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"Malignant"
CI, Episode 2.06
Production number: E3208
First aired: 3 November 2002
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Carver Malignant
Teleplay By
René Balcer

Story By
René Balcer & Michael S. Chernuchin

Directed By
Frank Prinzi & Juan J. Campanella

The murders of two deliverymen during a robbery lead Detectives Goren and Eames to discover a long-running case of diluting medicine and tinkering with drugs.

Plot[]

The murder of two men transporting prescription drugs opens up an entirely different investigation when it is found that one of the orders for them was not forged, as suspected. Goren and Eames discover that one pharmacist seems to be diluting the cancer medication he is selling, and that several of his customers died because they were not getting the medication they thought they were. Convicting the pharmacist, however, is much more complicated when they discover one man helped his ill wife to kill herself due to her agony. Not wanting to put him in jail, Goren and Eames must get a confession so Carver does not need to use that case as evidence in the court.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

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Quotes[]

Elizabeth Rodgers: Of those, I identified 14 cancer patients who statistically should be alive if they received the right dosage of chemotherapy. 9 families gave me permission to exhume the bodies.
Robert Goren: Only 9. You must have some bedside manner.
Elizabeth Rodgers: There's a reason I work with dead people.

Robert Goren: None of which had a happy ending.

Pharmacist Cardenas: Excuse me, but...
Alexandra Eames: Don't worry. he does this all the time.
— After Goren climbs on top of a pharmacy counter.

Normal Mills: I can't help noticing, Detective, the way you pull together all these different elements. Good stuff.
Robert Goren: It's good stuff.

Norman Mills: Detective, shame is a very underrated emotion. in the big city, it's very easy to go unnoticed by others, so your conscience becomes your only witness. And for most of us, that's not enough.

Alexandra Eames: I can't imagine what he went through, waiting for her to die.
Robert Goren: That must've been the worst hour of his life.
Alexandra Eames: Hour? He said two days.
Robert Goren: Well, I'm pretty sure I heard him say an hour.
Alexandra Eames: Maybe I need a prescription for my hearing.

Robert Goren: We did a little dumpster diving. It's pretty nasty.

Background information and notes[]

  • The episode name "Malignant" is a medical term used to describe a severe and progressively worsening disease. The term is most familiar as a description of cancer.
  • Vincent D'Onofrio and Jon Bernthal worked together later in the successful Netflix series, Daredevil as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin and Frank Castle/The Punisher.

Episode scene cards[]

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Halliwell's Pharmacy
322 Houston Street
Friday, June 14

Halliwell's Pharmacy
322 Houston Street
Monday, June 17

Apartment of
Frank Lowell
152 Stanton Street
Wednesday, June 19

Brightest Star
Nursing Home
Westchester, New York
Wednesday, June 19

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