Our favorite shouty (punk-music-hating, too) forensic pathologist has managed to take an old thighbone found in a ditch, and uncovered enough evidence of murder that the killer is now holding Quincy at gunpoint, working himself up to kill the doc, after leaving a couple of other folks seriously injured:
Quincy: You kill me and it’ll be life in jail for you.
Killer: It is already.
Quincy: No, that’s what I’m trying to tell you. The statute of limitations ran out on the burglary a long time ago.
K: How about Charley? Doesn’t run out on murder.
Q: Well, it was self defense, wasn’t it?
K: How’d you know about that?
Q: From the angle of the bullet wound on the thigh bone. You see, it was straight down. Straight downward. It would’ve been impossible for anybody else to inflict that wound.
Q: I figured you and Trout were struggling for the gun while he held it.
K: We pulled off a $50,000 robbery. And the jerk says he wants to give all the loot to his old man to pay off the farm. You were right. He was ready to shoot me. I grabbed him, one accidentally
went off into his thigh.But he wouldn’t give up. Another one got him in the heart.
Q: I’ll testify to self-defense.
K: That doesn’t take care of the kid, the kid and the old lady.
Q: There’s nothing to take care of. They’re fine.
I only said they were dead to get you off their tail.
K: Bull.
Q: No. Check with L.A. General.
You’ll see they’re fine.
But I’m not going to lie to you, Gideon.
You’ll be charged with assault with intent to kill.
That’s 1 to 14 years.
K: That’s a long time.
Q: Yes, it is. But it’s not forever. You kill me and it will be.
Quincy’s lying or mistaken, right? Two accomplices fight after a robbery and one dies? Self-defense doesn’t enter into, right? That’s got to be felony murder, and even if it’s some lesser degree of homicide, the statute of limitations doesn’t start until the murder is discovered? Or am I wrong about that?
P.S. Neither Q or K mention the other crime recently committed - attempted rape (apparently because the killer wanted to disrupt the investigation - the victim was one of Quincy’s students who was working on the “hey, we found this old bone” project).