Coroner (2019) s04e06 Episode Script

I think you have a tapeworm that may have caused cysts in your brain.
It would make sense on why you're violent.
I mean, this runs in your family.
- No, it doesn't make sense.
- Yes, it could! Because it could be from the wild pigs that you ate, - or it could be in the sausage - I'm a vegetarian, I don't eat sausage, I don't eat meat! It's Aaron that had the fits, it's him.
He did this, and he let you believe that it was you! Malik, Cassidy, Cassidy, Malik.
Hello.
I've been doing this amazing life coach thing now.
You really do have a passionate side.
- That surprises you? - I've missed you.
Idiot! Jenny, you need to leave right now.
No, I'm not leaving him like this! - Jennifer, please, now.
Ow! - Peggy, stop! I'm just - What is this? - A few nights ago Gordon was having a hallucination, and he thought I was someone else, and he grabbed me.
My God, what's happening? You got this? I'm rolling, Jah-kson! Woo hoo hoo! Geee! Oh, what's that, Jah? Jah! Chill, man, what are you playin' at? Integrity over dollars.
No owners, 'cause no one owns us.
Power to people.
Bam! Post that! Yo, what are you dealing with, Jah? You can't post that.
- Nah, this is who I am.
- Don't walk away! Hey.
What are you doing out here so early? Oh, just thinking.
While I still can.
Come on, Detective, you got this! Ah! Ow! You know I was letting you win, right? I thought you were a legend, hey? Yeah, yeah, I was letting you win.
Ha! This hill kicked your ass.
Now, let's not forget, I, I had back surgery like, - a few months ago.
- Yeah, we all got our stuff.
Oh yeah? What trauma have you endured? Well, I've seen the inside of an ER.
Got brought back to life after I almost drowned.
What? Where? In the bathtub.
- What? Wh - It's nothing.
It what? Things weren't good.
I found pills that helped me feel better.
Helped me wake up, helped me sleep.
No.
When? Wait.
It doesn't matter, okay? I'm so sorry you had to go through that, I had no idea.
You're the first person I've told, outside my support group.
Well, I'm glad you found someone to talk to about it, because we were never good at talking about things - with each other.
- Yeah.
Opening up isn't something that comes easy.
It did just now.
Agh.
Hmm.
Sorry.
McAvoy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
All right, I'll be right there.
Duty calls.
Yeah.
I'll make it up to you.
See if you can keep up next time.
- Hi.
- Dr.
Jenny Cooper? You have to come with me.
Hey, got here as soon as I could.
It's all good, I've got the crime scene locked down.
Victim is male, 19, 20 years old, and well, the legs.
Uh Are those pieces of a broken baseball bat? Yeah, well, it would explain how his legs got like that.
Damn.
What do you mean I'm being apprehended on a material witness warrant? - Where are you taking my daughter?! - Dad, it's okay.
- I didn't get a subpoena.
- Oh, actually, yeah.
No, some stuff did come while you were up north.
And there was some court stuff in there.
Okay, it's okay, Dad.
I know.
It's okay.
- I signed for it.
- All we know is you failed - show up for court.
- Officer, my father has dementia, I cannot leave him here alone.
No, you can, because your mother's here, I'm all right.
You know, Dad, let's uh, let's make a day of it.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Great.
- Come on, sir.
Liam.
Looks like a large ring was ripped from this finger.
Hmm.
Robbery gone wrong? Time will tell.
- You find his cell phone? - No.
Cross U? Wait, I recognize this kid.
It's Chisholm Uh, Jalil Chisholm, he's been all over the news lately.
Declared for the draft after his freshman year.
He was gonna go top ten.
Looks like the car was rented to Jalil by "The Gack Agency.
" Well, his agent should be able to get us in touch - with his next of kin.
- Yeah.
Have-have you heard from Jenny yet? You're in Courtroom A.
Wait here.
Cheery fellow.
- Dr.
Jenny Cooper? - Hi.
Malou Dan.
Defence attorney.
Thank you for coming out and uh helping with my client's case.
- Helping? - Aaron Browning, you're a key witness in Aaron's pre-trial hearing.
