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They finished.

A few more days, a week at the most, they'll have the floor dug out and

be able to start shoring up and resurfacing.

I'm not going to last that long.

You know, maybe you ought to work a different ship for a few weeks.

Dan, it doesn't work that way.

Well, can't you tell the criminals what time to do their crimes?

No, I think the only solution is for me to move.

Well, you know, I could probably get you a good deal on a hotel.

Now, actually, I've been meaning to talk to you.

I was thinking that...

You know, maybe it's time for me to buy my own place.

Yeah.

Well, I guess the house is a good investment.

Yeah, that, and plus it'd be closer to work. Yeah.

Of course, there's also the tax write -off.

You know, the thing is, it's always so quiet and peaceful here at the beach.

What? I said it's so peaceful and quiet here at the beach.

Good morning, Lana.

It's 6 .55.

The exterior temperature is 64 degrees Fahrenheit and rising.

Is the pool ready? The pool water is stable at 82 degrees Fahrenheit.

Open the pool cover, then.

Lana, you have a visitor.

Hey! Yup?

Come around back, Jesse.

Let him in.

Security system disengaged.

Wow.

This place is something.

Thanks. Hi. Hi.

My dad said he built it just so that I moved back home.

I guess it worked, huh?

I guess it did.

Hey, is there a place I can put these on? Uh, yeah. The bathroom's just off

kitchen. I left some OJ on the counter. Hey, thanks.

Warning, do not use the pool.

Lana! Warning, do not use the pool. Lana!

Lana!

Lana! It is now safe to enter the pool.

It is now safe to enter the pool.

Diagnosis Murder, sponsored by Glaxo Welcome, makers of Relenza.

How could she have been electrocuted?

Probably a short in one of the underwater lights.

We won't know for certain until we can drain the pool and our technician can do

a full examination.

How old did you know this girl?

Lana? We were friends, kinda.

What kinda?

Well, she moved back to L .A. after college, and her mom gave her my phone

number.

So did her mother want her to be a doctor or marry a doctor?

I don't know, a little bit of both, I guess.

Her mom is a surgeon. She used to work at Community General.

And this is Lana's father's house?

Yeah, she was living here.

Sort of a temporary, permanent thing, kind of like you and... Kind of like me

and my dad.

No, because that's, like, entirely different. No, she just moved in. And

been living with my father forever.

You guys have a great house on the beach, and you get along so well. I'm

out. Really?

Yeah, I've already got a realtor looking.

Uh, Jeff, don't mess with that. We need to work on it.

It wasn't me. It's the computer.

The computer closed the blinds? The entire house is wired.

A state -of -the -art computer runs everything.

The blinds are set to adjust and close every time the sunlight hits it at a

different angle.

Well, you can do that?

This house can do anything.

It even warned Lana not to jump in the pool.

And she did anyway?

I don't know. I was here in the kitchen.

You wouldn't happen to know the name of the company that installed the system,

would you?

Guess we could find out.

May I see some identification, please?

Thank you, Lieutenant

Lieutenant

Your system opened the door, Mr. Locatelli?

Bruce, please. Yes, yes it did.

It also sensed your presence and turned on the lights. Would you come to my

office?

You have sound system on sensors too?

And he shall have music wherever he goes.

If you don't like the selection, my CD library is at your command.

Or actually my command.

It only responds to voices it recognizes.

Is this the same system you installed at John Kravitz' house?

Terrible tragedy, that.

Mute the music, please.

What's that?

A video capture. A hell of a lot better than a printout.

Who decides where the cameras go?

You pay, I put.

What's the key to them spying on your customers?

The entire system is double password protected, so when you contacted Mr.

Kravitz, he dialed in, entered his secret password, which allowed me to use

password to open the system and show you, well, this. Hal, if you would, you

named your computer Hal?

Yes, after the movie. It was kind of a joke.

Didn't Hal kill people?

Well, it seemed like a good joke at the time.

Of course, I named him before I saw this.

Can you get me a copy of that?

Well, had it made as we spoke.

Now, you'll find that my system not only sets the short and closed down to the

power of the pool as well.

