EPISODE

13. Cry for Help

The issue of teenage suicide is explored as a young girl is found dead on a roadside from suicide, and Quincy asks Emily to do a psychological autopsy and finds just how many signals of the girl's suicidal feelings were missed by her teachers, friends, and parents, and the girl's boyfriend (part of a suicide pact but failed to go through with it) may be the next suicide unless Quincy & Emily stop him.

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The issue of teenage suicide is explored as a young girl is found dead on a roadside from suicide, and Quincy asks Emily to do a psychological autopsy and finds just how many signals of the girl's suicidal feelings were missed by her teachers, friends, and parents, and the girl's boyfriend (part of a suicide pact but failed to go through with it) may be the next suicide unless Quincy & Emily stop him.

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