Delany plays Dr. Megan Hunt, a former genius neurosurgeon (which we can believe easier than McDreamy being one) who was injured in a car accident four years ago, has recurring numbness in her hand and is now working as a medical examiner in Philadelphia. As she quaintly puts it, she can't kill dead people. She's abrasive and seems to lack any real understanding of how humans interact or how to maintain relationships with friends or family. You know, the usual. Basically, she just pushes through the system in order to solve the deaths of her "patients" without any concern about authority or due process or whatnot and often ends up solving the cases herself, much to the chagrin of the actual detectives.

She's partnered with Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop), a fairly easy-on-the-eyes ex-cop turned medical investigator who we know very little about aside from the fact that he seems to tolerate Megan and that the two have some chemistry between them. Detectives Morris (John Carroll Lynch) and Baker (Sonja Sohn) were assigned to her for the case in the series premiere and they got a first-hand look at how she operates, much to their chagrin. She tagged along with them to interrogate potential suspects in her rude and to-the-point manner. She said she only cares about solving their deaths because she feels guilty about killing someone, and so she does so at any costs. And while I would like to quibble about her going to talk to the suspects in their places of work and blatantly accusing them of murder, I've gotten used to Castle doing the same thing and he's even less qualified to be around crime scenes.

Hunt's attitude also doesn't go over well with Deputy Chief Brumfield (Windell D. Middlebrooks) or Chief Murphy (Jeri Ryan), who only tolerate her running expensive (and often unnecessary) tests, monopolizing resources and ignoring warrants because she's so brilliant. And in case you didn't know she was a genius, she has a bunch of younger colleagues who constantly come to her for advice on their cases. One of them involved lupus, and though I've learned from House that it's almost never lupus, this time it actually was. And she even solves cases like House, with off-handed comments about allergies or whatever prompting some amazing diagnosis.

On the personal side, Megan's estranged from her 12-year-old daughter because she used to be a crazy workaholic surgeon and now she's just a cranky workaholic M.E. So Megan's ex doesn't really want her around her kid all that much, but she finds a way to make this work, so we can see that she has feelings and that she's not just a robot.

As I said, the show is pretty derivative, but it does a pretty good job of execution, so it's tolerable. I wouldn't say it's must-see TV, but I'd much rather watch this than the newly revamped Law & Order: Los Angeles any day of the week.

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