What you're saying is if that young woman had been anyplace else but in the

water at the time of the short, this never would have happened.

The Locatelli Home Command and Control System is not just another means for you

never to touch another doorknob, Lieutenant.

It's the most powerful home security and safety system on the market.

Well, I mean, the first time I heard of you, I was in high school, a mere child,

really. You were in the newspaper. I said to myself, that, that is what I

to be. A medical examiner. You. Oh, I wanted to be you.

Oh, how nice. And here I am, a third -year medical student, and not only

with my idol, but actually working with her.

Oh, I hope you don't mind my saying all of this.

Oh, not at all. Carry on.

If I could just be the next Dr.

Amanda Bentley.

Well, where would that leave me?

Retired? Lovely.

Oh, I didn't mean that the way it sounded. You know, I meant years from

after you've taught me everything you know.

Excuse me, Dr. Bentley.

We have a 51 -year -old woman, no previous illness, who died two hours

admission. Syndromes?

High fever, chills, rash, headache. Who's the physician for that part?

Let's take a look.

I'm

telling

you, Dad, I've seen the future and it works.

Dr. Sloan, I presume.

Yes, how do you do?

Will you be sharing the house with your son?

Well, actually, we already share a wonderful house. Because there's a three

-bedroom model I can show you. Oh, no, this will be fine, thanks.

Open, says me.

In five years, every new house will come with these features.

I've always wanted to be on the cutting edge.

It took some looking, but this place has got everything you asked for and more.

The study's been converted to a safety bunker.

It's fireproof, earthquake -proof, and riot -proof.

Isn't that a bit of overkill?

The owner didn't think so, sir. He had a friend killed in the riots a few years

ago.

These air vents.

When the room is shut down, fresh air is pumped in.

Sure thought of everything, didn't he?

Oh, and notice that every room is both DSL and cable modem ready.

DSL.

Oh, the Internet.

Who can live without it these days? Well, it's not a big part of my life, I

to admit. I'm somewhat of a troglodyte in that area.

You know, especially after what happened to Lana Kravitz.

Dad, the computer didn't kill her.

Did you know her mother worked at Community General? Dr.

Janet Kravitz. Yeah, Jesse mentioned it.

Do you know her well?

No, not really, but I did talk to her at the funeral.

You know, it's interesting. She was contacted to see if she wanted one of

systems in her house in Boston.

Oh? How'd she like it? She didn't. She turned him down. Said it reminded her

much of her ex -husband. Look, Dad, I like this house. A lot.

Good. I mean, you're the one who's going to live here.

The owner is in the middle of divorce hell. He's willing to do a quick claim

you want to move in right away.

No kidding.

Hey,

I wanted to ask you about that jacuzzi out there. Is that...

Ellie, thank you for doing this for me. Oh, it's my pleasure. I love the

Internet. It's how I keep up with my parents, my grandparents, my boyfriend.

In fact, these days, it's practically the only way I talk at all.

You know, I didn't even know the hospital had a website.

Everything has a website.

Well, I can even set up a personal one for you.

No, thank you. Would you like to see how many times Dr. Bentley's name is

mentioned in the newspaper?

Can you do that?

I can find anything.

What if I wanted to find a computer system for my home? Could you find that?

Name it.

Home Command and Control Systems, designed by a man named Bruce Locatelli,

think. First, we go to a search engine.

EWB. Yeah, I got your message, but I'm still puzzled. We already passed your

code inspection.

Oh. Uh, it's a new service that we provide.

Routine inspection before a new customer moves in.

Yeah, but how'd you know this house sold?

Multiple listings.

Well, you go ahead. Door's open. I got to deliver some good news. Well, thank

you.

Ah, that's great.

Closing tomorrow at Valleybrook Federal, 2 o 'clock.

Right. Thanks.

Are you there?

This isn't our system, Bruce.

I know.

But I can take it over.

And no one will ever know that we were here.

You know, it's amazing what you can find on the web. They had cancer research

that hasn't even been published yet.

And then I looked up old Fred Astaire movies. They had a nearly complete list

all the credits. What do you think?

Donated. Then I found something else remarkable.

