who will.
11:05Lois, get me the hell out of here.
11:08No.
11:22You're sent for me, Mr. Romance?
11:30Harold, please, call me Harold.
11:31You're sent for me, Harold.
11:34You are a very senior staff member.
11:38Very senior.
11:39Is this about my retirement?
11:42Retirement?
11:42Oh, no, no.
11:44Thank God, Mark.
11:47Do you know anything about a new attending physician, Kate D'Leib?
11:52Not really, no.
11:55I've got some very disturbing material here.
11:58About her?
11:58From Oklahoma.
12:00Seems she was involved in one of those assisted suicide cases.
12:04In Oklahoma?
12:05Didn't get the sort of publicity that these cases usually pile up, but, you know, I've got it here somewhere.
12:13The district attorney in Enid came close to an indictment on manslaughter or something, but then they sort of dropped the whole thing because of the history of indictments and trials like that.
12:27Well, it's just our luck, she turns up at community general.
12:32Well, didn't you or your staff look into her professional record, her vita?
12:35I'm looking into that, but that's not one of the questions we routinely ask.
12:40Have you ever been indicted for manslaughter?
12:42This is all we need with the endowment drive coming up.
12:46A community general doctor on the 7 o'clock news for murder.
12:50Well, you said you'd never been indicted.
12:52I know.
12:53Mark, you were on the sidelines with a deaf woman that starved herself to death, but this is different.
13:01Believe me.
13:02What do you want me to do, Harold?
13:04Well, the hell of it is we can't just dismiss this Dr. Glebe without some reasonable cause.
13:09That would backfire.
13:11Mark, I want you to sort of keep your eyes and your ears open.
13:16God forbid anything should happen.
13:23Okay, I'm connecting a small morphine drip here.
13:32Just enough to cover the pain.
13:37Alright, now, do you see this cord?
13:40When it's pulled, the other medication will flow from here.
13:49Alright?
13:49Alright?
13:51But it will only do so if you pull the cord.
13:55Do you understand?
13:56Yes.
13:58Alright.
13:59I think we should try it before I actually put the medication in.
14:03I'm going to wrap this cord around your finger.
14:10Let's see if you can pull it.
14:25Very good.
14:31Alright.
14:33Now, Frank.
14:44Nothing will happen unless you want it to.
14:48Unless you pull that cord.
14:51Do you understand?
14:54Yes.
15:02Good job.
15:35Frank Dugan was a patient here at Community General.
15:42He had advanced Lou Gehrig's disease, and he was a patient of your father's.
15:47I assume you notified Dad.
15:49Yeah, right after I paged you.
15:51What about a preliminary autopsy?
15:54I ordered a full tox screen. So far I've found morphine in his system.
15:58An overdose?
16:00Doesn't look like it. I found a sedative and a long-acting muscle relaxant.
16:04If the dosages were high enough, it was probably that mixture that killed him.
16:09I'll have the vial and the tubing we found sent over so you can check it out.
16:15Is that him?
16:16Mm-hmm.
16:17He wanted to die. Asked me to help him.
16:27You did?
16:28Of course he died.
16:29What was it?
16:32Morphine, sedative, and muscle relaxant.
16:35Ivy Needle was still attached.
16:36You know, I can't believe he actually did that to himself.
16:42He didn't. Looks like he had health.
16:45He found one of those suicide machines on the table next to him.
16:49His wife?
16:51I don't know.
16:52I do know the gear, the tubing, the ivy set up in a reservoir came from Community General.
16:58Still had the labels on them.
17:00What about our people?
17:01Well, actually, the string that triggered the flow of drugs was attached to his finger.
17:06And when you get right down to it, he must have done it himself.
17:09Technically, that's right.
17:11Technically, maybe.
17:13Ethically, no.
17:14Oh, oh, Dr. Sloan, if you hear about the pounding, I'm almost done.
17:33This is my last...
17:34Ray Dugan was my patient.
17:39Until he came to me.
17:41And you killed him.
17:44I was nowhere near Frank Tugan when he died.
17:47He couldn't possibly have had access to the tubes of the needles, much less the medication.
17:52You set up that equipment.
17:53You're responsible for his death.
17:57It's not really much of an office, is it?
18:00But then it's not really what happens in our offices that counts.
18:04It's what happens in our treatment rooms.
18:06It's what happens in our wards.
18:08Our dingy motels.
18:10Oh.
18:10Death can only occur in the pristine confines of a hospital.