You want me to testify on behalf of the man - who killed my boyfriend?! - Aaron Browning's not the one who fatally injured Liam Bouchard.
- Okay, Dad, we're going.
- You're the one that said - it wasn't Aaron's fault.
- I never said that.
You told Aaron's brother Caleb that tapeworm cysts in the frontal lobe of the brain can cause violent behaviour.
No, I said that based on the pathology of his father and his surrogate sister, I never diagnosed Aaron.
I only want you to say what you said to Aaron's brother.
He just ID'd the body.
Thank you for waiting, Mr.
Chisholm.
Detective McAvoy is here to speak to you about Jalil.
Hi, pleasure to meet you.
Sorry for your loss.
Why can't anybody tell me what happened to my son? Trust me, I'm trying to get you those answers.
But right now I need your help.
Did Jalil tell anybody where he'd be shooting hoops last night? He kept it quiet that he was home.
Especially since he just declared for the draft.
Do you know why he came home suddenly? He said he wanted to talk to the family about some big decision that he'd made.
But then he He didn't get a chance to tell you what it was.
Here you go, Mr.
Chisholm.
Now, you let me know if you need anything else at all, - all right? - And you are? I'm Scott Gack.
I'm Jalil's agent.
I was glad to help put you in touch with the family.
So talented.
And such a great kid, too.
Did he tell you what his plans were last night? No.
We flew up together, but I mean, Jalil's been working so hard, he's flying all around meeting team owners, taking endorsement meetings.
I think he just wanted to, you know, to spend some time with his family, relax a little, - while I took some meetings.
- Dad! Dad! Where's Jah? Where's Jah? Tell me my brother's not gone! Tell me I am so sorry, Kingsley.
What's he doing here? Kingsley, this is not the time or the place.
We're gonna need to call a press conference to announce his passing before it leaks to the media.
You tore my brother and me apart.
Look, Kingsley, this is par for the course.
You weren't equipped to help your brother take that next big step.
With what I had planned, Jalil was about to be set for life.
You mean you were about to be set for life.
Okay, calm down.
You think this is what your brother would've wanted? You're right.
I should go.
I've gotta get ready for the press conference tonight, before I fly back out tomorrow.
All right, where will you be in case we have any questions? I'm staying at the Ambassador's Towers.
All right.
I am so sorry for your loss.
He's gone! He's gone.
Bingo! Hello? Is someone there? Hello? Jalil? What happened? You okay? Hello.
Hey, uh, we've got a call in to your Mom.
She's an OR nurse, so uh you'll be waiting a while.
So uh, Ba-du You can just call me Bayley.
Bayley.
Okay, Bayley, so - why don't you tell us - Look, man, the only reason why I'm here is 'cause of Jalil Chisholm.
Period.
He reps so hard for the city.
For all of us.
Did you know Jalil personally? Sort of.
Well not personally, personally.
But um, like, online.
What were you doing on the phone with him last night? Is something funny? Oh, I-I didn't mean it like that.
It wasn't on the phone, it was on an app.
Ah, every few weeks Jalil hosts a late night room on Clubzr.
Here you go.
He'd uh, he'd talk to us about investing, how to get into different markets, building generational wealth.
"Young heads, old money," he'd say.
Did you hear anything strange while he was in the room last night? Yeah, around like, midnight, 12:30, I heard something like a scuffle.
But um, everyone was talking so loud.
And then Jalil kinda went silent, and disappeared.
I couldn't really hear too well, but once he left, - everybody else was gone.
- But you didn't.
Yeah, I mean, I could see his phone was still connected, I waited.
I was kinda worried.
But mostly I wanted to talk to him one-on-one, you know? And what did you want to talk to him about? Oh, dude, blockchains, assets, drops, crypto-graphics, Ethereum, NFTs.
Oh, NFTs.
NFTs? Y'all got screens? So Jalil was teaching our group about investing crypto currencies, and how to trade in non-fungible tokens.
Non-fungible tokens? Yeah, so basically NFTs are like, uh, digital artwork, videos, - one-of-a-kind music files.
- Hmm.
