"It seems like an open-and-shut case... or is it?" A line heard far too often in episode descriptions. There's many variations of this ubiquitous Crime And Punishment trope, so we'll just give one: We've got a defense lawyer with blonde highlights. She's a hot, young version of Perry Mason. One day, she gets a call from her friends in the Deep South. A black guy is only a few weeks away from the ultimate vaccination, which will stop him from getting any illnesses ever again by virtue of being dead. It seemed like (here's those dreaded words again) an "open-and-shut case":