Thallium figures prominently in the 1995 film The Young Poisoners Handbook, a dark comedy loosely based on the life of Graham Frederick Young. In Big Nothing, Josie is the Wyoming Widow; a murderer who befriended men and killed them with whiskey laced with highly concentrated thallium. In the 2007 episode "Whatever It Takes" of House, a character uses thallium to poison a patient to mimic the effects of polio, then appear to cure it with ultra-high doses of vitamin C.
In the NCIS episode "Dead Man Walking" (2007), thallium-laced cigars are used to murder a Naval officer. "Page Turner", a 2008 episode of CSI: NY, has radioactive thallium poisoning as its central theme. In the 2010 film Edge of Darkness, thallium is used to poison both the main character and his daughter. In the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, the organisation of the same name used thallium to poison Mr. White by lacing his mobile phone with it. In Season 3 of Royal Pains, the mysterious German billionaire Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz was poisoned by thallium added to his pools water. In Drop Dead Diva episode "Ashes to Ashes", thallium was used to murder a clients husband, affecting the client when she ate the cremation remains. In the 2016 TVB drama Two Steps From Heaven, thallium was used to poison Bosco Wongs character. In S6:E10 of the Father Brown Series, Hercule Flambeaus wife poisons Father Brown with thallium in order to induce Flambeau to exchange a religious relic for her giving Brown the antidote.
Guessing the substance his wife used, Flambeau gives Brown clues as to the antidote, Prussian Blue. In S6:E9 of Elementary, entitled "Nobody Lives Forever" (2018), a biology professor studying how to prolong life spans is poisoned with thallium. As he dies, he falls onto a shelf containing his lab rats, which escape and eventually eat part of his body. Some dead rats are found inside him, suggesting to the detectives that the cause of death was poisoning. References
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