There are countless factors that can lead to your death.
As senior coroner,
I deal with nearly 4,500 fatalities a year.
LESLEY SHARP: The coroner can make any inquiries necessary
to find a cause of death.
MAN: The police act on behalf of the coroner.
If the coroners asks, then we do it.
With unprecedented access,
we follow the coroner's full investigation.
Somebody somewhere will want to know that this person's died.
We're taking pieces of the jigsaw to formulate a cause of death.
From the moment of arrival in the mortuary,
to the final conclusion of the inquest.
WOMAN: All rise.
I'm sorry that you're attending court under these circumstances,
and I appreciate that the evidence that you will hear today
may be distressing.
I feel like no big event happened to cause this.
I need answers. I need to know what happened that night.
If you die here, if it's violent, unnatural,
or of an unknown cause, it's my job to find out how.
Steph, she was a loving daughter,
loving sister, good mum.
She just was funny. She was someone who made you laugh.
She touched a lot of people just with how kind she was.
Her personality just drew you in.
TEARFUL: I can't even tell you, like, what she was like,
cos you had to just meet her for yourself.
My phone started ringing, so I answered it.
But what time was this at? Six o'clock? Five, six-ish.
So I answered the phone, she went, "|'m just letting you know
"Steph's been took in an ambulance, but she's OK."
I was like, "What? "What do you mean?"
"She's not had nothing to drink and nothing to eat."
So, she said, "Ring Carl".
So, I said, "Carl, what's going on?"
He said "|'m in the ambulance with her now,
"She's fine. Stop worrying. Don't worry
"She'll be home tomorrow, tail between her legs."
Ten to one, I gets a phone call, it's a Blackburn number,
and it was a nurse from Blackburn Hospital.
She said, "You need to come with your mum and your sister
"to the hospital now because Stephanie's really unwell."
So, I just said to the nurse, "|s she gonna die?"
Ancl she said...
SH E EXHALES
VOICE BREAKS: She said...
"I can't tell you that, but you just need to come straight away."
PHONE RINGING
SIRENS WAIL
I've received a referral from the police this morning
for a young lady who's 32 years old.
She has been at a music festival at the weekend.
And she's been there with some friends and her partner,
and it is believed she's taken half a tablet of ecstasy.
She started to become short of breath
and not really knowing what time of clay it is or where she was.
She has been treated for dehydration.
She stayed in overnight, and sadly, she has passed away.
So, what I'm going to do
is I'm gonna pass all the information on to the coroner,
and I'm gonna request a CT scan
in order to hopefully ascertain a cause of death.
I'm also gonna be requesting toxicology,
and this will allow for any alcohol or substances to be identified.
A CT postmortem scan is required to try and establish a cause of death,
but first, an external examination needs to takes place.
We'll look for any marks externally on her.
We will record
any medical interventions that happened in the A&E department.
So, I'm writing down now that she's got a line in the left hand,
she's got a line in the left elbow.
And then she's got these two in her right hand.
They've tried really hard to keep her alive.
It is really, really sad.
This is a young girl who's got her life ahead of her.
She's got a young child.
People go to festivals like this to have a good time.
I'm just going to clean her up a little bit
before we put her in a sheet and a shroud.
We always try to get them as clean as we possibly can,
just for the dignity.
Coroner's officers are investigating all possibilities
around Stephanie's death, including her medical history.
just looking at her GP summary.
I wonder if she had high cholesterol.
Stephanie's father, he's died quite an early age at 52 years old,
suddenly and unexpectedly.
They've also two cousins,
they have recently had heart attacks and survived.
So Stephanie, her death may be related
to something to do with her heart given this history.
It is the coroner's responsibility
to look into possible genetic conditions
that may affect other family members.
RINGING TONE
Hi, Susan, it's Becky at the coroner's office.
So, because Stephanie's father had a sudden unexpected death
at the age of 52, and he had high cholesterol,
what they've advised is for all first-degree relatives...
...to arrange with their GP to have their cholesterol levels checked.
She has had... Your other daughter has had a test?
Ancl have they come back high?
Yeah, OK.
Interestingly, Stephanie's two sisters,
they have got high cholesterol.
So there's a good chance that Stephanie has.
If toxicology comes back negative,
this could be a natural cause of death,
given the medical history of the family.
CHERIE: It's the ifs and buts, isn't it?
