Life is hard. Death is easy.
Original title
Mary Kills People
Released
1/25/2017
Origin country
CA
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Entertainment One, Corus Entertainment, Cameron Pictures
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
18
Dr. Mary Harris, a single mother and emergency doctor by day, also moonlights as an underground angel of death - helping terminally ill patients who want to die and slip away on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar; but business is booming, and her double life is getting complicated. When her world starts to unravel, Mary realizes she's going to have to fight dirty if she's going to stay in the killing game.
Season 1 follows Dr. Mary Harris, an overworked single mother and ER doctor who also moonlights as an underground angel of death, working outside the law assisting patients who want to die on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar but business is booming, and her double life is getting complicated.
When Dr. Mary Harris becomes romantically involved with an attractive patient, it sets off a chain of events that could destroy her life, her family, and her career - not to mention her illegal side gig, helping terminal clients end their lives.
After being intimate with Joel, Mary has second thoughts about ending his life. A client's son pulls a gun on Des. Kevin's relationship with a new woman gets intense.
Mary confronts Ben. Grady blackmails Mary into helping him break a patient out of the hospital. Ben and Frank get a new lead.
Ben follows Mary to her childhood home where he learns about her past. Grady approaches Mary with an offer. Des becomes a victim of police misconduct.
Mary seriously considers giving up her operations for good.
Mary must make a deal with the devil in order to save her family and career.
In season 2, Mary plummets deeper into the criminal world as she searches for a steady supply of pentobarbital, the highly regulated and highly lethal "death drug." As she becomes more entangled in her illegal work, Mary continues to risk her family and career as she tries to keep her worlds separate. But when the mysterious Olivia Bloom approaches Mary and her partner Des with a lethal request, and when Mary crosses unexpectedly with Detective Ben Wesley, she realizes her secrets can only be hidden for so long.
Des is happy to reteam with Mary following his stint in prison - but when a routine case leads to a devastating outcome, Mary questions whether she was better off fighting the good fight without him in control and unchallenged.
When Olivia attempts to blackmail Mary, she is drawn deeper into a deadly game of cat and mouse that has a surprising connection to Ben.
Mary and Ben decide to join forces and hide Travis at Ben's secluded trailer. But when Travis reveals a crucial detail about Ben's investigation, Mary is forced to reconsider their alliance.
Following the disappearance of Travis, Des worries that he and Mary may have crossed a moral line from which they can never return. After jeopardizing Ben's investigation of Olivia, Mary tries to make amends, which has repercussions for a patient in dire need.
All seems well for Mary, Ben has forgiven her, and she and Des have decided to move forward with the death retreat. The only nagging concern for Mary: her daughter Jess hates her and doesn't believe a word out of her mouth.
Mary decides to wear a wire in order to help Ben take down Olivia, but when their plan takes an unexpected turn, Mary must reconsider her allegiance. As Des and Nicole prepare for Brendan's death, Des faces crippling self-doubt about his dream.
In the third and final chapter, Dr. Mary Harris must come face-to-face with her own personal choices, ethics, and demons in a way she never has before. The death retreat is up and running, but its cover as a legitimate hospice is crumbling away and with it the idyllic vision Mary and Des had for continuing their work in quiet secrecy. With Mary’s family and the work she loves in jeopardy once more, she realizes she is finally going to have to put life, with all of its complexities and imperfections, first.
Mary secretly takes in patients, but one death doesn't go as planned.
Mary promises Des that she'll never put the hospice at risk again. Mary and Frances meet an elderly cancer patient. Jess realizes that something's wrong with Naomi.
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