Did I actually ever wear this?

Yeah, you did.

I found home command and control systems.

Dad, that death was an accident.

I mean, I had long conversations with the father, the mother. I checked with

friends. Nobody suspects foul play.

That's exactly what Sybil Thorsten said.

Okay, Dad, I'll bite. Who is Sybil Thorsten?

Denise Thorsten's mother up in Hartford, Connecticut.

And the connection between Denise Thorsten and Lana Kravitz is what

They both died in pool accidents and both houses had Bruce Rocatelli's system

there. Dad, computers do not kill people.

Well, doesn't that strike you just a little bit suspicious?

Well, was there any other connection between these deaths whatsoever?

No, no, no.

Well, then, no, I don't.

And I don't worry about my house having a system either, Dad. I mean, this Bruce

character didn't even make mine.

Well, this isn't about your new house.

No, of course not.

You know, maybe it would be a good idea just to shut it off until we look into

this a little further.

Dad, I like my new house. You know, the computer system is one of the reasons I

bought it. And the police investigation was very thorough.

You think I'm being foolish, Jim? No, not at all.

Couldn't talk you out of those either.

No, these are keepers.

Do you ever get used to this, all this automated stuff?

Honestly?

I've gotten to the point where it annoys me to have to use a light switch.

Excuse me, Mr.

Locatelli. I'm finished.

Unless you need... Oh, no, Maria.

Hasta mañana.

Hasta mañana.

Gracias por todo.

That's for you, maybe?

My house manager.

Couldn't live without her.

Does the computer respond to her voice as well as yours?

Yes. And I programmed the system with a full Spanish vocabulary. Please, sit

down. And you can restrict access any time you want? No, I can do anything.

You can, not your computer.

The computer's only as good as the programmer.

You know, that's almost the same thing my son said when I presented it with a

very curious coincidence.

I was checking out your system on the Internet. Denise Thorsten.

You knew about that?

You think the police didn't investigate that death, too?

Would you mind explaining what happened there?

Well, it seems she ordered the pool cover to close while she was still in

water. Why would she do that?

She was drunk.

And you're positive it was Denise that gave that command?

That's what the computer records show.

Is it possible for anyone else to issue a command to this system?

You, for example, you got into the Kravitz system.

All my systems are double password protected, so no, not without the

permission. I don't know that much about computers, but Jesse told me those

systems have a, what do you call it, backdoor.

So the manufacturers can correct errors in the program.

So you do have a means for getting around the double password system, don't

Mr. Oaktowie?

You know, I really hate to do this. Do what?

What I'm about to say. To backdoor into a system requires a high level of

sophistication, not to mention a prior knowledge of the program's proprietary

codes. And you meet both criteria.

And so does my competition.

Any particular competition?

Donald Purdy. My system's beating the pants off his.

Are you suggesting that Purdy deliberately killed Denise Thorson just

your system look unsafe?

And that is exactly the kind of accusation I didn't want to make.

That jerk.

I bet he led you right to me, huh?

As a matter of fact, he did.

You know why?

Because I'm going to put Bruce the Goose out of business.

Sounds like you two have quite a beef going. He stole my system.

I ought to kill him. What about killing a client?

That would be bad for business.

Computer kills homeowner. Film at 11.

Now, what do you got to think? Bruce's butler did it?

Or that any system on the market is suddenly suspect?

The same could be said for Bruce. Accidents wouldn't do his business any

either. I'm talking about a rational human being. You're talking about Bruce

Locatelli. Why would he murder his own clients?

Why does the guy climb a bell tower and start shooting?

No more swimming pools, Hal.

I understand, Bruce.

Let's turn our attention to our next target, Jerry Tam.

Where does he live again?

Jerry Tam lives in Montreal.

Cold weather climate.

That is correct, Bruce.

He sneaks his smokes in the shed.

That is correct, Bruce.

Full screen, please, Hal.

This was captured yesterday.

There is a handyman's workshop in the garage, complete with a sink with

water.

These propane tanks are connected to a heater.

Propane? The heater is on a thermostat.

