| "Mis-Labeled" | ||
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| ← | CI, Episode 3.14 | → |
| Production number: E4515 First aired: 22 February 2004 | ||
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| Teleplay By Elizabeth Benjamin Story By Elizabeth Benjamin & René Balcer Directed By Joyce Chopra | ||
Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a pharmaceutical company executive found cut in half in midtown.
Plot[]
Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a pharmaceutical company executive, Clayton Sherwood. Sherwood was found chopped in half and stuffed in his suitcase to be shipped back to Bangkok. There is a tan line on his wrist, indicating that the killer removed Sherwood’s watch. They found his hotel room ransacked and there was an attempt to open the safe. The safe contains documents and a gold watch, but the watch does not match with Sherwood’s tan line.
Prior to that, Dr. Pirapan, a Bangkok doctor specialising in hemophilia, was treating an 8 year old with the disease who subsequently became infected with HIV. Dr. Pirapan suspected that the Factor VIII administered to the boy was the source of the HIV infection and informed the drug distributor, who then informed Clayton Sherwood, which was Head of Sales for Southeast Asia for Clarendon Pharmaceuticals.
Due to a malfunctioning heater, about $15 million of human plasma-derived Factor VIII clotting factor were not cleared of HIV. Those vials should have been destroyed after the senior corporate office was notified and had approved of their destruction. Later, those tainted vials were being shipped to Thailand where there was an HIV epidemic to be used as a cover for the illegal HIV-tainted Factor VIII sales. However, after the manufacturing mishap, Clarendon Pharmaceuticals stopped selling human-derived clotting factor (white labelled vials) and started selling synthetic clotting factor (green labelled vials). The tainted vials being sold in 2004 in Thailand were labelled with green labels, thereby passing HIV-tainted human-derived Factor VIII as synthetic ones.
Bernard Mailer, Steve Johannsen, and Sherwood are all involved in the HIV-tainted Factor VIII scandal, deception, and cover-up. On the other hand, Gordon Buchanan, the Head of Blood Products division of Clarendon Pharmaceuticals, was unaware of the tainted Factor VIII vials until Det. Goren informed him.
Eric Dunlow, Buchanan's administrative secretary, is actually Brian Welton. He has assumed the identity of Eric Dunlow. The real Eric Dunlow was a gay college yachtsman that had overdosed on MDMA and remains in a semi-vegetative state. The fake Eric Dunlow is presently employed at Clarendon Pharmaceuticals as Gordon, and the gold watch served as evidence that Brian slept with women, unlike the real Eric Dunlow.
Sherwood blackmailed Brian/fake Eric to get him to plant a floppy disk containing false information into Buchanan's computer. The information would implicate Buchanan in the tainted Factor VIII scandal, and Sherwood intended to use it later as a leverage. However, Brian refused and killed Sherwood instead. Det. Goren used this intuition to trick Brian into revealing that he was indeed trying to open Sherwood’s safe not only to retrieve the diskette, but also the gold watch that would reveal his identity theft.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
- Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
- Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
- Courtney B. Vance as A.D.A. Ron Carver
Recurring cast[]
- Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
Guest cast[]
- Daniel Sauli as Eric Dunlow / Brian Welton
- Stephen Bogardus as Dr. Steve Johanssen
- Adam Grupper as Bernard Mailer
- Darren Goldstein as Clayton Sherwood
- Terry O'Quinn as Gordon Buchanan
- Melora Griffis as Janet Teasdale
- Colleen Dunn as Ashley Heaton
- Morgan Hallett as Patsy Cannon Sherwood
- Leif Riddell as Detective Bennett
- Alex Wipf as Michael Clifford
- Patrick Frederic as Matt Rye
- Guy Messenger as CSU Detective Innes
- Priya Ayyar as Forensic Technician Malepa
- Pun Bandhu as Dr. Pirapan
- Paul Rolfes as Bellhop
- Matthew Dawson as Ruben
- Joe Rydzewski as Larry
- Stu "Large" Riley as Limo Driver
- James Nugent as Jed
References[]
Quotes[]
- Robert Goren: Are you lovers?
- Gordon Buchanan: Give me a little credit. I don't chase after secretaries.
- Robert Goren: Doctor tell me something. When you decide to dump this stuff what do you do, flip a coin? Heads Asia, tails Africa?
- Ashley Heaton: You ask the weirdest questions.
- Alexandra Eames: You have no idea.
- Robert Goren: Someone is passing off human plasma as synthetic.
- Ron Carver: What did you find out about the embassy in Bangkok?
- Alexandra Eames: They have lovely fax cover sheets...
- Robert Goren: Sherwood and his friends are selling contaminated meds.
- Alexandra Eames: Tell you what. Sherwood got off easy.
- Robert Goren: You cut a human being in half, Brian. How good does that make you?
- Alexandra Eames: Bad news comes in all packages.
- Ron Carver: Any bets which one the media will anoint the lesser evil?
- Robert Goren: There's no such animal.
Background information and notes[]
Background information and notes
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