Due to this disorder, she accidentally kills one of her patient on the operating table resulting in her resignation and retirement from the profession altogether. Five years on, Megan has found a new life as a Medical Examiner. As she investigates what happened to her patients, she finds that their lives, and the lessons they hold, are in a way a bequest to her. The star cast features Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, Geoffrey Arend as Dr. Ethan Gross, Nicholas Bishop as Peter Dunlop, John Carroll Lynch as Detective Bud Morris, Windell D. Middlebrooks as Dr. Curtis Brumfield, Jeri Ryan as Dr. Kate Murphy and Sonja Sohn as Detective Samantha Baker.