18:15No, of course not.
18:16But it could have happened in a home or a hospice.
18:18Or here, with all those things beeping and flashing,
18:21and an entire staff dedicated to keeping an organism alive.
18:25that all common sense is is dead.
18:28How is that more dignified than what Frank Dugan chose?
18:32You're condemning the entire medical profession.
18:34Not at all.
18:35I am just condemning that part of it that's taken control of our own deaths away from us.
18:41Frank Dugan wanted that control back.
18:45He came to you.
18:45He asked for help.
18:47You refused, so...
18:48I didn't think he was in the right state of mind to make that kind of decision.
18:51What kind of frame of mind would you have wanted him to be in?
18:58You see?
18:58You have wanted him.
19:00That's control.
19:01Frank Dugan wanted to commit suicide.
19:07I have it on tape in his own voice.
19:10So you caused him to die.
19:13Whatever he did, he did himself.
19:16Oh, and you merely supplied the means.
19:19Doesn't that bother you?
19:20The medicine you practice causes death?
19:24Okay, Dr. Sloan.
19:25How long have you been a practicing physician?
19:2735?
19:2840 years?
19:29Your point.
19:30And in all that time, you have never seen a baby be delivered with just lethal birth defects
19:35that somebody just quietly let go.
19:38Or a young man's respirator be turned off whose EEG just flatlined after a car wreck?
19:44It's not the same thing.
19:45It's exactly the same thing.
19:48And it's hard, and it's painful for us.
19:51And it's simple, and it's painless for them.
20:00You're going to keep doing this, aren't you?
20:04I'm going to keep listening to my patients, yes.
20:08Then I'm going to find a way to stop you.
20:09Have a seat.
20:30I really appreciate you coming down here.
20:37I hope it wasn't too difficult for you.
20:39No.
20:40I am so sorry about what happened to Frank.
20:44I really cared about him.
20:46About both of you.
20:47Hope you know that.
20:49I know, Mark.
20:52And I'm sorry, too.
20:54I'm sorry about the way he acted.
20:57Angry.
20:58It's not Lou Gehrig's disease.
21:01I know.
21:03He was so afraid of not being tough.
21:09I think that's why he wanted you to help him do what he did.
21:15Must have been so hard for you in that motel room,
21:19watching him get ready to die.
21:22I know when my wife had cancer,
21:25never easy.
21:26Kind of a burr, really.
21:30Yes.
21:32It's exactly like that.
21:34Kind of fuzzy.
21:38It could be very confusing, too.
21:41All that equipment and all the things that Dr. D'Leib was setting up.
21:45The drugs.
21:47I really didn't understand.
21:51She was hastening Frank's death?
21:54No.
21:54I knew that that's what Frank wanted.
21:59What he asked you for.
22:03Only you said no.
22:05Because I wanted him to live.
22:07I wanted him to live, too.
22:10Only I wanted him to be a piece more.
22:13And so did she.
22:18Dr. D'Leib.
22:22Well, I guess probably some help not having any regrets about what she did.
22:27Oh, Mark, I have regrets.
22:30I have regrets.
22:32I have regrets.
22:34I loved him.
22:36I'll always wish that it hadn't happened.
22:39Because she hadn't intervened?
22:41That he hadn't gotten sick.
22:43You know, the truth is, as much as I hated what Frank felt he had to do,
22:59I love Kate D'Leib for having the courage to help him.
23:02Uh, nurse, I need your assistance.
23:19I'm an ER nurse, not ICU.
23:21You're an employee of this hospital, aren't you?
23:24Yes.
23:25Well, then when an attending physician gives an order, you carry it out, no matter what service you're on.
23:30You're not Mr. Goodman's attending.
23:32Dr. Joseph says.
23:33Well, I got a call from his daughter this morning.
23:37She wants me to take over the case.
23:38And she has the power of attorney, unless you're questioning that as well.
23:43No, doctor.
23:44Good.
23:46Now, it looks like Mr. Goodman has been receiving plasmapheresis,
23:51treatment which hasn't been effective.
23:53But he's only been here two days.
23:55The last time his Guillain-Barre led to paralysis, it took him a while to respond, but he did.
24:01And he walked out of here.
24:06I want you to remove Mr. Goodman's plasmapheresis catheter.
24:11And I want you to prepare him for discharge.
24:14His daughter wants him to spend the rest of his time at home with her.
24:20Paralyzed.
24:23I'll have to notify Dr. Joseph.