Like what Jalil was doing was dealing with digital sports and collectibles.
Here you go.
We're giving our blood, sweat, and tears, pumping millions into these colleges! We need to own the rights to our names and images.
No more free labour.
- Only you own you! - You own you, man.
Over here we got pro-leagues, making bank selling game highlights as NFTs.
Okay, so that's kinda like uh, sports trading cards, but digital, right? And you should see the coin that people are dropping.
Hmm, it looks like the sports Dow Jones.
- Okay.
- So now the professional players negotiated to get a percentage out of that, and Jalil was trying to bring that to college game.
Hmm.
Woo hoo hoo! We did it, y'all! We hit 100K on our network! We're building this.
Trust me, all right, ball is not forever, so we're planning for tomorrow.
The dollars I make minting my own moments, we're gonna build up our communities, community centres, housing, land, our own leagues.
Young heads, old money.
Hashtag TopFamilylnc! Young heads, old money.
Bro, rest in peace.
Yeah, I knew his reputation as a champion baller, but I had no clue he had all this going on.
So, now the reason why Jalil's NFTs were top sellers is because, right, he didn't just do game highlights.
What he did was personal videos.
He does behind-the-scenes ball shots, and collaborates with young up-and-coming artists, that promotes them within his community.
What's that one? I haven't seen that one before.
Integrity over dollars.
No owners, because no one owns us.
Wait a second, that's the outfit Jalil was wearing the night he died.
Power to people.
can't post that.
Yeah, I hear something, it's like a voice under the music.
All right, let's get this audio cleaned up.
Whoever recorded this, whoever's voice that is, was with Jalil the night he died.
So what are you gonna do? I'm gonna say it's a conflict of interest.
I mean, I can't be the expert witness at a preliminary trial for the man who killed Liam.
No, that's a very good point.
You know what you gotta do, you gotta tell your friend the Crown Attorney over here, and he'll let us go right now.
- Hey, Jenny.
- Hey.
What are you doing here? Ah! Living an actual nightmare.
Oh damn.
- Are you - I'm opposing counsel for the Crown in the case of Aaron Browning.
Why didn't you tell me? They just called me in to assist with the pre-trial.
I didn't know they called you.
I mean, they can't do this, can they? - It's a conflict of interest.
- Malou Dan wouldn't have had you here if she didn't think she could use you.
I made a hypothetical diagnosis that she's saying - could exonerate Aaron, and I - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! I can't speak to you about this, Jenny.
I'm sorry you're in this position.
Please, you've gotta tell me, I can get out of this, can't I? I'm sorry, there isn't.
But I'll be in there with you, okay? Yeah.
Hey Dad, I'm-I'm just gonna go out and get some air, okay? Good idea, here, take this.
Thank you.
Who's that, again? It's Liam's mom.
Oh yeah.
- I'll be right back.
- Good girl.
- Hey, I got the - Sh-Sh-Sh! Shh! He's trying to trace Jalil's last NFT.
Okay, I got the Tech Desk to clean up the audio on it.
Yo, what are you dealing with, Jah, you can't post that! Nah, this is who I am! Don't walk away! Jalil's brother calls him "Jah.
" And that sounds exactly like his voice.
So you think that Jalil was killed by his own brother? I'll tell you what I do know, I know that Kingsley was with Jalil the night he died, and he didn't bother to mention it.
Jenny! Bonjour.
Hi.
Mm! It's nice to see you.
It's nice to see you, too.
Is uh, is Rene parking the car? Rene had a stroke, he's in a hospital in Montreal.
Oh my God, Elodie, I'm so sorry.
Yeah, losing Liam was too much for his health.
But I'm here to make sure that monster stands trial for what he did to our son.
I-I know it won't be easy for you to tell the court what that man did to Liam, but if it helps put him away for good hmm, I'm grateful you're here.
Um Elodie, I'm-I'm actually here on behalf of the defence.
No, I-I know, it's just I, um, before Liam died, I had this, I had this theory that the person the person who killed the family was being influenced by these brain cysts, and now they want me Jenny! My only child is dead.
My husband suffered a stroke from the grief, and you're standing in the way of the only thing that might bring some peace in our lives?! Elodie, I'm sorry.
