Law & Order1990

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
Cause of death, acute pulmonary edema. A direct result of the flu.

Detective Ed Green:
So why'd you call us here?

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
His parents said he got a flu shot about a month ago, so I pulled his pediatrician's chart. According to the records, he was vaccinated, but when I ran blood titers, he had no antibodies.

Detective Joe Fontana:
And he should have had?

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
If he'd been immunized, absolutely.

Detective Ed Green:
I still don't get why we're here.

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
Well, there have been a lot of flu-related deaths in the past few weeks. I went through the autopsy records and found half a dozen other victims who had also supposedly been vaccinated but had no antibodies.

Detective Joe Fontana:
Supposedly?

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
These people were not injected with the flu vaccine. They couldn't have been.

Detective Ed Green:
It wasn't just a bad batch of the vaccine?

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
Even with an expired or a contaminated vaccine, there'd still be antibodies.

Detective Ed Green:
So if it wasn't the vaccine, what were they injected with?

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
Good question. Now, there's no sign of anything toxic, so it has to be something neutral. Sterile saline solution, maybe.

Detective Joe Fontana:
So these people all thought they were getting vaccinated. They weren't, and get the flu anyway and it killed 'em?

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
Exactly.

Detective Joe Fontana:
[to Green] We could be looking at a whole bunch of homicides here.

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers:
That's why I called you.