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The Good Death is the 23rd case of the 4th season of the series and is the 92nd overall.
Description[]
When a nurse confesses to six incidents of mercy killing, the team reopens the 1998 case of a terminally ill man who died while under the care of the nurse, and discovers he had made many enemies throughout his career.
Synopsis[]
Flashback to May 8, 1998
Jay Dratton and Phil Wingeter are walking down a white hallway to a conference room. Phil notices Jay feeling dizzy and asks if he's experiencing another headache, but Jay claims that it's nothing. As they enter the meeting boardroom, Harvey Sawyer immediately confronts Jay and wonders what's going on, as he needs to board a plane to Houston. Jay interrupts and mentions he came to Harvey 15 years ago for a job, and asks if the latter remembers what he said when turning Jay away. Harvey brushes off that he doesn't have time for this, but Jay orders him to sit down as he tries to leave. When Harvey sits back down, Jay recounts to everyone in the boardroom that Harvey dismissed him as "a state college punk". Harvey asks what is Jay's point, and Jay reveals that the board of Harvey's company accepted his offer last night, much to Harvey's shock, as he was unaware of such a deal. Jay now owns 51% of the shares in Harvey's company, making him the new boss, and proceeds to fire Harvey on the spot. As Jay speaks to the rest of the board, his wife Caroline arrives and waits for him outside while peeking in on the meeting. Jay also terminates the other members of Harvey's team, but is interrupted by a mysterious vision of a seagull and a woman on the beach inside the boardroom. The board members are confused and Phil concernedly asks if Jay is okay. Jay then sees Caroline outside, signaling for him to come talk to her. Jay briefly excuses himself and asks Caroline why she's here. She asks if Jay was ever going to call home, to which he retorts that he was busy "paying for [her] next trip to Cabo". Knowing Jay hasn't called Dr. Lason yet about his test results, Caroline reveals that she already called him, warning her husband "it was the worst", much to Jay's surprise.
The afternoon of June 28, 1998, Jay is on his deathbed in Jackson Hospital, inside a white patient ward with oxygen and several life support apparatus attached to him. A note with "LOUISE" written on it is next to him. A disturbing scene is shown with someone holding a syringe and injecting it into Jay's dextrose, which leads to his death. Meanwhile, a vision of a seagull, a beach view, and some shadow of a woman's silhouette looking on the horizon is seen before the perpetrator left the room. The doctor signs Jay's death certificate, writing "Glioblastoma, Malignant Brain Tumor" as the cause.
Back to Present Day
Miller asked Valens about his conflict with A.D.A. Thomas, as they became the topic of their entire department. They met up with Lt. Stillman later on to report about Larry Kenick (a.k.a. "The Angel of Death"), who's responsible for six mercy killings via morphine at Jackson Hospital over the course of a decade. As they find this one out, they suspected him again as possibly, killing Jay as well, making him his 7th patient that he mercilly killed, as at that time, he was his nurse.
Meanwhile, Det. Rush and her mom have an argument, about Ellen's drinking habit and her frequent absence at her home, as she learned that she was drinking again, despite the doctor's warning to her in the past episode. Lilly tried to persuade her mother to stay at the house, even offering that she would stay for a while, but her mom was really eager to kill herself. Pissed off, Rush finally let go of her mom.
Back at the station, the team starts to reopen Jay's case again, as they are trying to track back on his case, and to find proof if someone killed him that time, or it was really the nurse responsible for his death.
Valens and Rush later on paid a visit to Larry, asking him about Jay Dratton's death. They learned from Larry that he was indeed his nurse at that time when Jay was first being hospitalized, but he rejected the accusation that he was the one who killed him, but he admired Jay's determination the first time he met him at the hospital.
Flashback - The doctor told Jay about his medical results, however Jay dejects the doctors explanation and told him that he must tell it like it is. The doctor rephrased his first announcement and told him that he has a tennis ball-size tumor on the back of his head. Jay however determined to beat his illness, as he suggest that it must be removed by any forms of surgery or any other medical operations. The doctor however announced that it is impossible to survive the operation and it is not an option as the cancer cells already spread to his spine, and gave him a 3 months to live. His wife, Caroline Dratton asked the doctor what they can expect for the next 3 months, and the doctor said it will be possible that he will experience short-term memory loss, confusion, or hallucinations. Jay however dismissed all of the doctor claims and laughed about it as for him, it sounded like the doctor told him to give up already, and started to insult his own doctor himself as he was challenging his own illness and he's determined to beat it. The doctor told him that he doesn't mean to give up his hope, but Jay shrugs it and requested the doctor to put him through the most aggressive treatment possible. The doctor still dejected his request then Jay left in dissapointment, only to be stopped by his wife. The couple argued about things, even Caroline's only caring for her own need, but Jay's not knowing that she was only concern for him. As Jay berated his wife too much, Caroline had enough of his bad attitude and wishing him that maybe the cancer wasn't hurtful enough for him, so she hoped that it will be hurtful for Jay, then left him.
Present - The detectives done taking Larry's statement, as Scotty only told him that his alibi was "suck". Later on, Caroline called on by the detectives to be questioned about her husband's death.
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Victim's File[]
| Identity | Name of the Victim | Age | Occupation | Last Seen | Perpetrator (Motive) | Cause of death | Portrayer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1998  1985 |
Jay Dratton | 40 | General Manager | Jackson Hospital (bedridden) | Caroline Dratton (no motive, but assisting Jay on his deathbed) | Euthanized to death by injecting morphine (as a request by himself) | Anthony Starke |
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Kathryn Morris as Lilly Rush
- Danny Pino as Scotty Valens
- John Finn as John Stillman
- Jeremy Ratchford as Nick Vera
- Thom Barry as Will Jeffries
- Tracie Thoms as Kat Miller
Guest Cast[]
- Anthony Starke as Jay Dratton
- Lynda Boyd as Caroline Dratton
- Justina Machado as Amelia Flores
- Marcus Giamatti as Larry Kenick
- Trent Gill as Tommy Dratton (1998)
- Aaron Lustig as Dr. Lason
- Ned Vaughn as Phil Wingeter
- Reston Williams as Tommy Dratton (2007)
And[]
Co-Starring[]
- Evan Brenner as Tommy Dratton (1985)
- John Sterling Carter as Harvey Sawyer
- Susie Ruckle as Young Ellen Rush (scenes deleted)
- Madison Meyer as Young Lilly Rush (scenes deleted)
Notes[]
- This episode uses some elements from the decline of Howard Hughes.
- This episode, alongside "Late Returns", "Torn", and "Justice", was one of the only episodes of the entire series run with no one shown being arrested.
- It's also one of the episodes where the murder was committed at the request of the victim.
Music[]