Was there something else going on with Stephanie?
We knew that she was unwell the week of the festival,
but Steph being Steph, she were going no matter what.
So was that a contributor of how things happened?
I've just come to collect some admission bloods
for Stephanie Thorpe.
OK, that's fine. All right, thanks.
LESLEY SHARP: 32-year-old Stephanie Thorpe
became ill at a music festival
and was transferred to Royal Blackburn Hospital,
where she later died.
Coroner's officers have requested that the bloods
and blood sciences be looked at to see what's in them.
As well as toxicology being taken,
Stephanie has been transported to Royal Preston Hospital
for a postmortem CT scan.
So, I've got Stephanie Thorpe.
Yeah. 15-2-91.
Yeah. Perfect, thank you.
Thank you.
Due to the complexities of the case,
it is being handed over to a senior coroner's officer.
The circumstances are that she's taken ecstasy,
and she was drinking alcohol.
It's been reported it was very hot on that clay,
and possible dehydration has been mentioned. OK.
So, when she became ill, did she go to the medical tent at the festival?
Yeah, she went to the medical tent,
and then she was transferred via ambulance to Royal Blackburn.
Cos there is a history of high cholesterol in the family. OK.
And there have been some sudden deaths,
including Stephanie's father. OK.
So that's being looked into as well.
Who's this? CHILD BABBLES
Who's that?
Mummy. Mummy.
WOW!
It Mummy. Is it Mummy again?
Hiya, Mummy. Hiya.
Look! Obviously, I think he does know something's not right.
Erm... he's not ate for the past two days.
He's ate today, he's had some cereal and some jam on toast and that.
Mummy.
When we got into the festival, we was together for a little bit,
she went one way or whatever, and I went another way,
and I was with all the lads or whatever,
and she was with her friends.
Then later on,
must have been about half four, five o'clock or something,
and she was just, like, sat down on the hill.
And then it got to like six o'clock.
And I'll always remember this cos...
she kept saying, "We need to go and get the minibus.
"We need to go and get the minibus - it's 11 o'clock."
I said, "What do you mean it's 11 o'clock?"
She said, "The minibus is here, it's 11 o'clock."
And I said "It's not, Steph, it's six o'clock.
"Look, it's on my watch."
So, I said, "Right, just sit down,
"|'ll go get you some water, and then you'll be fine."
Obviously, they didn't have no waters in the bars, did they?
It was like a half an hour wait
or a 40 minute wait or whatever for the water.
When I got back, a couple of the lads had some water.
Tried giving her some water, but she wouldn't drink it.
They took her down to the medical tent
and lay her on the bed and put her on a drip straight away.
And I just...
HE CRIES
I was, I... HE SIGHS
I had hold of her hand.
"Please, Steph, come on."
just didn't seem real at all.
I don't... Really don't think it's hit me yet.
I know when it does, it is gonna hit me hard.
And obviously, I've got to stay strong for him.
STEPH: Smile for Mummy! Yeah!
Hello.
Today, we've got Stephanie Thorpe.
She's come to us from Blackburn mortuary.
So, we'll start off by scanning her from top to bottom.
So, looking through the initial scans,
there's nothing too obvious standing out,
but we'll continue and scan her head in more detail.
Ancl also, her heart.
We'll look for any calcification in there as well.
I imagine in a case like this, the toxicology will be quite useful.
SIRENS WAIL
In Blackburn,
police have been called to a house where a man has been found deceased.
He has been transferred to Royal Blackburn mortuary.
Lancashire police have received a report
from a concerned neighbour,
who hadn't seen this gentleman for a few weeks,
so contacted the police.
Right, it's in number 16.
Police have attended, they've forced entry to the house,
and sadly, found this gentleman deceased on the floor
in the living room.
There is a quite severe decomposition present,
which would suggest perhaps that he's been there for quite some time.
One of the things that the officers did find in the address
were multiple empty packets of co-codamol tablets,
so that's quite significant.
Do you want some scissors for his top?
For his top, yeah.
We don't usually cut clothing off
because we pass clothing over to the families,
but in this case, we are needing to cut his clothes off
that he's wearing. Yeah.
There's no sign of any scars or injuries to his face or head.
It's that sort of plasticised decomposition rather than green.
When the human body starts to decompose,
it can decompose in various ways.
It can either liquify, or it can mummify.