24:26I am Mr. Goodman's physician of record.
24:31My orders are in this chart.
24:33And unless you want me to pay a little visit to the nursing administrator,
24:36I suggest you carry them out.
24:38I don't know what you want me to do, Dad.
24:57I want you to find a way to arrest Kate to leave her murder.
25:01Mark, you know I had to rule that as a suicide.
25:03She supplied Frank Dugan with materials and the means to kill himself.
25:08Now, that's got to be murder on some level.
25:10Not an illegal one.
25:12Should be.
25:15Look, the DA's keeping an eye on her.
25:17I will, too.
25:19To start.
25:21You know, maybe we can help.
25:23How?
25:23By keeping a close watch at that hospital.
25:25If she inquires about or approaches any seriously ill patient, we call Steve.
25:30All right.
25:31I'll discuss it with Jesse and the rest of the staff.
25:34Good.
25:34We have to stop her before she kills somebody else.
25:45I'll be in touch.
25:46Amanda's headed back to the hospital.
25:55She'll call if anything comes up.
25:57Good.
25:59Won't take long.
26:00Kate to leave's on the crusade.
26:02We'll get her.
26:05You know, I'm a little confused here.
26:08What, about going there for a killer?
26:11No, how about you?
26:12We've dealt with a lot of killers over the years, but I don't ever remember you being
26:18this angry about one.
26:25You know, she asked me the other day if I had ever let a patient die.
26:29And what did you answer?
26:31I didn't.
26:33But the truth is, I have.
26:36All doctors have.
26:37Both decisions come with a job.
26:42But there was this one case, over 40 years alone.
26:49I was just out of residency.
26:5283-year-old woman in extreme dementia.
26:59Didn't call it Alzheimer's in those days.
27:02And in terrible pain.
27:06Undiagnosed.
27:07Tumor, probably.
27:08Occasionally, she had lucid moments.
27:16And in one of them, she said to me,
27:19Let me go.
27:22It's time.
27:23It was your great-grandmother.
27:34You never told me she was your patient.
27:36She wasn't.
27:38She thought she was.
27:40Of course, the whole family thought she was.
27:43I guess they thought so, too.
27:46What did you do?
27:47I prescribed morphine, her pain.
27:53A lot of it.
27:57She lasted one more day.
28:03No one asked anything?
28:06No.
28:07Why shouldn't a 83-year-old woman?
28:09I don't believe this.
28:19You know, I think your mother...
28:22guessed.
28:24Never said a word.
28:28I thought I was being a good doctor.
28:32Doing what was right for a suffering patient.
28:35But the next morning, when I woke up,
28:39I knew...
28:41Just a killer.
28:46She deletes the killer, Steve.
28:49I have got to stop her.
28:53You understand?
28:53You understand?
29:05Here they are.
29:12These are the tapes I told you about.
29:15These are the ones where you and your father discuss his wishes?
29:19Yes.
29:19After the first time when he could talk again,
29:22we sat at the kitchen table.
29:27He's a very gentle man, my father.
29:30He didn't want anyone to have any trouble about this.
29:32It's not me, not you.
29:34I'm someone like you.
29:37Because it's his choice.
29:40That's what he says on these.
29:44For the record.
29:46Yes.
29:47He made certain we put it all on tape,
29:49what he wanted to do.
29:54But there is one thing.
29:55From what I understand about how
30:00this works,
30:03it's okay.
30:09But he's paralyzed.
30:12He can't pull a string.
30:15He won't be able to give himself the injection.
30:17Don't worry.
30:22It'll all be taken care of.
30:26Okay.
30:31It's time.
30:32It's time.
30:48It's time.
30:56It's time.
30:57Hey, Mark.
31:08Yeah.
31:08Do you know a patient named David Goodman?
31:11Oh, yeah, the one with Guillain-Barre syndrome.
31:13Uh, Dr. Joseph's patient, right?
31:15Not anymore.
31:16What?
31:17I went in to check on him earlier.
31:19Dr. DeLeave had taken over.
31:21She had me get him ready for discharge.
31:24He's got to stop her.
31:25She already signed him out.
31:27The last time he was here, Goodman and his daughter were talking about suicide.
31:32Call Steve.
31:33Tell him what's happened.
31:34Tell him to meet us at Goodman's and tell him to hurry.
31:37David, I need to ask you one more time if this is what you really want to happen.
31:42If you want to die now.
31:45If so, blink twice.
