Diagnosis: Murder Episode Rating Graph

Realizing that he's been duped, Mark goes all out to thwart the murderer's plans. Amanda and Jack go after Wallace Sterling, the crooked financier and art lover by selling a forged painting of a can of Cream of Celery soup.

A gangland 'protector' under surveillance by Steve becomes infected with the plague when a medicine bottle is mysteriously switched. Dr. Sloan tries to find the source of the virus before the murderer starts an epidemic.

The same gang involved in the Schroeder murder kidnaps Mark's underworld friend, Gus Benedict. Jack and Mark try to save Benedict before time runs out.

Financier Robin westlin dies in Dr. Sloan's house, but when the paramedics at the scene, the body's gone. Everyone is certain the event was a figment of Mark's imagination. Dr. Sloan goes on a quest to validate his theory.

Dr. Sloan shields George Karn from both Steve and Lt. Delaney while investigating his wife's murder.

A rash of murders made to look like suicide leads to a dating service and its beautiful customers.

When a photo shop erroneously sends Dr. Sloan the wrong set of photographs, he becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of an escort girl. Meanwhile, Amanda's baby is about to come to term.

Mark investigates a perky morning television personalty for the murder of a Howard Stern-like radio host.

A plastic surgeon dies due to an overdose of laughing gas... with no shortage of suspects. Mark campaigns furiously to exonerate Bonnie Valin, the victim's wife, while Steve makes a solid case against her. Meanwhile, Amanda's new electronic checking service is less than effective.

A convict, being treated at County General, manages to take a hostage and demand news coverage. When the newscaster covering the event is shot down, Dr. Sloan takes it upon himself to figure out what went wrong.

A team of Magicians Clark & Madison, breaks up when Paul Madison decides to go solo. Mark jumps to his friend Clark's aid when Madison turns up dead with Eddie Clark the main suspect.

Dr. Sloan treats a famous singer,then takes her into his home as a homicidal closes in.

Steve heads up the investigation when a serial cop killer is on the prowl, while inadvertantly dating the killer.

After Steve's night school law teacher is nearly run down in the parking lot, he and a paralegal investigate shady dealings in their law firm.

A group of crooked cops frame Steve for murder after he gets too close to their robbery operation. Jack visits some past friends, now mobsters, to dig up information.

When Amanda's friend Angela is kidnapped immediately after giving birth to quadruplets, Amanda feigns pregnancy and goes undercover at an adoption agency to locate Angela. Jack and Dr. Sloan try to care for the babies.

A man wrongfully convicted of murder takes Dr. Sloan hostage. Dr. Sloan hears his story and works to prove the man's innocence. Jesse works feverishly to rescue Mark.

Dr. Sloan is the executor of his friend, Preston Michael's, estate after Michaels is found in the body of a shark. Things turn interesting after traces of poison are found in Michaels' body and three women, all apparently married to Michaels, attend the reading of the will.

Dr. Sloan goes undercover at a convent when mysterious circumstances surround a murder.

A tell-all book written by one of Amanda's vindictive old college roommates contains embarrassing secrets of all four roommates. Dr. Sloan tries to discover what happened when the author is found dead and Amanda is the main suspect.

Jesse is arrested and charged with murder after a doctor testifying against Jesse in a malpractice suit is poisoned. Mark convinces his old friend, Ben Matlock, to defend Jesse.

Dr. Sloan insists that a man he helped condemn to death for a series of bombings is guilty, even after a post-execution explosion.

An unhappy politician's wife guns down her husband in an underground garage. Mark sees through her alibi and attempts to confirm his suspicions.

The daughter of one of Mark's friends writes a juicy tell-all expose of the most prominent public figures. Mark takes her in after a crazed stalker starts threatening her and her co-authors.

An exhausted Jesse, coming off a 48-hour stint in the hospital, witnesses a man die in the parking garage. Jesse returns with help only to find the man alive. While everyone believes Jesse to have been delirious, Jesse insists he was correct, and goes all out to prove himself.

A famous actress, a patient at Community General, is implicated in the murder of one of her four ex-husbands. Against everyone's advice, Mark believes in her innocence and sets out to prove it.

