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Eugene Hawes Medical Examiner

Character Information

Status: Alive Actor: Jordan Gelber First Appearance: "Ancient History" Episode Count: 20

Dr. Eugene Hawes works as a medical examiner for New York City.

Biography

Season Two

Hawes is first seen during a period where Holmes has no active cases. Bored, he takes Watson to the Medical Examiner building. Holmes and Hawes have an agreement in which they play chess with the stakes being Holmes having access to the corpses and Hawes playing for money. Holmes wins the game and discovers a case while examining a corpse. ("Ancient History") Hawes performs the autopsy on Haley Tyler and confirms to Watson that though Haley fell from a balcony, her abdominal aorta was first severed by someone who knew exactly where to stab her. ("Blood Is Thicker")

Ancient History Blood Is Thicker Corpse match. Dumb luck happens sometimes.

Season Three

Hawes delivers sad news to Detective Bell that an idol of his, Manny Rose, shot and killed a murderous street thug in order to protect a young woman. Rose was then killed by companions of the thug. ("The Hound of the Cancer Cells") Holmes takes on a case for MI6 which involves investigating the murder of Arthur West. He and Watson are shown into the morgue by Dr. Hawes and discover that the arms from West's corpse are missing which shocks Hawes as they were present when the autopsy was performed. Hawes is sporting a beard. ("Art in the Blood")

The Hound Art in the Blood Did you know him? No one who works here would have done that.

Hawes reports the results of an autopsy on Melissa Ledbetter, a nurse that Watson knew from her time as a doctor. He mentions that Melissa was beaten in the head many times before being strangled and that she had someone else's DNA under her fingernails. ("The Eternity Injection") Hawes tries to tell Holmes and Watson how a frozen woman died but they are able to deduce she was hit in the head before being exposed to refrigerant by examining the body. Holmes tells Hawes not to sulk and he tells them which refrigerant was used which gives them a suspect pool. ("T-Bone and the Iceman")

Eternity Injection T-Bone Your friend died shortly after she went missing. Don't sulk.

Hawes reviews the autopsy of Garrison Boyd with Holmes. Boyd was a professional "debunker" whose skull was caved in and had a tip of a garden gnome's hat lodged under his eye. ("A Stitch in Time") Hawes next deals with several murder victims who have had internal organs removed in order to make room for transporting drugs. Watson is able to identify the doctor who made the stitching in the bodies. ("Under My Skin")

A Stitch in Time Under My Skin You said you knew this guy. It gets stranger...

Season Four

Hawes helps Tim Wagner's father identify his son's body. ("Tag, You're Me") Hawes participates in the analysis of the burnt body of Eddie Ross. ("The Games Underfoot") Hawes provides Holmes and Watson with the autopsy of Ellen Jacobs who died from suffocation, inhaled sodium thiosulfate and was eight weeks pregnant. ("A Burden of Blood") After helping ME officer Nicole Slater put a body in storage, Eugene asks her out to a NY Ranger game and she accepts. Excited, they both start to sing "Coal Miners Daughter" when an explosion kills Slater and injuries Hawes. He deduces that a bomb was placed in the body in order to erase evidence on Honduran gang members stored in the morgue. ("Down Where the Dead Delight")

Underfoot Down1 Down2 Down3 He was dead before the fire started. Hawes and Nicky Slater. The explosion. Hawes post-explosion.

Hawes allows Sherlock to examine a body that fell many stories and killed another. ("Up to Heaven and Down to Hell")

Up to Heaven Knock yourself out.