Dr Jenny Cooper could not remember the black dog from her childhood as it has mixed up with a traumatic incident. Her father sheds some light to this but his memories are jumbled due to dementia.
Dr Cooper is arguing with the coroner, Dr Peterson the man she fired. She is called in to see a corpse whose temperature is rising. Dr Peterson tags along and finds out the cause. It is radiation.
The building is in lockdown as it could be a terrorist incident. Both Dr Cooper and Dr Peterson figure out how the dead man could had been contaminated. Both people also try to resolve their past differences but Peterson always seem to push just a little too far.
It was good to see the dynamic between these two warring coroners as they examine video footage that the deceased had. It also neatly leads to the shock concluding episode of the first season.
The lamest part was Detective McAvoy following a newly released killer, the person released because of the alleged flaws on Dr Peterson's reports. His team will never win awards for going undercover without being noticed. McAvoy then comes across someone else tailing the suspect equally ineptly. It really was a case of dumb and dumber.