WARNING: This episode of "Murder, She Wrote" is chock full of snakes. If you have a severe phobia about snakes, you might just want to skip this one.
The episode is set at a struggling zoo. The director is a crook and the place has become run down due to his mismanagement and skimming. In the midst of this, one of his opponents is found dead...dead from a Black Mamba snake bite.
I hate snake bite scenes on TV and movies because the writing is often very lazy. I've seen quite a few programs and films where people are bitten and die seconds later...but this is not how snake bites work. A snake bite from a Mamba takes about 7-15 hours to kill...and there ARE snake antivenoms that could save you even from such a super-toxic snake. Zoos surely would have this on hand. So, a MAJOR part of the show is simply wrong...and the writer should have done a minimal amount of research and they would have learned this.
Overall, I liked seeing all the cool animals, but the episode itself was really illogical. FlushingCaps's review found MANY more illogical aspects of the show (such as why would Jessica go to a zoo in Los Angeles to do research when she lives in Maine and New York??)...and they are right on every count!