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When journalist Josh Lemle learns he has Polonium-210 poisoning, he rushes to tell his old friend Detective Logan. Lemle is convinced it traces back to a story he's working on, but all leads turn up clean. A secret dinner is revealed and the detectives learn there may have been a case of mistaken poisoning. Logan pledges to help the dying Lemle get to the bottom of his murder, which is just a matter of time.

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Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate when Josh Lemle ( Lee Tergesen ), a reporter friend who had backed Logan after he had gotten himself exiled years earlier, comes to Major Case to report his own murder as he is dying from polonium-210 poisoning. Both Hazmat and the FBI get involved as the search turns city-wide, with both the mayor and Homeland Security wanting answers. Lemle is reluctant to reveal the whole story but it turns out the true target was his long-time friend and sometimes lover, Rebecca Slater ( Miriam Shor ) who writing a story about the shooting of a US activist in the Middle East that no-one wants to be told. Inspired by the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and death of Rachel Corrie.

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