This was during the final season of Quincy when the show was winding down and it was just "very good" and not brilliant like it had been. Doctor Lorraine Linderman played by Ina Balin (who had been on other episodes) is a colleague of Quincys who has been making lots of mistakes lately and taking Friday off sooner and sooner and coming in on Monday later and later oh gee chug a lug what could the problem be. Quincy is unusually preachy in this episode especially when he upbraids Lorraine's coleagues for not being sympathetic enough. Actually, and I can't put my finger on it, Lorraine just rubs me the wrong way she comes across as very unlikeable. Quincy tries to get her help and gets her into a group and it LOOKS like its going to be a happy ending, but her husband decides to leave her. He is a total jerk who wouldn't get her help and admitted he was cheating on her. In the end at what is supposed to be a party in her honor.a tearful Astin breaks the news she has killed herself. This is one of the few episodes that did not have a happy ending and in a way it made it more hard hitting and realistic. If only they had made Lorraine more likeable!
Review of Dying for a Drink