The propane is computer -controlled to turn on whenever the temperature drops

below freezing.

To keep the pipes from bursting.

That is correct, Bruce.

Jerry Tam comes into the shed every evening at approximately 5 p .m. Eastern

Time. I see.

Which would not be a problem unless... Unless the pilot light were on.

Is that a command?

Go ahead, try it

out.

Call me Phil.

What's your real name?

Philippa.

So, are you shopping for a few things for Dad?

No, actually, we're shopping for my son. He's bought a new house. Got tired of

living with the old man.

I don't think she needs to hear our entire family history, Dad.

It's actually one of the great things about owning a store like this. You get

learn about such intimate details of people's lives.

Well, I'm looking for a couch, armchairs, a coffee table.

Okay. Well, then by all means, sample the merchandise.

So do you have any particular colors in mind?

Well, this fuse is nice.

Okay, does it go with your home's color scheme?

I don't think it has a color scheme.

My, my, my, you are first time.

And an available bachelor.

That obvious?

Been shopping around for long?

Not for furniture.

Right.

Mr. Locatelli!

Mr. Locatelli!

Mr. Locatelli!

Open the door to the bedroom!

There is a fire in the ventilation system.

Open the windows!

The windows were locked. The bedroom was filled with smoke. It was vital.

BP's 90 over 50.

Pulse 110 in Freddy.

Respiratory rate of 58.

Is there any blood drawn at the scene?

Yes, sir.

Let's get him into trauma one. Get that blood for CBC, electrolyte, lactate,

levon, carboxy, hemoglobin.

Get me an intubation tray with an 8 -millimeter tube. Page respiratory for

stat ADGs. I want to start another line in the other arm and get a stat portable

chest film.

What were the presenting symptoms?

Suffocation due to smoke inhalation.

There appears to be upper airway edema. I'm having a tough time visualizing the

vocal cord.

I can't see what I'm doing here. We need to do an emergency break.

He's arresting.

200 joules.

200 joules.

Sorry.

Flatline.

Clear. Clear.

300 joules. 300 joules.

Clear.

Nothing.

We've lost them.

Right there.

That'll do it. I hope so.

Oh, that's nice.

Just as uncomfortable as it looks.

Steve, you've got... Great taste.

See?

You remember when we first moved to the beach?

Carol started crying the minute she walked in the door. Said, this isn't our

house. So he took her by the hand and said, let me show you what we can do all

by ourselves and took her right down to the beach.

You weren't worried?

No, Catherine did enough worrying for the both of us. And I told her Steve

wasn't going to let anything happen to his little sister.

I couldn't have been more than 11 years old.

Sloan here.

See, he was always so responsible, even when he was a kid.

Yeah, well, things were safer then.

Oh, I don't know. Sometimes I think we just know about the dangers more now.

Yeah, maybe.

You all right?

I don't... I was just thinking that, you know, we should have been able to save

Bruce Locatelli.

Bruce Locatelli's computer has a full record of what happened.

Malfunction? No, somebody compromised the system from the outside.

Somebody deliberately turned off the pilot?

Afraid so.

But who?

It's got to be his competitor, Donald Purdy.

So then Purdy murdered Bruce.

Looks that way.

Bruce said that Purdy was out to get him.

Still,

I am so sure that Bruce himself was behind those two murders.

Cheryl's picking up Purdy now. I've got to get back to the station.

What kind of police state you're running here? Mr. Purdy's been read his rights

and refused a lawyer. Oh, I got a lawyer, all right. Good one. Gonna sue

blind. You're facing multiple murder charges, Mr. Purdy. I wasn't anywhere

Brucey Boy.

No, but his computer indicates an illegal intrusion initiated by your

That's a lie.

There's a printout. Take a look.

You set me up. Sit down, Mr. Purdy. The hell I will.

First your stormtroopers come into my place of business.

You either sit down or I'm going to have to cuff you. Why don't you shoot me

while you're at it?

You're under arrest.

You all right?

Yeah, I'll live.

It was self -defense.

Yeah?

Try assaulting a police officer.

Come on.

Steve said Purdy just hauled off a hitter.