31:51All right.
31:56We're looking for Dr. Kate DeLeave.
32:17What?
32:19Where is she?
32:20I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:24I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:26I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:28I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:29I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:30I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:31I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:32I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:34I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:36I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:38I need to ask you one more time if this is what you want to do.
32:40Dad?
33:10I paged you ten times, and then left 20 messages on your answering machine.
33:28Spent the afternoon with the district attorney, they're gonna take the case to the grand jury
33:35by the end of the week.
33:36What do you want for murder one?
33:38Did they go get it?
33:40It's open and shut.
33:41The lead was found with a murder weapon in her hand.
33:43The syringe that completed the paralysis of the disease started?
33:47You wanted to nail it for murder, we nailed it.
33:51But murder one implies a conscious premeditation of wrongdoing, doesn't it?
33:55She brought the syringe and the drugs with her.
33:58How much more premeditation do you want?
34:00You know, I saw Dave Goodman at the hospital.
34:05I thought you said he wasn't your patient.
34:07Oh, he wasn't.
34:08We all knew about him.
34:10He was one of those rare cases of Guillain-Barre where the total paralysis returned twice.
34:17The man was only 62 years old.
34:22Couldn't move, couldn't feed himself, couldn't speak.
34:27But he could still think.
34:31You're not saying the lead was right.
34:34Oh, I was just thinking.
34:36If we'd gotten there five minutes early and I'd been able to stop it,
34:41what kind of a life and death would I be condemning him to?
34:47You're thinking about my great-grandmother.
34:50So you changed your mind about Kate to leave.
34:59She didn't commit murder after all.
35:03No.
35:04No, that was murder.
35:06That one was definitely murder.
35:20Come in.
35:26I have to appear in front of the grand jury.
35:28Well, that must make you very happy, but you appear to be angry.
35:32I don't like it when the medical profession and the legal profession get mixed up together.
35:36It confuses things.
35:38Oh, well, they've been mixed up together since the time of Aeschylus.
35:41There's always been limitations to the practice of medicine.
35:44Fortunately, now we're able to do transplants.
35:47I don't need a history lesson.
35:48And I don't need your condescension.
35:51So would you please leave my office and let me tear it down in peace?
35:54Why are you doing this?
35:58Because...
36:00I feel that it's my duty as a physician to help my patients end their suffering.
36:04But why take the next step?
36:06From assisted suicide...
36:07To active euthanasia...
36:09To murder.
36:11Because there are some patients that are so physically weakened,
36:14they can't pull the cord themselves.
36:17But their commitment to dying is just as strong.
36:20And I'm not going to let a bunch of lawyers and outdated medical ethics stand in their way.
36:26I told my son you're on a crusade.
36:29It's not my crusade, it's my patients.
36:32You broke the law.
36:34The law needs to be changed.
36:36I don't think this is about the law or about your patients.
36:39I think it's personal.
36:41Something happened to you somewhere in your life and this is your way of fighting back.
36:45Oh, you mean like I had some parent who died some long suffering death and I don't want to see anybody else go through the same thing?
36:53Something like that?
36:54Well, it's nice psychiatry, but it's wrong.
36:57My father deserted us when I was a baby and my mother is what they call dysfunctional.
37:06Anywhere I got, I got there on my own.
37:09So you became a doctor so you could help other people in a way that you've never been helped.
37:14Very good.
37:16That still doesn't explain to me how you went from helping people live to helping them die.
37:20I think that we've covered this.
37:22Oh, yes.
37:23That's right.
37:24You want to help people regain control of their lives and their deaths.
37:28Yes.
37:29I don't think so.
37:31I think you're imposing your definition of control on other people by telling them what to do when they are at their most vulnerable.
37:38When they're looking for someone, anyone to take over for them.
37:41That is not what's happening here.
37:43You cannot control life by controlling death.
37:46It's backwards.
37:47And even if it weren't, yours is not the only way.
37:51Frances Lamar chose to let her disease take its own course.
37:55Well, that was difficult.
37:57It was painful, hard to watch.
37:59But she took control.
38:01There's dignity in that.
38:03Well, what you did to David Goodman wasn't dignified.
38:06It was convenient.
38:08But then I guess that's your definition of control, isn't it?
38:12Well, that's some hell of a crusade you're on, Doctor.
38:16So you would have condemned him to suffer.
38:19That's what you want for your patients.
38:22That's what you want for yourself or somebody that you love.
