Dr Megan Hunt was a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game until a devastating car accident ended her time in the operating room. But rather than end her medical career, Megan becomes a medical examiner. She develops a reputation for greying the line of where her job ends and the police begin their jobs. Megan realizes she has a lot of work to do to rebuild her relationships with her family members, as they have taken a back seat to her ambition.
Megan's investigation into a car crash reveals all is not well in a seemingly perfect neighbourhood, where infidelity and murder lurk beneath a veneer of respectability.
A millionaire is accused of shooting his wife while out hunting deer. Meanwhile, Kate and Megan's relationship takes a turn for the worse.
Megan investigates when a nanny is run over and killed while trying to stop the five-year-old boy in her care from being kidnapped. Joan runs for re-election as a judge.
A supposedly dead man walks out of Ethan's examination room and his flatmate is found shot to death, leading Megan to expose a shocking cover-up at local government level.
A man dies in a house fire, but Megan's investigation into the cause of death is hindered by a veteran arson investigator and his colleague.
A champion equestrian is found dead in the woods, and Megan's daughter Lacey provides valuable expertise to help track down the killer.
Megan investigates when a popular high-school student is found dead following a rave, with unknown drugs in his possession.
The body of pharmaceutical rep Amy Green is pulled out of the river, and Megan and the team discover that all the blood appears to have been drained from it.
A medical student helps Megan after finding the corpse on her dissecting table is not the cadaver she has been working on all term.
Megan investigates when a lottery winner is found stabbed to death in his flat, and Ethan deals with a case in which a girl died of an infection after an appendectomy.
Megan is called to investigate when a bride falls to her death from the top floor of the hotel where her wedding ceremony was to take place.
A lorry driver discovers a corpse late one night at a desolate truck stop - and it turns out the victim was an undercover detective.
A campaigning TV journalist impedes the team's search for the killer of a woman who had just been acquitted of murdering her baby son.
Megan investigates when the owner of an Italian restaurant is found dead in a walk-in freezer, while Peter finally discovers the identity of his biological father.
A collision between two cars takes a sinister turn when a corpse is found in the boot of one of the vehicles and the investigation leads to the discovery of another body.
Megan and the team work to uncover the dysfunctional secrets of a seemingly perfect family when the parents are found murdered.
Megan and Kate try to identify the victims of a car crash that left one woman dead and another fighting for her life. Meanwhile, Dani suggests to Peter they move in together.
Megan investigates a mysterious viral outbreak in Philadelphia, while CDC Officer Charlie Stafford tries to determine what - or who - caused the epidemic.
Megan and the team try to stop the deadly virus threatening hundreds of people in Philadelphia, while also trying to find the person spreading it.
An 18-year-old is killed and has her brain removed, a case that raises doubts over the guilt of a man Megan helped convict in her first successful case as a medical examiner.