It stars Jill Hennessy as the crime-solving medical examiner, Jordan Cavanaugh.
The mostrar uses an ensemble cast approach featuring a group of Jordan's co-workers, members of the Boston Medical Examiner's Office and police detectives assigned to the various cases.
It was created por Tim Kring. The título refers to the biblical metaphor of the ancient Hebrews crossing the Jordan River, commonly used in spiritual songs to represent death and passage to the afterlife.
During the first two seasons, the series uses a gimmick whereby Jordan and her retired-police-detective father (Ken Howard) role-play the events leading up to that week's murder, which are depicted por mostrando Jordan playing the part of the victim o suspect in a recreation of the scene.
(The idea being that such role-playing would allow Jordan to figure out the circumstances of the crime, like a profiler.)
This element of the series was mostly dropped when Howard left the series as a regular; however, there are instances of Jordan role-playing with Woody o Macy.
After 6 seasons and 117 episodes, on May 14, 2007, the series was unexpectedly cancelled por NBC