Why didn't you mention that you were with Jalil last night? I didn't want the cops to assume I did something I didn't do.
If you didn't, then why would we? We had a beef a while back.
It was all over the socials.
We squashed it, deleted all the posts, but you know how it is.
It's already out there.
What were you fighting about? I was on my way to the nationals when I shattered my knee in my senior year.
This would've been my career.
But I invested everything into my brother.
So I took what I knew, and-and became his rep, mentoring and advising him.
Me and my bro built a platform, Top Family Inc.
, to support Jalil's career.
But right when it looked like he could be ready to declare for the draft, that snake agent showed up.
Scott Gack.
Money people care about money, not family.
So what happened when you saw Jalil last night? We linked up, played some ball.
He asked me to record something of him, and that's when he dunked the statue head.
That's when the altercation began? I didn't want him to throw it all away making waves.
Calling out the owners who were about to draft him.
I don't-I don't disagree with him, but make a statement, be a hero after you get paid, you know? But you minted the NF of the statue head dunk.
Got it sold.
I did it to help my parents pay for some of the debt.
Okay, they borrowed a lot to help Jalil make it.
No, I get it, you feel like you're building a partnership with someone and they evolve, they they don't need you anymore, they think they know better.
You were your brother's right hand.
Then along came Scott Gack.
He leased Jah a new whip, flew him First Class to meet the top owners, up in his ear about leaving school to turn pro.
We were Top Family Inc.
That was going to be my future, too.
You said you blew out your knee in high school? I want to talk to my father.
And a lawyer.
The cops were asking about a missing ring caught on his clothing? There's nothing in his personal effects.
Both knees are shattered.
Both tibias and fibulas, too.
If he survived this attack, I don't think he'd ever be able to play elite sports again.
He got Nancy Kerrigan'd.
Yeah, Nancy Kerrigan didn't die.
There's very little blood loss.
No extensive bleeding.
Definitely not enough to warrant loss of life.
You don't think the attack was fatal.
Hey, Dad, you okay? You need anything to eat? Why am I here today? Like, why? You're here for moral support, Dad.
No, I don't think so, you've never asked me to come to your work before this, never.
As a matter of fact, I was banned from the middle school soccer games, because I cheered too loud.
No, I'll tell you why I'm here.
Because you're afraid.
You're afraid to leave me at home with Peggy.
No, Dad, I'm not afraid, it's just look, we just have to figure this out.
Figure out what? You can't figure this out.
My grip on reality is going.
And it's just going to be worse.
There's no happy ending for me.
I feel like I am creating the situation that I fear most in this world, that I'm gonna lose my Hey.
Dad, you are not going to lose your family.
Dr.
Cooper, we're ready for you.
The scale must be broken.
I calibrated it yesterday.
545.
9 grams is off the chart.
It is a heavy heart.
Please don't let this be the segue.
You know we never finished talking about moving to Port Hope.
Dennis, I get that your mom is your community, but I've literally never met her.
Yeah, I know! Despite my best attempts, you always find a reason to not meet her.
Do you want to meet her? I've been fielding calls from the press all day.
Trying to find out what happened to the superstar freshman from Toronto.
Hello! Someone died here.
It's not about who gets the headline first.
Find anything? His heart is twice the size it should be.
Even for an athlete of this size.
Hmm.
The left ventricle looks enlarged.
He has no fatal injuries related to the attack.
Myocarditis? Jalil died of a heart attack? Possibly triggered by the stress of being brutally attacked.
You have a cause for the inflammation? His father said he had no underlying conditions, nothing genetic.
Okay, so heart attacks in healthy, 20-year-old athletes rare, but it has been known to happen.
Most often in cases where performance-enhancing drugs caused an overload in the heart's electrical system.
Tox screen's in.
I had them to check for performance-enhancing drugs - just in case.
- Ah.
What's the verdict? Human growth hormone? Steroids? High levels of amphetamines.
'Til my lawyer shows up, I don't have nothing to say.
Yeah, your brother had sky-high levels of amphetamines in his system.