38:25I mean, because if that's true, then that is one hell of a crusade, Doctor.
38:31Do you know, uh, which attorney representing Kate's lead?
38:44Mm-hmm.
38:45Carl Blumenstein.
38:46There's a lot of civil liberties cases.
39:00I've run into him a few times.
39:02He's a pretty good guy for a lawyer.
39:04Mm-hmm.
39:05I never understood why a person's attorney isn't allowed to go in with him.
39:10Well, they're supposed to keep the legalese down to a double roar.
39:14I know, but if the witness has to keep running out to talk to his or her attorney, I knew him.
39:18Yeah, I think if I was on the grand jury, I'd be annoyed.
39:21What makes you think they're not?
39:23Besides, the more she talks, the more likely she is to give the DA what he needs.
39:27Mr. Patterson, the point I am trying to make is that-
39:33Dr. DeLib, I am conducting this hearing, and I would appreciate-
39:36Yes, but you're not letting me-
39:37Give us all a lecture.
39:38You're here to answer questions, not deliver a diatribe.
39:43I would like the grand jury to note that you are not allowing-
39:47Doctor, I do not want to have to take you before the judge for contempt.
39:50You are the one who is showing contempt for Mr. Goodman.
39:56All I'm trying to explain is that he expressed his desire over and over to end his suffering.
40:03Please.
40:04I have it all on tape in his own voice.
40:06And if there's any subsequent trial, your defense counsel can present all the evidence you want.
40:11Now, you didn't answer my question.
40:15I've forgotten it.
40:17Then I'll refresh your memory.
40:19Did you inject David Goodman with what you knew would be a fatal combination of drugs?
40:25Yes or no, it's a simple question.
40:33Yes, I did, but I-
40:35Thank you, I have no further questions.
40:37Ladies and gentlemen, the point we are making, the point which we will reinforce with further testimonies, is that this is not just another case of physician-assisted suicide.
40:50This is a case of physician-assisted suicide.
40:51This is a case of physician-assisted murder.
40:53The next witness you'll be hearing from is Amanda Bentley.
40:57How old is Amanda Bentley, anyway?
40:58About 45 minutes.
40:59They're probably going over all the autopsy reports.
41:04Frank Dugan, maybe Francis Lamar.
41:05Why, what has that got to do with this?
41:06Trying to establish a pattern.
41:07Dr. Mark Sloan?
41:08No, you can come with me.
41:09Dr. Mark Sloan?
41:10No, you can come with me.
41:11Dr. Mark Sloan?
41:12No, you can come with me.
41:17That's the one.
41:18Just one.
41:19I know, but it's okay.
41:20You've been in here.
41:21It's just three minutes.
41:23They're probably going over all the autopsy reports.
41:24Frank Dugan, maybe Francis Lamar.
41:26Why, what has that got to do with this?
41:29Trying to establish a pattern.
41:30Dr. Mark Sloan?
41:31No, you can come with me.
41:35Dr. Mark Sloan?
41:39Just watch.
41:40Okay?
41:42So that in the case of Frank Dugan, Dr. Jaleed took over your patient from you?
41:53Yes.
41:55He never told you he was changing doctors, though, did he?
41:58No, but he was very angry with me when he left.
42:02Was that because you refused to supply him with a lethal substance?
42:05Apparently, yes.
42:06Now, in the case of David Goodman...
42:12He was not my patient.
42:14Yes, I know.
42:15What I want you to do is to describe exactly what you saw when you and Lieutenant Sloan broke into David Goodman's bedroom.
42:24Mr. Goodman was on the bed.
42:26There were no vital signs.
42:28He was dead?
42:29Yes.
42:30And where was Dr. D'Alebe?
42:32Beside the bed.
42:33And in her hand?
42:35A syringe.
42:36And what did you say?
42:39I said, what did you give him?
42:42And she indicated the vials.
42:44Hmm.
42:48These?
42:49These vials?
42:51Yes.
42:51Yeah, but we've already heard testimony from the assistant coroner that these contained a muscle relaxant and a sedative.
42:57The man was dead.
43:01Dr. D'Alebe had the syringe in her hand.
43:04And when you said, what did you give him, she indicated the vials.
43:08So she admitted to you that she had performed the injection of what proved to be the lethal drugs.
43:15Is that correct, Dr. Sloan?
43:17Is that correct, sir?
43:22Yes.
43:25You?
43:26You were a physician of long experience and excellent reputation.
