Directed by Steve Robin
Written by David Gould, Sal Calleros, & Ted Sullivan
An ex-serviceman with classic PTSD symptoms is found dead with no apparent motive until they discover he had been making street art to explain what he saw in Iraq/Afghanistan and a documentary worker that had been filming him also turns up dead. Meanwhile, Jane and Maura save the life of a man who arrives in the morgue Not Quite Dead and Jane meets an old flame who refuses to see her...
Tropes
- Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: Maura performs an emergency tracheotomy on someone who is delivered to the morgue while Not Quite Dead.
- Naked People Are Funny: Maura dates a sculptor who sculpts in the nude. The way the plot develops note is less than funny, though.
- Raging Stiffie: Maura realizes a 'corpse' is not dead when he gets an erection and she feels a pulse in his penis.
- Waking Up at the Morgue: Someone is delivered to the morgue not quite dead. Maura realizes he is alive when she feels a pulse in his penis. She saves his life by by performing an emergency tracheotomy.