#post mortem

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Scarpetta Episodes 5 and 6

I knew Benton was married! I remembered from the books, but when watching the show and seeing him and Kay kiss, I was wondering if they changed that. The books had Kay dating Bill Boltz, who we find out later is not a good guy. The show also showed that there was a darker side to Benton. It showed him having a fight with Kay and getting rather drunk. He is seen hiding away in a room. A closet opens, and he has a hidden hatch on the floor. Going down, there's nothing but an empty room and a single chair. There's a piece of paper under the chair that he pulls out and looks at. At first glance, I thought it was a crime photo from a newspaper. Maybe something happened to his wife or children.

In this episode we also discover that Matt Petersen isn't and never was the killer. He was in contact with Gwen, the most recent victim from the first episode in order to try to recreate his wife using synthetic technology to create real working human organs. He would need Gwen alive in order to do this and he has no motive to kill her.

The space thing was wacky but interesting.

Ok. So in episode 6 we find out more about Benton. The picture he was looking at is from a psychology book on Sociopaths that his mother gave him after diagnosing him with sociopathy. It shows a time when he was a child struggling with OCD and his mother, a psychiatrist/psychologist diagnosing him.

This is also the episode where we learn that Bill Boltz raped Abby Turnbull. She confides in Kay after she finds her sister the most recent victim of the serial killer (1998). Tied up and raped. The book shows Kay's astonishment as she puts together that Bill is a bad man, thinking back to past moments with him where he got rough with her. But the show made it so him and Kay never dated at all so I'm curious to see how that pans out.

We are also introduced to a case from 6 months prior (present day) of a woman that was drowned by a river. She was out running but would never have any reason to go off the trail towards the water unless she was being chased. The FBI and Dr. Reedy cover it up and claim it was an accidental death but Kay clearly sees that is was a murder.

In the first episode Kay finds a penny by the body (present day) and when her and Marino go down to the river where this other body was found they find another penny. Kay believes it's his (the killers) signature. So, is he killing others with a different MO in-between the rapes or are there two killers???

I'm also really curious about what Kay has kept from Benton all these years. My suspicion is that in the book, Kay is intended to be the newest victim when Marino barges in and shoots the killer, (1998) is that why Kay is so hung up on the case? But Benton would have known Kay's involvement all those years ago when writing up and reading the reports, right?

Is Benton the killer? I'm so suspicious of him.

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“Oh no, no wellness check needed” SO ELI ITS YOU THATS NOT GIVING YOUR UNIT THERAPY?? /hj

Bro I’m shivering in my timbers for the next main episode….

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Halloween Countdown Days 3-7: Post Mortem with Mick Garris

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Scarpetta Season 1: episodes 1 and 2

*may be some spoliers*

The tv series follows Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner, alongside a ex-police detective, Marino, her FBI husband, Benton Wesley, her "author" sister Dorothy and her computer genius, gay, niece, Lucy.

The series is based off of books written by Patricia Cornwell. I've read Post-Mortem, originally published in 1989 and Livid published in 2022. Based on what I've read there have been some changes done for the show.

The first season seems to be a continuation of the first novel 28 years later. In the book Post-Mortem Dr. Scarpetta, Marino and Benton track down a serial killer that is breaking into young women's homes and assaulting and killing them. One of the murders involves a husband that was away for work when his wife, the victim, was murdered, Marino finds the husband suspicious, however he doesn't end up being the killer because the real killer is caught red handed attempting to kill Dr. Scarpetta herself.

Now, in the show 28 years later another body shows up much like the women from before. Their first suspect is the suspicious husband from all those years ago. Did they catch the wrong guy?

In the show Marino ends up marrying Dorothy, which I can't remember is canon or not, the pair seem too different to be into each other. Lucy is also gay which again I don't know if it's canon or not. They also did something really weird with her character, her wife is dead and Lucy has been "coping" by talking to an AI version of her wife. I think it definitely has some potential to discuss the harm of AI within the show and as a whole but the AI being shown isn't right, AI doesn't act that way. She's portrayed too much like a person and not enough like a computer.

I really enjoy Lucy's character in the book, in Post-Mortem she's only 10 and is hacking into Kay's home computer and fixing/cleaning it up. You have to remember this was set in the 90s and so Lucy wasn't just casually guessing a password, she was in the computer writing code. Which is so cool!

They also put Kay and Benton together, again I haven't read enough of the series to remember if that is canon or not. This pairing makes sense and Benton is played by Simon Baker who also was the lead in the tv series The Mentalist, which I loved. And Benton's new FBI partner is played by Anna Diop who is Starfire from netflix's Titans! (Panicks in bisexual)

I also feel like there was enough in the show that you wouldn't understand unless you've read the book, there's flashbacks to the og case and when they mention certain evidence, the significance isn't as clear as when reading the book. The flashbacks are also not marked by any date on the screen so you kinda have to some mental gymnastics to figure out what year they're in. The past and present characters are played by different actors so that helps but I still find that a date on the screen that fades out would be helpful.

Ok, I think that's it for now. Sorry for the lengthy post I have a lot of feeling on the matter.