Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)

Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (1980)

Clyde Kusatsu: Naval Medical Examiner

Quotes 

• Ensign Healy : Does the admiral have to be informed of all the details, sir?

  Captain J. Cooly, USN : What do you suggest, Ensign? We tell him his son swallowed a dozen cocaine packets by mistake?

  Ensign Healy : No, sir. I mean, the lieutenant's dead. I just thought if we could get around some of the details...

  Naval Medical Examiner : It could be done, Captain, unless Admiral Cook pressed for more information. We could release it as an accidental overdose, which, of course, it was. I don't think he planned on the packets bursting.

  Captain J. Cooly, USN : Ensign Healy, first thing in the morning, I want to draw up a letter of recommendation.

  Ensign Healy : Sir?

  Captain J. Cooly, USN : I'm going to recommend Lieutenant Cook's military rights and benefits be revoked. This officer died in the commission of a felony. He disgraced his uniform. If he were alive, I'd court-martial him and I'd deep-six him. His being dead doesn't change that, no matter whose son he is!

• Naval Medical Examiner : There's evidence of a small abdominal wall hematoma, suggesting blunt-force trauma. He may have been punched in the stomach. Almost done, Captain.

  Captain J. Cooly, USN : Found a cause of death yet?

  Naval Medical Examiner : Uh, massive pulmonary edema and cyanosis, probably induced by cocaine.

  Captain J. Cooly, USN : What?

  Naval Medical Examiner : We found a dozen plastic packets in his stomach. Some of them burst. I'm having them analyzed now, but odds are they contained cocaine.

  Ensign Healy : [trying not to hurl]  How did packets of cocaine get into Lieutenant Cook's stomach?

  Naval Medical Examiner : It happens all the time, I'm afraid. You swallow the packets before boarding a plane, then retrieve the packets from the digestive system. Uh... it's a foolproof way of smuggling everything from dope to diamonds.

  Captain J. Cooly, USN : Are you sure it's cocaine?

  Naval Medical Examiner : I'm waiting for the tox screen and the residue analysis to confirm it.

  Ensign Healy : This is going to be very hard on Admiral Cook.

  Naval Medical Examiner : His father is Admiral Raleigh Cook?