But in either case, you are losing significant amounts of information
as to what this person has died from.
Ancl whichever approach you take,
CT postmortem or invasive postmortem,
you cannot extract information that's not there.
You cannot perform toxicology when there are no samples left.
It's not something that everybody could do.
I think it's one of the jobs that you wouldn't know
whether you would be able to do it until you actually got in the role.
In order for the coroner to authorise
that the deceased's funeral can go ahead,
he has to be satisfied with the identification.
The police officer who attended the address
has confirmed that there was a number of letters in the address,
and also an unopened box with the gentleman's name and address on it.
Those items that have been found at the address,
they are only items that assist with the ID.
They're circumstantial,
and they are items that can be moved either from or to the address.
We need one primary ID,
one of dental, fingerprints, or DNA.
These are things that come from the deceased,
from the deceased's body and confirm who the deceased is.
Whilst coroner's officers search for dental records,
fingerprint officers have arrived at the mortuary
to try and establish the man's identity.
So, I'm gonna put a bit of fingerprint powder on now.
Have a look with the magnifying glass,
see what you can see.
Oh, we might get a bit there. If you can clean that up at all.
These are the records that we hold on file, fingerprints,
and this is the name that we've been given by the officers.
All we just need is just one area to satisfy us as fingerprint officers
that we can make a positive identification.
It's not looking good, but we've gotta try.
Four days after Stephanie Thorpe died,
friends and family have come together.
CHERIE: The balloons are in memory of Stephanie.
Ancl celebrating Stephanie. Celebrating her life.
Showing how much she was loved.
It was honestly not one bad bone in that girl's body,
and she were just a pure soul.
CARL: She was loved by everyone that she ever met.
Really didn't know how special she was,
and, like, the amount of people who's been here today
just shows how many people loved her and how amazing she was.
She was loved from all over.
Everywhere. All over.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Once seen, never forgotten. Yeah.
Hundred percent. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
I love you both, yeah. I love you.
CHEERING
A radiologist is looking at Stephanie Thorpe's CT scan
to try and establish a cause of death.
She was described as being confused and disorientated.
Now that clearly could be clue to alcohol and drugs,
but it's important from a radiological perspective
to exclude an alternative cause for that,
which may be obviously something, pathology within the brain,
for example, bleed or a stroke.
Ancl we can't see any acute pathology here in the brain.
It's important to look through the lungs
just to make sure there's no evidence
of underlying lung disease.
Some people can have underlying cardiac abnormalities
that they're completely unaware of.
In this case, there's nothing abnormal
in terms of the radiological appearances of the heart.
Scan is that of a normal, healthy 32-year-old woman
with no underlying pathologies detectable.
The coroner has ordered further investigations
into Stephanie's death,
including toxicology and an invasive postmortem.
Stephanie Thorpe appears to have possibly taken
half a tablet of ecstasy.
This may be a drugs-related death,
but if you do not then consider an invasive postmortem,
you may lose the information if you release the body for the funeral.
There's always a genetic possibility
in young people who die quickly and unexpectedly.
We will be sending material off for genetic analysis,
which can be used at a later date for genetic studies.
I'm gonna need a pot for the histology.
I've taken some samples now to look at under the microscope...
...and I'm gonna take samples from the kidneys, liver...
...heart and lungs...
to send off for genetic testing.
We was in a state of shock because it's gone from "Oh, she's OK,
"she'll be home in the morning, she's just got dehydration,
"she's got heat exhaustion", to "She's in organ failure."
I knew she was run down and she was unwell.
She had a bit of a bad chest, didn't she?
Cos we was saying "Don't go," you know.
But obviously, she had FOMO, fear of missing out. Yeah.
She wanted to go, and she found out K-Klass were playing,
one of her favourite acts, so she's, "|'m definitely going"
So, we knew she was obviously a bit uncler the weather...
...so I don't think that's helped.
To go from her walking in that festival,
cos I've seen the videos of her walking in happy
and laughing with everybody.
That was like, at what? Dinner time?
That's what I can't get my head around.
Obviously, there's something gone on with this lady
which has caused damage.
For example, the liver has changed colour,
things look abnormal.
But I can't see the cause of it yet.
And that's why I'm sampling the tissue.
And obviously, we've sent off for toxicology.
The coroner's office has new information
on the Stephanie Thorpe case.