But the man was all bark and no bite. Well, bullies tend to be cowards.

Cowards how?

Look at the way he's killed.

From a distance, never confronting his victims.

Yeah.

Still, somehow I just don't feel right about it.

Dr. Bentley, I don't know what to do next.

Do you know what to do, Dr. Sloan?

About what?

Well, I've been trying to notify Mr.

Locatelli's next of kin.

First, I tried all the Locatellis in the Los Angeles phone book. All one of

them. Then I tried using that new national service.

Nobody named Locatelli's even heard of him, so then I tried using the Internet,

you know, hoping to find some relative in Italy, maybe. You could find people

Italy? Well, yeah, if they've got e -mail, only if they don't have e -mail,

mean. If they even exist.

You know, I think I know somebody who might be able to help us out.

He's had these photographs here since they moved in.

You know who they are?

Mr. Locatelli, he would not speak of them.

When a man does not want to speak of those he loves, it's best not to ask.

It is my fault he's dead.

Why do you say that?

Every day.

Every day I come exactly at seven o 'clock to make Mr.

Locatelli's breakfast.

But this day there was a lot of traffic.

I'm never late.

But on this one day, if I had not been laid on this one day,

Mr. Locatelli would be alive.

My boyfriend couldn't believe I wanted to work with dead people. I mean, I'm

sure you've heard it a thousand million times, right?

What can you do to help a dead person? Well, I said, I'm sure you say the exact

same thing. I said, alive people only cause you trouble.

Dead people just lie there while you find out all their secrets. Don't you

agree? Mm -hmm.

Dr. Bentley, do you have those autopsy results for Dr. Horowitz?

Yes. Ellie, would you get a map of the McDougal autopsy report, please?

Cause of death is septicemia, Bronner. It might manage a cochlear infection.

I know. I put it somewhere.

Try the file cabinet.

I was going to put some files into storage, but for that I needed a box. I

the file in my hand. I didn't want to put it with the chemicals. It didn't

belong with the medications either. I mean, then we would never find it.

I was going to put it next to the computer temporarily, but then the phone

You weren't here, so I just put it...

Here.

I don't faint anymore.

Mr. Luca.

Oh, that's Mr.

Locatelli. No, not that Mr. Luca.

I could never forget Mr. Luca.

I was new on the job, and here was this sweet man. His son came in for a routine

appendicitis. The boy had a ruptured aneurysm on the table, and I was elected

tell Mr. Luca that his son had died.

I couldn't believe the depth of Mr. Luca's pain.

I never thought I would understand pain like that.

I was wrong.

Wrong how?

Two years later, my son died.

God.

I've never recovered.

My marriage dissolved.

My life, really.

Annette, forgive me for asking, but how did your son die? Was he at home?

He was back from college for spring break.

Somehow he ended up in the garage with the car motor running.

I still don't believe it was suicide. I don't. I'm sorry.

No, no, don't apologize.

And I have one more question that you have to ask.

In the Luca appendectomy, was the surgeon Dr.

Kravitz?

Well, it may not be much consolation, but I can promise you that your son's

death was not a suicide.

Leonardo Luca did suffer a terrible tragedy.

His only son, Carlo, got appendicitis. They brought him to our hospital, and

during the operation, an aneurysm ruptured, and the boy died.

That's nobody's fault. I mean, that can happen to any surgeon at any time. Well,

Luca didn't see it that way. He saw this vast conspiracy against him. He sued

the hospital, the insurance company, everybody.

Wasn't there a mortality review?

Yeah, I carried it, and the court, too, sued out.

And Nardo wanted justice.

Yeah, well, his son was dead and his marriage, as has often happened, fell

apart. He was a man in a lot of pain.

I don't get it. I mean, if Bruce or Nardo or whatever his name was wanted to

kill somebody, why not those responsible?

He wanted more vengeance than that. He wanted his victims to experience his

by killing the children or those he blamed for killing his son.

So then Lana died because she was Dr. Kravitz's daughter.

That's right.

Just as Annette's son died because she was a nurse at the operation.

What about the victim in Hartford? Would that be the child of the insurance

investigator in the case? Exactly.

