Quincy M.E.: The Final Gift starts as two old Korean war buddies of Quincy (Jack Klugman) who co-own 'California Air' a small plane business take off on a business flight. On route the plane develops a problem & they are forced to crash land, Max Carson (Tom Troupe) is badly cut & needs medical help. Luckily a local man named Pete (James Whitworth) saw the plane crash & offers assistance to Max & his partner Charlie Barnes (Joseph Campanella). Pete drives them to the local doctor where Max is given an emergency transfusion of Charlie's blood. Later at Hospital & Max suddenly & mysterious dies, Quincy says he will do the autopsy himself & finds that Max died from arsenic poisoning. Suspecting foul play Quincy sets out to discover the truth...
Episode 20 from season 5 this Quincy story was directed by Georg Fenady & is a pretty fun fifty odd minutes that fans of the show should like. The plot here in The Final Gift is quite good although I wish the makers hadn't made what was going on so bleedin obvious, every time Charlie is given a cup of coffee there's a great big close-up on the mug just so we know that he is being given lots of coffee that is laced with arsenic. A bit of subtlety might have been nice, the plot is still solid though & it will probably keep you guessing until the end, hell I'd have put my mortgage on that secretary having something to do with it. As usual it is proved that knowing Los Angeles coroner Quincy can be very bad for your health as yet another one of his friends/acquaintances dies, the guy is just a jinx. At fifty odd minutes The Final Gift moves along at a good pace & there's a nice irony in the ending as the killer only ended up killing themself & if the killer hadn't tried to kill his victim they wouldn't be dead.
The budget here couldn't stretch to the plane crash so it happens off screen, I would have thought it would have been too dangerous to do in reality anyway. Joseph Campanella makes the second of his four guest appearances on Quincy playing different character's in all of them while Edward Grover makes the fifth appearance of his eight on the show. The acting is pretty good all round with Klugman again shining as usual.
The Final Gift is a good solid Quincy murder mystery, while it's nothing that original it's a fun episode fans of the show should enjoy as well as armchair detectives everywhere.
Episode 20 from season 5 this Quincy story was directed by Georg Fenady & is a pretty fun fifty odd minutes that fans of the show should like. The plot here in The Final Gift is quite good although I wish the makers hadn't made what was going on so bleedin obvious, every time Charlie is given a cup of coffee there's a great big close-up on the mug just so we know that he is being given lots of coffee that is laced with arsenic. A bit of subtlety might have been nice, the plot is still solid though & it will probably keep you guessing until the end, hell I'd have put my mortgage on that secretary having something to do with it. As usual it is proved that knowing Los Angeles coroner Quincy can be very bad for your health as yet another one of his friends/acquaintances dies, the guy is just a jinx. At fifty odd minutes The Final Gift moves along at a good pace & there's a nice irony in the ending as the killer only ended up killing themself & if the killer hadn't tried to kill his victim they wouldn't be dead.
The budget here couldn't stretch to the plane crash so it happens off screen, I would have thought it would have been too dangerous to do in reality anyway. Joseph Campanella makes the second of his four guest appearances on Quincy playing different character's in all of them while Edward Grover makes the fifth appearance of his eight on the show. The acting is pretty good all round with Klugman again shining as usual.
The Final Gift is a good solid Quincy murder mystery, while it's nothing that original it's a fun episode fans of the show should enjoy as well as armchair detectives everywhere.
