The Eye of the Needle

This episode of "Quincy" begins with a woman in some sort of physical distress trying to get some help. Unfortunately, the guy she finds is just some thief--who steals her purse and leaves her in agony. Soon, she is discovered...dead. They think it's due to carbon monoxide poisoning, but it turns out she died from a perforated ulcer--something you'd rarely die from in this day and age. So, without looking into the facts, Quincy runs about half-cocked making wild accusations against the dead lady's doctor. These wild accusations appear to lead to the surviving husband filing suit against this doctor--and it's a great case of Quincy opening his big, fat mouth! Later, when Quincy finds out that a LADY doctor is the attending physician (one that he was really lusting after earlier in the episode), Quincy changes his tone completely--and spends the rest of the film trying to prove the doctor was innocent!! This hypocrisy and sexism really make it hard to like Quincy in this one--and I am surprised that his part was written this way. Because he was so inconsistent and never apologized for creating a lynch-mob mentality, I found this one a less than stellar episode. The writing just wasn't up to snuff here.