Amphetamines don't help in basketball, and Jah didn't need to take anything to boost his game.
They got in his system somehow.
Do you have the name of his doctor? Nah, Scott handled all that.
Got him a new sports clinic over in the Beaches.
All right, thanks.
Please state your name.
Dr.
Jenny Cooper, coroner.
Yes, Dr.
Cooper, the coroner for Ontario West.
About a year ago, you were involved in a case where you explored the idea that tapeworm cysts in a person's brain can affect their behaviour? I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable talking about Aaron Browning when I haven't seen his imagery, nor have I diagnosed him myself.
That wasn't my question.
My question is, can tapeworm cysts in a person's brain affect their behaviour? Yes, they can, but it's less about the cyst, and it's more about where they're located.
Would you tell the court what the pre-frontal cortex is responsible for? The pre-frontal cortex is responsible for executive functions, like controlling reflexive behaviours.
A person can have blunted emotional responses, become aggressive if the pre-frontal cortex is affected by degeneration or abnormalities? - Yes.
- Like cysts? Yes, like cysts.
And they can become violent? Dr.
Cooper, and they can become violent? Yes, in some cases they can become violent.
Is this image similar to what you're talking about? Yeah.
Let it state for the record that I'm entering in a CT Scan in evidence.
Dr.
Cooper.
Dr.
Cooper, can you please read the name at the top of that CT scan? It's it's Aaron Browning.
Then wouldn't it follow that Aaron Browning, due to his medical condition, would not be responsible for anything he might have done that led to the death of Liam Bouchard? Well As you can see from Dr.
Cooper's testimony, none of the evidence the Crown has presented here today is relevant, because Aaron Browning is not responsible for his behaviour.
I move for the case to be dismissed.
Thank you, Dr.
Cooper.
It was a mess, we were in the first wave of COVID, colleges were still forcing their athletes to play.
Are you saying Jalil Chisholm had COVID-19? He came to our clinic after he tested positive.
His agent sent him.
But there's no record of this.
He was asymptomatic, so the school looked the other way until they finished their run.
He could've infected the whole team, - the whole tournament! - Probably wasn't just him.
A lot of schools weren't taking it seriously back then.
They thought young athletes were too strong to go down.
All right, so you're a private clinic here.
So what was your treatment plan for Jalil? When Jalil came to me, he'd started experiencing chest pains, trouble breathing, exhaustion.
All right, so what'd you give him? A little something to perk him up, right? Stimulant patches to increase his stamina.
He was flying out for workouts with pro teams, he didn't want them to know he was still recovering.
We thought if we got him through that little rough patch, his body would heal.
But it didn't.
We didn't know then that a person could be asymptomatic while the virus was shredding their body.
By the time he got an ECG You knew he had myocarditis from COVID-19? - Only in the last few days.
- You had to have known he'd never pass a pro-team's physical.
By the end, yes, I knew he was undraftable.
And I'm sure he did, too.
Hey, "ball isn't forever, bro.
" We heard Jalil say that himself.
Okay, so he knew his career was ending.
Which is probably why he started putting out NFTs.
Try and support himself and his family while he still could.
We also need to open an investigation into that clinic.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Detective Abed! You gotta see this! Hey, Bayley's got something, okay? So news just leaked of Jalil's passing, and a bunch of never-seen before NFTs just dropped! Hey Mac, check this.
All the prices are skyrocketing.
It's $25, $30,000.
Okay, am I reading this right? Are all these NFTs being sold by the same account? One person's making a fortune off Jalil's death.
- That's motive.
- All right, let's get the Tech Team to trace the seller's location.
I'm already on it.
He's rerouting right now.
Come on, come on, come on! Yes, sir! Okay, okay! He's at Bay and Collins.
The Ambassador's Towers.
Scott Gack's staying at that hotel.
All right, let's get units in the area to hold him at the hotel 'til we get there.
- I'll go get a warrant.
- Yep.
Hey, Jalil would be proud of you, Bayley.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, man.
Thanks, man.
Dr.
Cooper, how long were you and Liam Bouchard together? Two and a half years.
And were you in love with him? Yes.
And are you still in love with him? Yes.
