17. T-Bone and the Iceman

Complete story — includes the ending

A distracted driver is killed after colliding with a van and discovering that it carries corpses. The driver's body is partially mummified, by the coolant R22. Sherlock's investigation leads to a cryogenics facility owned by a cash-strapped company that preserves the bodies of clients in the hope that future advances can revive them. There, the corpse of strangled psychiatrist Jim Sullivan, has been stolen. New patient Vance Ford provided a sketch of the murderer. Ford, however, is lying. Later, Ford is found strangled as well, which seems odd, as he was near death from leukemia anyway. The man in the sketch is actually a now-deceased actor from a movie. Ford and Sullivan were estranged cousins. Sullivan was a match for a bone marrow transplant, which could have saved Ford's life, but he refused to donate it. Ford killed him and stole the body, as the bone marrow, even after being frozen, would still be usable. Ford recruited two henchmen, who worked at the cryonics lab. With the investigation closing in, they panicked and killed Ford the same way as Sullivan. Meanwhile, Joan has trouble convincing her mother to seek help for her failing mind.