Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
23 episodes
E01
Pilot
Meet Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh of the Boston Medical Examiners office. With a reputation of going way beyond the call of duty…Jordan finds her first case a little close to home.
E02
The Dawn of a New Day
Two seemingly unconnected men turn up dead, but there is more than meets the eye to this case. Elsewhere Mr. Stinky has Bug and Trey stumped at identifying him.
E03
The Ties That Bind
A woman's torso is found and linked back to the prison system. Jordan is assigned to find out who the victim is and who is responsible for her death.
E04
Born to Run
With what appears to be a cut and dry murder suicide Jordan gets help from her colleagues to find the truth. Meanwhile Dr. Macy faces the hard truth about his daughter.
E05
You Can't Go Home Again
When the body of a firefighter is found Jordan is called to the scene. What she discovers will shock her and set her on a mission.
E06
Believers
Facts are scarce when a Senator's daughter is found stabbed in the park. Jordan must cut though the political red tape to find the answers. Back at the morgue Bug and Nigel face some hard choices.
E07
Sight Unseen
Two school children are kidnapped and one of them turns up dead. Jordan must race against the clock to try to find the other child…before time runs out.
E08
Digger: Part I
The discovery of a floating corpse forces Jordan into a nationwide manhunt for a serial killer as she teams up with a famed FBI criminal profiler and reunites with an unscrupulous reporter.
E09
Digger: Part II
Jordan finds herself buried deep in the manhunt for the serial killer known as Digger, while forming a more personal connection with relentless FBI criminal profiler Drew Haley.
E10
Blue Christmas
When a cop killer dies in police custody Dr. Macy orders a coroners inquest to get answers. Else where, Trey wonders what all Nigel's invite to the mountains will involve.
E11
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
With a botched robbery victims are many and answers are few. Jordan and Dr. Macy set out to prove maybe this was no ordinary bank robbery.
E12
Blood Relatives
A mother and her two young sons turn up murdered, the only suspect being the husband. This case will do more than test Jordan's skills as a pathologist - it will also test her mentally as some memories come flooding back.
E13
Miracles & Wonders
Elvis has entered the building? Dr. Macy attempts to save a deer at his daughters' request. And Jordan ponders the existence of a higher power.
E14
Four Fathers
With the morgue pinching pennies the staff wonders who will be "pink slipped". Elsewhere Jordan works a case involving the son of an old family…friend.
E15
Acts of Mercy
What appear to be mercy killings are turning up one after the other in Boston. Both Dr. Macy and Jordan are both tracking a doctor with a deadly needle. Bug and Nigel audition for a network.
E16
Lost and Found
Jordan and Detective Winslow find a young father murdered in an alley, they race to find the baby. Dr. Macy must find out why a student died, as well as help Abby deal with the loss.
E17
Crime & Punishment
A housewife from the suburbs is found dead, and linked to Sado-masochism which leads Jordan to an internet site. Elsewhere Bug sees the shrink to talk about the case of an 8-year-old boy.
E18
With Honor
One of America's finest abandons her post in Afghanistan and is later found dead in Boston. Jordan is paired with an investigator from the Marines, to investigate the case. Elsewhere Dr. Macy is in the middle of a turf war between pimps.
E19
For Harry, with Love and Squalor
With gangsters on his tail, Dr. Macy's father makes a surprise visit to Boston. Elsewhere Jordan meets a stranger in her dad's bar. What repercussions will this latest fling have?
E20
The Gift of Life
In this episode we go back to 1995 when Jordan wonders if being a heart surgeon is the right career for her. But after a patient dies on the table because of Dr. McCaffrey's negligence, Jordan realizes that it is always best to tell the truth, even if it hurts somebody. We also see how Jordan met Garrett and the importance of honesty.
E21
Someone to Count On
When the mother of a teenage girl is found dead the daughter becomes the prime suspect. Jordan is convinced of the girls' innocence and seeks advice from an unlikely source to save the girl from prison.
E22
Secrets & Lies: Part I
Jordan is called to a local psychiatric hospital to investigate a suicide. While there an unknown source provides her with a clue to her mother's murder.
E23
Secrets & Lies: Part II
With Jordan still at the psychiatric hospital she agrees to look into a triple homicide. Typical Jordan gets herself in over her head and Woody is there to lend a helping hand…again.
Season 2
22 episodesSeason 3
13 episodesSeason 4
21 episodesSeason 5
21 episodesSeason 6
17 episodesCast
Miguel Ferrer
as Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Garret Macy
Jill Hennessy
as Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh
Ravi Kapoor
as Dr. Mahesh "Bug" Vijayaraghavensatanaryanamurthy
Steve Valentine
as Dr. Nigel Townsend
Kathryn Hahn
as Lily Lebowski
Jerry O'Connell
as Detective Woodrow "Woody" Hoyt
Ken Howard
as Ret. Detective Lt. Max Cavanaugh
Ivan Sergei
as Dr. Peter Winslow
Mahershala Ali
as Dr. Trey Sanders
Leslie Bibb
as Detective Tallulah "Lu" Simmons
Lorraine Toussaint
as Dr. Elaine Duchamps