ALICE SWARBRICK: So, we received some witness statements
of people who were present at the festival.
It's confirmed that Stephanie was able to purchase
a bottle of water earlier on in the clay.
However, it is reported
that the festival ran out of water for a period of time later on.
So Stephanie was dehydrated.
What we need to determine is
whether the dehydration has caused or contributed to her death.
Depending on whether that's caused or contributed
will result in a conversation with Dr Adeley,
who will then possibly refer this back to the police
for them to investigate further.
LESLEY SHARP: Coroner's officers are investigating the death
of-32-year-old Stephanie Thorpe,
who died after becoming seriously ill at a local music festival.
I've spoken with the police,
and they've highlighted a couple of concerns.
One is that the weather was 26 degrees on the clay of the festival,
and there's the question as to whether there was enough access
to water at the festival for the people that attended.
So, first, could you speak to the family and friends
and see whether she had water and if she was drinking?
Could you contact the A&E doctors and the ITU doctors
at Royal Blackburn hospital and see what they've got to say,
either on biochemical tests or on physical examination,
as to whether she's dehydrated? OK.
I'd be also be grateful if you can have a look...
It will be something like the Health and Safety Executive
for guidance for provision of water at large events or festivals.
If you could find that, I'd be grateful.
OK, no problem.
Once you've got that additional information,
we'll know which way this case is going to develop.
CLAIRE WATT: My role at the festival
was to be one of the paramedics there
to look after all the festival-goers,
and I got a phone call from a colleague
to say we had an unresponsive patient.
Stephanie was on the stretcher in the first aid tent.
She'd already been cannulated at that point by my colleague.
We were pushing fluids through her, but I realised very quickly
that her temperature was excessively high.
Stephanie's temperature was 41.1.
The body cannot sustain a temperature of 41.1.
Sol packed her groin, under her armpits
with ice packs, and behind her neck
to try and cool her down, to get her body temperature down.
Her heart rate on our machine
was reading anywhere between 170 and 203,
and in my career, I've never seen a heart rate that high.
'I got the local ambulance service on the phone.
'They were there incredibly quickly.'
All I could do was try to keep her alive
as long as I could, to get her to, you know,
definitive care, which was the hospital.
The investigation into Stephanie's death is ongoing.
But with all samples collected,
Stephanie can be released to her family.
CLAIRE: You knew when Steph was in the room, you just knew.
just being from a little girl, I remember when she were born.
You know, I remember going into the living room to hold her,
and she had these chubby cheeks and this ginger hair.
She were, she were just the life and soul like you said, wasn't she?
She was, yeah.
Ancl the amount of, like, family parties that we've had
and, you know, gatherings and stuff, just in the kitchen,
and she was always the one, you know,
making a funny dance up or, you know, getting everybody going.
Sorry.
Erm, she's the best.
Your brain can't just process that's she not actually here.
She's too young, she's got a baby,
she was at a really good point in life.
It's a funny thing, grief,
cos I just want to know that when it happened she weren't,
she weren't scared.
When you go back to the last time that you spoke to somebody,
cos you can't help it, you just do.
Ancl the last time I actually spoke to her, and then...
Ancl she, she had me laughing, she were telling me about a story
about her going into a nightclub with the baby's backpack on
with these nappies and dummies and everything in it.
Ancl she got searched on the way in, and she said,
"And I danced all night with this backpack on my back."
I was laughing.
Ancl then, before I were leaving, I give her...
cos I do it to everybody that I love, I give them a hug
and say, "I love you, I love you."
And I'm so glad I did, cos that was
literally the last time that I seen her.
Fingerprint officers are carrying out investigations
to try and identify a man
who was found deceased in a house in Blackburn.
Can see creases. You can see creases.
You can see them... Slight ridge detail.
You can see some ridge detail,
but we can't necessarily see any characteristics,
which we need for identification.
That's not....
No, the detail isn't showing up
good enough to get an identification from, from that.
So we're going to try lifting with adhesive tape.
The problem that we've got with this
is that visual identification's impossible.
Dental identification might be possible,
but we've got to find his dentist
in order to get the dental records to compare them.
DNA is possible, but we need a match to match it against.
So all of these are being looked at.
The easiest one is fingerprints.
Yeah, it's even worse than the photo, that.
No, we've not been successful. There's just not enough detail.
