Wait a minute–how did I forget Liv Moore?
Quincy without a doubt.
Although I have to give some love to Rodgers (with a “d” - she once used it as evidence in a case where someone had forged her signature).
Since I already mentioned Dr. Julia Ogden in the other thread and some sort of comment feels apt, I’ll got with my number 2 favorite: Dr. Joanne Webster played by Jane Curtin on Unforgettable. A remarkably normal and sane person. Good wisdom dispensed to others. A far cry from Prymatt Conehead.
The quirky medical examiner seems a bit of a trope. Paul Ritter does a nice job in the series he is in. No Offence and something else. I always feel cheated when the ME plays it straight.
That was Cutter trying to convince a defendant to plead. A “preliminary” ME’s report was “leaked” to the defense which suggested guilt could be proved. Rodgers was all upset with Cutter (I have a D in my name!) but he never intended to put it in evidence. Anyway, it was an issue for Dr. Rogers (whoever he was).
Pauley Perrette from NCIS. Carla Gallo from Bones. Liz Vassey from CSI (mostly due to the Tick connection)
ETA: Not strictly a ME, but I’ll give a honorable mention to Ashley Johnson on Blindspot (we better find out Patterson’s first name)
Brian
Ella Lopez from Lucifer. Crime scene banter over dead bodies plus an interesting dark side that includes being banned from Vegas casinos for card counting and experience with car theft in her youth.
Car theft, “it’s not fun if you don’t drive 'em really, really fast.”
In a perfect world there would be a fan site for Dr. Rodgers called “Free Javelins”.
The L&O franchise ran for so long (and still is) that there are some fascinating Easter eggs like you mentioned. I saw an episode recently where Lt. Van Buren gets a call and we only hear her side of the conversation; but it’s apparent that she’s talking to an old friend. She says she’ll try to make it, but she’s awfully busy. It turns out to be Rey Curtis, in town for his wife’s funeral. I read somewhere that Lennie’s death was mentioned three times within the franchise, once by each of his three former partners. And I know there’s a reference somewhere to him going to the opera with Rodgers, but I don’t think I’ve seen it.
In one episode, Kate asks Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was younger, and Gibbs responded with a grin, “Ilya Kuryakin.”
'nuff said
**Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh **(Jill Hennessy) in Crossing Jordan. Who knew she was inside reserved, controlled Claire Kincaid?
Related to post but not to thread topic: In an episode of Endeavour(set in the 1960s), Morse and Thursday are talking to a potential suspect, and the man’s wife comes into the room and says, “It’s Lane from SCDP on the phone.” The man goes off to take the call. That’s a reference to Englishman Lane Pryce, a partner in Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the American ad agency that Mad Men is all about. [/digression]
She’s my absolute favorite, with “Ducky” Mallard coming in a close second.
Jackmannii is my favorite fictional pathologist.
Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Dr. John Watson
Neither should need further explanation.
It’s Criminal Intent, Dramma Giocoso, Season 5, with Logan and Barek. Logan arches his eyebrows in surprise when Rodgers says that.
The “free javelins” episode also has this exchange:
Ed Green: What's that on your phone? Brains?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: It's egg salad, maybe.
Ed Green: You got another phone?
Another Quincy fan here. Also, sorry if I missed it but I thought I’d see some love for BD Wong’s Dr. Huang on L&O SVU.
I thought he was a shrink, not an ME.
D’oh!:smack: You are absolutely right, TLou.
He was a great character. I really liked him.