A Los Angeles earthquake apparently causes an armoire to topple over on top of a good friend of Dr. Sloan's, Martin Garfield, killing him. The dry-eyed Sloan goes to work and discovers that Garfield may have been killed before the earthquake. Jack and Amanda help Mark weed through the wealthy family to find the murderer.

Mark matches wits with a beautiful jewel thief who's being framed for murder.

A priest kills his would-be blackmailers and does everything he can to cover his tracks. Dr. Sloan investigates when details don't quite add up.

Dr. Sloan investigates the murder of an antagonistic pro volleyball player. Steve searches for an alleged stalker while Amanda and Jack keep an eye on her teammates, none of whom are particularly upset over her death.

A prostitute, who tells Jack of her plans to blackmail her clients, is found dead of an apparent drug overdose. Dr. Sloan interviews her clients to discover the real cause of death.

When an unpopular actor on a hot new medical drama (being filmed at Community General) suddenly dies, Mark suspects everyone from the writer to other cast members.

Steve's latest girlfriend, a dance instructor, is a suspect in a murder investigation when a dance club's owner dies mysteriously.

Suspicion is cast on Norman Briggs after the chairman of a philanthropical medical group of which Norman is a part, is murdered. Steve and Mark attend the funeral to nail the culprit, who promptly falls over dead.

A cantankerous patient at Community General is given a double injection of his medication, eventually leading to his death. Jack suspects a doctor he's had a grudge against for a long time. Despite Mark's objections, Jack sets out to prove his ""enemy"" is the killer.

Security is increased at the hospital when Senator Robert Bassett undergoes an operation. Drs. Sloan and Stewart are preoccupied when a beautiful young amnesia patient is brought in. Unbeknownst to them, their beautiful young patient is a professional killer.

Mark aids an old friend, Joe Mannix, in solving a 25-year-old, unsolved murder.

Mark investigates a 30-year old murder when the body of his old mentor is discovered entombed in a wall in the hospital.

Dr. Sloan is under suspicion after his tax preparer is killed with Mark spotted 'hovering' over the body.

Mark and Amanda are assigned to the task force investigating an airplane crash. An adversarial FBI agent and Russian mobsters make their assignment more difficult.

The newly crowned boxing champion is found murdered shortly after the bout. Jack and Amanda investigate the deceased's former trainer, his opponent, and his opponent's manager to find a way through a web of lies and deceit.

Chet Brooks, one of Jack's old friends, shows up on the run from gamblers, begging for help. Jack reluctantly loans Chet his car, only to have Chet and the car explode in a fiery wreck. Jack tangles with the underworld to find out what happened.

Jack and Steve vie for a young woman's affections as she leads them in an investigation of a PI's death.

Amanda's cousin falls to his death when his motorcycle suddenly veers off the road. Amanda leads the investigation when it's discovered her cousin was drugged immediately before the accident.

After a dying man gives Dr. Sloane a winning lottery ticket, the deceased's family and creditors swarm him, claiming the ticket is theirs.

Steve teams with a Naval Investigator when the apparent suicide of a military officer turns into a cold-blooded murder.

Steve and Ron lead the chase for the stolen nuclear material.

A visiting surgeon must deal with his alcoholism after a fellow doctor is murdered during one of his blackouts.

Dr. Sloan takes in an abandoned young girl found at the scene of a murder, while Steve and Jesse go about tracking down the killer.

Dr. Sloan tries to solve a friend's murder while Steve investigates the deceased's ex-wife and her identical twin sister.

While deeply disturbed that his son, Lt. Steve Sloan, is falling in love with a woman who is a dead ringer for his murdered former girlfriend, Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

An actress with an eating disorder dies from an apparent heart attack. Mark believes her nutritionist murdered her.

Madison moves in with her new paramour, unaware that he's trying to kill her. Jesse is suspected of being the anonymous author of a tell-all book that places hospital workers in spicy relationships.

Dr. Sloan tries to Amanda when she becomes involved in an incident involving the Chinese government.

An old friend of med student Alex Martin is mixed up in the murder investigation of an L.A. 'madam'. Mark suspects Alex's friend may be more deeply involved in the madam's business than she lets on. Meanwhile, Madison Wesley is stalked by a homicidal killer who's recently undergone plastic surgery.

