Investigating mysterious happenings at a mental institution, Fraser decides to get himself committed to learn the truth about the mysterious Blue Room and a man named Ty.

Detailed Overview

While accompanying Ray to his annual psychological examination, Fraser saves the life of a man precariously walking along a fifth story ledge. The man, a psychiatric patient, is desperately searching for Ty. His cryptic comments are dismissed as the rantings of a delusional John Doe. But something rings true to Fraser. On and off the buses and over the bridges of Chicago he somehow manages to make sense of the bizarre clues and tracks down Ty -- only to tragically discover that he killed himself 5 years earlier.

But Fraser persists in his belief that someone was out on that ledge. And when a naked corpse is pulled from the river, Fraser is convinced that the corpse is the person whom John Doe saw on the ledge. Fraser goes to the hospital and tells them a little bit of the truth about himself -- a Mountie in Chicago with a lip reading wolf. As he anticipated, he is promptly admitted as a psychiatric patient. While locked up, the patients tell Fraser frightening stories of a mysterious blue room where patients are taken and die.

But when he and Ray get too close to uncovering the truth, they're both placed in straight-jackets, thrown in a sealed padded cell and targeted for the "blue room" themselves. In a few hours, they will receive a lethal injection, the evidence will be destroyed and all will be lost, unless they can escape and draw upon the help of the other patients.

Music

AKUA TUTA* (means "Take Care")
Kashtin, "Akua Tuta"
Columbia
CK 80209
Fraser, now a patient at hospital, leads a bunch of patients through hospital in search of the 'blue room.'

* - This song is part of the First due South Soundtrack.

Interesting Trivia

• Fraser mentions in this episode that to get free of the straitjacket, one must dislocate their shoulder. However in the Season 2 episode "Body Language" he mentions that he had never mastered the art of dislocating his joints.
• Paul Haggis (creator of due South) plays one of the mental patients standing in the background during the fight scene near the end of the episode.
• The title of this episode comes from the Shakespeare play Hamlet. (Act II Scene 2)

Original Broadcast Information

• Canada / United States: January 19, 1995

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