Stiff

Episode aired May 24, 2000
TV-14
1h

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7.6/10

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A wealthy middle-aged woman is in a coma after an apparent prescription drug overdose. The incident is tied to a twisted sexual practice involving the husband, but her daughter also turns ou... Read allA wealthy middle-aged woman is in a coma after an apparent prescription drug overdose. The incident is tied to a twisted sexual practice involving the husband, but her daughter also turns out to have a financial motive.A wealthy middle-aged woman is in a coma after an apparent prescription drug overdose. The incident is tied to a twisted sexual practice involving the husband, but her daughter also turns out to have a financial motive.

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Trivia
This episode appears to be loosely based on the Claus von Bülow case. In 1982 von Bülow was arrested and convicted of the attempted murder of his wife, Martha Sunny von Bulow, an heiress worth $75 million in 1979. von Bülow was accused of injecting his wife with an overdose of insulin, which put her in a coma. He appealed and was then acquitted of the charge. Sunny von Bülow recovered from the first coma but then went into a second, irreversible coma in 1980 until her death in 2008. Claus von Bülow died in 2019 at the age of 92.

Goofs
Ed Green tells Briscoe that Moore would use "a shot of sucrose" to revive his wife from her hypoglycemic coma. Sucrose would not work given by injection - it would have to be glucose.