43:30Your work on behalf of law enforcement is well known.
43:33Your outstanding record of service at community general is equally well known.
43:39Considering your seniority and standing, I'd like to ask you one final question.
43:43Would you have filled a syringe with a lethal substance and injected it into David Goodman?
43:52No.
43:54A simple no.
43:57I think it would be helpful to have on the record whether you have any further ideas about Dr. D'Alebe's actions.
44:09I've only had one thought since David Goodman died.
44:14One thought.
44:16When my eyes are closed late at night, when I'm with patients, I'm going to let me go.
44:25And that thought would be?
44:30Ten years ago, there was a patient at the community general.
44:34Ten years and three months.
44:37Your patient?
44:38No, not officially.
44:40It was my wife, Catherine.
44:41I was aware of the spread of her cancer and how the radiation chemotherapy were giving her pain, but with no appreciable benefit.
44:56I was sitting with her for hours, just watching her suffer.
45:03And one thought kept coming to my mind, the thought that I had it within my power to end that pain.
45:14That I could get rid of the torture that standard medical procedure had put her through for the last two years.
45:26Two years.
45:27But I couldn't.
45:29But I couldn't.
45:31But not that it wasn't possible.
45:34There were many, many ways I could have done it.
45:37So why didn't I?
45:40Perhaps I was too close to be rational.
45:47Maybe it was because I was afraid.
45:50Frightened by guilt, insecurity.
45:54Or, God forgive me, just selfish concern for my own professional reputation.
46:04Whatever the reason, I did nothing.
46:08I sat for three months and watched her die in agony.
46:20As for my thought that won't let me go,
46:24it is that Kate D'Leib may be more honest and more courageous than I am.
46:38How'd it go?
46:54You all right?
46:56See, there's something I have to tell you.
46:59So I should have told you ten years ago.
47:08Dad, a grand jury ruling just came out.
47:30It's about time.
47:31It's been four days.
47:32Five.
47:34They had a lot to argue about.
47:36I don't think you made it any easier for them.
47:38Why, what happened?
47:40Second degree manslaughter.
47:42That way they don't have to prove criminal intent.
47:45Oh.
47:46Is the trial date set yet?
47:48No, but I'll be talking to the DA.
47:49I'll let you know.
47:51And, Dad,
47:53I've been thinking about Mom.
47:56A lot.
47:59I want you to know it's okay.
48:12Dr. Sloan?
48:14Yes?
48:15I forgot to turn in my badge.
48:17Uh, I'm sorry about what happened with your wife.
48:24I know the grand jury testimony is supposed to be sealed,
48:27but the lawyers have a way of finding things out.
48:30Yes, they do.
48:36Something I can help you with, Doctor?
48:38I want you to be on my witness list for the trial.
48:43Why?
48:46I don't approve of what you do,
48:48and I wouldn't lie about it.
48:50Well, no, I don't want you to do that,
48:51but at least you can tell the jury
48:52that I'm honest about what I do.
48:55That you're not doing it for the publicity.
48:59I want the way we treat dying patients to change.
49:04I don't care if they cover it or not.
49:07You know, I'm not so sure that this is the way
49:09to make the changes you want.
49:10But you seem to have conflicting emotions.
49:14Yes.
49:15Yes, I do.
49:17But you know that many patients who are terminally ill
49:19fall into severe depression,
49:21and it's the depression demanding the suicide,
49:24not the person.
49:25That's why I need to be so careful
49:26when I screen my patients.
49:28But it should not be left up to a single doctor.
49:31But if we're going to make this step as a profession,
49:35we must have second opinions.
49:37We must have peer reviews.
49:38We must have a waiting period.
49:41That sounds like a crusade.
49:48All right.
49:51I'll be on your witness list.
49:53But you might not like what I have to say.
49:56Well, as long as you tell the truth,
49:58I'll like what you have to say.
50:00Even if it helps conviction?
50:04Well, it's up to the jury, not us.
50:06See you in court.
50:12If you were on the jury,
50:15how would you vote?
50:18Let's pray.
50:29Well, it's true.
50:31Now we leave the jury.
50:32I know.
50:33I know.
50:34You hat it.
50:34You're cool.
50:35You have to vote.
50:36Even if you are up to the jury.
50:37How would you stop?
50:38Why do you wait?
50:38People Hero길.
50:39Now life is Tim.
50:41You were acting.
50:41How would you know?
50:42See you at last night.
50:44You are out.
50:44I know you're out.
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