Episode
Diagnosis: Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Overview
Dr. Mark Sloan tries to save one of his former students, a schizophrenic, from a murder charge, but is challenged by the man's seemingly incoherent babbling.
Details
- Series
- Diagnosis: Murder
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2000-11-02
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
By Reason of Insanity is Episode 4 in Season 8 of Diagnosis: Murder. It aired on 2000-11-02. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: Sleight-of-Hand
A body found on the beach turns out to be Jim, the hospital janitor, but when his twin brother Jeff shows up to identify the body, Mark and Steve become suspicious.
Episode 5: The Patient Detective
Steve nearly dies in a car accident and think a murder happens. No one believes him.
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Episode 2: Blind Man's Bluff
Young woman is in a car accident and goes blind, Mark must figure out who committed the murder.
Episode 6: The Cradle Will Rock
A nurse's husband is murdered and a teen who works at the hospital and who also had a torrid love affair with the nurse is the prime suspect, but Mark isn't convinced that the young man is the killer.
Episode 1: Death By Design
Mark's office decorator is murdered.
Episode 7: Hot House
An abusive man who, along with four other people, was a contestant on a reality show is murdered while living in a house that is monitored 24 hours a day. After the killing, Mark enters the house as the man's replacement to see if he can uncover what happened.
Episode 8: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die
Mark goes after a man who killed a groom on his wedding day.
Episode 9: Confession
Dr. Mark Sloan, Lt. Steve Sloan and Dr. Amanda Bentley become involved when a priest is accused of murdering an old friend.
Episode 10: Playing God
Dr. Mark Sloan seeks the murderer who killed a med student, drained his blood, and stored him in the Community General morgue.
Episode 11: Less Than Zero
An actress with an eating disorder dies from an apparent heart attack. Mark believes her nutritionist murdered her.
Episode 12: Sins Of The Father (1)
A young woman is assassinated while Dr. Mark Sloan is examining her, setting off an investigation that plunges Mark into dark memories of his own childhood.
Episode 13: Sins Of The Father (2)
Mark must find out why his dad left him as a child.