Lucas Wahl is a twenty-something self-proclaimed artisan of death and Dr. Henry Morgan's worshipful assistant. He considers mortuary science an art, and Henry its Picasso. After transplanting to New York City from rural Ohio (to open his own beer garden) Lucas would often hold up traffic on his bike, mesmerized by medics loading accident victims' bodies onto gurneys. One day while NYPD investigators were surveying a crime scene in his neighborhood, Lucas worked up the courage to introduce himself to the star medical examiner (Henry). It was the beginning of a match made in heaven.