In yet another case of post-9/11 panic, local police in Steve Kurtz's hometown call the FBI, who in turn call in truckloads of HAZ-MAT teams, who begin to impound and analyze his art supplies, computers, and.... his wife's body. [
link] Steve is detained illegally as a bioterrorist and kept from even being near his wife. Just another common case of Osama's henchmen calling the police on themselves so they can get thrown into jail and infiltrate the prison system (*thats sarcasm for you n00bs*), or another casuality of Bush's War on Terror(tm)?
Somehow, a guy researching bacteria makes much more sense.