MCBRIDE 4: THE DOCTOR IS OUT REALLY

When a Los Angeles investigator offers his sleuthing detective skills to a friend-in-need, the road to a clean resolution delivers more twists than the Hollywood Hills—especially when the victim dies twice…

Despondent and enraged over losing custody of his son, Harry Evans (Stephen Tobolowsky, Basic Instinct) breaks into the home of George Prescott (Richard Fancy, Moonlight Mile), the therapist who testified against him at the custody hearing. Armed with a gun, Harry plans to settle the score. What happens next is a story only a good friend could possibly swallow. Fortunately, the friend is investigator McBride (Emmy winner John Larroquette, The John Larroquette Show). According to Harry, he ranted and raved in the dark, finally lost his nerve, tripped and accidentally shot Prescott in the chest, and tossed the weapon. It’s a wild story that gets even wilder when Prescott’s corpse mysteriously disappears from his home and winds up at Angel of Mercy Hospital, transported by an ambulance conveniently cruising Prescott’s upscale neighbourhood. Mcbride has a theory: Prescott was already murdered—poisoned to death by a monocaine cocktail—when Harry shot him. Why—and by whom—is another story.

Considering how unpopular Prescott was, there’s a surfeit of suspects—all of them colleagues who had a date with the doctor and good reason to do him in: Jessica Taylor (Gigi Rice, A Night at the Roxbury), a jealous schemer who was embroiled in an affair with Prescott, as well as with one of her own patients; Leo Eckert (David Bowe, Cheaper by the Dozen), who lost out on his chance to run a major clinic due to Prescott’s backstabbing; Jacob Newman (Tim Conlon, Angels in the Outfield) who once accused the victim of stealing his research and vowed that he’d make him pay; and Daphne Blake (Emmy nominee Sydney Penny, All My Children), Prescott’s rising young protégé—and vulnerable victim of his predatory advances. They all had an opportunity, they all had a motive, and they all have a foolproof alibi. But when Prescott’s body disappears once again—and a strangely determined hospital intern insists Prescott might be narcoleptic — McBride wonders what fresh new twist this case can possibly take—and which head case from the therapist’s past is a killer.

In this inventively deceptive episode, directed by John Larroquette himself, four revelatory flashbacks provide investigator McBride with four possible theories. But don’t believe everything you see.