Yes.
Do you think you're in a place where you can speak professionally about Aaron Browning's case when it affects you so personally? I mean, you yourself suffer from mental health issues, and anxiety.
I don't see how that's relevant here.
Has it affected your work professionally? - No, it hasn't.
- Dr.
Cooper, where have you been for the last four months? I've been on sabbatical.
Can you tell us why? Is it because you couldn't properly do your job while grieving for Liam Bouchard? I couldn't do my job because I was afraid that I would lose everybody that I love.
And do you still feel that way? Sometimes.
So should you be in this situation? To decide, unbiased, whether or not this man should stand trial? The man I loved died.
And yes, there are days that I wish that Aaron Browning would rot in a cell for the rest of his life.
But I am trying to separate the man and the illness, and it is hard.
I mean, could you do it if the woman that you loved died? - No, I couldn't.
- No.
But I can say professionally that more research has to be done into Aaron Browning, we need to find out whether or not these cysts existed at the times of the murder, and and if they did, then he should go to an institution, and not prison.
Hey, got word.
Gack checked out 20 minutes ago.
All our cars are looking for his rentals, and they're thinking that he's headed for the airport.
Damn, he's trying to get out of town.
Hold up.
Change of plans.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
- What happened? - Unit spotted him, Gack tried to lose him, and flipped the car.
It looks like he was thrown from the vehicle.
Probably died on impact.
What a mess.
It's Jalil's championship ring.
You did good in there, I thought.
Yeah, thanks, Dad.
Very good.
You know, I heard what you said today.
And I'm not gonna get you another PSW.
I'm gonna try harder with Peggy.
But I'm gonna make sure that you know you're not gonna lose your family.
Thanks.
The verdict came in.
The judge ruled that there's enough evidence for Aaron Browning to stand trial.
And they might have to do more research as well.
That's all I wanted, Elodie.
Jenny, hearing you speak for Aaron in court, you have compassion for people who struggle with these sorts of things.
That's why you were the right partner for Liam.
I couldn't ask for any more for my son.
Forgive me.
I'm sorry.
Not now.
- Come on.
- Not now.
Let's go home.
Your parents said we could find you here.
Yeah, "Hoops for Jalil.
" Some of our boys put it together.
It was Scott Gack who killed my brother? Yeah, we think he hired some people, but we're on it.
We're gonna find them.
I don't understand, why would he Why would he do this? He invested a lot of money in your brother.
And Jalil retiring would have cost him, but uh, a young superstar who endured a vicious assault, that's a scandal he could cash in on.
We don't think he intended on killing your brother, he probably didn't realize that Jalil's heart couldn't take it.
But what he did lead to your brother's death.
I'd like you to meet someone.
- Hey, man.
- This is Bayley.
He helped us with your brother's case, and he's got something for you from Jalil.
So this is an unreleased NFT.
It's one of one, it's minted.
But he didn't sell it.
It's his most valuable, and uh he said it's for you.
All right, you got this? All right? - Jah, you got this.
- Yeah.
Go on, buck up! - Whoa, you did it, man! - Yeah, I did it! Let's go, you did it! No, see, I told you you could do it, bro.
I told you, bro.
We always said we were doing this together.
Even though it felt like he was leaving me behind, I was proud of him.
He wasn't afraid to take a risk, to say what he had to say.
Let's go! Oh! - Popular spot.
- Yeah.
Oh, hi, Mira! Hey, Mira? That's That's Mira Samaroo! She won the silver in the 100 in the Summer Games.
Yeah, she's one of the leaders of Surmount.
- My support group.
- Oh! You wanna run with them? You got another one in you? Nah, I've gotta go meet Malik and watch the game - in a little bit.
- Can I see your phone? Sure.
I thought you and Malik weren't Ah, we weren't now maybe we are again.
As long as he doesn't make you forget who you are.
I downloaded the Surmount app, you can check out the running schedule, and I'll-I'll introduce you to Mira next time.
All right.
Hey Hey Cassidy, wait up, maybe I do have another one in me.
- Hey.
- Oh, hey.
Mummy doesn't want to see you right now.