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spectrophotometer readings.
Okay. The alkaloid we found in Mingo's blo.
No wonder we couldn't break it down.
It never did show up in the routine blood tests.
You'd have to be looking for this baby to find it.
Anyway...it's an alkaloid
of quaternary ammonium compounds,
consisting of N-methylpyridinium ho--
Doc. English, please.
Works like curare, the South American poison.
Short-circuits right here at the myoneural junction.
The nerve signal is stopped there,
paralyzing the autonomic nervous system,
including the muscles that control breathing.
The victim suffocates.
Like curare? So they were poisoned.
How?
DOC: Don't know yet.
Meanwhile, there is something else.
Akamai's pillowcase. It was damp with seawater.
Even though he hadn't been swimming?
Right. And another thing.
Once I found that, I went back and checked.
The note that Mingo got
when he was opening his
presents and keeled over?
It checked out same as the pillowcase.
Seawater.
That note was damp with seawater too.
What did I tell you? I knew there was a connecti.
Same day, same house.
Dead fish, dead men.
Seawater and Akamai.
Seawater and Mingo.
DANNO: Kono.
It keeps coming back.
That it does.
Danno, get me some answers.
What kills people and fish,
and lives in the sea?
MAN: What kills...fish and people
and lives in the sea?