Quincy helps an out of town medical examiner deal with a pair of political scandals involving the death of children of influential persons by tainted drugs and the unsafe condition at a mill which is the main economic force in the town.
Sam tries to persuade the authorities to take notice of a new process he has developed to help track down killers. His tooth print process shows that the man the police have as their suspect in a rape case is not the man who did it.
A lawyer, who also was a small time coke dealer, is murdered by crooks who inject him with a lethal dose of cocaine. The killers try to make it look like an accident by putting him in his car and having it drive off the road and explode.
A track coach comes under fire when his star athlete dies after a grueling, training session. Quincy must determine if the death was from natural causes, or negligent homicide.
When Bubonic Plague strikes a Native American reservation, Quincy must find the source of the outbreak before the opening of a prestigious new golf course puts more lives in jeopardy.
When the body of an airline stewardess is found with her stomach cut open, Quincy's investigation runs into interference from Internal Affairs, who is certain that a police officer is involved in the drug smuggling operation.
When the body of a missing young girl shows up in a dumpster, Quincy's investigation takes him into the world of child molestation and pornography. Can he save the girl's sister before an insidious predator claims another victim?
A vigilante group gets in a shoot-out with a killer resulting in the death of an innocent bystander and Quincy uses all of the coroner's office resources to find out what exactly happened and who was responsible.