Dr. Mark Sloan tries to solve the murder of a young woman whose twin sister claims that Dr. Jesse Travis fathered her infant son.

An abusive man who, along with four other people, was a contestant on a reality show is murdered while living in a house that is monitored 24 hours a day. After the killing, Mark enters the house as the man's replacement to see if he can uncover what happened.

Dr. Mark Sloan, Lt. Steve Sloan and Dr. Amanda Bentley become involved when a priest is accused of murdering an old friend.

A Tabloid-news paper reporter gets caught up in a murder investigation when one of her sources is stabbed to death on a dance floor.

Steve enlists troubled teenager (he sure looked older than a teenager) Tommy to work as community service at a boxing club after too many brushes with the law. Tommy tries to control his temper. Mark finds that the club's sports drink is drugged, promoting aggressive tendencies in many of the boxers.

A criminal with a death wish stalks Steve.

Dr. Sloan crusades to keep a physician-assisted-suicide advocate from practicing her trade.

Absurdly bland episode lacks the usual Goldberg/Rabkin sizzle. Two female vice-officers uncover four corrupt female homicide cops who murder felons to harvest their organs for those more deserving.

When a musician is found murdered at a Country Music Awards ceremony, Dr. Sloan and company rush to find the culprit before the show ends and the crowd disappears.

An ADA sets out on a vendetta against an Asian youth, against both Mark and Steve's advice, after a drive-by shooting at a high school leaves one teacher dead.

Newly retired detective Harry Trumble returns to the force when it appears 'The Clown Killer', a murderer Trumble chased for more than a decade, has emerged from obscurity to kill again. Mark is reluctant to help Harry investigate the Clown, in part due to a rift between the two, but also because Mark suspects Harry has something to do with the Clown's reappearance.

A madman charges into a Lamaze class with a bomb, claiming that a fertility doctor was cheating him. Everything is complicated further when said doctor turns up dead.

Ratings seeking stunts by TV talk show hosts Darren & Mary has tragic results.

Carter and Caitlin kidnap Mark, forcing him to mastermind a 100 million-dollar theft. On the outside, Steve and Ron collaborate to find Mark. Meanwhile, Jesse and the Sloans buy a barbecue joint.

Mark's old friend, singer Danielle Marsh, visits and begins exhibiting erratic behavior while dodging attempts on her life. Mark attempts to fight through Marsh's defensive barriers to help his friend.

When a rash of deaths at a high school revolve around one 'helpful' young girl, Dr. Sloan risks his own life to uncover the murderer.

Doc Sloan goes undercover as a patient in a retirement home to solve the murder of an ex-cop.

Mark stumbles onto a kidnapping case when the kidnapper accidentally calls the Sloan residence with a ransom demand. Steve runs to phone booths across the city a la Dirty Harry to safely rescue the child.

Hospital horticulturist Claude is revealed to be an escaped convict living under an assumed name for the past 10 years. Mark fights to shelter Claude from extradition while striving to prove his innocence.

A bungling comedian seeks revenge on his former partner when he's cheated out of millions.

Jesse saves a woman, Chloe, in a traffic accident that claims a jealous lover forced her off the road. Jesse looks out for his patient when her ex-boyfriend threatens her. Jesse rushes to Chloe's aid when her life is threatened by her boyfriend, and inadvertently kills him. Jesse finds himself the victim of Chloe's 'fatal attraction' as she pursues him voraciously. It gradually becomes clear that Chloe was the aggressor in her previous relationship.

A body found on the beach turns out to be Jim, the hospital janitor, but when his twin brother Jeff shows up to identify the body, Mark and Steve become suspicious.

An outgoing radio host who's hunting for her birth mother is suspected of murdering a phony mother. Jesse's mother visits.

When Steve is shot and falls into a coma, Mark does all in his power to find the assailant, even threatening a suspect with bodily harm. Mark finds himself the prime suspect when Steve's alleged attacker, Gordon Ganza, is murdered and all clues point directly towards Dr. Sloan.

Steve goes undercover as a doctor in a private community after several mysterious deaths occur within its confines. Steve is 'aided' by a tabloid reporter posing as his wife.