What about Purdy? Did he know this when he killed Bruce?

You know, I think Purdy may be guilty of assaulting an officer, but not a

murderer. I think this whole thing was a diversionary tactic.

Pretty extreme way to get us off the track, don't you think?

Well, Bruce was not supposed to die.

That pilot light went off exactly at 7 o 'clock.

Now, Maria, his housekeeper, always arrived at 7 o 'clock.

He was counting on her to save him.

That's right. Only that morning, there was a bad accident on the freeway, and

she was delayed for half an hour.

So then what you're saying is that we're dealing with a murderer who is his own

victim.

Yeah. I think we should just be thankful this whole thing's over.

Admit it, Dad.

The computer didn't kill those people. Bruce did.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Well, did your system cook all this Chinese food?

Actually, it was the Chinese restaurant around the corner.

Which seems to have forgotten to mush you pork.

I'll go back.

Oh, no, this is plenty of food.

Ooh, good, too.

You know, takeout's very important for a man who lives alone.

Dad. Men don't kill for themselves. I rarely do it.

Dad, it's not like I eat dinner at home that often anyway.

Why do you think I know every takeout place in Malibu?

I'm very sorry to have disturbed you.

And I'm very sorry for your loss.

Amanda, what's wrong?

I just pulled the pathology report on the Luca case, and a colleague of mine,

Dr. Tam, did the autopsy.

Did he lose a child, too?

Yes. His son in Montreal an hour ago.

That's impossible. Bruce died yesterday morning.

Ellie, the idea of an email alert.

It's not impossible.

What? Had the boy die?

Uh, he was smoking in a storage shed full of propane tanks.

You know, Bruce could have programmed the computer to turn off the pilot

So we've got a murderer who's still killing after he's dead?

Amanda, that pathology report, check to see everyone involved. I think they have

children.

Jesse, oh, my God.

Mark shared that inquiry, and Steve has one of those symptoms.

Jess, I can't hear you.

I've been on the phone all day. My battery's dying.

Here, use mine.

Well, I left it in the car.

Jesse, let me call you back from a payphone.

I'll go get it. No, no, no. Don't let your soup get cold.

There's a payphone at the Chinese restaurant. I'll just call them from

You sure? Yeah.

A true test of good Chinese takeouts. Mushu pork. All right. This will only

a minute. All right.

Jesse, relax, okay? You're making me nervous. As long as Steve is out of the

house, he's not in any immediate danger.

Steve!

Your dad's still inside?

Yeah, a computer seems to have triggered the security system in the study.

Both are battering Ram in a blowtorch.

This may take a while.

We may not have a while.

What do you mean?

The system is designed to pump fresh air into the world. If the computer's been

programmed to cut off the air intake, we may not have much time at all.

Is there anywhere you can hack into the system, take control of this thing? It's

way beyond my capability.

You need somebody who knows how to backdoor.

Purdy. He's been released on bail.

I'll find him.

Why are you running? Why are you here?

I need you.

What was that?

Did I just hear you say, let's make a deal?

What do we need to do to hook you up?

Just stand back and let me work.

In the system, now if I can just find the override.

What's the status inside?

We've made no contact yet. To our lousy thief, that Bruce was one hell of a

programmer. Just tell us you're better.

Of course I'm better.

Ah, I'm in. All right, get some oxygen in there.

Our Cajun level is nearly normal.

Let's go.

Dad?

Don't try and talk.

Maybe just fine.

Let him work, please.

Jesse says you're going to be fine.

Takes more than a computer to kill me.

I, uh, found that.

Oh, yeah, it was... I figured you were just reminding me to get an extra

cookie.

Figured that out, huh?

I am a detective.

How's the house?

Well, a few thousand dollars worth of repairs. It should be good as new.

I'm going to rent it out.

Make a good investment.

You don't want to live there?

Well, it's kind of lost its charm.

Of course, I was hoping my former landlord would let me move back in.

Well, your former landlord might raise the rent, too.

Oh, how much?

Two dinners a week.

I can afford that.

You know that pew sofa?

Yeah?

Don't bring it.

No.