Murder in the Air

There is trouble in the airplane when Dr Mark Sloan and Amanda Bentley-Livingston are going to Zurich to attend a medical conference.

Dr Sloan finds a dead body in the lavatory.

Later the flight crew are dropping like flies. It might be more than just a few irritating passengers that sent them ill.

It is so bad the rest of the crew need to find a passenger to fly the plane.

Back at the hospital, Dr Travis races to find a antidote. Steve Sloan obtains some disturbing information

Moving the action to the plane helped with the tension. I was not that surprised with the twist. Much better was the irritating passengers becoming useful in the end.

The airplane Mark and Amanda are taking for a medical conference in Zurich (Switzerland) is delayed to wait for alternative co-pilot Ron Manners, a reputed womanizer. Later, Mark finds Ron's corpse in the toilet, neck broken, and starts looking for the murderer among over 100 passengers plus staff after contacting Steve, airplanes being extraterritorial.

Then several crew members are found unconscious, cause unknown, leaving no pilot, just passenger Martin Donner Kingston, who has US Air Force experience.

Steve finds the originally scheduled co-pilot, knocked down but alive, though suffering from a seizure. Mark figures out it's a binary poison triggered by an aspirin, possibly administered at the hotel to all staff the lab confirms: it's a spy toxin. Steve has terrible news after checking the passengers' records...

A murder in an enclosed area, high in the sky- a passenger aircraft. Some lunatic is causing murder and mayhem; luckily Mark Sloan and Amanda are on board and they get to the bottom of this mystery in this sharply tuned episode. Quite suspenseful.

One of the better episodes of the series. Well plotted, paced, tightly written and reasonably suspenseful. The acting by the guest stars didn't get in the way for a change.