- The murder of a doctor who treats cancer patients hits close to home for Brenda and gets her in hot water with Pope.
- Lt. Gabriel and his girlfriend Ann Mason are en-route to a crime scene after Gabriel gets called away from church services. Ann would rather wait in the car than face a brunch with Gabriel's family without him. After some coercing, Ann agrees to go with him to the scene of the crime.
Everything is business as usual at the crime scene except for the curious glances Ann receives from the Major Crimes team. The murder victim is Dr. Christopher Brady, an oncologist who specialized in stomach cancers. His office is shared with his business partner, Dr. Stephen Parr, who treats cancers of the head and neck.
Dr. Parr's specialty hits close to home for Brenda because of her father's thyroid cancer. She tells Gabriel that her father is still struggling and stashes a pamphlet on thyroid cancer into her purse. Gabriel introduces Ann to Brenda, which takes Brenda by surprise.
As the team examines the crime scene, they determine that Dr. Brady was beaten and then strangled with I.V. tubing. Dr. Brady's medicine supply has been all but cleaned out of several chemotherapy drugs as well as the opiate painkillers.
Dr. Parr arrives and insists that the killer must have been one of the homeless drug addicts that his partner treated out of pity. He's concerned about the missing medication because several patients will need their treatment by the following day. Dr. Parr confirms that Dr. Brady's last appointment was with Wally Sanders, a wholesale drug supplier.
Brenda asks Dr. Parr for a patient list but Ann interrupts that it would be a HIPPA violation. The Major Crimes team is not enthused that Gabriel's girlfriend is studying to become a lawyer and Brenda gets them both to leave the room.
Dr. Parr becomes furious that Major Crimes plans to keep his office closed. He makes a snide comment about Brenda not caring about people with cancer; she walks out on him without reply. Parr still refuses to hand over a list of people who entered the office the day of the murder.
At the Major Crimes office, Brenda and Lt. Sanchez interview Lori Shaw - a nurse recently fired from Dr. Brady's office. She reveals that she found some discrepancies in Dr. Brady's prescription orders and billing practices. He was scamming Medicare by ordering prescriptions for patients that didn't exist.
Chief Pope, Commander Taylor, Captain Raydor, and Brenda discuss the problem with Dr. Parr's office. Pope orders Brenda to release Parr's office because of the threat of lawsuits. After Pope storms off, Taylor lets Brenda know that he didn't tell Parr about the office release so that she can still have the upper hand in interrogation. She thanks him for the help.
On Pope's orders, Captain Raydor is now required to inform the D.A. whenever Major Crimes begins a homicide case. Pope is on the verge of another promotion and keeps throwing road blocks in Brenda's way to keep her from making him look bad. Raydor has already tied up the D.A.'s office for at least another day to buy Brenda some time. Brenda offers Raydor her thanks as well.
Wally Sanders, the drug supplier, arrives for an interview. Sanders sells discounted chemotherapy drugs and Dr. Brady would pass along the discount to his patients while Dr. Parr did not. He stopped selling to Parr because of it.
Dr. Parr won't budge on giving Brenda a list of people who entered his office the day of the murder. Brenda asks Ann to advise Parr on the legality of releasing the names. Ann sides with Brenda and, after some more arguing, Parr finally gives up the names.
Raydor accidentally interrupts Gabriel and Ann's goodbye kiss. Gabriel admits that he and Ann are living together; he doesn't want anyone else at work to know because of their distaste for lawyers. Raydor reveals that she used to be married to a lawyer but they separated 20 years ago because of his problems with drinking and gambling.
Rita Lee, one of Dr. Brady's cancer patients, arrives to sign a waiver so that they can read her medical records. Dr. Parr tells Brenda that he is suspicious of the cancer treatment Rita Lee received. She had a treatment the night before but is not showing any of the usual side effects of chemo.
Dr. Morales makes a horrible discovery after Major Crimes brings him in to read the medical records. Dr. Brady had been withholding chemotherapy from all of his patients.
Fritz discovers that, while Brady was ordering drugs for nonexistent patients, he still paid for the medication out of his own pocket. Brady bought chemotherapy drugs which he deliberately withheld from his patients. The next morning, Brenda convinces her mother to bring her father out to Los Angeles so that he can see a specialist. The Brady case has Brenda worried about how her father's treatment is being handled. Brenda also admits to Fritz that he was right not to trust Pope. She's frustrated with his arrogance and his willingness to sell her out for his own gain.
In the interview room, Dr. Parr confesses that he discovered a pattern in his patients. The chemo didn't work as it should have and many more patients died than usual. He never reported his concerns for fear of lawsuit. Both he and Dr. Brady were suspicious that the drugs Wally Sanders supplied were fake. Dr. Brady ordered chemotherapy drugs that he withheld because he was planning to test if they were real.
With some chemo drugs costing $10,000 per dose, Dr. Parr believes Sanders could be making millions by selling fake drugs to nearly 40 oncologists in cities throughout the state.
The Major Crimes team apprehends Wally Sanders at a doctor's office. Dr. Morales does an on-the-spot analysis of the drugs Sanders intended to sell and proves that the "drugs" are nothing but salt water.
Brenda and Lt. Tao press Wally Sanders for a confession. They found his equipment including over 50 gallons of saline, thousands of glass vials, and falsified drug labels. He also has 6 million dollars in an account that the federal government is going to investigate. They also confront him with the carrying case he bought suspiciously soon after the murder. Sanders smashed Dr. Brady's head in with the other case and then strangled him with an I.V. tube.
Sanders defends his actions by claiming that chemotherapy is the true poison. He took revenge against the doctors by faking the medication and "sparing" their patients the pain and suffering that chemotherapy causes.
Brenda nearly loses her composure during the interview as she asks Sanders how many more innocent people would have to die so that he could make an even more obscene amount of money.
Dr. Parr visits Brenda's office upon her request. She researched him and found that he really is one of the top oncologists in the country. Despite her disapproval in his silence regarding Sanders, Brenda asks Dr. Parr for an appointment for her father. "I'm not looking for a decent human being. I'm looking for a great doctor and...you're it."
Dr. Parr declines but Brenda makes an impassioned, tearful plea. Her father isn't recovering despite the cancer being gone. She's afraid he might die and can't bear to lose him. Dr. Parr promises her a 3-o'clock appointment the following day.
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