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And this is a beaut.
Cause of death?
DOCTOR: Unknown so far.
Mr. Mingo did not die of natural causes.
He did not die of a disease of the nervous system.
And he did not die of cerebrovascular accident.
He is dead?
Oh, yes, quite.
He suffocated.
Now let me show you something.
I did a workup on the sample of his blood.
The slide on the left is a sample of normal blood.
Healthy, type A. Not Mingo's. Same type.
The slide on the right is Mingo's.
DOC: Notice anything?
Those particles.
Hexagonal?
That's right.
Amazing thing. It's foreign matter.
An alkaloid. Unusual.
Have you identified it yet?
Not specifically.
But I do know that it's a-- An ammonium
derivative of some kind.
You're saying he was poisoned?
In effect, yes.
And that this poison causes paralysis
and death by suffocation?
That's right.
Was there any of the stuff
in his stomach?
No.
If you're thinking that it might have been
ingested with food or drink,
negative.
In the blood only.
How could it get there?
That's what's so interesting.
I looked over his body quite carefully.
There are no wounds, no skin abrasions,
no means of entry.
Look, doc, that poison is in Mingo.
He didn't swallow it. It had to get in somehow.
Right.
At least you know now
that it was definitely ***.
Or suicide, cause unknown.
Doc, that's not good enough.
We need to know what the poison was,
we need to know how it got into his system,
and we need to know fast.
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