It's not been possible to obtain fingerprints
from this gentleman, due to the decomposition.
So under these circumstances, what I've now asked for
is for the mortuary to take a deep muscle tissue sample from him.
The police will collect that from the mortuary,
and they will submit that for DNA testing.
That DNA sample will be compared with the DNA database.
And hopefully, then we'll be able to confirm
the identification of this gentleman.
So, I'm just exposing the thighs on this gentleman
so that I can get the tissue sample.
I'm just looking.
This, this thigh here looks in the better condition.
So I'm going to get my sample there.
just a case of making a short incision through the skin.
It's important to find out
that the deceased is the person that we think we are dealing with,
because, once the funeral has taken place,
if it's a cremation,
after that, we're past the point of no return.
That's why the identification is so important.
I'm just reconstructing this incision that I've made in his leg.
Although our chap here is a little the worst for wear,
we don't want to leave anybody
in a worse condition than we found them.
With the DNA samples taken,
the cause of death now needs to be established.
So, we're just scanning through his head now.
Within the head scan, the black is air,
so there's a lot more air present.
The brain tissue, unfortunately,
looks like it has started to deteriorate and decompose.
So, we will now send these images on to our radiologist,
who will interpret them, write up an official report,
and then forward that on to the coroner.
As instructed by Dr Adeley, Coroner's Officer Manager Alice
needs to ascertain whether Stephanie Thorpe had water
when she became seriously ill at a music festival.
PHONE RINGING
ALICE: Hello, is that Carl? 'Hiya, yeah.'
I know it's difficult to talk about, but we need to understand
what drinks she'd had prior to entering the festival
and what drinks she had whilst at the festival. Yeah, yeah.
An independent report on the dehydration levels
has been undertaken by Dr Mark Clayton,
who specialises in this area.
In terms of the evidence that I'm looking at,
it's clear that Stephanie ingested a pill at some point during the clay.
However, there are a number of unpleasant side effects.
Very high heart rate, so 140, 200 beats a minute.
Ancl we see patients present really hot,
temperatures as high as 42, 44 degrees,
and it can cause muscle breakdown,
and that was probably present in Stephanie's case here.
There are lots of factors that can make your use of ecstasy more risky,
to make you more at risk of harm.
One of those is dehydration.
Being dehydrated means that the concentration of things
in your blood is higher than it normally would be.
It's as simple as that.
So, if you're dehydrated, your blood volume is lower,
and therefore, everything in your blood is more concentrated.
And that includes your naturally occurring substances,
toxins produced by your body, and drugs that you ingest.
So Dr Adeley has asked me to look at the provision of water.
Ancl there are some reports from the statements that I've read
that suggest that there was an inadequate supply of water
at the event.
Under UK law, the licence holder for the festival,
because they're selling intoxicating drinks, alcohol,
they must provide free water to those that attend the event.
Ancl there has been concern raised from a number of different sources
in the evidence that I've read
that suggests there was not enough water on site.
Stephanie Thorpe is a young woman, she's a mother,
she has her whole life in front of her,
and her death is a tragedy.
This case has required significant investigation.
It's required toxicology, it's required statements
from all of those that were with her on the clay,
statement from those that treated her from the hospital,
and an external report from somebody who can advise
on the provision of care in these festivals.
Once the evidence has been collected and reviewed,
we will decide upon the witnesses,
and then this will go forward to an inquest
to provide answers for the family.
MINISTER: We have entrusted Stephanie to God's mercy.
We now commit her body to the ground...
MOURNERS SOBBING ..earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
WOMAN: We love you. MOURNERS: We love you, Steph.
WH ISTLES, APPLAUSE, CH EERING
LESLEY SHARP: As part of the investigation
into Stephanie Thorpe's death,
an independent report has been provided to the coroner.
PHONE RINGING
CARL ON PHONE: 'HERO?
Hi Carl, it's Alice Swarbrick, Coroner's officer.
'Hiya.'
So, what they're saying is
it appears that there's a mandatory requirement
of the licence to have free water.
Ancl this condition wasn't complied with.
Although concerning in general,
they've not seen any evidence to suggest that Stephanie tried
to unsuccessfully obtain water from the event.
They were unable to comment
whether the issues with the supply of water on site
contributed to her dehydration.
So, although there's information to say there is a lack of water,
that's something that's going to be dealt with separately.
