Alpha-1 is solving crimes - on TV that is
Last week’s episode of the new TNT crime show Rizzoli & Isles features Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.
In fact, Alpha-1 is the key to solving the crime.
Rizzoli & Isles is about the friendship between two women, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Coroner Maura Isles, and their teamwork in solving criminal cases.
The episode starring Alpha-1 is called “Money for Nothing”.
The eldest brother in a wealthy Boston family is found in the harbor dead after an apparent sailing accident. But this wouldn
’t be a crime show if it didn’t turn out to be a murder.
And how does Alpha-1 come in?
Almost at the very end of the show, Isles reveals a fact that suggests a motive for murder—and proves that one of the “brothers” in the family wasn’t really a brother, after all.
One of the brothers had Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (apparently a ZZ) and another brother had no Alpha-1 genes. So they couldn’t really be brothers, right?
An Alpha doc would likely find all this over-simplified, but hey, this is a TV drama. And Alpha-1 DOES get credit for helping to solve the crime. What more can we ask?
WATCH THE VIDEO
In fact, Alpha-1 is the key to solving the crime.
Rizzoli & Isles is about the friendship between two women, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Coroner Maura Isles, and their teamwork in solving criminal cases.
The episode starring Alpha-1 is called “Money for Nothing”.
The eldest brother in a wealthy Boston family is found in the harbor dead after an apparent sailing accident. But this wouldn
’t be a crime show if it didn’t turn out to be a murder.And how does Alpha-1 come in?
Almost at the very end of the show, Isles reveals a fact that suggests a motive for murder—and proves that one of the “brothers” in the family wasn’t really a brother, after all.
One of the brothers had Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (apparently a ZZ) and another brother had no Alpha-1 genes. So they couldn’t really be brothers, right?
An Alpha doc would likely find all this over-simplified, but hey, this is a TV drama. And Alpha-1 DOES get credit for helping to solve the crime. What more can we ask?
WATCH THE VIDEO