When a young girl is rushed into the hospital in need of immediate treatment, but dies due to a HMO's negligence, Dr. Travis and Community General are sued for negligence. Dr. Sloan must choose between his ethical convictions and the hospital.

Shadowy figures haunt Jesse after he returns after being missing five days and believes aliens may have abducted him. Mark and Steve try to figure out what happened to him, while Jesse tries to stave off hallucinations, clandestine midnight meetings, and secretive government agents.

Jesse's car breaks down while he and Susan are on their way to a fun-filled vacation in Carmel. The two are stranded in a small town where Susan spies a supposedly long dead beau, Greg. They eventually discover that he faked his death in order to plunder a shipwrecked vessel undetected. The townsfolk, all in on the scheme, murder Greg and pin the blame on Jesse and Susan.

An aggressive female pharmaceuticals representative stalks the hospital's new chief of staff after a one-night-stand, hoping to break up his marriage and have him all for herself.

This episode takes place four months after Mark was convicted of murder. Steve is slowly recovering from his wounds and Mark is still rotting in prison. While Mark endures the taunts of fellow death row inmate Malcolm Trainor, Steve and Tanis Archer launch a rogue investigation to find Ganza's real killers.

A serial murderer strikes Community General every hour on the hour, choosing victims who've been seriously injured but 'brought back to life'.

A med student, surrogate daughter to Madison Wesley, is sent to a rehab program to kick drugs. Once there, she's wrongly accused of murdering a fellow patient. Mark sets his sights on bringing down the real culprit.

A motorcycle stunt driver has a fatal accident while filming an action video. Steve investigates.

While deeply disturbed that his son, Lt. Steve Sloan, is falling in love with a woman who is a dead ringer for his murdered former girlfriend, Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

When a filmmaker begins using Community General Hospital as the location for an eerie documentary, Dr. Sloan discovers it may be haunted.

Susan Gibney [ Maya ], David Marciano [ Eddie Michaels ], Michelle Stafford [ Trish ], Robert Bailey Jr. [ CJ ], Rusty Burns [ Betsy ], Richard Cody [ Kip ], George W. Hartmann [ Tommy ], William Newman [ Chester Chumley ], Kathleen Lloyd [ Emma Bornstein ], Kevin McNally [ Paramedic ], Aaron J. Meeks [ Dion ], John W. Johnston [ Rick ], Patricia Place [ Mrs. Palmer ], Daniel Zacapa [ Waiter ], Channon Roe [ Lucas (uncredited) ] rc: Med Student Alex Mark's life becomes hectic when a look-alike gangster moves to LA and is caught up in a struggle for power.

A beach boy involved with a gang member's sister is suspected of murdering him. Mark investigates.

Steve becomes embroiled in political intrigue after the murder of a city councilman's wife appears to be part of a larger political strategy. Steve investigates two mayoral candidates, the councilman and the chief of police, as well as a rogue detective and his partner, all with strong motives.

A spat between a girl and her boyfriend leads to an apparent murder, leaving the girl and her mother with a dead body, just as dinner guests Mark and Amanda arrive. Panic sets in, when the body disappears, the power goes out, the roads are impassable, and the attacks begin.

Dr. Travis gets involved in the treacherous and deadly trade of catering when he oversees the annual charity banquet.

The Community General doctors are dragged back into the world of network television when producer Jackson Burley revamps the pilot for Dr. Danger, the television program based on Dr. Sloan. Mark and Steve investigate when Danger's competition, a masked magician who reveals the profession's secrets, is murdered, possibly as a ratings ploy.

Dr. Mark Sloan tries to save one of his former students, a schizophrenic, from a murder charge, but is challenged by the man's seemingly incoherent babbling.

Jesse's new part-time job as trainer of the pro basketball Mustangs turns deadly when he's accused of murdering a star player.

The death of a popular musician raises suspicious questions. The musicians' pregnant wife, who claims to be carrying an alien's child, complicates matters.

The Sloans run into plenty of industry politics when they investigate the death of television network executive, Rachel Woodrall. Seamy revelations about Woodrall's college sorority lead to the killer.