'Right.'
As the dehydration report could not find any evidence
that Stephanie was unable to access water,
the water provision at the festival will not form part of the inquest.
The build-up's been hard, so now it's even worse
cos we've been waiting for so long.
I think I'm scared that we're going to hear something where
she could have been saved, and if she could,
then things could have been different.
I think that is one of my fears.
ALICE: The way the inquest will work,
it's a fact-finding process.
We're not here to apportion blame,
we're just here to try and determine what's happened.
WOMAN: All rise.
MAN: Perhaps you could start by explaining
whether or not there have been changes
in the concentration of ecstasy tablets
over, say, the last five years, please.
Since the pandemic,
there has been a general upswing in the concentration of ecstasy,
up to two or three times the average close.
We normally expect 95 to 100 milligrams,
and these were up to 250 to 300 milligrams per tablet.
What I'm interested in here
is how does the ecstasy affect Stephanie?
So, in Stephanie's specific context, she was dehydrated.
The clay was hot, and the clay was humid,
which means that her body's ability to lose heat was impaired.
I don't have good evidence either way
to say that she was dancing excessively or energetically.
But if she were, she would be producing more heat.
But once you cross that threshold
of around that 20-degree value of temperature,
then suddenly, the risk of harm from the ecstasy increases.
So, there are multiple factors at play.
This is a situation
where a young woman is taking a tablet of ecstasy
that she doesn't know the strength of.
And it's combined with other contributing factors
of the heat of the clay, and exercise.
In my view, this is a death that nobody intended.
Ancl so Stephanie Lauren Thorpe died an accidental death.
The family has asked to make a statement.
We know, and are aware, as a family that Stephanie on that clay
took recreational drugs,
like thousands of other festival-goers.
The question is why did this happen to just her?
We feel that there is going to be a lot of lessons to be learnt.
So with that said, we know
it is most likely going to be one of the factors of her death.
But we can reassure you
that this does not and never will define her of who... of who she was.
SOBS GENTLY
I will take the points of learning
that are peripheral to Stephanie's death,
because it's important
that festivals are as safe as they can be
and that the authorities who licence these
are aware of events that have occurred,
can take these into account in the future planning
and authorisation and licencing of such events.
Ancl I will be writing to the various authorities involved.
Radiologists are trying to establish a cause of death
for the so-far unidentified man.
Can tell from the scan that there is a lot of gas, abnormal gas around,
which we see with decomposition.
Ancl that is gonna, like it or not,
compromise the scan in terms of diagnostic value.
All the black areas here are gas.
What we can see here is the heart
and two of the main coronary arteries
that supply the heart muscle.
There's significant area of calcification
in the left anterior descending coronary artery...
...and also, a further area of focal-heavy calcification
in the circumflex coronary artery.
So what we do know is that this gentleman has certainly got evidence
of coronary artery disease, coronary artery calcification.
So that is a cause of death, based on what we're finding.
The coroners' team has also been working on the man's identity.
The coroner is now in receipt of the forensic result report.
The deep muscle tissue taken from the deceased
has been compared with the DNA database.
It has confirmed that the DNA findings support the view
that the deceased is the gentleman
that we thought we were dealing with.
Number 16.
In this case,
the principal difficulty was identifying who had cited.
The cause of death was relatively straightforward,
that was from the CT scan.
But now we've established his identify,
the case can be closed, and there is no need for an inquest.
With a formal identify confirmed,
coroner's officers were able to contact a next of kin.
They are happy for the story to be told
but have asked for it to remain anonymous.
Today is Stephanie's 33rd birthday,
and obviously, it's the first one since she's passed.
Ancl only seven months has gone past.
Ancl as it's her first one that she's not with us,
obviously it's gonna hurt the worst.
So we just thought that we'd all come together.
It's obviously looking after Alfie and keeping her memory alive...
...so then he, he'll always know how wonderful she was,
and how, how much of a character she was.
And... I say it, I say it a million times a clay,
just once seen, never forgotten,
No-one will ever forget, and we'll make sure of that.
You don't get to choose the timing of your death.
We were supposed to be working, and he didn't turn up.
This is completely dislocated,
and this is leading to constriction of the spinal cord.
ELECTRONIC BUZZ
MAN:
Has Joyce had some sort of medical event,
or has she sustained some traumatic injuries
which have caused her death?