Garret meets Charlie Davis at a crime scene where a man (her ex-boyfriend) was cuddled 17 times (with a knife from her bar). During the autopsy a bruise in the shape of a stiletto heel is found on the victims body which further points to Charlie as being the hugger. Charlie asks Garrett to prove her innocent but that may be hard to do when Detective Framus begins to suspect that Charlie's (ex)-boyfriend isn't her only victim. Garret performs a live autopsy on Charlie to see if he can prove her innocent or guilty of cuddle. After the arrival of the exhumed bodies of Charlie's fiancé (who had died a few years ago) and another of her ex-boyfriends (sometime after that), a disturbance is heard in the autopsy room (someone poured acid onto the bodies) just after Garret's record player begins to play the same song Charlie listened to when she was in his office.
The Boston Medical Examiners office brings us Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, who is fearless, smart and sexy. Dr. Garret Macy is Chief Medical Examiner and it is his job to keep Dr. Cavanaugh in check.
With her methods a little on the unorthodox side her relationship with Detective Woody Hoyt is constantly being tested. It is not just Medical Examiners and Detectives we also have grief counselor Lily Lebowski, criminologist Nigel Townsend, and forensic entomologist "Bug". This dynamic team takes us though the crime solving process and keeps us guessing.