Edrisa Tanaka

**Edrisa Tanaka** is the socially awkward medical examiner for the NYPD. She develops a crush on Malcolm Bright, often commented on by his colleagues. Despite their comments, she is genuine and kind, and indulges in karaoke with her own colleagues.

## Season 1

Edrisa Tanaka meets up with Gil Arroyo, Malcolm Bright, Dani Powell and JT Tarmel in the morgue office. She informs them, the women had engaged in consensual bondage play.  The next week Edrisa arrived at a crime scene in the upper east side of New York City and was pleasantly surprised to run into Malcolm again. He inquired about some marking on a victim's torso, and upon further inspection, she snipped off the stitches that had been holding his mouth closed. Only to be immediately surprised when multiple black mamba snake's exited his mouth. One began slithering up her leg, but luckily it was distracted by Malcolm who was holding a dangling tablecloth. She then fainted in his arms.

Edrisa was called to a crime scene in the middle of the forest along with the rest of the NYPD team. She was pleasantly surprised when Malcolm showed up a little while later, even bringing her a lollipop. The two discovered that the victim was missing his brain. Once back at her work station she was able to run a tox screen and discovered the had 50 times the normal expected rate of LSD with and his system.

Edrisa was called to the forest and was able to quickly identify the cause of death of the victim as multiple stab wounds. She was later able to to determine he had well over 100 stab wounds, all of varying depths.

Edrisa met Malcolm in Gil at the junkyard and was among the morticians going over information found amongst the dead bodies. A large number of them had been squished inside cars, but they will able to find one physically intact. Back at the morgue after doing some blood work she was able to determine that the majority of victims had large amounts of drugs in them and had all been previously dealing with substance abuse.

Dr. Edrisa Tanaka was called into the office for a forensic update on the victims of Paul. Her awkward flirting with Malcolm about puzzles was rudely pointed out by JT much to her embarrassment. Later she was called back into their office when Malcolm received up bloody box. She opened it to find severed-hand from Father Leo.

Edrisa is called to the scene of the crime and investigates the homicide of a man tied to his bed after having sex.  Months later, as part of a sting operation, Edrisa gave her personal testimony to an internal investigator of the NYPD looking into Malcolm's mental behavior. Wanting to determine if he was fit to return to work after being kidnapped and cutting off part of his own hand. She took this opportunity to gush about how much of an amazing person and agent he was.

Edrisa is on-screen investigating body when she is pleased to seem Malcolm arrived in an all-white tailored suit. After making some quick jokes, everyone evacuated the room when Malcolm trips a pressure bomb. He is luckily able to save himself when he falls out of the second story building on to Gil’s car.

She is called in by Malcolm when he discovers a body on a carousel ride where he and his mother had arrived at to meet with someone with information about the Girl in the Box.  Days later, the team investigated a serial killer who embalmed her victims so perfectly they looked real. They all accompanied Edrisa two a mortician's convention in the hopes of flushing out the killer. Unfortunately, Edrisa was later held at gunpoint but saved herself and Malcolm.

The entire team is called into a high-end jewelry robbery that left the manager murdered with a single gunshot wound. Malcolm shows up last and they explain the entire event, and he profiles that the shooter was a rogue team member. They are interrupted when Vijay Chandasara, an insurance agent who happens to be Malcolm's childhood friend attempts to walk on the scene.

She is called in to investigate after performer drops dead at a private function. She is pleased to see Malcolm their, and is excited when she almost gets to meet his mother again, before being discouraged from doing so.

While performing an autopsy on a beautiful blonde, she is surprised to find Malcolm, curious on her investigation. He explains he knew the victim, and asks her to look closely, as he doesn't believe it was a suicide. She does and was able to determine the water in her lungs didn't match the water from the river.

Edrisa is pleased when Malcolm comes to her asking for help. Despite being in prison and given an ankle monitor, he escaped to come talk to her for information. She informs him of the situation with the dead assassin, and hugs him before leaving. Questioning if she should have kissed him.

## Notes

* Participates in karaoke with some of her work colleagues.

## Trivia

* Was originally named *Edrisa Guilfoyle*.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pilot
2. ↑ Annihilator
3. ↑ Fear Response
4. ↑ All Souls and Sadists
5. ↑ Q&A
6. ↑ Family Friend
7. ↑ Pied-A-Terre
8. ↑ Internal Affairs
9. ↑ Wait & Hope
10. ↑ Eye of the Needle
11. ↑ Death's Door
12. ↑ The Job
13. ↑ Scheherazade
14. ↑ The Professionals
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Like Father...