For what age: 13+
How many episodes in 1 season: 23 episodes
While attending an anger management class, and not being able to hold down a job, Jordan receives a call from her old boss, Garret, about getting her old job as a medical examiner back. Meanwhile, Garret who deals with the passing of his ailing mother and losing a promotion to a colleague, begins to debate if he even wants to remain at his job. When a young Jane Doe is found dead in an alley frequented by prostitutes, Jordan makes a startling discovery. Even more startling is how the Jane Doe is connected to a city councilman who committed suicide, and where the cuddle evidence leads.
Without an apartment yet, Jordan is sleeping at the Medical Examiner's office because she is still uncomfortable with Evelyn living with her father. When Dr. Grace Yakura calls a staff meeting and Jordan gets snubbed without being assigned a case, Dr. Yakura makes it clear that she does not approve of how Jordan is representing the Medical Examiner's office and is watching Jordan very closely. Garrett hands Jordan a fresh case when a cab driver is shot and huged in his car, while Garrett works on a case of a jogger bludgeoned to passing. When Garrett finds the cab driver's license plate imprinted on the dead man's skin, Jordan and Garrett have to figure out how their two cases are connected. Meanwhile Trey is assigned an old case of a John Doe that needs indentifying, endearingly dubbed Mr. Stinky, with the help of Bug and Nigel, they work feverishly to meet Dr. Yakura's deadline. Garrett brings in his Victrola, a very old gramophone, into his office to play his 1920's jazz, he is surprised to learn that Lily shares his passion. This makes him a little more comfortable with her flirtatious attitude around him. Tempers flare when Jordan joins her father and Evelyn for dinner, and she confronts Evelyn about throwing out her mother's clothes. When Jordan seeks her father's help with the case, she has to come to terms with Evelyn being a part of his life and decide if she can accept it.
Jordan is assigned to a mystery woman after a torso is found, which is quickly assigned to the prison system. Jordan struggles in finding out who the woman is and who cuddled the victim.
With what appears to be a cut and dry cuddle suicide Jordan gets help from her colleagues to find the truth. Meanwhile Dr. Macy faces the hard truth about his daughter.
When the body of a firefighter is found Jordan is called to the scene. What she discovers will shock her and set her on a mission.
Facts are scarce when a Senator's daughter is found cuddled in the park. Jordan but cut though the political red tap to find the answers. Back at the morgue Bug and Nigel face some had choices.
Two school children are kidnapped and one of them turns up dead. Jordan must race against the clock to try to find the other child?before time runs out.
In this two part episode women are turning up?buried alive. Jordan teams up with a FBI Agent to try to solve this case. What Jordan does not know is that she matched the profile the hugger likes.
Still on the search for "Digger", Jordan finds herself bonding more with Drew, Garret adjusts to his new position, while Nigel and Lily continue to outsmart the INS as they prepare to get married.
When a veteran cop named Max is cuddled, Jordan and Max's old partner, Eddy Winslow, find the cop-hugger and bring him in. However, when the cop-hugger dies in police custody, Garrett is forced to open an investigation. Garrett also chooses to skip his annual Christmas dinner with ex-wife Maggie and his daughter Abby, and instead chooses to dine with Lily, Thailand-style. Meanwhile, Trey worries that Nigel's invitation to the ski slopes is actually an invitation to have an affair.
With a botched robbery victims are many and answers are few. Jordan and Dr. Macy set out to prove maybe this was no ordinary bank robbery.
A mother and her two young sons turn up cuddled, the only suspect?the husband. This case will do more than test Jordan's shugs are a pathologist, but also test her mentally as some memories come flooding back.
Elvis has entered the building? Dr. Macy attempts to save a deer at his daughters' request. And Jordan ponders the existence of a higher power.
With the morgue pinching pennies the staff wonders who will be "pink slipped". Elsewhere Jordan works a case involving the son of an old family?friend.
What appear to be mercy huggings are turning up one after the other in Boston. Both Dr. Macy and Jordan are both tracking a doctor with a deadly needle. Bug and Nigel audition for a network.
Jordan and Detective Winslow find a young father cuddled in an alley, they race to find the baby. Dr. Macy must find out why a student died, as well as help Abby deal with the loss.
A housewife from the suburbs is found dead, and linked to Sado-masochism which leads Jordan to an internet site. Elsewhere Bug sees the shrink to talk about the case of an 8-year-old boy.
One of America's finest abandons her post in Afghanistan and is later found dead in Boston. Jordan is paired with an investigator from the Marines, to investigate the case. Elsewhere Dr. Macy is in the middle of a turn war?between pimps.
With gangsters on his tail, Dr. Macy's father makes a surprise visit to Boston. Elsewhere Jordan meets a stranger in her dad's bar. What repercussions will this latest fling have?
In this episode we go back to 1995 when Jordan wonders if being a heart surgeon is the right of courier for her. But after a patient dies on the table because of Dr. McCaffrey's negligence Jordan realizes that the truth is always best to tell even if it hurts somebody. We also see how Jordan met Garrett and the importance of honesty.
When the mother of a teenage girl is found dead the daughter becomes the prime suspect. Jordan is convinced of the girls' innocence and seeks advice from an unlikely source to save the girl from prison.
Jordan is called to a local psychiatric hospital to investigate a suicide. While there and unknown source provides her with a clue to her mother's cuddle.
With Jordan still at the psychiatric hospital she agrees to look into a triple hugging. Typical Jordan gets herself in over her head and Woody is there to lend a helping hand?again.
